[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 27, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1044-D1045]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RIOT CONTROL AGENTS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded open and closed hearings to examine United States 
policy and practice with respect to the use of riot control agents by 
the U.S. Armed Forces, after receiving testimony from Joseph A. 
Benkert, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
International Security Policy; and Brigadier General Otis G. Mannon, 
USAF, Deputy Director for Special Operations, J-3, The Joint Staff.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Christopher A. Padilla, of the 
District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Export Administration, and Bijan Rafiekian, of California, to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the 
United States, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 3718, to increase the safety of swimming pools and spas by 
requiring the use of proper anti-entrapment drain covers and pool and 
spa drainage systems, by establishing a swimming pool safety grant 
program administered by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to 
encourage States to improve their pool and spa safety laws and to 
educate the public about pool and spa safety, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 3675, to amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to increase 
civil penalties for violations involving unfair or deceptive acts or 
practices that exploit popular reaction to an emergency or major 
disaster, and to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to seek civil 
penalties for such violations in actions brought under section 13 of 
that Act;
  S. 2751, to strengthen the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration's drought monitoring and forecasting capabilities;
  S. 529, to designate a United States Anti-Doping Agency, with an 
amendment;
  The nominations of David H. Pryor, of Arkansas, to be a Member of the 
Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Charles 
Darwin Snelling, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Chris 
Boskin, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Cynthia A. Glassman, of Virginia, 
to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, Sharon Lynn 
Hays, of Virginia, to be an Associate Director of the Office of Science 
and Technology Policy, Calvin L. Scovel, of Virginia, to be Inspector 
General, Department of Transportation, Collister Johnson, Jr., of 
Virginia, to be Administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development 
Corporation, and certain promotion and routine lists in the Coast 
Guard.

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LANDS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 3000, to grant rights-of-
way for electric transmission lines over certain Native allotments in 
the State of Alaska, S. 3599, to establish the Prehistoric Trackways 
National Monument in the State of New Mexico, S. 3794, to provide for 
the implementation of the Owyhee Initiative Agreement, S. 3854, to 
designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, H.R. 3603, 
to promote the economic development and recreational use of National 
Forest System lands and other public lands in central Idaho, to 
designate the Boulder-White Cloud Management Area to ensure the 
continued management of certain National Forest System lands and Bureau 
of Land Management lands for recreational and grazing use and 
conservation and resource protection, to add certain National Forest 
System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands in central Idaho to 
the National Wilderness Preservation System, and H.R. 5025, to protect 
for future generations the recreational opportunities, forests, timber, 
clean water, wilderness and scenic values, and diverse habitat of Mount 
Hood National Forest, Oregon, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Crapo; Representatives Simpson, Blumenauer, and Walden; Chad Calvert, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and 
Minerals Management; Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture for 
Natural Resources and Environment; Adrian P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of 
Natural History and Science, Albuquerque; Fred Huff, Las Cruces Four 
Wheel Drive Club, Las Cruces, New Mexico; Rick Johnson, Idaho 
Conservation League, Grant Simonds, Idaho Outfitters and Guides 
Association, Brett William Madron, Idaho Trail Machine Association, and 
Russ Heughins, Idaho Wildlife Federation, all of Boise; Cliff Hansen, 
Custer County, Carole King, and Amanda Mathews, all of Stanley, Idaho; 
Fred Kelly Grant, Owyhee Initiative Working Group, Nampa, Idaho; Mike 
Webster, Idaho Cattle Association, Roberts; Brian Maguire, Backcountry 
Hunters and Anglers, and Jay Ward, Oregon Natural Resources Council, 
both of Portland, Oregon; and Jill Van Winkle, International Mountain 
Bicycling Association, Hood River, Oregon, on behalf of the Oregon 
Mountain Bike Alliance.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of John K. Veroneau, of Virginia, to be a Deputy United 
States Trade Representative, with the Rank of Ambassador, and Robert K. 
Steel, of Connecticut, to be an Under Secretary of the Department of 
the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Frank Baxter, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, who was introduced by 
Senator McConnell, and Charles L. Glazer, of Connecticut, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, who was introduced by 
Senator Allen, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
DIABETES CARE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine new technologies to improve care for 
people with diabetes and reduce the burden on the health care system, 
focusing on the development of an artificial pancreas, including 
biomedical research and other issues that are important to diabetes 
patients and their families, after receiving testimony from Griffin P. 
Rodgers, Acting Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive 
and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Chris Dudley, The Dudley Foundation, 
Portland, Oregon; Arnold W. Donald, Juvenile Diabetes Research 
Foundation International, New York, New York; and Caroline K. Sweeney, 
Gray, Maine.
U.S. REFUGEE POLICY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Border 
Security and Citizenship concluded an oversight hearing to examine 
United States refugee admissions and policy, after receiving testimony 
from Ellen Sauerbrey, Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of 
Population, Refugees and Migration; Jonathan R. Scharfen, Deputy 
Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, 
Department of Homeland Security; and Michael J. Horowitz, Hudson 
Institute, and Father Kenneth Gavin, Refugee Council USA and Jesuit 
Refugee Service/USA, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Robert T. Howard, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.