[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 96 (Thursday, June 14, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D824-D825]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Homeland 
Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008; and
  An original bill making appropriations for Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2008.
  Also, completed its review of 302(b) subcommittee allocations of 
budget outlays and new budget authority allocated to the committee in 
S. Con. Res. 21, setting forth the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2008 and including the appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 and 2009 through 2012.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
1606, to provide for the establishment of a comprehensive policy on the 
care and management of wounded warriors in order to facilitate and 
enhance their care, rehabilitation, physical evaluation, transition 
from care by the Department of Defense to care by the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, and transition from military service to civilian 
life, with amendments.
PUBLIC SAFETY AND COMPETITION ISSUES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine public safety and competition issues, focusing on 
the 700MHz auction of wireless communications licenses for radio 
spectrum, after receiving testimony from Wanda S. McCarley, Tarrant 
County 9-1-1 District, Fort Worth, Texas, on behalf of the Association 
of Public-Safety Communications Officials International and the 
National Public Safety Telecommunications Council; Paul J. Cosgrave, 
City of New York Department of Information Technology and 
Telecommunications, and Amol R. Sarva, Txtbl, on behalf of the Wireless 
Founders Coalition for Innovation, both of New York, New York; James L. 
Barksdale, Frontline Wireless, LLC, Washington, D.C.; Philip J. Weiser, 
University of Colorado Silicon Flatirons Program, Boulder; Richard J. 
Lynch, Verizon Wireless, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; and Michael J. 
Small, Centennial Communications Corporation, Wall, New Jersey, on 
behalf of the Wireless Association.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  S. 535, to establish an Unsolved Crimes Section in the Civil Rights 
Division of the Department of Justice, and an Unsolved Civil Rights 
Crime Investigative Office in the Civil Rights Unit of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 456, to increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed 
to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish 
violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities 
from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for 
violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, with 
amendments;
  S. Res. 105, designating September 2007 as ``Campus Fire Safety 
Month''; and
  S. Res. 215, designating September 25, 2007, as ``National First 
Responder Appreciation Day''.
GAS PRICES
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the impact of rising gasoline prices on America's 
small businesses, after receiving testimony from Guy F. Caruso, 
Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy; 
Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corporation, Memphis, Tennessee; Salvatore 
Lupoli, Sal's Pizza Inc., Lawrence, Massachusetts; Janet Myhre, 
Chuckals Office Products, Tacoma, Washington; and Timothy P. Lynch, 
American Trucking Associations, Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.