[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 50 (Thursday, March 22, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D383-D385]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans' Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2008 for Air Force military 
construction, housing, and base realignment

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and closure, after receiving testimony from Tina W. Jonas, Under 
Secretary (Comptroller), and Philip W. Grone, Deputy Under Secretary 
for Installations and Environment, both of the Department of Defense; 
William C. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for 
Installations, Environment and Logistics; Major General Charles V. 
Ickes, II, Deputy Director, Air National Guard; and Brigadier General 
Charles D. Ethredge, Deputy to the Chief of Air Force Reserve.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill (S. 965) making emergency supplemental appropriations for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes.
BUDGET: DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the United States Southern Command, Northern Command, and Joint Forces 
Command in review of the defense authorization request for fiscal year 
2008 and the future years defense program, after receiving testimony 
from Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, Commander, United States Southern 
Command, and Admiral Timothy J. Keating, USN, Commander, United States 
Northern Command/Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command; 
and General Lance L. Smith, USAF, Commander, United States Joint Forces 
Command/North Atlantic Treaty Organization Supreme Allied Commander for 
Transformation.
IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing to examine detention and judicial capacity in Iraq from 
Joseph Benkert, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global 
Security Affairs, Office of the Under Secretary for Policy, and 
Lieutenant General John F. Sattler, USMC, Director for Strategic Plans 
and Policy, J-5, The Joint Staff, both of the Department of Defense; 
and James McAtamney, Counsel to Deputy Attorney General for National 
Security Affairs, Department of Justice.
MORTGAGE MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine causes and consequences relating to mortgage market 
turmoil, after receiving testimony from Sandra L. Thompson, Director, 
Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection, Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation; Emory W. Rushton, Senior Deputy Comptroller, 
Chief National Bank Examiner, Office of the Comptroller of the 
Currency, and Scott M. Polakoff, Deputy Director, Office of Thrift 
Supervision, both of the Department of the Treasury; Roger T. Cole, 
Director, Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Joseph A. Smith, Jr., North 
Carolina Commissioner of Banks, Raleigh, on behalf of the Conference of 
State Bank Supervisors; Laurent Bossard, WMC Mortgage, Burbank, 
California; Sandor E. Samuels, Countrywide Financial Corporation, 
Calabasas, California; Brendan McDonagh, HSBC-North America, Prospect 
Heights, Illinois; Janis Bowdler, National Council of La Raza, 
Washington, D.C.; L. Andrew Pollock, First Franklin Financial 
Corporation, San Jose, California; Irv Ackelsberg, Langer and Grogan, 
P.C., and Jennie Haliburton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Al 
Ynigues, Apple Valley, Minnesota.
FAA MODERNIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security concluded a hearing to 
examine the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) modernization, 
focusing on developing and deploying the Next Generation Air 
Transportation System (NextGen) while providing operational and safety 
enhancements, after receiving testimony from Robert Sturgell, Deputy 
Administrator, and Charles Leader, Director, Joint Planning and 
Development Office, both of the Federal Aviation Administration; Susan 
Fleming, Acting Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government 
Accountability Office; and Karen Lee, UPS Airlines, Louisville, 
Kentucky.
THE FUTURE OF COAL REPORT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held a hearing to 
examine the ``Future of Coal'' report recently published by the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving testimony from John M. 
Deutch and Ernest J. Moniz, both of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge; Bryan Hannegan, Electric Power Research 
Institute, Palo Alto, California; and Daniel A. Lashof, Natural 
Resources Defense Council, New York, New York.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.
NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
``Keeping America's Promise'' relating to health care and child welfare 
services for Native Americans, after receiving testimony from Carl E. 
Venne, Crow Tribe of Indians, Crow Agency, Montana, on behalf of the 
Montana Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council and Council of Large Land Based 
Tribes; Valerie Davidson, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, 
Anchorage; and Linda Holt,

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Suquamish Tribal Council, on behalf of the Northwest Portland Area 
Indian Health Board, and Connie Bear King, National Indian Child 
Welfare, both of Portland, Oregon.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Ford M. Fraker, of Massachusetts, to be 
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, after the nominee testified 
and answered questions in his own behalf.
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine deconstructing reconstruction, focusing 
on problems, challenges, and the way forward in Iraq and Afghanistan, 
after receiving testimony from Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector 
General for Iraq Reconstruction; David M. Satterfield, Senior Advisor 
to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq; Major General 
Ronald L. Johnson, Deputy Chief of Engineers/Deputy Commanding General, 
United States Army Corps of Engineers; and Mark S. Ward, Senior Deputy 
Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, United States 
Agency for International Development.
MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD/OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to review the Merit Systems 
Protection Board and the Office of the Special Counsel, focusing on the 
safeguarding of the merit systems principles in preparation for the 
consideration of the reauthorization of the two agencies, after 
receiving testimony from Neil McPhie, Chairman, U.S. Merit Systems 
Protection Board; and Scott J. Bloch, Special Counsel, U.S. Office of 
Special Counsel.
INDIAN COUNTRY HOUSING ISSUES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Indian housing, including loan guarantee and community 
development programs, after receiving testimony from Orlando J. 
Cabrera, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for 
Public and Indian Housing; Jon Perez, Behavioral Health Consultant, 
Office of Clinical and Preventive Services, Indian Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services; John Yellow Bird Steele, 
Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge, South Dakota; George Rivera, Pueblo of 
Pojoaque, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Paul Lumley, National American Indian 
Housing Council, Washington, D.C.; and Juel Burnette, Wells Fargo 
Native American Housing Initiatives, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee approved the issuance of 
subpoenas to Karl Rove, Harriet E. Miers, and William Kelley pursuant 
to the investigation into the replacement of U.S. Attorneys.
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.