[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 46 (Tuesday, April 25, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D379-D380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
SAVING AMERICA'S RURAL HOUSING ACT OF 2006
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Housing and Community 
Opportunity held a hearing on H.R. 5039, Saving America's Rural Housing 
Act of 2006. Testimony was heard from Russell T. Davis, Administrator, 
Rural Development Housing and Community Facilities Programs, USDA; and 
public witnesses.
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and 
Agency Organization held a hearing entitled ``Yucca Mountain: Broken 
Management, Broken Quality Assurance, Broken Project.'' Testimony was 
heard from the following officials of the Department of Energy: Paul 
Golan, Acting Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste 
Management; and Gregory Friedman, Inspector General; Margaret 
Federline, Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 
Safeguards, NRC; and Jim Wells, Director, Natural Resources and 
Environment, GAO.
A NEW ASSESSMENT OF IRAQ
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on National Security, 
Emerging Threats and International Relations held a hearing entitled 
``A New Assessment of Iraq.'' Testimony was heard from David M. Walker, 
Comptroller General, GAO.
STATE OF INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security: Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, 
Science and Technology held a hearing entitled ``The State of 
Interoperable Communications: Perspectives on Federal Coordination of 
Grants, Standards and Technology.'' Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the Department of Homeland Security: Tracy A. 
Henke, Assistant Secretary, Office of Grants and Training; and David G. 
Boyd, Director, Office for Interoperability and Compatibility, both 
with the Directorate of Preparedness; the following officials of the 
Department of Commerce: John Kneuer, Acting Assistant Secretary, 
National Telecommunications and Information Administration; and Dereck 
Orr, Program Manager, Public Safety Communications System, National 
Institute of Standards and Technology; Kenneth P. Moran, Director, 
Office of Homeland Security, FCC; the following officials of the 
Department of Justice: Carl Peed, Executive Director, Office of 
Community Oriented Policing Services; and John Morgan, Assistant 
Director, Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice; and 
public witnesses.
NETWORK NEUTRALITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Task Force on Telecom and Antitrust held an 
oversight hearing on Network Neutrality: Competition, Innovation and 
Nondiscriminatory Access. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule providing 
one hour of general debate on H.R. 5020, to authorize appropriations 
for fiscal year 2007 for intelligence and intelligence-related 
activities of the United States Government, the Community Management 
Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability 
System, and for other purposes, equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Permanent Select Committee 
on Intelligence. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill. The rule provides that the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute recommended by the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence now printed in the bill shall be considered as an original 
bill for the purpose of amendment and shall be considered as read. The 
rule waives all points of order against the amendment in the nature of 
a substitute recommended by the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence. The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in 
the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution. The rule 
provides that the amendments printed in the report accompanying the 
resolution may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may 
be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be 
considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the 
report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, 
shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand 
for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 
Whole. The rule waives all points of order against the amendments 
printed in the Rules Committee report. Finally, the rule provides one 
motion to recommit with or without instructions.

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