[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 129 (Wednesday, November 15, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1104-D1105]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch resumed 
hearings to examine progress of the Capitol Visitor Center 
construction, receiving testimony from Alan M. Hantman, Architect of 
the Capitol; Robert C. Hixon, Jr., Capitol Visitor Center Project 
Executive; and Bernard L. Ungar, Director, and Bradley M. James, 
Assistant Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government 
Accountability Office.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.
U.S. MILITARY OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the current situation and U.S. military operations 
in Iraq and Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from General John P. 
Abizaid, USA, Commander, U.S. Central Command; David M. Satterfield, 
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq, 
Department of State; Lieutenant General Michael D. Maples, USA, 
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and General Michael V. Hayden, 
USAF, Director, Central Intelligence Agency.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 31 
routine military nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examinethe December 2005 report from the President's Task 
Force on Puerto Rico's status, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Fortuno; C. Kevin Marshall, Deputy Assistant Attorney 
General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; and Puerto 
Rico Governor Anibal Acevado-Vila, and Ruben Berrios Martinez, Puerto 
Rican Independence Party, both of San Juan.
FOOD SAFETY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine current challenges and new ideas to 
safeguard consumers relating to food safety, focusing on foodborne 
illness in general and the response to the recent outbreak of E. coli 
infections associated with fresh spinach, after receiving testimony 
from Robert E. Brackett, Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied 
Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, and Lonnie J. King, Senior 
Veterinarian, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both of the 
Department of Health and

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Human Services; Kevin Reilly, California Department of Health Services, 
Sacramento; Robert J. Whitaker, MissionStar Processing, Salinas, 
California; Terri-Anne Crawford, Franwell, Inc., Plant City, Florida; 
Jeff S. Palmer, DayMark Safety Systems, Bowling Green, Ohio; and John 
Vazzana, Intralytix, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland.