[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 68 (Thursday, April 26, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D576-D577]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, including the USA PATRIOT Act, after receiving testimony 
from Robert S. Mueller, III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
Department of Justice.
UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANTS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
legal issues regarding individuals detained by the Department of 
Defense as unlawful enemy combatants, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Leahy; Daniel J. Dell'Orto, Principle Deputy General Counsel, 
Department of Defense; Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, (Ret.) USN, former 
Judge Advocate General of the Navy, Concord, New Hampshire; Jeffrey H. 
Smith, former General Counsel of the Center Intelligence Agency, Neal 
K. Katyal, Georgetown University Law Center, and David B. Rivkin, Jr., 
Baker Hostetler, all of Washington D.C.; and Mark P. Denbeaux, Seton 
Hall Law School, New York, New York.
BUDGET: DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a 
hearing to examine Air Force and aviation programs in review of the 
Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Future Years 
Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Lieutenant General 
Carrol H. Chandler, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Air, Space and 
Information Operations, Plans and Requirements, Vice Chief of Staff, 
and Lieutenant General Donald J. Hoffman, USAF, Military Deputy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, both of 
the U.S. Air Force, William Balderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Air 
Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research, Development 
and Acquisition, and Rear Admiral Bruce W. Clingan, USN, Director, Air 
Warfare, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, both of the U.S. Navy, and 
Lieutenant General John G. Castellaw, USMC, Deputy Commandant for 
Aviation, all of the Department of Defense.
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Innovation concluded a hearing to examine 
clean coal technology, after receiving testimony from Joseph M. 
Chaisson, Clean Air Task Force, Harpswell, Maine; Roberto R. Denis, 
Sierra Pacific Resources, Las Vegas, Nevada; Gregory J. McRae, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Chemical 
Engineering, Cambridge; Michael W. Rencheck, American Electric Power, 
Columbus, Ohio; and John M. Wilson, Siemens Power Generation, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 169, to amend the National 
Trails System Act to clarify Federal authority relating to land 
acquisition from willing sellers for the majority of the trails in the 
System, S. 312 and H.R. 497, bills to authorize the Marion Park Project 
and Committee of the Palmetto Conservation Foundation to establish a 
commemorative work on Federal land in the District of Columbia and its 
environs to honor Brigadier General Francis Marion, S. 580, to amend 
the National Trails System Act to require the Secretary of the Interior 
to update the feasibility and suitability studies of four national 
historic trails, S. 686, to amend the National Trails System Act to 
designate the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National 
Historical Trail, S. 722, to direct the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Secretary of Agriculture to jointly conduct a study of certain land 
adjacent to the Walnut Canyon National Monument in the State of 
Arizona, S. 783, to adjust the boundary of the Barataria Preserve Unit 
of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in the State 
of Louisiana, S. 890, to provide for certain administrative and support 
services for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, and H.R. 
1047, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a

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study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the 
Soldiers' Memorial Military Museum located in St. Louis, Missouri, as a 
unit of the National Park System, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Allard; Daniel N. Wenk, Deputy Director for Operations, 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Mayor Timmy Kerner, 
Lafitte, Louisiana; Brigadier General Carl W. Reddel, (Ret.) USAF, 
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, and James P. Brown, City of 
St. Louis, Missouri Office of the Mayor, both of Washington, D.C.; Kim 
Burdick, National Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route 
Association, Rockland, Delaware; Linda Borkow, Dobbs Ferry Historical 
Society, Dobbs Ferry, New York; and Gary Werner, Partnership for the 
National Trails System, Madison, Wisconsin.
COAL
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and 
Infrastructure concluded a hearing to examine coal, focusing on a clean 
coal technologies, after receiving testimony from Steve Waddington, 
Wyoming Infrastructure Authority, Cheyenne; Nina French, ADA 
Environmental Solutions, Napa, California; John Diesch, Rentech Energy 
Midwest Corporation, East Dubuque, Illinois; Brian J. McPherson, 
University of Utah, Salt Lake City; and William L. Townsend, Blue 
Source Companies, Holladay, Utah.
OSHA
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine the 
effectiveness of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration 
(OSHA), after receiving testimony from David Michaels, George 
Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, 
former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and 
Health, and Peg Seminario, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.; Konnie 
Compagna, Service Employees International Union, Kent, Washington; and 
Thomas F. Cecich, TFC and Associates, Apex, North Carolina, on behalf 
of the American Society of Safety Engineers.
SHOSHONE-PAIUTE TRIBES OF DUCK VALLEY WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 462, to approve the settlement of the water rights claims of the 
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada, 
to require the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the settlement, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Reid; W. Patrick Ragsdale, 
Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Allen 
Biaggi, Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Carson 
City; and Kyle Prior, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley 
Reservation, Owyhee, Nevada.