[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 36 (Tuesday, March 28, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D278-D280]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2007 for the Bureau of Reclamation, after receiving 
testimony from John W. Keys III, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, 
and Mark Limbaugh, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, both of 
the Department of the Interior.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2007 for the Department of State and foreign operations, after 
receiving testimony from Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (ARMY)
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2007 for 
the Army, after receiving testimony from Francis Harvey, Secretary, and 
General Peter Schoomaker, Chief of Staff, both of the United States 
Army, Department of Defense.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a 
hearing to examine the defense authorization request for fiscal year 
2007 and the future years defense program, focusing on Air Force and 
Navy tactical aviation programs, after receiving testimony from Michael 
J. Sullivan, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government 
Accountability Office; Donald B. Marron, Acting Director, Congressional 
Budget Office; Christopher Bolkcom, Specialist in National Defense, 
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Lieutenant General 
Donald J. Hoffman, USAF, Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; and Rear Admiral Thomas J. 
Kilcline, Jr., USN, Director, Air Warfare Division, and Rear Admiral 
Steven L. Enewold, USN, Program Executive Officer, Joint Strike Fighter 
Program, both of the United States Navy.
FAA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget 
request for fiscal year 2007 for the Federal Aviation Administration 
and the long-term viability of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund 
(AATF), after receiving testimony from Marion C. Blakey, Administrator, 
Federal Aviation Administration, and Todd J. Zinser, Acting Inspector 
General, both of the Department of Transportation; and Gerald L. 
Dillingham, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government 
Accountability Office.
MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine U.S. efforts to promote anti-corruption strategies of 
multilateral development banks, after receiving testimony from Clay 
Lowery, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; 
Cynthia S. Perry, African Development Bank, and Ruth E. Levine, Center 
for Global Development, both of Washington, D.C.; William Easterly, New 
York University, New York, New York; and Adam Lerrick, Carnegie Mellon 
University Tepper School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Warren W. Tichenor, of Texas, to be U.S. 
Representative to the

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Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in 
Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador, who was introduced by Senator 
Cornyn, Patricia P. Brister, of Louisiana, for the rank of Ambassador 
during her tenure of service as the U.S. Representative on the 
Commission on the Status of Women of the Economic and Social Council of 
the United Nations, who was introduced by Senator Vitter, Rajkumar 
Chellaraj, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of State for 
Administration, and George McDade Staples, of Kentucky, to be Director 
General of the Foreign Service, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL THREAT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing to examine securing the 
global supply chain relating to neutralizing the nuclear and 
radiological threat, focusing on the domestic and international 
deployment of radiation detection equipment, U.S. government efforts to 
prevent radiological or nuclear terrorism, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection Radiation Portal Monitor (RPM) Program to install RPMs at 
U.S. ports of entry, the Department of Energy Second Line of Defense 
program to install RPMs at key international border crossings and 
ports, and the importation of radiological sources across the Northern 
and Southern border, receiving testimony from former New Jersey 
Governor Thomas H. Kean, Trenton, on behalf of the National Commission 
on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; Eugene E. Aloise, 
Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Gregory D. Kutz, Managing 
Director, Forensic Audits and Special Investigations, and Keith A. 
Rhodes, Chief Technologist, Center for Technology and Engineering, all 
of the Government Accountability Office; David G. Huizenga, Assistant 
Deputy Administrator, Office of International Material Protection and 
Cooperation, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National 
Nuclear Security Administration; Vayl S. Oxford, Director, Domestic 
Nuclear Detection Office, and Jayson P. Ahern, Assistant Commissioner, 
Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, both of 
the Department of Homeland Security; and Stephen E. Flynn, Council on 
Foreign Relations, New York, New York.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, March 30.
MEDICAID FRAUD
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and 
International Security concluded a hearing to examine eliminating 
Medicaid fraud, focusing on the current infrastructure for Medicaid 
program integrity at the state and Federal level, including a review of 
the current system for tracking improper spending and fraud at the 
state and Federal levels, after receiving testimony from Daniel R. 
Levinson, Inspector General, and Dennis Smith, Director, Center for 
Medicaid Services, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; 
Leslie G. Aronovitz, Director, Health Care, Government Accountability 
Office; and Brian G. Flood, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, 
Austin.
PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness held a hearing to examine 
public health preparedness in the 21st century, focusing on a national 
public health infrastructure with real-time situational awareness, and 
responding to threats by terrorism or natural disasters, receiving 
testimony from Richard Besser, Director, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; Michael C. 
Caldwell, Dutchess County Department of Health, Poughkeepsie, New York; 
Peggy A. Honore, Mississippi Department of Health, Jackson; Lisa G. 
Kaplowitz, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond; Nicole Lurie, The 
RAND Corporation, and Elin A. Gursky, ANSER, Analytic Services, Inc., 
both of Arlington, Virginia; and Tara O'Toole, University of Pittsburgh 
Medical Center, Center for Biosecurity, Baltimore, Maryland.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Retirement Security and Aging held a hearing to examine reauthorization 
of the Older Americans Act Title V, focusing on senior community 
service employment, receiving testimony from Mason M. Bishop, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training; Ignacio 
Salazar, SER-Jobs for Progress National, Inc., Irving, Texas; Kent 
Kahn, Experience Works, Inc., Lima, Ohio; and Anthony R. Sarmiento, 
Senior Service America, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
INDIAN TRUST REFORM ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 1439, to provide for Indian trust asset management reform and 
resolution of historical accounting claims, after receiving testimony 
from James Cason, Associate Deputy Secretary, and Ross Swimmer, Special 
Trustee for American Indians, both of the Department of the Interior; 
Tex G. Hall, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation,

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New Town, North Dakota, on behalf of sundry organizations; Jim Gray, 
Intertribal Monitoring Association on Indian Trust Funds, Albuquerque, 
New Mexico; Clifford Lyle Marshall, Sr., Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, 
Hoopa, California; Austin Nunez, Indian Land Working Group, Tucson, 
Arizona; and Majel M. Russell, Crow Tribe of Indians, Billings, 
Montana.
WARTIME POWERS AND FISA COURT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
wartime executive powers and the FISA Court, focusing on National 
Security Agency standards and procedures for electronic surveillance of 
international terrorist activity, after receiving testimony from Judge 
Harold A. Baker, U.S. District Court for the Central District of 
Illinois; Judge Stanley S. Brotman, U.S. District Court for the 
District of New Jersey; Judge John F. Keenan, U.S. District Court for 
the Southern District of New York; Judge William Stafford, Jr., U.S. 
District Court for the Northern District of Florida; Magistrate Judge 
Allan Kornblum, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of 
Florida; Morton H. Halperin, Open Society Policy Center, Washington, 
D.C.; and David S. Kris, Time Warner, Inc., New York, New York.