[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 109 (Thursday, September 7, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D926-D927]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
DEFENSE CONTRACTING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on 
Defense Contracting. Testimony was heard from the following officials 
of the Department of Defense: Kenneth J. Krieg, Under Secretary, 
Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; Sue C. Payton, Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force, Acquisition; and Delores M. Etter, 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Research, Development and Acquisition; 
and LTG Joseph L. Yakovac, Jr., USA, Military Deputy to the Assistant 
Secretary of the Army, Acquisition, Logistics and Technology; and David 
Walker, Comptroller General, GAO.
MILITARY COMMISSIONS AND TRIBUNALS STANDARDS
Committee on Armed Services: Held a hearing on standards of military 
commissions and tribunals. Testimony was heard from Steven Bradbury, 
Acting Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; and the 
following officials of the Department of Defense: MG Scott C. Black, 
USA, Judge Advocate General, Army; RADM Bruce E. MacDonald, USN, Judge 
Advocate General, Navy; MG Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., USAF, Deputy Judge 
Advocate General, Air Force; BG James C. Walker, USMC, Staff Judge 
Advocate to the Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps; COL Ronald M. Reed, 
USAF, Legal Counsel to the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff.
BP'S PIPELINE SPILLS
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations held a hearing on BP's Pipeline Spills at Prudhoe Bay: 
What Went Wrong? Testimony was heard from VADM Thomas J. Barrett, USCG 
(Ret.), Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, Department of Transportation; Kurt Fredriksson, 
Commissioner, Department of Environmental Conservation, State of 
Alaska; and public witnesses.
  In refusing to give testimony at this hearing, Richard C. Woollam, 
Corrosion Engineer, BP America, Inc., invoked Fifth Amendment 
privileges.
FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK SYSTEM REVIEW
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Capital Markets, 
Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises held a hearing entitled 
``A Review of the Federal Home Loan Bank System.'' Testimony was heard 
from Ronald A. Rosenfeld, Chairman, Federal Housing Finance Board.
DHS'S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE
Committee on Homeland Security: Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, 
Science, and Technology held a hearing entitled ``The Department of 
Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate: Is It 
Structured for Success?'' Testimony was heard from Jay M. Cohen, Under 
Secretary, Science and Technology, Department of Homeland Security.
STATE AND LOCAL FUSION CENTERS--ROLE OF DHS
Committee on Homeland Security: Subcommittee on Intelligence, 
Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment held a hearing 
entitled ``State and Local

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Fusion Centers and the Role of DHS.'' Testimony was heard from Charles 
E. Allen, Chief Intelligence Officer, Department of Homeland Security; 
COL Kenneth Bouche, Deputy Director, Information and Technology 
Command, State Police, Illinois; Amy Whitmore, Analyst Supervisor, 
Fusion Center, State Police, Virginia; and Richard L. Canas, Director, 
Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, State of New Jersey.
9/11: FIVE YEARS LATER--GAUGING ISLAMIST TERRORISM
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Terrorism and Nonproliferation held an oversight hearing on 9/11: Five 
Years Later--Gauging Islamist Terrorism. Testimony was heard from 
public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on the Judiciary: Ordered reported, as amended, the following 
bills: H.R. 2679, Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005; and H.R. 
5092, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) 
Modernization and Reform Act of 2006.
  The Committee began mark up of H.R. 5005, Firearms Corrections and 
Improvements Act.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks held a hearing 
on the following bills: H.R. 3532, Michigan Lighthouse and Maritime 
Heritage Act; H.R. 5452, Veterans Eagle Parks Pass Act; H.R. 5485, 
Columbia-Pacific National Heritage Area Study Act; and H.R. 5978, To 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource 
study to determine the suitability and feasibility of including the 
battlefields and related sites of the First and Second Battles of 
Newtonia, Missouri, during the Civil War as part of a Wilson's Creek 
National Battlefield or designating the battlefields and related sites 
as a separate unit of the National Park System. Testimony was heard 
from Representatives Camp of Michigan, Reynolds, Baird, Wu and Blunt; 
John Wessels, Acting Assistant Director, Business Services, National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior; and public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; OVERSIGHT
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power held a hearing 
on the following bills: H.R. 5566, To facilitate the transfer of 
Spearfish Hydroelectric Plant Number 1 to the city of Spearfish, South 
Dakota; and H.R. 6014, To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, 
acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to improve California's 
Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta and water supply; and an oversight hearing 
on a proposal to amend the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to 
authorize improvements for the security of dams and other facilities. 
Testimony was heard from William Rinne, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of 
Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Les Harder, Chief, Division of 
Flood Management, Department of Water Resources, State of California; 
Jerry Krambeck, Mayor, Spearfish, South Dakota; and public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT--FREIGHT LOGISTICS
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on 
Highways, Transit and Pipelines held an oversight hearing on Freight 
Logistics: The Road Ahead as Seen by the Users of the Highway System. 
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
BRIEFING--GLOBAL UPDATES/HOT SPOTS
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
receive a briefing on Global Updates/Hot Spots. The Committee was 
briefed by departmental witnesses.
CIA SENSITIVE PROGRAMS
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence met in executive 
session to hold a hearing on CIA Sensitive Programs. Testimony was 
heard from departmental witnesses.