[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 47 (Monday, March 19, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D355-D356]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
FINANCIAL SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Institutions 
held a hearing on OMB. Testimony was heard from Robert J. Portman, 
Director, OMB.
LABOR, HHS, EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, and 
Related Agencies held a hearing on Employment and Training 
Administration/Office of Job Corps/Veterans Training/Vocational and 
Adult Education. Testimony was heard from the following officials of 
the Department of Education: Emily Stover DeRocco, Assistant Secretary, 
Employment and Training Administration; Esther R. Johnson, Director, 
Office of Job Corps; and Troy Justesen, Assistant Secretary, Vocational 
and Adult Education; and Charles S. Ciccolella, Assistant Secretary, 
Veterans' Training Administration, Department of Labor.
SELECT INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Intelligence Oversight met 
in executive session to hold a hearing on National Reconnaissance 
Office Budget. Testimony was heard from Donald Kerr, Director, National 
Reconnaissance Office, Department of Defense.
CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE INTERFERENCE
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Held a hearing on 
Allegations of Political Interference with Government Climate Change 
Science. Testimony was heard from James Connaughton, Chairman, Council 
on Environmental Quality; James Hansen, Director, Goddard Institute for 
Space Studies, NASA; Philip Cooney, former Chief of Staff, Council on 
Environmental Quality; George Deutsch, former Public Affairs Officer, 
NASA; and a public witness.
GULF COAST HURRICANE HOUSING RECOVERY ACT OF 2007
Committee on Rules, Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule for 
consideration of H.R. 1227, Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act 
of 2007. The rule provides one hour of general debate equally divided 
and controlled by the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the 
Committee on Financial

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Services. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of 
the bill except for clauses 9 and 10 of Rule XXI. The rule provides 
that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the 
Committee on Financial Services, modified by the amendment printed in 
Part A of the Rules Committee report, shall be considered as adopted in 
the House and in the Committee of the Whole. The bill as amended shall 
be considered as an original bill for the purpose of further amendment 
and shall be considered as read. The rule waives all points of order 
against provisions in the bill as amended, and no further amendments 
shall be in order except those amendments printed in Part B of the 
Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution.
  The rule provides that the further amendments made in order in Part B 
may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered 
only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, 
shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided 
and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject 
to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the 
question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. The rule waives 
all points of order against the amendments printed in the report except 
for clauses 9 and 10 of Rule XXI. Finally, the rule provides one motion 
to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony was heard from 
Chairman Frank of Massachusetts, Representatives Corrine Brown of 
Florida, Biggert and Neugebauer.