[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 89 (Tuesday, July 11, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D749-D750]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: STATE/JUSTICE/COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science 
and Related Agencies approved for full Committee consideration, H.R. 
5672, making appropriations for Science, the Departments of State, 
Justice, and Commerce, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2007, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
INSURANCE REGULATION REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held a 
hearing to examine insurance regulation reform issues, receiving 
testimony from Alessandro Iuppa, Maine Superintendent of Insurance, 
Augusta, on behalf of the National Association of Insurance 
Commissioners; John D. Johns, Protective Life Corporation, Birmingham, 
Alabama; Thomas Minkler, Clark-Mortenson Agency, Inc., Keane, New 
Hampshire, on behalf of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of 
America, Inc.; Travis Plunkett, Consumer Federation of America, Alan F. 
Liebowitz, Old Mutual (Bermuda) Ltd., on behalf of the America Bankers 
Insurance Association, and Scott A. Sinder, Scott Group, on behalf of 
the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, all of Washington, D.C.; 
Joseph J. Beneducci, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Novato, 
California; Jaxon White, Medmarc Insurance Group, Chantilly, Virginia, 
on behalf of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America; 
Robert A.Wadsworth, Preferred Mutual Insurance Company, New Berlin, New 
York, on behalf of the National Association of Mutual Insurance 
Companies; and Robert M. Hardy, Jr., Investors Heritage Life Insurance 
Company, Frankfort, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Alliance of 
Life Companies.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 
on geothermal energy and other renewable energy production of Federal 
lands in the Western states, including the current state of and 
potential for geothermal development, challenges faced by developers of 
geothermal resources, Federal, state, and local government actions to 
address these challenges, and how provisions of the Act are likely to 
affect Federal geothermal royalty disbursement and collections, after 
receiving testimony from Lynn Scarlett, Deputy Secretary of the 
Interior; Jim Wells, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, 
Government Accountability Office; Sally Collins, Associate Chief, 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Walter S. Snyder, Boise 
State University, Boise, Idaho, on behalf of the Intermountain West 
Geothermal Consortium; Chris Taylor, Horizon Wind Energy, LLC, 
Portland, Oregon, on behalf of the American Wind Energy Association; 
Bernie Karl, Chena Hot Springs Resort, Fairbanks, Alaska; Paul A. 
Thomsen, ORMAT Technologies, Reno, Nevada, on behalf of the Geothermal 
Energy Association; Robert B. Liden, Stirling Energy Systems, Inc., 
Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the Solar Energy Industries Association; 
and V. John White,

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Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, Sacramento, 
California.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing relative to North Korea from John D. Negroponte, 
Director of National Intelligence.
SOMALIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded a hearing to examine United States government policy and 
challenges relative to Somalia, after receiving testimony from Jendayi 
E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Michael E. 
Heiss, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and 
Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development; and 
David H. Shinn, George Washington University Elliott School of 
International Affairs, Andre Le Sage, National Defense University 
Africa Center for Strategic Studies, and J. Stephen Morrison, Center 
for Strategic and International Studies, all of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS:
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Anna Blackburne-
Rigsby and Phyllis D. Thompson, each to be an Associate Judge of the 
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Jennifer M. Anderson, to be 
an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 
who were all introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Norton, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
HAMDAN V. RUMSFELD
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
efforts to establish a constitutional process for the humane treatment 
and fair trial of suspected terrorist detainees, relative to the recent 
Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, after receiving 
testimony from Steven G. Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, 
Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; Daniel J. Dell'Orto, 
Principal Deputy General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, Paul W. 
Cobb, Jr., former Deputy General Counsel, and Lieutenant Commander 
Charles D. Swift, JAGC, USN, Office of Military Commissions, Office of 
Chief Defense Counsel, all of the Department of Defense; Theodore B. 
Olson, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, Washington, D.C., former Solicitor 
General; Harold Koh, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Scott L. 
Silliman, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, former 
Judge Advocate General, USAF; and Daniel P. Collins, Munger, Tolles and 
Olson, Los Angeles, California, former Associate Deputy Attorney 
General.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of William James Haynes II, of Virginia, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senators Warner and Allen, and Frances Marie Tydingco-Gatewood, to be 
Judge for the District Court of Guam, who was introduced by Guam 
Delegate Bordallo, 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.