[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 10, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D476-D477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OVERSEAS BASING PLANS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a closed hearing to examine overseas basing plans in 
review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2008 and 
the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Philip 
W. Grone, Deputy Under Secretary for Installations and Environment, and 
Joseph A. Benkert, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global 
Security Affairs, both of the Department of Defense; Major General 
Michael J. Diamond, USAR, Deputy Director, J-4/7, Headquarters United 
States Central Command; and Rear Admiral Frank Craig Pandolfe, Deputy 
Director for Strategy and Policy, J-5, Joint Staff.

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BASE CLOSURE PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing on military installation, environmental, 
and base closure programs in review of the Defense Authorization 
Request for fiscal year 2008 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from Philip W. Grone, Deputy Under Secretary 
of Defense for Installations and Environment; Keith E. Eastin, 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment; B.J. 
Penn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and 
Environment; and William C. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the Air 
Force for Installations, Environment and Logistics.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 
after receiving testimony from Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman, and 
Pamela Jones Harbour, Jonathan Leibowitz, William Kovacic, and J. 
Thomas Rosch, each a Commissioner, all of the Federal Trade Commission.
VOIP
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine voice over internet protocol (VOIP) and the future 
of 9-1-1 services, focusing on how E-9-1-1 policy should be responsive 
to a changed telecommunications landscape, including S. 428, to amend 
the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999, after 
receiving testimony from Dale N. Hatfield, University of Colorado at 
Boulder, former Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology, 
Federal Communications Commission; Wanda S. McCarley, Tarrant County 9-
1-1 District, Fort Worth, Texas, on behalf of the Association of 
Public-Safety Communications Officials International; Jason Barbour, 
National Emergency Number Association, Arlington, Virginia; Sharon 
O'Leary, Vonage Holdings Corp., Holmdel, New Jersey; and Stephen Meer, 
Intrado, Inc., Longmont, Colorado.