[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 13 (Tuesday, February 7, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D60-D62]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the defense authorization request

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for fiscal year 2007 and the future years defense program, after 
receiving testimony from Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; 
General Peter Pace, USMC, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and General 
Peter J. Schoomaker, USA, Chief of Staff, United States Army.
IRAQ CONTRACTING ISSUES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine contracting issues in Iraq in 
review of the defense authorization request for fiscal year 2007 and 
the future years defense program, after receiving testimony from Claude 
M. Bolton, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, 
Logistics, and Technology; Major General Ronald L. Johnson, USA, Deputy 
Chief of Engineers and Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers; and Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector General for Iraq 
Reconstruction.
2007 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's fiscal year 2007 budget proposal, after receiving testimony 
from Joshua B. Bolten, Director, Office of Management and Budget.
INTERNET NEUTRALITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held a 
hearing to examine proposals for government regulation of the Internet, 
focusing on concentrations in broadband access, and efforts to protect 
network neutrality, receiving testimony from Vinton G. Cerf, Google, 
Herndon, Virginia; Walter B. McCormick, Jr., United States Telecom 
Association, Kyle McSlarrow, National Cable and Telecommunications 
Association, Earl W. Comstock, COMPTEL, Kyle Dixon, Progress and 
Freedom Foundation, Gary R. Bachula, Internet2, and J. Gregory Sidak, 
Georgetown University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey A. 
Citron, Vonage Holdings Corporation, Edison, New Jersey; and Lawrence 
Lessig, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Robert C. Cresanti, of Texas, 
to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, who was introduced by 
Senator Bennett, and Tyler D. Duvall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, Nicole R. Nason, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and David C. Sanborn, 
of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration, who 
were introduced by Senator Allen, Thomas J. Barrett, of Alaska, to be 
Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, who was introduced by Senator Murkowski, and Roger 
Shane Karr, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary, 
all of the Department of Transportation, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
2007 BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2007, receiving 
testimony from John W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NATO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine common defense to common security relating to the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), focusing on the evolution of the 
NATO alliance and its operations in Afghanistan, and other regions 
outside the alliance's borders, after receiving testimony from General 
James L. Jones, Jr., USMC, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) 
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe Mons, Belgium.
CONFERENCE SPENDING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and 
International Security held a hearing to examine Federal agencies and 
conference spending, focusing on the nature, extent, and benefits of 
their participation in events for mission-related purposes, and 
accountability for the use of Federal funds, receiving testimony from 
Charles Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for 
Budget, Technology and Finance; Sid Kaplan, Acting Chief Financial 
Officer, Department of State; James M. Martin, Acting Deputy Chief 
Financial Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development; Michael 
W.S. Ryan, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Scott H. Evertz, former Director, White House Office of 
National AIDS Policy.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Timothy C. Batten, Sr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Thomas E. Johnston, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of West 
Virginia, who was introduced by Senator Rockefeller and Representative

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Capito, Leo Maury Gordon, of New Jersey, to be a Judge of the United 
States Court of International Trade, and Aida M. Delgado-Colon, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, who was 
introduced by Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Luis G. Fortuno, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.