[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 12, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D758-D759]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS:
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Frederic S. Mishkin, of New York, 
to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 
Linda Mysliwy Conlin, of New Jersey, to be First Vice President, and J. 
Joseph Grandmaison, of New Hampshire, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors, both of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Edmund 
C. Moy, of Wisconsin, to be Director of the Mint, Department of the 
Treasury, and Geoffrey S. Bacino, of Illinois, to be a Director of the 
Federal Housing Finance Board, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of Marc Spitzer, of Arizona, to be a Member of 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
VIETNAM
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine S. 3495, to 
authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade 
relations treatment) to the products of Vietnam, receiving testimony 
from Karan K. Bhatia, Deputy United States

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Trade Representative; Eric G. John, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
State, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Jon Caspers, National 
Pork Producers Council, Swaledale, Iowa; Christian Schlect, Northwest 
Horticultural Council, Yakima, Washington; Jeffrey R. Shafer, Citigroup 
Global Markets, New York, New York; and Augustine D. Tantillo, American 
Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition, Chris Seiple, Institute for 
Global Engagement, T. Kumar, Amnesty International USA, and Virginia B. 
Foote, U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine development effectiveness of certain infrastructure projects 
relating to multilateral development banks and their role in promoting 
economic development and reducing poverty, focusing on the Camisea 
pipeline project in Peru, and the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline revenue 
management program, after receiving testimony from Clay Lowery, 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; Jaime 
Quijandria, The World Bank, Korinna Horta, Environmental Defense Fund, 
on behalf of The Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of 
Human Rights and The Center for Environment and Development in 
Cameroon, and Manish Bapna, Bank Information Center, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Carlos Herrera Descalzi, National Engineers Association of 
Peru, Lima.
LUMBEE RECOGNITION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 660, to provide for the acknowledgment of the Lumbee Tribe of North 
Carolina, after receiving testimony from Senator Dole; Representative 
McIntyre; R. Lee Fleming, Director, Office of Federal Acknowledgment, 
Department of the Interior; James Ernest Goins, Pembroke, North 
Carolina, Arlinda F. Locklear, Jefferson, Maryland, and Jack Campisi, 
Red Hook, New York, all of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina; and 
Michell Hicks, Eastern Bank of Cherokees, Cherokee, North Carolina.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
immigration reform issues, after receiving testimony from Carlos 
Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce; Michael
  W. Cutler, Center for Immigration Studies, Benjamin Johnson, American 
Immigration Law Foundation, and William F. McDonald, Georgetown 
University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; and Niall O'Dowd, Irish 
Lobby for Immigration, New York, New York.
SMALL BUSINESS FEDERAL CONTRACTING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine strengthening participation of small businesses in 
Federal contracting and innovation research programs, after receiving 
testimony from Eric M. Thorson, Inspector General, Small Business 
Administration; Joe Wynn, Veterans Enterprise Training and Services 
Group, and Charles W. Wessner, National Research Council, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Steven Sims, National Minority Supplier Development 
Council, New York, New York; Michael Squillante, RMD, Inc., Watertown, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Small Business Technology Council; 
Eugene Watson, Red Ladder Ranch, Centennial, Wyoming, on behalf of the 
University of Wyoming Research Office and Wyoming Business Council; and 
Thomas J. Bigger, Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Boston, Massachusetts.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.