[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 10 (Wednesday, February 1, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D41]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
WOMEN IN SPORTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the importance of promoting and advancing 
opportunities for women in physical activity and sports, after 
receiving testimony from Dorothy G. Richardson, Vice-Chair, President's 
Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Office of Public Health and 
Science, Department of Health and Human Services; Dominique Dawes, 
Women's Sports Foundation, and Jenni Finch, both of East Meadow, New 
York; Christine H.B. Grant, University of Iowa Department of Health and 
Sport Studies, Iowa City; Judith M. Sweet, National Collegiate Athletic 
Association, Washington, D.C.; Tara Erickson, University of Oregon 
Department of Athletics, Eugene; Lynette Mund, West Fargo High School, 
Fargo, North Dakota; Donna de Varona, Greenwich, Connecticut; and 
Catherine Reddick, Durham, North Carolina.
HURRICANE KATRINA
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
continued hearings to examine Hurricane Katrina response issues, 
focusing on managing the crisis and evacuating New Orleans, and the 
role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), receiving 
testimony from Vincent Pearce, National Response Program Manager, 
Department of Transportation; Brigadier General Mark A. Graham, Deputy 
Commanding General, Fifth United States Army; Mayor C. Ray Nagin, New 
Orleans, Louisiana; and Dwight David Brashear, Capital Area Transit 
System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 2.
GAMING APPLICATIONS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held an oversight hearing to 
examine off-reservation gaming issues, focusing on the process for 
considering gaming applications, the role of, and impact on, county 
governments, and the advent of ``reservation shopping'', receiving 
testimony from George T. Skibine, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
the Interior for Indian Affairs for Policy and Economic Development; 
Penny J. Coleman, National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington, DC; 
Philip Harju, Cowlitz Indian Tribe of Washington, Longview; Alvin 
Alexanderson, on behalf of the Citizens Against Reservation Shopping, 
Stand Up for Clark County, and the American Land Rights Association, 
Battleground, Washington; Duane Kromm, Solano County Board of 
Supervisors, Fairfield, California, on behalf of the California State 
Association of Counties; and Liz Thomas, Taxpayers of Michigan Against 
Casinos, Union Pier.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
ENERGY MARKETS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held a hearing to examine 
consolidation in the energy industry, focusing on factors that 
contribute to higher gasoline prices, receiving testimony from William 
E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission; James Wells, 
Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability 
Office; Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Hartford; R. 
Preston McAfee, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Tyson 
Slocum, Public Citizen, Washington, DC; and Timothy A. Hamilton, 
Automotive United Trades Organization, Seattle, Washington.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
DEATH PENALTY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights, and Property Rights held a hearing to examine the death penalty 
in the United States, focusing on innocent people convicted and sent to 
death row and racial disparity in the application of punishment, 
receiving testimony from John McAdams, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin; Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights, and 
Paul H. Rubin, Emory University, both of Atlanta, Georgia; Jeffrey 
Fagan, Columbia Law School, New York, New York; Ann Scott, Tulsa, 
Oklahoma; and Vicki A. Schieber, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.