[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 56 (Wednesday, May 10, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D463-D465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM BILL: SUGAR PROVISIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the implementation of the sugar provisions of the 
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, after receiving 
testimony from J.B. Penn, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and 
Foreign Agricultural Services; John C. Roney, American Sugar Alliance, 
Arlington, Virginia; Wallace Ellender, III, American Sugar Cane League, 
Bourg, Louisiana; Steve Williams, Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers 
Association, Fisher, Minnesota, on behalf of American Sugarbeet Growers 
Association; Margaret Blamberg, American Cane Sugar Refiners' 
Association, Brooklyn, New York; Robert A. Peiser, Imperial Sugar 
Company, Sugar Land, Texas; Joe Goehring, The Hershey Company, Hershey, 
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Sweetener Users Association; and Mrinal 
Roy, Mauritius Sugar Syndicate and Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture, 
London, United Kingdom.
APPROPRIATIONS: MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2007 for 
the missile defense program, after receiving testimony from Lieutenant 
General Henry A. Obering, III, USAF, Director, Missile Defense Agency; 
and Lieutenant General Larry J. Dodgen, USA, Commanding General, U.S. 
Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and U.S. Army Forces Strategic 
Command.
WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to discuss 
the current situation in Afghanistan with Lieutenant General Karl W. 
Eikenberry, USA, Commanding General, Combined Forces Command-
Afghanistan.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of Dirk Kempthorne, of Idaho, to be Secretary 
of the Interior.
LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 906, to promote wildland 
firefighter safety, S. 2003, to make permanent the authorization for 
watershed restoration and enhancement agreements, H.R. 585, to require 
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managers to support, and to communicate, coordinate, and cooperate 
with, designated gateway communities, to improve the ability of gateway 
communities to participate in Federal land management planning 
conducted by the Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the 
Interior, and to respond to the impacts of the public use of the 
Federal lands administered by these agencies, and H.R. 3981, to 
authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out certain land 
exchanges involving small parcels of National Forest System land in the 
Tahoe National Forest in the State of California, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Radanovich; Joel Holtrop, Deputy Chief, 
National Forest System, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; 
Christopher Kearney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for 
Policy, Management and Budget; Steve Duerr, Jackson Hole Chamber of 
Commerce, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and Bob Warren, City of Redding, 
California, on behalf of the National Alliance of Gateway Communities.
CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
progress achieved and challenges ahead for America's child welfare 
system, focusing on foster care, mentoring the children of prisoners, 
and the Promoting Safe and Stable Families program, after receiving 
testimony from Joan E. Ohl, Commissioner, Administration for Children, 
Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Gary Stangler, Jim Casey Youth 
Opportunities Initiative, St. Louis, Missouri; Arlene Templer, 
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation 
Department of Human Resources Development, Pablo, Montana; Joe Kroll, 
North American Council on Adoptable Children, St. Paul, Minnesota; and 
Jackie Hammers-Crowell, Iowa City, Iowa.
NOMINATIONS:
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Earl Anthony Wayne, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to Argentina, David M. Robinson, of Connecticut, to be 
Ambassador to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, and Lisa Bobbie 
Schreiber Hughes, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Suriname, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Indian economic development, focusing on the recent Bureau 
of Indian Affairs Indian labor force report and unemployment in Indian 
population, after receiving testimony from Robert W. Middleton, 
Director, Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development, Office of 
the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Joe Garcia, 
National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; Tex G. Hall, 
InterTribal Economic Alliance, Sisseton, South Dakota; Lance Morgan, 
Ho-Chunk, Inc., Winnebago, Nebraska; Elsie M. Meeks, First Nations 
Oweesta Corporation, Rapid City, South Dakota; and Miriam Jorgensen, 
Harvard University Project on American Indian Economic Development, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and University of Arizona Native Nations 
Institute.
VOTING RIGHTS ACT REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
modern enforcement and reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, 
including S. 2703, to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965, after 
receiving testimony from Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General, Civil 
Rights Division, Department of Justice; Robert B. McDuff, Law Offices 
of Robert McDuff, Jackson, Mississippi; Gregory S. Coleman, Weil 
Gotshall and Manges, Austin, Texas; Natalie A. Landreth, Native 
American Rights Fund, Anchorage, Alaska; Frank B. Strickland, 
Strickland Brockington Lewis, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia; and Juan 
Cartagena, Community Service Society of New York, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
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