[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 96 (Thursday, July 20, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D810-D811]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DAIRY PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held a 
hearing to examine Department of Agriculture dairy programs, focusing 
on the structural reforms occurring in the dairy industry, the economic 
outlook for milk and dairy products, and federal milk marketing orders, 
receiving testimony from Joseph Glauber, Deputy Chief Economist, 
Department of Agriculture; Charles Beckendorf, Tomball, Texas, on 
behalf of the National Milk Producers Federation; Jim Green, Kemps, 
LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota, on behalf of the International Dairy Foods 
Association; Ken Hall, Terreton, Idaho, on behalf of the Idaho 
Dairymen's Association; and Leon Berthiaume, St. Albans Cooperative 
Creamery, Inc., St. Albans, Vermont.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  H.R. 5631, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  An original bill (S. 3708) making appropriations for the Departments 
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007;
  H.R. 5385, making appropriations for the military quality of life 
functions of the Department of Defense, military construction, the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2007, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 5576, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, the 
Judiciary, District of Columbia, and independent agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
OVERHEAD IMAGERY SYSTEMS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing regarding overhead imagery systems, from Kenneth Johnson and 
Andrew Johnson, each a Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Select 
Committee on Intelligence; Stephen A. Cambone, Under Secretary of 
Defense for Intelligence; John Gass, National Air and Space 
Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; and 
Mary Margaret Graham, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for 
Collection.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Charles E. McQueary, of North Carolina, to be Director 
of Operational Test and Evaluation, Department of Defense, Sue C. 
Payton, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for 
Acquisition, and 823 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and 
Marine Corps.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of John Ray Correll, of Indiana, to 
be Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 
Enforcement, and Mark Myers, of Alaska, to be Director of the United 
States Geological Survey, who was introduced by Senators Stevens and 
Murkowski, both of the Department of the Interior, and Drue Pearce, of 
Alaska, to be Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation 
Projects, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who was introduced by 
Senators Stevens and Murkowski, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine U.S. policy options regarding North Korea, including the U.S. 
response to the July missile launches and the ongoing dialogue with 
China, after receiving testimony from Christopher R. Hill, Assistant 
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and Arnold 
Kanter, The Scowcroft Group, and Morton Abramowitz, The Century 
Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.
IRAN
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and 
International Security met in closed session to receive a briefing 
regarding Iran from officials of the Department of State.

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IRAN
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and 
International Security concluded a hearing to examine Iran's nuclear 
impasse, focusing on the status of Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities, 
European negotiations and the U.N. Security Council, and the 
feasibility of further negotiations, democracy promotion, sanctions, 
and/or military operations, after receiving testimony from Amir Abbas 
Fakhravar, Independent Student Movement, Ilan Berman, American Foreign 
Policy Council, Michael A. Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute, Ray 
Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations, all of Washington, D.C.; and Jim 
Walsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
VA DATA PRIVACY BREACH
Committee on Veteran's Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) data privacy breach, focusing 
on the establishment of a new Office of Cyber and Information Security 
Training with the VA's Office of Information Technology, after 
receiving testimony from R. James Nicholson, Secretary, and George J. 
Opfer, Inspector General, both of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
who were accompanied by several of their associates.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.
GENERIC DRUGS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the generic drug maze relating to access to affordable, life-saving 
drugs, focusing on the efforts to expedite the approval of generic drug 
products, after receiving testimony from Gary Buehler, Director, Office 
of Generic Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and 
Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Jon 
Leibowitz, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission; Heather Bresch, 
Mylan Laboratories, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; and Mark Merritt, 
Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, Washington, D.C.