[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 28, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D132-D133]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2007 for the Department of Homeland Security, after receiving 
testimony from Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security.
U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine current and future worldwide threats to the 
national security of the United States, after receiving testimony from 
John D. Negroponte, Director, and General Michael V. Hayden, USAF, 
Principal Deputy Director, both of the Office of National Intelligence; 
and Lieutenant General Michael D. Maples, USA, Director, Defense 
Intelligence Agency.
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION BUDGET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2007 for the Federal Transit Administration, Department of 
Transportation, after receiving testimony from Sandra Bushue, Deputy 
Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Mayor Patrick L. McCrory, Charlotte, North Carolina, on 
behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors; and William Millar, 
American Public Transportation Association, Washington, D.C.
UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND CONTRIBUTIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine proposed reforms of the Universal Service Fund 
(USF) contribution system, including the distribution side of the 
universal service equation, and wireless carriers providing mobile 
broadband services, after receiving testimony from Glen Post, 
CenturyTel, Inc., Monroe, Louisiana; Tom Simmons, Midcontinent 
Communications, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Trent Boaldin, Epic Touch 
Company, Elkhart, Kansas; Bonnie Cramer, AARP, Raleigh, North Carolina; 
and Paul W. Garnett, CTIA--The Wireless Association, Washington, D.C.
PORT SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the security of terminal operations at U.S. ports, 
after receiving testimony from Michael P. Jackson, Deputy Secretary, 
Admiral Jayson Ahern, Assistant Commissioner, Field Operations, Customs 
and Border Protection, and Rear Admiral Thomas H. Gilmour, Assistant 
Commandant for Prevention, United States Coast Guard, all of the 
Department of Homeland Security; H. Edward Bilkey, DP World, Dubai, 
United Arab Emirates; Robert Scavone, P&O Ports North America, Inc, 
Iselin, New Jersey; Tay Yoshitani, National Association of Waterfront 
Employers, and Christopher Koch, World Shipping Council, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Michael Mitre, International Longshore and 
Warehouse Union, Los Angeles, California.
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2007 for the Forest Service, after receiving testimony from Dale 
Bosworth, Chief, Forest Service, and Mark Rey, Under Secretary Natural 
Resources and Environment, both of the Department of Agriculture.
WATER REUSE AND RECYCLING PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine the current status of the Bureau 
of Reclamation Reuse and Recycling Program (Title XVI of Public Law 
102-575), after receiving testimony from John W. Keys, III, 
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Betsy 
A. Cody, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Resources, Science, 
and Industry Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; Virginia Grebbien, Orange County Water District, Fountain 
Valley, California; Thomas F. Donnelly, National Water Resources 
Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Richard Atwater, Inland Empire 
Utilities Agency, Chino, California, on behalf of the WateRuse 
Association.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS ACT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine S. 2060, to extend 
the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 and make certain 
improvements,

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S. 1838, to provide for the sale, acquisition, conveyance, and exchange 
of certain real property in the District of Columbia to facilitate the 
utilization, development, and redevelopment of such property, and H.R. 
3508, to authorize improvements in the operation of the government of 
the District of Columbia, after receiving testimony from Mayor Anthony 
A. William, Washington, D.C.; Sally L. Stroup, Assistant Secretary of 
Education for Postsecondary Education; and Paul Hoffman, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
OFF-RESERVATION GAMING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Indian gaming activities, focusing on land into trust and 
the two-part determination related to off-reservation gaming, after 
receiving testimony from George T. Skibine, Acting Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Policy and Economic Development for 
Indian Affairs; Ron Suppah, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs 
Reservation of Oregon, Pendleton; Cheryle A. Kennedy, Confederated 
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, Grand Ronde; Carol York, 
Hood River County Commissioner, Hood River, Oregon; Michael Lang, 
Friends of the Columbia Gorge, Portland, Oregon; and Cheryl Schmit, 
Stand Up for California, Penryn.
NSA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings to examine 
issues relating to wartime executive power and the NSA's surveillance 
authority, receiving testimony from R. James Woolsey, Booz Allen 
Hamilton, McLean, Virginia, Former Director of Central Intelligence; 
Harold Hongju Koh, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Ken 
Gormley, Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 
Douglas W. Kmiec, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California; Bruce 
Fein, Fein and Fein, and Robert A. Levy, Cato Institute, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Robert F. Turner, University of Virginia Center 
for National Security Law, Charlottesville.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original bill to provide greater transparency in the 
legislative process.
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
certain legislative recommendations and concerns of wartime service-
connected disabled veterans, after receiving testimony from Paul W. 
Jackson, David W. Gorman, and Joseph A. Violante, all of the Disabled 
American Veterans, Washington, D.C.