[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 112 (Tuesday, September 12, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D941-D942]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMBATING TERRORIST FINANCING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the role of the Department of the Treasury in 
combating terrorist financing 5 years after 9/11, focusing on efforts 
to safeguard the financial system of the United States against 
financial crime, after receiving testimony from Robert W. Werner, 
Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Adam J. Szubin, 
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Daniel L. Glaser, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, and 
Eileen C. Mayer, Director, Fraud/Bank Secrecy Act of Small Business/
Self-Employed Division, Internal Revenue Service, all of the Department 
of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Kevin J. Martin, of North 
Carolina, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, who 
was introduced by Senator Burr, and John M.R. Kneuer, of New Jersey, to 
be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
BP PIPELINE FAILURE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the effects of the British Petroleum (BP) 
pipeline failure in the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field on the oil supply of the 
United States and to examine what steps may be taken to prevent a 
recurrence of such an event, after receiving testimony from Vice 
Admiral Thomas J. Barrett, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.), Administrator, 
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Howard Gruenspecht, Deputy Administrator, Energy 
Information Administration, Department of Energy; Robert A. Malone, BP 
America Inc., Houston, Texas; and Kevin Hostler, Alyeska Pipeline 
Service Company, and Peter Van Tuyn, Bessenyey and Van Tuyn, LLC, both 
of Anchorage, Alaska.
METHAMPHETAMINE SUPPLY CHAIN
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine law 
enforcement challenges relating to breaking the methamphetamine supply 
chain, receiving testimony from Joseph T. Rannazzisi, Deputy Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, and Robert T. Patton, 
Section Chief, Mexico Central America Section, both of the Drug 
Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; Gregory Passic, 
Director, Office of Drug Interdiction, Customs and Border Protection, 
Department of Homeland Security; C. Andre Martin, Director, Operations, 
Policy and Support, Criminal Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, 
Department of the Treasury; Lieutenant Daniel L. Springer, Missouri 
River Drug Task Force, Bozeman, Montana; Carl Venne, Apsaalooka Nation, 
Montana Meth Project, Crow Agency, Montana; and Sean McCullough, Iowa 
Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Des Moines.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of James R. Kunder, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
HOMELAND SECURITY POST 9/11
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the next 5 years relating to homeland 
security, including screening people at the border, screening cargo, 
protecting critical infrastructure, sharing information, and boosting 
emergency preparedness and response,

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after receiving testimony from Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland 
Security; Leroy D. Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Los 
Angeles, California; Richard A. Falkenrath, New York Police Department, 
New York, New York; Steven N. Simon, Council on Foreign Relations, 
Washington, D.C.; and Daniel B. Prieto, Reform Institute, Alexandria, 
Virginia.
THOMPSON MEMORANDUM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Department of Justice criminal charging policy known as the 
Thompson Memorandum and its effect on the right to counsel in corporate 
investigations, after receiving testimony from Paul J. McNulty, Deputy 
Attorney General, Department of Justice; Edwin Meese III, Heritage 
Foundation, and Thomas J. Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Karen J. Mathis, American Bar Association, Chicago, 
Illinois; Andrew Weissmann, Jenner and Block LLP, New York, New York; 
and Mark B. Sheppard, Sprague and Sprague, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Nora Barry Fischer, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, who was introduced by 
Senators Specter and Santorum, Gregory Kent Frizzell, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma, who was 
introduced by Senators Inhofe and Coburn, Lawrence Joseph O'Neill, to 
be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 
who was introduced by Senator Feinstein, and Lisa Godbey Wood, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, who 
was introduced by Senators Chambliss and Isakson.