[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 29 (Thursday, February 15, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D196-D198]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FUTURE READINESS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the current and future readiness of the Army and 
Marine Corps, after receiving testimony from General Peter J. 
Schoomaker, USA, Chief of Staff, and Lieutenant General Stephen M. 
Speakes, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8, both of the United States 
Army; and General James T. Conway, USMC, Commandant, United States 
Marine Corps.
FAA REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security concluded a hearing to 
examine the Administration's proposal to reauthorize the Federal 
Aviation Administration (Part 1), after receiving testimony from Marion 
C. Blakey, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department 
of Transportation.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2008 for the Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony 
from Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior.
TRADE AGENDA
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
Administration's trade agenda for 2007, after receiving testimony from 
Susan C. Schwab, United States Trade Representative.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Ryan C. Crocker, of Washington, to be 
Ambassador to the

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Republic of Iraq, and William B. Wood, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 4, to make the United States more secure by implementing 
unfinished recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to fight the war on 
terror more effectively, to improve homeland security, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 343, to extend the District of Columbia College Access Act of 
1999;
  S. 457, to extend the date on which the National Security Personnel 
System will first apply to certain defense laboratories, a proposed 
bill to preserve existing judgeships on the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia;
  S. 550, to preserve existing judgeships on the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia,
  S. 171, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 301 Commerce Street in Commerce, Oklahoma, as the ``Mickey 
Mantle Post Office Building'';
  S. 194 and H.R. 49, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 1300 North Frontage Road West in Vail, 
Colorado, as the ``Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Post Office Building'';
  S. 219 and H.R. 335, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 152 North 5th Street in Laramie, 
Wyoming, as the ``Gale W. McGee Post Office'';
  S. 412 and H.R. 521, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 2633 11th Street in Rock Island, 
Illinois, as the ``Lane Evans Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 433, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1700 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the 
``Scipio A. Jones Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 514, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 16150 Aviation Loop Drive in Brooksville, Florida, 
as the ``Sergeant Lea Robert Mills Brooksville Aviation Branch Post 
Office''; and
  H.R. 577, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 3903 South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, as the 
``Sergeant Henry Ybarra III Post Office Building''.
TRIBAL PROGRAMS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the President's budget request for fiscal year 2008 for 
tribal programs, after receiving testimony from James Cason, Associate 
Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior; Charles W. Grim, 
Assistant Surgeon General, Director, Indian Health Service, Department 
of Health and Human Services; Catherine Freeman, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, and Thomas M. Corwin, 
Director, Division of Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Analysis, 
Budget Service, both of the Department of Education; Orlando J. 
Cabrera, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for 
Public and Indian Housing; Regina B. Schofield, Assistant Attorney 
General, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice; Ivan D. 
Posey, Eastern Shoshone Business Council, Fort Washakie, Wyoming; 
Jefferson Keel, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, Oklahoma, on behalf of the 
National Congress of American Indians; and H. Sally Smith, National 
Indian Health Board, Verlie Ann Malina Wright, National Indian 
Education Association, and Marty Shuravloff, National American Indian 
Housing Council, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. Res. 41, honoring and the life and recognizing the accomplishments 
of Tom Mooney, president of the Ohio Federation of Teachers;
  S. Res. 47, honoring the life and achievements of George C. Springer, 
Sr., the Northeast regional director and a former vice president of the 
American Federation of Teachers;
  S. Res. 49, recognizing and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 
entry of Alaska into the Union as the 49th State;
  S. Res. 69, recognizing the African-American spiritual as a national 
treasure; and The nominations of Beryl A. Howell, of the District of 
Columbia, and Dabney Langhorne Friedrich, of Virginia, both to be a 
Member of the United States Sentencing Commission.
  Also, Committee approved for reporting S. 316, to prohibit brand name 
drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to delay the 
entry of a generic drug into the market.
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.
BABY BOOMERS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the retirement of those Americans born between 1946 and 1964 (baby 
boomers), focusing on the federal budget and senior citizens,

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and Social Security benefits, after receiving testimony from Michael J. 
Astrue, Commissioner, Social Security Administration; Leslie V. 
Norwalk, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, and Josefina Carbonell, Assistant Secretary for Aging, both 
of the Department of Health and Human Services; and Brian D. 
Montgomery, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for 
Housing.