[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 113 (Wednesday, September 13, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9562-S9563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET


            Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be authorized to meet 
during the session of the Senate on September 13, 2006, at 10 a.m., to 
conduct a hearing on ``The Housing Bubble and its Implications for the 
Economy.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during 
the session of the Senate on Wednesday, September 13 at 11:30 a.m.
  The purpose of this meeting is to consider the nominations of John 
Ray Correll to be director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 
and Enforcement, Mark Myers to be director of the United States 
Geological Survey, and David Longly Bernhardt to be solicitor of the 
Department of the Interior.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


               Committee on Environment and public works

  Ms. COLLINS. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on 
Environment and Public Works be authorized to hold a Business Meeting 
on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. to consider the 
following agenda:
  Legislation: H.R. 5689, To amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 
Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to make 
technical corrections, and for other purposes; S.1848, Cleanup of 
Inactive and Abandoned Mines Act; S. 3630, To amend the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act to reauthorize a program relating to the Lake 
Pontchartrain Basin, and for other purposes; H.R. 3929, Dana Point 
Desalination Project Authorization Act; S. 3617, North American 
Wetlands Conservation Reauthoriiation Act of 2006; H.R. 5061, Paint 
Bank and Wytheville National Fish Hatcheries Conveyance Act; S. 3551, 
Tylersville Fish Hatchery Conveyance Act; S. 3867, To Designate the 
Federal Courthouse at 555 Independence Street, Cape Girardeau, 
Missouri, as the ``Rush H. Limbaugh Sr., Federal Courthouse''; H.R. 
5187, To Amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize additional 
appropriations for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 
for fiscal year 2007; S. 3879 ``Convention on Supplementary 
Compensation for Nuclear Damage Contingent Cost Allocation Act''; S. 
2348, Nuclear Release Notice Act of 2006; and S. 3591, High-Performance 
Green Buildings Act of 2006.
  Nominees: William B. Wark to be a Member of the Chemical Safety and 
Hazard Investigation Board; William E.

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Wright to be a Member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation 
Board; Stephen M. Prescott to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of 
the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National 
Environmental Policy Foundation; Anne Jeannette Udall to be a Member of 
the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence 
in National Environmental Policy Foundation; Brigadier General Bruce 
Arlan Berwick to be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission; 
Colonel Gregg F. Martin to be a Member of the Mississippi River 
Commission; Brigadier General Robert Crear to be a Member of the 
Mississippi River Commission; and Rear Admiral Samuel P. DeBow, Jr. to 
be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission.
  Resolutions: Committee Resolution for the Republican River Basin--
Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas; Committee Resolution for Beverly Hills, New 
Haven, Connecticut; Committee Resolution for Hanover Pond; Holly Pond; 
and Eisenhower Park--Connecticut; Committee Resolution for Mystic 
Harbor Water Resources Development--Mystic, Connecticut; Committee 
Resolution for the Burns Waterway Harbor--Indiana; Committee Resolution 
for Jefferson Parish Flood Control, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; 
Committee Resolution for the Blackstone River Watershed--Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island; Committee Resolution for the St. Clair River, Lake Level 
Study--Michigan; Committee Resolution for the Crow Creek Watershed--
Cheyenne, Wyoming; Committee Resolution to direct GSA to prepare a 
Report of Building Project Survey; 12 resolutions to authorize the 
majority of the remainder of the General Services Administration's FY 
2007 Capital Investment and Leasing Program; and 8 resolutions 
authorizing courthouse projects.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


               committee on environment and public works

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President: I ask unanimous consent that on 
Wednesday, September 13, immediately following the 9:30 a.m. Business 
Meeting the Committee on Environment and Public Works be authorized to 
hold a hearing to consider the following pending nominations:
  Roger Romulus Martella, Jr., to be Assistant Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency;
  Alex A. Beehler to be Assistant Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency; and
  William H. Graves to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Tennessee Valley Authority.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                          committee on finance

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session on 
Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 10 a.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office 
Building, to hear testimony on ``Taking the Pulse of Charitable Care 
and Community Benefits at Nonprofit Hospitals.''
  THE PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                     committee on foreign relations

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session 
of the Senate on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. to hold a 
hearing on Lebanon.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


        committee on homeland security and governmental affairs

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized 
to meet on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 2:30 p.m. to consider the 
nominations of Wayne C. Beyer to be Member, Federal Labor Relations 
Authority, and Stephen T. Conboy to be U.S. Marshal, Superior Court of 
the District of Columbia.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       committee on the judiciary

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a markup on 
Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. in the Dirksen Senate 
Office Building Room 226.

                                 Agenda

  I. Bills: S. 2453, National Security Surveillance Act of 2006, 
Specter; S. 2455, Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006, DeWine, Graham; 
S. 2468, A bill to provide standing for civil actions for declaratory 
and injunctive relief to persons who refrain from electronic 
communications through fear of being subject to warrantless electronic 
surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes, and for other purposes, 
Schumer; S. 3001, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Improvement and 
Enhancement Act of 2006, Specter, Feinstein.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                    select committee on intelligence

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Select 
Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of 
the Senate on September 13, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. to hold a closed 
briefing.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                       Special Committee on aging

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Special 
Committee on Aging be authorized to meet Wednesday, September 13, 2006 
from 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. in Dirksen 562 for the purpose of conducting 
meeting.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.


                    subcommittee on crime and drugs

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs be authorized to meet to conduct a 
hearing on ``Challenges Facing Today's Federal Prosecutors,'' on 
Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 2:30 p.m. in SD226.

     Witness list

  Panel I: Mike Battle, Director, Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys, 
United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Susan Brooks, U.S. 
Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, United States Department of 
Justice, Washington, DC.
  Panel II: William Shockley, Former President, National Association of 
Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Lake Ridge, VA.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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