[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 76 (Wednesday, June 14, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D628-D630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 418, to protect members of the Armed Forces from unscrupulous 
practices regarding sales of insurance, financial, and investment 
products, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 811, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in 
commemoration of the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln;
  S. 2321, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in 
commemoration of Louis Braille; and
  The nominations of Sheila C. Bair, of Kansas, to be a Member and 
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation, Kathleen L. Casey, of Virginia, to be a Member of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission, Robert M. Couch, of Alabama, to be 
President, Government National Mortgage Association, Donald L. Kohn, of 
Virginia, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System, and James B. Lockhart III, of Connecticut, to be 
Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION PLANS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Financial Accountability Standards Board's 
proposed standard on ``Employers' Accounting for Defined Benefit 
Pension and Other Postretirement Plans'', after receiving testimony 
from Robert H. Herz, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, 
Connecticut; and David Tweedie, International Accounting Standards 
Board, London, England.
MARK-TO-MARKET PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 3511,

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to extend for 5 years the Mark-to-Market program of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, which aims to reduce long-term Section 8 
subsidy costs while preserving affordable housing, after receiving 
testimony from Theodore K. Toon, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development, Office of Affordable Housing Preservation; Chris 
Foster, Hampstead Partners, La Jolla, California, on behalf of the 
National Leased Housing Association; and Scott Kline, National Housing 
Trust, Washington, D.C.
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness concluded a hearing to 
examine alternative energy technologies, focusing on fuel cells, the 
solar power industry, and ocean wave energy conversion, after receiving 
testimony from Alan J. Gotcher, Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., Reno, 
Nevada; Francis R. Preli, Jr., UTC Power, South Windsor, Connecticut; 
K. R. Sridhar, Ion America Corporation, Sunnyvale, California; Thomas 
H. Werner, SunPower Corporation, San Jose, California; Peter L. 
Corsell, GridPoint, Inc., Washington, D.C.; George W. Taylor, Ocean 
Power Technologies, Inc., Pennington, New Jersey; and Daniel J. 
Raudebaugh, Center for Transportation and the Environment, Atlanta, 
Georgia.
MINE CLEAN-UP
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine whether potential liability deters 
abandoned hard rock mine clean up, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Allard and Salazar; Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Dennis E. Ellis, Colorado Department 
of Public Health and Environment, Denver; Velma M. Smith, National 
Environmental Trust, Washington, D.C.; John Gioia, Contra Costa County 
Public Works, Martinez, California; Terry A. Harwood, Athol, Idaho, 
former Executive Director, Hazardous Materials Policy Council of the 
Department of Agriculture; and Scott A. Lewis, AngloGold Ashanti North 
America, Inc., Greenwood Village, Colorado, on behalf of the National 
Mining Association.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 2228, and H.R. 4456, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 2404 Race Street, Jonesboro, Arkansas, 
as the ``Hattie W. Caraway Post Office.'';
  S. 2376, and H.R. 3934, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 80 Killian Road in Massapequa, New 
York, as the ``Gerard A. Fiorenza Post Office Building'';
  S. 2722, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 170 East Main Street in Patchogue, New York, as the 
``Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4108, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 3000 Homewood Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, as the 
``State Senator Verda Welcome and Dr. Henry Welcome Post Office 
Building'';
  H.R. 3440, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 100 Avenida RL Rodriguez in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, as 
the ``Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4786, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 535 Wood Street in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as the 
``H. Gordon Payrow Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4561, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 8624 Ferguson Road in Dallas, Texas, as the 
``Francisco `Pancho' Medrano Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4688, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1 Boyden Street in Badin, North Carolina, as the 
``Mayor John Thompson `Tom' Garrison Memorial Post Office'';
  H.R. 4995, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 7 Columbus Avenue in Tuckahoe, New York, as the 
``Ronald Bucca Post Office'';
  H.R. 3549, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 210 West 3rd Avenue in Warren, Pennsylvania, as the 
``William F. Clinger, Jr. Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2977, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 306 2nd Avenue in Brockway, Montana, as the ``Paul 
Kasten Post Office Building'';
  S. 2690, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 8801 Sudley Road in Manassas, Virginia, as the 
``Harry J. Parrish Post Office'';
  S. 3187, to designate the Post Office located at 5755 Post Road, East 
Greenwich, Rhode Island, as the ``Richard L. Cevoli Post Office''; and
  H.R. 5245, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1 Marble Street in Fair Haven, Vermont, as the 
``Matthew Lyon Post Office Building''.

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  Also, Committee began consideration of S. 2145, to enhance security 
and protect against terrorist attacks at chemical facilities, agreeing 
to an amendment in the nature of a substitute, but did not take final 
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
TRIBAL COMPENSATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 374, to provide compensation to the Lower Brule and Crow Creek Sioux 
Tribes of South Dakota for damage to tribal land caused by Pick-Sloan 
projects along the Missouri River, and S. 1535, to amend the Cheyenne 
River Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act to provide compensation to 
members of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe for damage resulting from the 
Oahe Dam and Reservoir Project, after receiving testimony from Robin M. 
Nazzaro, Director, and Jeffrey D. Malcolm, Assistant Director, both of 
Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; 
Michael B. Jandreau, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule, South 
Dakota; Lester Thompson, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Fort Thompson, South 
Dakota; Michael L. Lawson, Morgan, Angel, and Associates LLC, 
Washington, D.C.; and Harold Frazier, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and 
Sharon Vogel, Tribal Ventures Project, both of Eagle Butte, South 
Dakota.
COMMUNICATIONS LAWS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
ensuring competition and innovation relating to reconsidering 
communication laws, including protecting the interests of consumers and 
competition in the offering of broadband Internet access services, 
after receiving testimony from Representative Sensenbrenner; William E. 
Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission; Vinton G. Cerf, 
Google, Inc., Herndon, Virginia; David L. Cohen, Comcast Corporation, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walter B. McCormick, Jr., USTelecom 
Association, and Chris Putala, Earthlink, Inc., both of Washington, 
D.C.; Blair Levin, Stifel Nicolaus and Company, Inc., St. Louis, 
Missouri; Paul T. Morris, Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure 
Agency, West Valley City; and Jeff C. Kuhns, Pennsylvania State 
University, University Park.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: On Tuesday, June 13, 2006, Committee 
met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence 
matters from officials of the intelligence community.