[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 126 (Thursday, August 2, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1124-D1125]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
UNITED STATES FORCES IN IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
drawdown planning for the United States forces in Iraq from Eric S. 
Edelman, Under Secretary for Policy, and Lieutenant General John F. 
Sattler, USMC, Director, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J-5), 
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN, for reappointment to the 
grade of admiral and to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 
General James E. Cartwright, USMC, for reappointment to the grade of 
general and to be Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 808 
nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Randall S. Kroszner, of New 
Jersey, Larry Allan Klane, of the District of Columbia, and Elizabeth 
A. Duke, of Virginia, all to be Members of the Board of Governors of 
the Federal Reserve System, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Security and International Trade and Finance concluded a hearing to 
examine reforming key international financial institutions for the 21st 
century, after receiving testimony from Daniel K. Tarullo, Georgetown 
University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Adam Lerrick, Carnegie Mellon 
University Gaillot Center for Public Policy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 
and Karin Lissakers, Revenue Watch Institute, and Diane Willkens, 
Development Finance International, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Jim Nussle, of Iowa, to be Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following:
  S. 781, to extend the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to 
collect Do-Not-Call Registry fees to fiscal years after fiscal year 
2007, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 602, to develop the next generation of parental control 
technology, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1892, to reauthorize the Coast Guard for fiscal year 2008, with 
amendments; and
  The nominations of William G. Sutton, Jr., of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Ronald Spoehel, of Virginia, to be 
Chief Financial Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
Thomas J. Barrett, of Alaska, to be Deputy Secretary, and Paul R. 
Brubaker, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Research and 
Innovative Technology Administration, both of the Department of 
Transportation, and the following named individual for appointment as a 
permanent commissioned regular officer in the United States Coast Guard 
in the grade indicated under title 14, U.S.C., section 211: Kristine B. 
Neeley, to be Lieutenant.
NATIONAL PARK CENTENNIAL CHALLENGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, concluded a hearing

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to examine S. 1253, to establish a fund for the National Park 
Centennial Challenge, after receiving testimony from Mary A. Bomar, 
Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Vin 
Cipolla, National Park Foundation, and Thomas C. Kiernan, National 
Parks Conservation Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and Curt 
Buchholtz, National Park Friends Alliance, Estes Park, Colorado.
POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine the 
Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (Public Law 109-435), 
focusing on the services that are provided to customers, after 
receiving testimony from John E. Potter, Postmaster General, United 
States Postal Service; Dan G. Blair, Chairman, Postal Regulatory 
Commission; Jody Berenblatt, Bank of America, New York, New York; 
Anthony Conway, Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, and Robert E. McLean, 
Mailers Council, both of Washington, D.C.; and James West, Williams-
Sonoma, Inc. Postal and Government Affairs, San Francisco, California.
PRESERVING PROSECUTORIAL INDEPENDENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings to examine the 
Department of Justice politicizing the hiring and firing of United 
States Attorneys, focusing on preserving prosecutorial independence, 
receiving testimony from J. Scott Jennings, Special Assistant to the 
President, Deputy White House Political Director.
  Hearings recesses subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  A bill entitled, ``School Safety and Law Enforcement Act'';
  S. 1060, to reauthorize the grant program for reentry of offenders 
into the community in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968, to improve reentry planning and implementation, with amendments; 
and
  The nominations of Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez, to be United States 
Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, and Leslie Southwick, of 
Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit.
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.