[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 27, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D706-D707]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine the potential impact of S. 2754, to derive human pluripotent 
stem cell lines using techniques that do not knowingly harm embryos 
(referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions), 
after receiving testimony from Senator Santorum; James F. Battey, Jr., 
Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication 
Disorders, and Chair, National Institutes of Health Stem Cell Task 
Force, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Stephen Strom, University of Pittsburgh Department of 
Pathology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Alan I. Leshner, American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.
APPROPRIATIONS: INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related 
Agencies approved for full Committee consideration H.R. 5386, making 
appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
APPROPRIATIONS: ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water approved 
for full Committee consideration H.R. 5427, making appropriations for 
energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2007, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
APPROPRIATIONS: HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security approved 
for full Committee consideration H.R. 5441, making appropriations for 
the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2007, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on recent North Korean ballistic missile developments from 
Brian Green, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Forces Policy, Patricia 
Sanders, Executive Director, Missile Defense Agency, and Brad Ahlskog, 
Senior Intelligence Officer, Korean Branch, Defense Intelligence 
Agency, all of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Michael L. Dominguez, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, and a list of 979 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
SAFETEA-LU IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation concluded an oversight hearing to examine 
the current state of progress and future outlook relating to SAFETEA-LU 
implementation, including changes SAFETEA-LU made to the New Starts 
program, changes SAFETEA-LU made to the JARC program, and issues that 
may be important as FTA moves forward with implementing the Act, after 
receiving testimony from Sandra Bushue, Deputy Administrator, Federal 
Transit Administration, Department of Transportation; Katherine 
Siggerud, Physical Infrastructure, Government Accountability Office; 
and William W. Millar, American Public Transportation Association, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee continued 
markup of H.R. 5252, to promote the deployment of broadband networks 
and services, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again 
on Wednesday, June 28.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine implementation of the Energy Policy Act provisions 
on enhancing oil and gas production on Federal lands in the Rocky 
Mountain Region, after receiving testimony from Kathleen Clarke, 
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Mary 
Flanderka, Wyoming Office of the Governor, Cheyenne; Jeffrey Eppink, 
Advanced Resources International, Inc., and Tom Reed, Trout Unlimited, 
both of Arlington, Virginia; and Duane Zavadil, Independent Petroleum 
Association of Mountain States, Denver, Colorado.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of Henry M. Paulson, Jr., of New York, to be Secretary of 
the Treasury, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Schumer, 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the 
District of Columbia concluded an oversight hearing to examine the 
Office of Personnel Management, focusing on whether the Office of 
Personnel Management is positioned to be the Federal government's 
leader in personnel policy today and in the future, after receiving 
testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United 
States, Government Accountability Office; and Linda M. Springer, 
Director, Office of Personnel Management.
PRESIDENTIAL SIGNING STATEMENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the purpose, history, and legal significance of presidential signing 
statements, which are mainly issued when a President signs new 
legislation into law, after receiving testimony from Michelle E. 
Boardman, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, 
Department of Justice; Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Harvard Law School 
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; Christopher S. Yoo, Vanderbilt University Law School, 
Nashville, Tennessee; and Bruce Fein, Fein & Fein LLC, and Nicholas 
Quinn Rosenkranz, Georgetown University Law Center, both of Washington, 
D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.
HEALTHCARE GLOBALIZATION
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine if 
medical tourism can reduce health care costs relating to the 
globalization of health care, after receiving testimony from Arnold 
Milstein, Mercer Health & Benefits, San Francisco, California; Bonnie 
Grissom Blackley, Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc., Canton, North 
Carolina; Rajesh Rao, IndUShealth, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina; Bruce 
Cunningham, University of Minnesota Department of Plastic Surgery, 
Minneapolis, on behalf of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons; and 
Howard Staab and Maggi Ann Grace, both of Carrboro, North Carolina.