[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 77 (Thursday, May 10, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D657-D658]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
                  (Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND FOREIGN OPERATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the Department of State and foreign 
operations, after receiving testimony from Condoleezza Rice, Secretary 
of State.
APPROPRIATIONS: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
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 Federal 
Aviation Administration, after receiving testimony from Marion C. 
Blakely, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, and Calvin L. 
Scovel III, Inspector General, both of the Department of 
Transportation.
NOMINATIONS:
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of David George Nason, of Rhode 
Island, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Mario Mancuso, of 
New York, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, 
Michael W. Tankersley, of Texas, to be Inspector General, Export-Import 
Bank, Robert M. Couch, of Alabama, to be General Counsel of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Janis Herschkowitz, of 
Pennsylvania, who was introduced by Senator Casey and Representative 
Holden, David George Nason, of Rhode Island, and Nguyen Van Hanh, of 
California, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
National Consumer Cooperative Bank, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to 
examine the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on living 
marine resources, after receiving testimony from Richard A. Feely, 
Supervisory Chemical Oceanographer, Pacific Environmental Laboratory, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of 
Commerce; Scott C. Doney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods 
Hole, Massachusetts; David O. Conover, Stony Brook University Marine 
Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook, New York; Lara J. Hansen, World 
Wildlife Fund, and Admiral James D. Watkins, (Ret.) U.S. Navy, United 
States Commission on Ocean Policy, both of Washington, D.C.; and Gordon 
H. Kruse, University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean 
Sciences, Juneau.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Joseph Timothy Kelliher, of the 
District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, and R. Lyle Laverty, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Fish and Wildlife, who was introduced by Senators Allard and 
Salazar, after each nominee testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
ECONOMIC ISSUES FOR AMERICA'S WORKING FAMILIES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine economic 
issues for America's working families and middle class, after receiving 
testimony from Gary Burtless, Brookings Institution, and Scott

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A. Hodge, Tax Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth Warren, 
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Sarah Blackburn, 
Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana.
MANAGING THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
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 examine a status report on 
reform efforts by the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for 
Management, after receiving testimony from Paul A. Schneider, Under 
Secretary of Homeland Security; and David M. Walker, Comptroller 
General of the United States, Government Accountability Office.
VIOLENT EXTREMISM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine government efforts to defeat violent 
Islamist extremism, after receiving testimony from Jeremy F. Curtin, 
Coordinator, Bureau of International Information Programs, Department 
of State; Chip Poncy, Director, Office of Strategic Policy, Terrorist 
Financing and Financial Crimes, Department of the Treasury; John J. 
Miller, Assistant Director, Office of Public Affairs, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, Department of Justice; and Jeffrey J. Grieco, Acting 
Assistant Administrator for Legislative and Public Affairs, United 
States Agency for International Development.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following items:
  S. 1200, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise 
and extend the Act;
  S. 310, 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;
  H.R. 835, to reauthorize the programs of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development for housing assistance for Native Hawaiians; and
  S.J. Res. 4, to acknowledge a long history of official depredations 
and ill-conceived policies by the United States Government regarding 
Indian tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of 
the United States.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Leslie Southwick, of Mississippi, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senators Cochran and Lott, Janet T. Neff, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Michigan, who was introduced by 
Senators Levin and Stabenow, and Liam O'Grady, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, who was introduced 
by Senator Warner, after each nominee testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf.