[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 101 (Thursday, June 21, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D874-D876]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION/INTERIOR/ENVIRONMENT/LEGISLATIVE 
BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill making appropriations for Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, Interior, Environment, 
and Related Agencies, and Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2008.
HOMELESSNESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1518, to amend the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act to reauthorize the Act, after receiving testimony from 
Roy A. Bernardi, Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; 
Lloyd S. Pendleton, State of Utah Department of Community and Culture, 
Salt Lake City; Mayor Shirley Franklin, Atlanta, Georgia; Mayor Adrian 
M. Fenty, Linda Glassman, National AIDS Housing Coalition, Nan Roman, 
National Alliance to End Homelessness, and Moises Loza, Housing 
Assistance Council, all of Washington, DC; and Carol Gundlach, Alabama 
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Montgomery, on behalf of the 
National Network to End Domestic Violence.
HEALTH CARE AND THE BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
health care and the federal budget, focusing on issues and challenges 
for reform, after receiving testimony from Peter R. Orszag, Director, 
Congressional Budget Office.
TELEPHONE NUMBER PORTING AND CALLER ID SPOOFING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine telephone number porting and caller-ID spoofing, 
including S. 704, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit 
manipulation of caller identification information, after receiving 
testimony from Kris Anne Monteith, Chief, Enforcement Bureau, Federal 
Communications Commission; Ron Jones, Commissioner of the Tennessee 
Regulatory Authority, Nashville, on behalf of the National Association 
of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; and Jerry Cerasale, Direct 
Marketing Association, Inc., and Allison Knight, Electronic Privacy 
Information Center (EPIC), both of Washington, D.C.

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ENERGY EFFICIENCY, TECHNOLOGIES AND PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Innovation concluded a hearing to examine 
energy efficiency technologies and programs, after receiving Martha 
Krebs, California Energy Commission, Sacramento; Kateri Callahan, 
Alliance to Save Energy, and Tom Hicks, U.S. Green Building Council, 
both of Washington, D.C.; Charles R. Zimmerman, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 
Bentonville, Arkansas; Douglas K. Johnson, Consumer Electronics 
Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Jay Birnbaum, CURRENT Group, LLC, 
Germantown, Maryland.
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BENEFITS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine barriers 
to work to be overcome for individuals receiving Social Security 
Disability Benefits, after receiving testimony from Sue Suter, 
Associate Commissioner for Employment Support Programs, Social Security 
Administration; Allen Jensen, George Washington University Center for 
Health and Human Services Research and Policy, and David C. Stapleton, 
Cornell University Institute for Policy Research, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Jim Brown, Billings, Montana.
U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS:
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine a strategic assessment of United States and Russia relations, 
after receiving testimony from Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of 
State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Zbigniew Brzezinksi, Center 
for Strategic and International Studies, and Lieutenant General Brent 
Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.), Scowcroft Group, each a former National 
Security Advisor, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of John L. Withers II, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, Charles Lewis English, of New 
York, to be Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameron Munter, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia, Roderick W. 
Moore, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Montenegro, 
and J. Christian Kennedy, of Indiana, to be Ambassador during his 
tenure of service as Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PRIVATE SECTOR PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and 
Integration concluded a hearing to examine the state of public-private 
collaboration in preparing for and responding to national catastrophes, 
after receiving testimony from former Senator John Breaux, Patton Boggs 
LLP, Washington, D.C., and F. Duane Ackerman, Atlanta, Georgia, both on 
behalf of Business Executives for National Security; Alfonso Martinez-
Fonts, Jr., Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector, Office of 
Policy, Office of the Secretary, and Marko Bourne, Director, Policy and 
Program Analysis, Federal Emergency Management Agency, both of the 
Department of Homeland Security; and Richard Andrews, National Center 
for Crisis and Continuity Coordination, Redlands, California.
INDIAN COUNTRY
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine law enforcement in Indian country, after receiving testimony 
from Marcus Wells, Jr., Three Affiliated Tribes, New Town, North 
Dakota; Herman Dillon, Sr., and Larry LaPointe, both of Puyallup Tribe 
of Indians, Tacoma, Washington; Bonnie Clairmont, Tribal Law and Policy 
Institute, Saint Paul, Minnesota; Joe A. Garcia, National Congress of 
American Indians, Washington, D.C.; and Kevin W. Washburn, University 
of Minnesota Law School, and Thomas B. Heffelfinger, Best and Flanagan 
LLP, both of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  S. Res. 230, designating the month of July 2007, as ``National Teen 
Safe Driver Month'';
  S. Res. 235, designating July 1, 2007, as ``National Boating Day'';
  S. Res. 225, designating the month of August 2007 as ``National 
Medicine Abuse Awareness Month''; and
  Committee approved the issuance of various subpoenas in connection 
with the investigation of the legal basis for the warrantless wiretap 
program.
  Also, Committee began consideration of S. 1145, to amend title 35, 
United States Code, to provide for patent reform, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute, but did not complete action thereon, and 
recessed until June 28, 2007.
CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, after 
receiving testimony from Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General, Civil 
Rights Division, Department of Justice; Wade J. Henderson, Leadership 
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Rights, and Robert N. Driscoll, Alston and Bird LLP, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Brian K. Landsberg, University of the Pacific 
McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California; Helen L. Norton, 
University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore; and Roger Clegg, 
Center for Equal Opportunity, Falls Church, Virginia.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
FUTURE OF AMERICA'S AGRICULTURE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
America's aging farming population, focusing on the threat to the 
future of American agriculture as aging farmers are not being replaced 
by younger generations, after receiving testimony from Keith Collins, 
Chief Economist of the Department of Agriculture; Isaac Kershaw, Ohio 
State Department of Education, Columbus, on behalf of Future Farmers of 
America; Barry Bushue, Oregon Farm Bureau Federation, and Derek Godwin, 
Oregon State University Extension Service, both of Salem; and John 
Rosenow, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Future of 
Farming and Rural Life (FOF) Project, Cochrane, Wisconsin.