[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 72 (Thursday, May 3, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D613-D615]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURTS
Committee on Appropriations: On Wednesday, May 2, 2007, Subcommittee on 
Financial Services and General Government concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2006 for

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the government of the District of Columbia, focusing on federally-
funded entities, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their 
respective activities from Eric T. Washington, Chief Judge, District of 
Columbia Court of Appeals; Rufus G. King III, Chief Judge, Superior 
Court of the District of Columbia; Paul A. Quander, Jr., Director, 
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of 
Columbia; Avis E. Buchanan, Director, Public Defender Service for the 
District of Columbia; and Deborah A. Gist, State Education Officer, 
Government of the District of Columbia.
APPROPRIATIONS: SECRETARY OF THE SENATE/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2008, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their 
respective activities from Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate; and 
James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress.
APPROPRIATIONS: EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION
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 Equal Employment 
Opportunity Commission, after receiving testimony from Naomi Churchill 
Earp, Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony 
from Alphonso Jackson, Secretary, Kenneth M. Donohue, Inspector 
General, and Orlando J. Cabrera, Assistant Secretary for Public and 
Indian Housing, all of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
BUDGET: DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the United States Central Command in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Admiral William J. Fallon, 
United States Navy, Commander, United States Central Command.
BUDGET: DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded open 
and closed hearings to examine Navy force structure requirements and 
programs to meet those requirements in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Donald C. Winter, Secretary, 
and Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Chief of Naval Operations, both of the 
United States Navy, Department of Defense.
CORPORATE AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY (CAFE)
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine pending Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) 
legislation, after receiving testimony from Senators Levin, Feinstein, 
Stabenow; Alan Reuther, United Auto Workers, David Friedman, Union of 
Concerned Scientists, and David McCurdy, Alliance of Automobile 
Manufacturers, all of Washington, D.C.; Admiral Dennis Blair, (Ret.) 
USN, Army War College and Dickinson College, Alexandria, Virginia, on 
behalf of the Energy Security Leadership Council; Michael J. Stanton, 
Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, Inc., Arlington, 
Virginia; and Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, (Ret.) USN, Columbus, Ohio.
SAN JOAQUIN RIVER RESTORATION SETTLEMENT ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power held a hearing to examine S. 27, to authorize the implementation 
of the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement, receiving testimony 
from Senators Feinstein and Boxer; Mark Limbaugh, Assistant Secretary 
of the Interior for Water and Science; P. Joseph Grindstaff, California 
Resources Agency, Sacramento; Steve Chedester, San Joaquin River 
Exchange Contractors Water Authority, Los Banos, California; Kenneth M. 
Robbins, Merced Irrigation District, Merced, California; Allen Ishida, 
Tulare County Board of Supervisors, Visalia, California; Daniel M. 
Dooley, Dooley Herr and Peltzer, LLP, Lindsay, California, on behalf of 
the Friant Water Users Authority; and Hamilton Candee, Natural 
Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, California.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 390, to direct the 
exchange of certain land in Grand, San Juan, and Uintah Counties, Utah, 
S. 647, to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, 
S. 1139, to establish

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the National Landscape Conservation System, H.R. 276, to designate the 
Piedras Blancas Light Station and the surrounding public land as an 
Outstanding Natural Area to be administered as a part of the National 
Landscape Conservation System, H.R. 356, to remove certain restrictions 
on the Mammoth Community Water District's ability to use certain 
property acquired by that District from the United States, S. 205 and 
H.R. 865, bills to grant rights-of-way for electric transmission lines 
over certain Native allotments in the State of Alaska, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Bennett; Mark Rey, Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Jim Hughes, Acting 
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Martha 
Schrader, Clackamas County Board of County Commissioners, Oregon City, 
Oregon; Kevin S. Carter, Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands 
Administration, Salt Lake City; Richard Moe, National Trust for 
Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C.; Ron Suppah, Confederated 
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, Warm Springs; John 
Sterling, The Conservation Alliance, Bend, Oregon; and Ty Cobb, Grand 
Canyon Trust, Flagstaff, Arizona.
OFFSHORE TAX EVASION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine offshore 
tax evasion, focusing on challenges in ensuring offshore tax 
compliance, after receiving testimony from John Harrington, Acting 
International Tax Counsel, Department of the Treasury; Michael Brostek, 
Director, Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office; Jeffrey 
Owens, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, 
France; and Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan Law School, Ann 
Arbor.
ISLAMIST EXTREMISM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded open and closed hearings to examine the internet as a portal 
to violent Islamist extremism, after receiving testimony from Michael 
S. Doran, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Support to Public 
Diplomacy; Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Felter, USA, Director, 
Combating Terrorism Center, United States Military Academy at West 
Point; and Frank J. Cilluffo, George Washington University Homeland 
Security Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
NATIVE HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 310, a bill to express the policy of the United States regarding the 
United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a 
process for the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian 
governing entity, after receiving testimony from Gregory G. Katsas, 
Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice; 
Mark J. Bennett, Hawaii Attorney General, Micah Kane, Hawaiian Homes 
Commission, Haunani Apoliona, and William Meheula, both of the Office 
of Hawaiian Affairs, and H. William Burgess, Aloha for All, all of 
Honolulu, Hawaii; and Viet D. Dinh, Georgetown University Law Center, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  S. 495, to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, to 
provide notice of security breaches, and to enhance criminal penalties, 
law enforcement assistance, and other protections against security 
breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse of personally identifiable 
information, with amendments;
  S. 239, to require Federal agencies, and persons engaged in 
interstate commerce, in possession of data containing sensitive 
personally identifiable information, to disclose any breach of such 
information, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Debra Ann Livingston, of New York, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Richard Sullivan, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and 
Joseph S. Van Bokkelen, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Indiana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.