[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 83 (Monday, May 21, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D714]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (PART II)
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the National 
Institutes of Health: A New Vision for Medical Research, after 
receiving testimony from Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute 
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, John E. Niederhuber, Director, 
National Cancer Institute, Barbra M. Alving, Director, National Center 
for Research Resources, Patricia A. Grady, Director, National Institute 
of Nursing Research, and John Ruffin, Director, National Center on 
Minority Health and Health Disparities, all of the National Institutes 
of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
INCREASED HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: On Friday, May 
18, 2007, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the 
Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia concluded a hearing to 
examine growth trends in health care premiums for active and retired 
federal employees, after receiving testimony from Nancy H. Kichak, 
Associate Director for Strategic Human Resources Policy Division and 
Chief Actuary, Office of Personnel Management; John E. Dicken, 
Director, Health Care, Government Accountability Office; Stephen W. 
Gammarino, BlueCross BlueShield Association, Washington, D.C.; and Alan 
G. Lopatin, National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, 
Alexandria, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported:
  S. 1352, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 127 East Locust Street in Fairbury, Illinois, as the 
``Dr. Francis Townsend Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1402, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 320 South Lecanto Highway in Lecanto, Florida, as 
the ``Sergeant Dennis J. Flanagan Lecanto Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 625, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 4230 Maine Avenue in Baldwin Park, California, as 
the ``Atanacio Haro-Marin Post Office'';
  H.R. 988, to designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Service 
located at 5757 Tilton Avenue in Riverside, California, as the 
``Lieutenant Todd Jason Bryant Post Office'';
  H.R. 437, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 500 West Eisenhower Street in Rio Grande City, 
Texas, as the ``Lino Perez, Jr. Post Office'';
  H.R. 414, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 60 Calle McKinley, West in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, as 
the ``Miguel Angel Garcia Mendez Post Office Building''; and
  The nomination of Howard Charles Weizmann, of Maryland, to be Deputy 
Director of the Office of Personnel Management.