[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 30, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D110-D111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of Admiral William J. Fallon, USN, for reappointment to 
the grade of admiral and to be Commander, United States Central 
Command, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 48) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 110th Congress 
and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Airland: Senators Lieberman, (Chairman), Akaka, Bayh, 
Clinton, Pryor, Webb, McCaskill, Cornyn, Warner, Inhofe, Sessions, 
Ensign, and Chambliss.
  Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Reed (Chairman), 
Kennedy, Byrd, Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Bayh, Clinton, Dole, Warner, 
Collins, Graham, Cornyn, and Martinez.
  Subcommittee on Personnel: Nelson (NE) (Chairman), Kennedy, 
Lieberman, Webb, McCaskill, Graham, Collins, Chambliss, and Dole.
  Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support: Akaka (Chairman), 
Byrd, Bayh, Clinton, Pryor, McCaskill, Ensign, Inhofe, Sessions, 
Chambliss, and Dole.
  Subcommittee on Seapower: Kennedy (Chairman), Lieberman, Reed, Akaka, 
Nelson (FL), Webb, Thune, Warner, Collins, Ensign, and Martinez.
  Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Nelson (FL) (Chairman), Byrd, Reed, 
Nelson (NE), Pryor, Sessions, Inhofe, Graham, and Thune.
  Senators Levin and McCain are ex officio members of each of the 
Subcommittees.
FISCAL CHALLENGES
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine long-
term fiscal challenges, focusing on the current budget situation and 
outlook, and long-run imbalance and related solutions, after receiving 
testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, and C. Eugene Steuerle, both of 
the Urban Institute, and Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy 
Priorities, all of Washington, D.C.
WILDLIFE SUPPRESSION ACTIVITIES COSTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held a hearing to 
examine the status of Federal land management agencies' efforts to 
contain the costs of their wildlife suppression activities and to 
consider recent independent reviews of and recommendations for those 
efforts, receiving testimony from Mark Rey, Under Secretary for Natural 
Resources and the Environment, and Phyllis K. Fong, Inspector General, 
both of the Department of Agriculture; Nina Rose Hatfield, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Business Management and 
Wildland Fire; Robin M. Nazzaro, Director, Natural Resources and 
Environment, Government Accountability Office; James Caswell, Idaho 
Office of Species Conservation, Boise, on behalf of the Strategic 
Issues Panel on Fire Suppression Costs of the Wildland Fire Leadership 
Council; Kirk Rowdabaugh, Arizona State Forester, Phoenix, on behalf of 
sundry organizations; and Bruce D. McDowell, National Academy of Public 
Administration, Washington, D.C.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
FUEL EFFICIENCY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held a hearing to 
examine transportation sector fuel efficiency, focusing on challenges 
to and incentives for increased oil savings through technological 
innovation including plug-in hybrid vehicles, receiving testimony from 
Senator Stabenow; Elizabeth Lowery, General Motors Corporation, 
Detroit, Michigan; John German, American Honda Motor Company, Inc., and 
Walter S. McManus, University of Michigan Transportation Research 
Institute, both of Ann Arbor; Menahem Anderman, Advanced Automotive 
Batteries, Oregon House, California; William J. Logue, FedEx Express, 
Memphis, Tennessee; and David L. Greene, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 
Knoxville, Tennessee.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 46) authorizing expenditures 
by the Committee.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Senators' perspectives on global warming, focusing 
on Senators'

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views on global warming and what each Senator believes the Nation's 
response should be to the issue, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Bingaman, Feinstein, Kerry, McCain, Obama, Levin, Murkowski, 
Akaka, Lincoln, Durbin, and Nelson (FL).
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of John D. Negroponte, of New York, to be Deputy 
Secretary of State, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators 
Lieberman and Stevens, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine 
securing America's interests in Iraq, focusing on the remaining 
options, alternative plans and the Iraq Study Group, receiving 
testimony from James A. Baker, III, and Lee H. Hamilton, both a Co-
Chair, Iraq Study Group.
  Hearings to continue on Wednesday, January 31.
CONSTITUTIONAL POWER
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
exercising Congress' constitutional power to end a war, after receiving 
testimony from Louis Fisher, Specialist in Constitutional Law, Library 
of Congress Law Library; David J. Barron, Harvard Law School, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert F. Turner, University of Virginia 
School of Law Center for National Security Law, Charlottesville; 
Bradford A. Berenson, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C.; and Walter 
Dellinger, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, 
former Acting Solicitor General of the United States.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters and ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Res. 50, an original resolution amending Senate Resolution 400 
(94th Congress) to make amendments arising from the enactment of the 
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 and to make 
other amendments; and
  S. Res. 51, an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee.
  Prior to this action, Committee held closed hearings on intelligence 
matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence 
community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Special Committee on Aging: On Monday, January 29, 2007, Committee 
approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 45) authorizing 
expenditures by the Committee and adopted its rules of procedure for 
the 110th Congress.