[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 50 (Tuesday, April 1, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D348-D349]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: U.S. FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and 
Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the United States Forest Service, 
after receiving testimony from Mark Rey, Under Secretary for Natural 
Resources and Environment, and Abigail Kimbell, Chief, United States 
Forest Service, both of the Department of Agriculture.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a 
hearing to examine the defense authorization request for fiscal year 
2009 relative to the Army's new doctrine (Field Manual 3-0, 
Operations), and the future years defense program, after receiving 
testimony from Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell, IV, USA, 
Commanding General, United States Army Combined Arms Center and Fort 
Leavenworth.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the defense authorization 
request for fiscal year 2009 for the current readiness of the armed 
forces, and the future years defense program, after receiving testimony 
from General Richard A. Cody, USA, Vice Chief of Staff, United States 
Army, General Robert Magnus, USMC, Assistant Commandant of the Marine 
Corps, Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, USN, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, 
and General Duncan J. McNabb, USAF, Vice Chief of Staff, United States 
Air Force, all of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded 
a hearing to examine the defense authorization request for fiscal year 
2009 for ballistic missile defense programs, and the future years 
defense program, after receiving testimony from John J. Young, Jr., 
Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Lieutenant 
General Henry A. Obering III, USAF, Director, Missile Defense Agency, 
Lieutenant General Kevin T. Campbell, USA, Commanding General, United 
States Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and Charles E. McQueary, 
Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, all of the Department of 
Defense; and Paul L. Francis, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing 
Management, Government Accountability Office.
FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 2593, to establish a program at the Forest 
Service and the Department of the Interior to carry out collaborative 
ecological restoration treatments for priority forest landscapes on 
public land, after receiving testimony from Gail Kimbell, Chief, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture; Henri Bisson, Deputy Director, 
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Scott Simon, 
Nature Conservancy, Little Rock, Arkansas; Christopher I. West, 
American Forest Resource Council, Portland, Oregon; Nathaniel Lawrence, 
Natural Resources Defense Council, Olympia, Washington; and Howard 
Gross, Forest Guild, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
ANTI-TERRORISM FINANCING
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine anti-
terrorism financing, focusing on progress made and the challenges 
ahead, after receiving testimony from Stuart Levey, Under Secretary of 
the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the situation in Iraq from Stephen S. Kaplan, 
Vice Chairman, and Alan R. Pino, National Intelligence Officer for the 
Near East, both of the National Intelligence Council, and certain other 
members of the intelligence community.

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OSHA VIOLATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations, 
focusing on strategies for breaking dangerous patterns, after receiving 
testimony from Eric Frumin, Change to Win, New York, New York; Doris 
Morrow, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) 
Local 227, Robards, Kentucky; Carman J. Bianco, Behavioral Science 
Technology, Inc., Ojai, California; and Gerard Scannell, Washington, 
D.C.
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN WAR
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law 
concluded a hearing to examine rape as a weapon of war, focusing on 
accountability for sexual violence in conflict, after receiving 
testimony from Karin Wachter, International Rescue Committee, Kelly 
Dawn Askin, Open Society Justice Initiative, and Lisa F. Jackson, all 
of New York, New York; and Denis Mukwege, Panzi General Referral 
Hospital, Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.