[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 112 (Tuesday, September 12, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D943-D944]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
AFGHANISTAN DRUG ERADICATION AND REBUILDING PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing, and Related Programs held a hearing on Afghanistan 
Interdiction/Eradication of Illegal Narcotics and U.S. Led Rebuilding 
Programs. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the 
Department of State: John Gastright, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 
of South and Central Asian Affairs; Anne Patterson, Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement; and 
Mark Ward, Senior Deputy Administrator, Asia and Near East Bureau, U.S. 
Agency for International Development.

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GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT POVERTY REDUCTION
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Domestic and 
International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology held a hearing 
entitled ``The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 
and the Importance of Agricultural Development in Sustainable Global 
Poverty Reduction.'' Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE MODERNIZATION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and 
Homeland Security held a hearing on H.R. 5825, Electronic Surveillance 
Modernization Act. Testimony was heard from John Eisenberg, Deputy 
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of 
Justice; Vito Potenza, Acting General Counsel, NSA, Department of 
Defense; and public witnesses.
FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES COMPETITION IN CONTRACTING ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule providing 
1 hour of general debate on H.R. 2965, to amend title 18, United States 
Code, to require Federal Prison Industries to compete for its contracts 
minimizing its unfair competition with private sector firms and their 
non-inmate workers and empowering Federal agencies to get the best 
value for taxpayers' dollars, to provide a 5-year period during which 
Federal Prison Industries adjusts to obtaining inmate work 
opportunities through other than its mandatory source status, to 
enhance inmate access to remedial and vocational opportunities and 
other rehabilitative opportunities to better prepare inmates for a 
successful return to society, to authorize alternative inmate work 
opportunities in support of non-profit organizations and other public 
service programs, and for other purposes, equally divided and 
controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
on the Judiciary. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill. The rule provides that the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary 
now printed in the bill shall be considered as an original bill for the 
purpose of amendment and shall be considered as read. The rule makes in 
order only those amendments printed in the Rules Committee report 
accompanying the resolution. The rule provides that the amendments made 
in order may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be 
offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered 
as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report 
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall 
not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for 
division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 
The rule waives all points of order against the amendments printed in 
the report. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions. Testimony was heard from Representatives Feeney, 
Rohrabacher and Hoekstra.
EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON THE FIFTH 
ANNIVERSARY OF THE TERRORIST ATTACKS LAUNCHED AGAINST THE UNITED STATES 
ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a closed rule providing 4 
hours of debate in the House on H. Res. 994, expressing the sense of 
the House of Representatives on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist 
attacks launched against the United States on September 11, 2001, 
equally divided and controlled by the Majority Leader and the Minority 
Leader or their designees. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the resolution. The rule provides one motion to 
recommit which may not contain instructions. Finally, the rule provides 
that, notwithstanding the operation of the previous question, the Chair 
may postpone further consideration of the resolution to a time 
designated by the speaker. Testimony was heard from Representative King 
of New York.

Joint Meetings
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate and House 
passed versions of H.R. 5122, to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of 
Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, 
but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to the call.