[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 103 (Monday, June 25, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D896-D897]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
POST 9/11 AIR QUALITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights 
and Civil Liberties held a hearing on the alleged substantive due 
process violations arising from the EPA's handling of air quality 
issues following the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Testimony 
was heard from Christine Todd Whitman, former Administrator, EPA; Tina

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Kreisher, Communications Director, Department of the Interior; and 
public witnesses.
INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FISCAL YEAR 
2008
Committee on Rules: Granted, by a voice vote, an open rule providing 
for consideration of H.R. 2643, the Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008. The rule provides for 1 hour of 
general debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.
  The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill 
except clauses 9 and 10 of rule XXI. The rule waives points of order 
against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of 
rule XXI. During consideration of the bill for amendment, the Chairman 
of the Committee of the Whole may accord priority in recognition on the 
basis of whether the Member offering an amendment has caused it to be 
printed in the Congressional Record. The rule provides one motion to 
recommit with or without instructions. Finally, the rule permits the 
Chair, during consideration of the bill in the House, to postpone 
further consideration of the bill to a time designated by the Speaker.

Joint Meetings
PIPELINE POLITICS
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission concluded 
a hearing to examine pipeline politics, focusing on conflict prevention 
and the security of supply and transit of oil and natural gas, after 
receiving testimony from Gregory Manuel, Special Advisor to the 
Secretary and International Energy Coordinator, Steven R. Mann, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian 
Affairs, and Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European 
Affairs, all of the Department of State; Alan Hegburg, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs; Yasar Aliyev, 
Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Azerbaijan; Mikhail 
Khvostov, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Belarus; Keith 
C. Smith, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 
D.C.; and Pierre Noel, University of Cambridge Judge Business School, 
Cambridge, England.