[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 24 (Thursday, February 8, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D157-D158]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, 
the Judiciary, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies 
concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request 
for fiscal year 2008 for the Department of Transportation, after 
receiving testimony from Mary E. Peters, Secretary of Transportation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
372, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for the 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States 
Government, the Intelligence Community Management Account, and the 
Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill to provide the resources to protect 
public transportation from terrorism.
BUDGET: FISCAL YEAR 2008
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's budget and revenue proposals for fiscal year 2008, after 
receiving testimony from Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Secretary of the 
Treasury.
PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the present and future of public safety 
communications, focusing on a need for broadband technology for 
America's fire and emergency services, after receiving testimony from 
Charles L. Werner, Charlottesville Fire Department, Fairfax, Virginia, 
on behalf of International Association of Fire Chiefs; Harlin R. 
McEwen, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Alexandria, 
Virginia, on behalf of Major Cities Chiefs Association, National 
Sheriffs' Association, and Major County Sheriffs' Association; Morgan 
O'Brien, Cyren Call Communications, McLean, Virginia; Steve Largent, 
CTIA--The Wireless Association, Washington, D.C.; David Billstrom, 
National Interop, Inc., Seattle, Washington; and Matthew J. Desch, 
Iridium Satellite LLC, Bethesda, Maryland.
OIL AND GAS ROYALTY MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine issues relating to labor, immigration, law 
enforcement, and economic conditions in the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, after receiving testimony from David B. 
Cohen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs, and James 
Benedetto, Labor Ombudsman, both of the Department of the Interior; 
Jeanette Franzel, Director, Financial Management and Assurance, 
Government Accountability Office; Lieutenant Government Timothy P. 
Villagomez, Lauri Bennett Ogumoro, Karidat, and Juan T. Guerrero, 
Saipan Chamber of Commerce, Mary Stella Mangona, Sisters of the Good 
Shepherd, and Kayleen Entena, all of Saipan, Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands; Pedro A. Tenorio, Resident Representative to 
the United States, Washington, D.C.; and F. Haydn Williams, San 
Francisco, California.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 
for foreign affairs, including the Department of State and the United 
States Agency for International Development (USAID), after receiving 
testimony from Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of John D. Negroponte, of New York, to be Deputy 
Secretary of State.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the No Child Left Behind Act 
reauthorization, focusing on strategies that promote school 
improvement, after receiving testimony from Michael P. Flanagan, 
Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction, Lansing; Alana Dale 
Turner, Easton High School, Easton, Maryland; Richard Coleman, Sr., An 
Achievable Dream Academy, Newport News, Virginia; Kimberly Johnson, 
Briggs Chaney Middle School, Silver Spring, Maryland; Yvonne W. 
Brandon, Richmond Public Schools, Richmond, Virginia; Martha S. Barber, 
Alabama Reading Initiative Regional Principal Coach, Birmingham, 
Alabama; Hosanna Mahaley-Johnson, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, 
Illinois; and Paul Reville, Rennie Center for Education Research and 
Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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SPECIAL DIABETES PROGRAM
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
on diabetes in Indian Country, focusing on the Special Diabetes Program 
for Indians, after receiving testimony from Charles W. Grim, Director, 
and Kelly Moore, Clinical Specialty Consultant, Division of Diabetes 
Treatment and Prevention, both of the Indian Health Service, William C. 
Knowler, Chief, Diabetes Epidemiology and Clinical Research Section, 
Division of Intramural Research, and Judith Fradkin, Director, Division 
of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases, both of the 
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 
National Institutes of Health, all of the Department of Health and 
Human Services; Buford Rolin, Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Washington, 
D.C., on behalf of the Tribal Leaders Diabetes Committee, and the 
National Indian Health Board; James D. Brosseau, Altru Health System, 
Grand Forks, North Dakota; Biron Baker, Medcenter One, Bismarck, North 
Dakota; Sam McCracken, Nike, Beaverton, Oregon; and Donna Vandall, 
Winnebago Tribal Whirling Thunder Wellness Programs, Winnebago, 
Nebraska.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 322, to establish an Indian youth telemental health demonstration 
project;
  S. 375, to waive application of the Indian Self-
Determination and Education Assistance Act to a specific parcel of real 
property transferred by the United States to 2 Indian tribes in the 
State of Oregon;
  S. 398, to amend the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence 
Prevention Act to identify and remove barriers to reducing child abuse, 
to provide for examinations of certain children; and
  S. 481, to recruit and retain more qualified individuals to teach in 
Tribal Colleges or Universities.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 188, to revise the short title of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa 
Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and 
Amendments Act of 2006, with amendments;
  S. 214, to amend chapter 35 of title 28, United States Code, to 
preserve the independence of United States attorneys, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 36, honoring women's health advocate Cynthia Boles Dailard;
  S. Res. 37, designating March 26, 2007 as ``National Support the 
Troops Day'' and encouraging the people of the United States to 
participate in a moment of silence to reflect upon the service and 
sacrifice of members of the Armed Forces both at home and abroad; and
  The nominations of Marcia Morales Howard, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, Nora Barry Fischer, 
to be United States District Judge for the Western District of 
Pennsylvania, Norman Randy Smith, of Idaho, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Ninth Circuit, John Alfred Jarvey, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa, and Sara Elizabeth 
Lioi, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Ohio.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.