[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 13, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D179-D181]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine challenges and opportunities relating to rural 
development, after receiving testimony from Charles W. Fluharty, 
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Public Affairs, and Rural Policy Research Institute; Chuck Hassebrook, 
Center for Rural Affairs, Lyons, Nebraska; Vernon R. Kelley, Three 
Rivers Planning and Development District, Pontotoc, Mississippi; Mary 
Holz-Clause, Iowa State University Agriculture Marketing Resource 
Center, Ames; and Joseph M. Sertich, Jr., Northeast Minnesota Higher 
Education District, Chisholm, on behalf of the Rural Community College 
Alliance.
OIL AND NATURAL GAS ROYALTY MANAGEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related 
Agencies concluded an oversight hearing to examine Outer Continental 
Shelf oil and natural gas royalty management by the Department of the 
Interior, focusing on energy production on the Outer Continental Shelf 
and revenue from Federal and Indian mineral leases, after receiving 
testimony from C. Stephen Allred, Assistant Secretary of the Interior 
for Land and Minerals Management.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for the 
Department of Health and Human Services, after receiving testimony from 
Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 184, to provide improved rail and surface transportation security, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 509, to provide improved aviation security, with amendments;
  S. 385, to improve the interoperability of emergency communications 
equipment, with amendments;
  S. 93, to authorize NTIA to borrow against anticipated receipts of 
the Digital Television and Public Safety Fund to initiate migration to 
a national IP-enabled emergency network capable of receiving and 
responding to all citizen activated emergency communications;
  S. 84, to establish a United States Boxing Commission to administer 
the Act;
  S. 39, to establish a coordinated national ocean exploration program 
within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  A promotion list in the United States Coast Guard.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held a hearing to 
examine ``Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change'' which 
analyzes the economic impacts of climate change and stabilizing 
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, receiving testimony from Nicholas 
Stern, Adviser to Her Majesty's Government on the Economics of Climate 
Change, London, United Kingdom; Henry D. Jacoby, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan 
University, Middletown, Connecticut.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to review and report the recommendations of the United States 
Climate Action Partnership Report, after receiving testimony from Chad 
Holliday, E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Inc., Wilmington, 
Delaware; Fred L. Smith, Jr., Competitive Enterprise Institute, and 
Jonathan Lash, World Resources Institute, both of Washington, DC; Peter 
A. Darbee, PG&E Corporation, San Francisco, California, on behalf of 
the U.S. Climate Action Partnership; Harold G. Hamm, Continental 
Resources, Inc., Enid, Oklahoma; Stephen A. Elbert, BP America Inc., 
Warrenville, Illinois; and Kevin Book, Arlington, Virginia.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND BUDGET
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request 
for fiscal year 2008 for the Department of Homeland Security, after 
receiving testimony from Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland 
Security.
HEALTHY FAMILIES ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine The Healthy Families Act, focusing on 
safeguarding Americans' livelihood, families and health with paid sick 
days, after receiving testimony from Rajiv Bhatia, University of 
California at San Francisco, and San Francisco Department of Public 
Health; Debra L. Ness, National Partnership for Women and Families, and 
Heidi I. Hartmann, George Washington University Institute for Women's 
Policy Research, both of Washington, D.C.; Jody Heymann, McGill 
University Institute for Health and Social Policy, Montreal, Quebec, 
Canada; and G. Roger King, Jones Day, Columbus, Ohio.
SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH CARE
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine alternatives

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for easing small business health care costs, after receiving testimony 
from Jon M. Kingsdale, Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Health Insurance 
Connector Authority, Boston; Mary Beth Senkewicz, MBS Consulting, Ann 
Sullivan, Women Impacting Public Policy, and William F. Sweetnam, Jr., 
Groom Law Group, former Benefits Tax Counsel, Office of Tax Policy, 
Department of the Treasury, all of Washington, D.C.; and Tarren 
Bragdon, Maine Heritage Policy Center, Portland.
VETERANS PROGRAMS BUDGET
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2008 for 
veterans programs, after receiving testimony from R. James Nicholson, 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Carl Blake, Paralyzed Veterans of 
America, Dennis M. Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United 
States, and Steve Robertson, American Legion, all of Washington, D.C.; 
Joseph A. Violante, Disabled American Veterans, Cold Spring, Kentucky; 
David G. Greineder, AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland; and John Rowan, Vietnam 
Veterans of America, Silver Spring, Maryland.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.