[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 132 (Tuesday, December 5, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1126-D1127]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
OVERSIGHT--ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Border 
Security, and Claims concluded oversight hearings entitled ``The Energy 
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act: Are We 
Fulfilling the Promise We Made to Cold War Veterans When We Created the 
Program?'' (Part V). Testimony was heard from Shelby Hallmark, 
Director, Office of Worker's Compensation Programs, Department of 
Labor; John Howard, M.D., Director, National Institute for Occupational 
Safety and Health, Department of Health and Human Services; and Daniel 
Bertoni, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues, 
GAO.
BRIEFING--INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION ARCHITECTURE
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
receive a briefing on Intelligence Collection Architecture. The 
Committee was briefed by departmental witnesses.
TO EXTEND CERTAIN TRADE PREFERENCE PROGRAMS, TO AUTHORIZE THE EXTENSION 
OF NONDISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT (NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS TREATMENT) TO 
THE PRODUCTS OF VIETNAM, TO MODIFY TEMPORARILY CERTAIN RATES OF DUTY 
AND MAKE OTHER TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE TRADE LAWS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a closed rule providing 1 
hour of debate in the House on H.R. 6346, to extend certain trade 
preference programs, to authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory 
treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of 
Vietnam, to modify temporarily certain rates of duty and make other 
technical amendments to the trade laws, and for other purposes, equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Ways and Means. The rule waives all points of order 
against consideration of the bill. The rule provides one motion to 
recommit. Testimony was heard from Chairman Thomas of California.
SAME-DAY CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN RESOLUTIONS REPORTED BY THE RULES 
COMMITTEE
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a rule waiving clause 6(a) 
of rule XIII (requiring a two-thirds vote to consider a rule on the 
same day it is reported from the Rules Committee) against certain

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resolutions reported from the Rules Committee. The rule applies the 
waiver to any resolution reported on the legislative day of December 6, 
2006, providing for consideration of a bill to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to extend expiring provisions, and for other 
purposes.