[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 15, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D679-D680]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SHORT-TERM ENERGY OUTLOOK FOR SUMMER 2007
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the short-term energy outlook for the summer of 
2007, focusing on oil and gasoline, after receiving testimony from Guy 
Caruso, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Department of 
Energy; Kevin J. Lindemer, Global Insight, Lexington, Massachusetts; 
Paul Sankey, Deutsche Bank, New York, New York; and Geoff Sundstrom, 
AAA, Heathrow, Florida.
WATER AND LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 553, to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Eightmile River 
in the State of Connecticut as components of the National Wild and 
Scenic Rivers System, S. 800, to establish the Niagara Falls National 
Heritage Area in the State of New York, S. 916, to modify the boundary 
of the Minidoka Internment National Monument, to establish the Minidoka 
National Historic Site, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
convey certain land and improvements of the Gooding Division of the 
Minidoka Project, Idaho, S. 1057, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act to designate certain segments of the New River in the States of 
North Carolina and Virginia as a component of the National Wild and 
Scenic Rivers System, S. 1209, to provide for the continued 
administration of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, in 
accordance with the laws (including regulations) and policies of the 
National Park Service, S. 1281, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act 
to designate certain rivers and streams of the headwaters of the Snake 
River System as additions to the National Wild and Scenic River System, 
H.R. 161, to adjust the boundary of the Minidoka Internment National 
Monument to include the Nidoto Nai Yoni Memorial in Bainbridge Island, 
Washington, H.R. 247, to designate a Forest Service trail at Waldo Lake 
in the Willamette National Forest in the State of Oregon as a national 
recreation trail in honor of Jim Weaver, a former Member of the House 
of Representatives, and H.R. 376, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the 
suitability and feasibility of including the battlefields and related 
sites of the First and Second Battles of Newtonia, Missouri, during the 
Civil War as part of Wilson's

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Creek National Battlefield or designating the battlefields and related 
sites as a separate unit of the National Park System, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Feinstein and Schumer; Daniel N. Wenk, Deputy 
Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Joel 
Holtrop, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; Jack Dennis, Campaign for the Snake 
Headwaters, Jackson, Wyoming; Tom Ikeda, Densho: The Japanese American 
Legacy Project, Seattle, Washington; George Santucci, National 
Committee for the New River, West Jefferson, North Carolina; and 
Timothy D. Vail, Vail and Vickers Company, Santa Rosa Island, 
California.
GREEN BUILDINGS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine energy savings, water and air quality, economic, and 
other benefits of green buildings, after receiving testimony from 
Robert F. Fox, Jr., Cook and Fox Architects, New York, New York; Peter 
Templeton, United States Green Building Council, Washington, D.C.; 
Claire L. Barnett, Healthy Schools Network, Inc., Albany, New York; Ray 
Tonjes, Ray Tonjes Builder, Inc., Austin, Texas, on behalf of the 
National Association of Home Builders; and Ward Hubbell, Green Building 
Initiative, Portland, Oregon.
EQUAL REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine equal representation in Congress, 
focusing on providing voting rights to the District of Columbia, 
including S. 1257, to provide the District of Columbia a voting seat 
and the State of Utah an additional seat in the House of 
Representatives, after receiving testimony from Senator Hatch, 
Representatives Tom Davis and Norton; Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Jack Kemp, 
Kemp Partners, Wade J. Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil 
Rights, Viet D. Dinh, Georgetown University Law Center, and Jonathan R. 
Turley, George Washington University Law School, all of Washington, 
D.C.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: CURRENT AND FUTURE BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Retirement and Aging concluded a hearing to examine Alzheimer's 
disease, focusing on current and future breakthrough research, after 
receiving testimony from Paul S. Aisen, Georgetown University Medical 
Center, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Alzheimer's Disease 
Cooperative Study; Arthur F. Kramer, University of Illinois, Urbana; 
Robert Essner, Wyeth, Madison, New Jersey; and J. Donald deBethizy, 
Targacept, Inc., Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
PRESERVING PROSECUTORIAL INDEPENDENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Department of Justice and its handling of the hiring and firing of 
United States Attorneys, focusing on preserving prosecutorial 
independence, after receiving testimony from James B. Comey, Lockheed 
Martin Corporation, McLean, Virginia.