[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 50 (Tuesday, May 2, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D417-D418]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM BILL: PEANUT PROVISIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the implementation of the peanut provisions of the 
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, after receiving 
testimony from Floyd Gaibler, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for 
Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services; Stanley M. Fletcher, University 
of Georgia, Griffin, on behalf of the National Center for Peanut 
Competitiveness; Evans J. Plowden, Jr., American Peanut Shellers 
Association, Inc., Albany, Georgia; and Gary Rasor, American Peanut 
Product Manufacturers, Inc., Rittman, Ohio.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel met in closed 
session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2007.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support met in closed session and approved for full committee 
consideration, those provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of 
the subcommittee, of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act 
for fiscal year 2007.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities met in closed session and approved for full committee 
consideration, those provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of 
the subcommittee, of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act 
for fiscal year 2007.
LINE-ITEM RESCISSION AUTHORITY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 
2381, to amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 to provide line-item rescission authority, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Byrd; Austin Smythe, Acting Deputy Director, 
Office of Management and Budget; Donald B. Marron, Acting Director, 
Congressional Budget Office; Louis Fisher, Specialist at the Law 
Library, Library of Congress; and Charles J. Cooper, Cooper and Kirk, 
PLLC, Washington, D.C.
BUDGET: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science and Space concluded a hearing to examine fiscal year 2007 
budget request, programs and science priorities of the National Science 
Foundation, after receiving testimony from Arden L. Bement, Jr., 
Director, National Science Foundation; Warren M. Washington, Chairman, 
National Science Board; Alan I. Leshner, American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.; and Jerome D. Odom, 
University of South Carolina Foundations, Columbia, on behalf of 
EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2459, to improve cargo security, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  H.R. 2066, to amend title 40, United States Code, to establish a 
Federal Acquisition Service, to replace the General Supply Fund and the 
Information Technology Fund with an Acquisition Services Fund, with 
amendments;
  An original resolution thanking Joyce Rechtschaffen for her service 
to the Senate and to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs; and
  The nominations of Uttam Dhillon, of California, to be Director of 
the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement, Department of Homeland 
Security, and Mark D. Acton, of Kentucky, to be a Commissioner of the 
Postal Rate Commission.
  Also, committee approved a committee report entitled ``Hurricane 
Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared.''
FBI OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held an oversight hearing to 
examine the current state of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 
focusing on the National Security Branch, human resources, and the 
Trilogy Project information technology system

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and the payment of questionable contractor costs and missing assets, 
receiving testimony from Robert S. Mueller III, Director, FBI, and 
Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, both of the Department of Justice; 
Linda M. Calbom, Director, Financial Management and Assurance, 
Government Accountability Office; and John C. Gannon, BAE Systems 
Information Technology, McLean, Virginia.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Sandra Segal Ikuta, of California, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Sean F. Cox and Thomas L. 
Ludington, each to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Michigan, who were introduced by Senators Levin and 
Stabenow and Representative Camp, and Kenneth L. Wainstein, of 
Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.