[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 5 (Wednesday, January 25, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D18-D19]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. VISITOR & IMMIGRANT STATUS INDICATOR TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine the United States Visitor and Immigrant 
Status Indicator Technology (U.S. VISIT) program, relating to United 
States Entry/Exit Tracking information, allowing for the collection of 
the information and sharing across the immigration and border 
management systems, after receiving testimony from James A. Williams, 
Director, U.S. VISIT Program, Department of Homeland Security; and 
Randolph C. Hite, Director, Information Technology Architecture and 
Systems Issues, Government Accountability Office.
IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing regarding operations and intelligence in Iraq from Brigadier 
General Carter Ham, USA, Deputy Director for Regional Operations, J-3, 
and Rear Admiral David J. Dorsett, USN, Director of Intelligence, J-2, 
both of The Joint Staff; and MaryBeth Long, Principal Deputy

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Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs.
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM PROPOSALS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held a 
hearing to examine proposals to reform the National Flood Insurance 
Program, focusing on the causes of the financial disarray of the 
Program, receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller General 
of the United States, Government Accountability Office; David I. 
Maurstad, Acting Director and Federal Insurance Administrator, 
Mitigation Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency 
Preparedness and Response Directorate, Department of Homeland Security; 
and Donald Marron, Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Mark D. Wallace, of Florida, to be U.S. 
Representative to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, 
with the rank of Ambassador, and to be Alternate U.S. Representative to 
the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during his 
tenure of service as U.S. Representative to the United Nations for U.N. 
Management and Reform, and Jackie Wolcott Sanders, of Virginia, to be 
Alternate U.S. Representative for Special Political Affairs in the 
United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate 
U.S. Representative to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the 
United Nations during her tenure of service as Alternate U.S. 
Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Janet Ann Sanderson, of Arizona, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti, after the nominee testified and 
answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Patricia Newton Moller, of Arkansas, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, Robert Weisberg, of Maryland, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Congo, Bernadette Mary Allen, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, and Steven Alan 
Browning, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
LOBBYING REFORM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine lobbying reform proposals and issues, 
focusing on S. 2128, to provide greater transparency with respect to 
lobbying activities, and S. 2180, to provide more rigorous requirements 
with respect to disclosure and enforcement of ethics and lobbying laws 
and regulations, after receiving testimony from Senators McCain, 
Santorum, Coleman, Durbin, and Feingold; Dick Clark, Aspen Institute 
Congressional Program, John Engler, National Association of 
Manufacturers, and William Samuel, AFL-CIO, Fred Wertheimer, Democracy 
21, all of Washington. D.C.; and Paul A. Miller, American League of 
Lobbyists, Alexandria, Virginia.