[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 12 (Monday, February 6, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D56-D57]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HURRICANE KATRINA
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
resumed a hearing to examine Hurricane Katrina response issues, 
focusing on managing law enforcement and communications in a 
catastrophe, pre-landfall preparation, post-landfall deployment, the 
Wireless Priority Service (WPS), and the state of law and order during 
the crisis, receiving testimony from Michael J. Vanacore, Assistant 
Director, Office of Investigations, Office of International Affairs, 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Peter M. Fonash, Deputy 
Manager

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and Director, National Communications System, both of the Department of 
Homeland Security; Kenneth W. Kaiser, Special Agent in Charge, Boston 
Field Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; 
and Warren J. Riley, New Orleans Police Department, F.G. Dowden, New 
Orleans Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety, and William 
L. Smith, BellSouth Corporation, all of New Orleans, Louisiana.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 9, 2006.
NSA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held a hearing to examine wartime 
executive power and the National Security Agency surveillance 
authority, receiving testimony from Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney 
General, Department of Justice.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.

Joint Meetings
EMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: on Friday, February 3, 2006, Committee 
concluded hearings to examine the employment-unemployment situation for 
January 2006, after receiving testimony from Kathleen P. Utgoff, 
Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.