[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 77 (Thursday, June 15, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D640-D641]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FANNIE MAE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight 
Report of the Special Examination of Fannie Mae, after receiving 
testimony from James B. Lockhart III, Acting Director, Office of 
Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development; Christopher Cox, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission; and Daniel H. Mudd, and Stephen B. Ashley, both of Fannie 
Mae, Washington, D.C.
BUDGET: COAST GUARD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Fisheries and the Coast Guard concluded a hearing to examine the Coast 
Guard budget, after receiving testimony from Admiral Thad W. Allen, 
Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security; 
and Stephen L. Caldwell, Acting Director, Homeland Security and Justice 
Issues, Government Accountability Office.
SUPERFUND PROGRAM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund 
and Waste Management concluded an oversight hearing to examine the 
Superfund Program, which was created by the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), focusing on efforts 
to stabilize and clean up National Priority list (NPL) sites through 
the United States, after receiving testimony from Senators Durbin and 
Cantwell; Susan Parker Bodine, Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid 
Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency; Leonardo 
Trasande, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Community and 
Preventive Medicine Center for Children's Health and the Environment, 
New York, New York; Michael W. Steinberg, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, 
LLP, on behalf of the Superfund Settlements Project, and Katherine N. 
Probst, both of Washington, D.C.; Robert Spiegel, Edison Wetlands 
Association, Edison, New Jersey; and J. Winston Porter, Waste Policy 
Center, Leesburg, Virginia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Robert O. Blake, Jr., of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to 
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
the Republic of Maldives, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 2145, to enhance security and protect against terrorist attacks at 
chemical facilities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1554, to establish an intergovernmental grant program to identify 
and develop homeland security information, equipment, capabilities, 
technologies, and services to further the homeland security of the 
United States and to address the homeland security needs of Federal, 
State, and local governments, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1741, to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to carry out a 
program for the protection of the health and safety of residents, 
workers, volunteers, and others in a disaster area;
  S. 2068, to preserve existing judgeships on the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia;
  S. 2146, to extend relocation expenses test programs for Federal 
employees; and
  H.R. 3508, to authorize improvements in the operation of the 
government of the District of Columbia, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:

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  S.J. Res. 12, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration 
of the flag of the United States, with amendments; and
  The nominations of Frank D. Whitney, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, Kenneth L. Wainstein, 
of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, and Thomas D. 
Anderson, to be United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, all 
of the Department of Justice.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Jerome A. Holmes, of Oklahoma, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, who was introduced by Senator 
Inhofe, Daniel Porter Jordan III, to be United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of Mississippi, who was introduced by 
Senators Cochran and Lott, and Gustavo Antonio Gelpi, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, who was 
introduced by Representative Fortuno, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.