[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 55 (Tuesday, May 9, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D455-D456]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2007 for military construction, after 
receiving testimony from Tina W. Jonas, Under Secretary (Comptroller), 
and Philip W. Grone, Deputy Under Secretary for Installations and 
Environment, both of the Department of Defense; Keith Eastin, Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment; B.J. Penn, 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment; and 
William C. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for 
Installations, Environment, and Logistics.
CAFE STANDARDS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded a hearing to 
examine efforts to reform corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) 
standards for passenger cars, focusing on oil consumption, flexible 
fuel, fuel cells and hybrid-electric vehicles, and hydrogen internal 
combustion engines, after receiving testimony from Norman Y. Mineta, 
Secretary, Jeffrey Rosen, General Counsel, and Jacqueline Glassman, 
Deputy Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 
all of the Department of Transportation; Frederick L. Webber, Alliance 
of Automobile Manufacturers, Philip R. Sharp, Resources for the Future, 
Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, David Friedman, Union of Concerned 
Scientists, and Alan Reuther, International Union, United Automobile, 
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and John M. Cabaniss, Jr., Association of 
International Automobile Manufacturers, Arlington, Virginia.
FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN U.S. AIR CARRIERS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation concluded a hearing to examine the Department of 
Transportation's notice of proposed rulemaking that clarifies the rules 
regarding foreign investments in U.S. air carriers, after receiving 
testimony from Representatives Mica and Oberstar; Jeffrey N. Shane, 
Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; Frederick W. Smith, FedEx 
Corporation, Memphis, Tennessee; Jeffery A. Smisek, Continental 
Airlines, Houston, Texas; Michael G. Whitaker, United Airlines, Elk 
Grove Village, Illinois; and Duane Woerth, Air Line Pilots Association, 
International, Washington, D.C.
LONGSHORE HARBOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
reform of Longshore Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, after receiving 
testimony from Lawrence P. Postol, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, Washington, 
D.C.; Richard A. Victor, Workers Compensation Research Institute, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Stephen Embry, Embry and Neusner, Groton, 
Connecticut; and Mitch White, Manson Construction, San Pedro, 
California, on behalf of the AGC National Marine Contractors Committee.
VOTING RIGHTS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine an 
introduction to the expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act and 
legal issues relating to reauthorization, after receiving testimony 
from Chandler Davidson, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Theodore M. 
Shaw, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and Samuel 
Issacharoff, New York University School of Law, both of New York, New 
York; Richard L. Hasen, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California; and 
Laughlin McDonald, ACLU Voting Rights Project, Atlanta, Georgia.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of Brett M.

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Kavanaugh, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
District of Columbia Circuit, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Judge Walter K. Stapleton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 
and Judge Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.