[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 51 (Wednesday, April 2, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D359-D360]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SAFEGUARDING WORKERS' RIGHTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine National Labor Relations Board representation elections and 
initial collective bargaining agreements, focusing on safeguarding 
workers' rights, after receiving testimony from Peter C. Schaumber, 
Chairman, and Wilma B. Liebman, Member, both of the National Labor 
Relations Board; Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon Labor Education and 
Research Center, Eugene; and John N. Raudabaugh, Baker and McKenzie 
LLP, Chicago, Illinois.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2009 for the Department of Energy, after receiving 
testimony from Raymond L. Orbach, Under Secretary for Science, 
Alexander Karsner, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, and David G. Frantz, Director, Loan Guarantee Program 
Office, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, all of the Department of 
Energy.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine the defense authorization 
request for fiscal year 2009 for the Cooperative Threat Reduction 
Program and the Proliferation Security Initiative at the Department of 
Defense, and nuclear nonproliferation programs at the National Nuclear 
Security Administration, and the future years defense program, after 
receiving testimony from William H. Tobey, Deputy Administrator, 
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy; and Joseph A. Benkert, Principal 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Security Affairs.
DOD CONTRACTING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine Department of Defense (DOD) 
contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from 
James I. Finley, Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition and Technology, 
Jack Bell, Deputy Under Secretary for Logistics and Materiel Readiness, 
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology 
and Logistics, Lieutenant General N. Ross Thompson III, USA, Military 
Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, 
Logistics and Technology, and Jeffery P. Parsons, Executive Director, 
Army Contracting Command (Provisional), United States Army Materiel 
Command, all of the Department of Defense.
POLAR BEARS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the listing decision for the polar bear 
under the Endangered Species Act, focusing on the issues of climate 
change and conservation of polar bears, after receiving testimony from 
Douglas B. Inkley, National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Reston, 
Virginia; William P. Horn, Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of sundry organizations; and Kassie Siegel, 
Center for Biological Diversity, Joshua Tree, California.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Iraq after the troop surge, focusing on military prospects, 
after receiving testimony from General Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (Ret.), 
BR McCaffrey Associates LLC, Arlington, Virginia; and Lieutenant 
General William E. Odom, USA (Ret.), Center for Strategic and 
International Studies, Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr., USA (Ret.), 
Colgen, Inc., and Michele Flournoy, Center for New American Security, 
all of Washington, D.C.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Iraq after the troop surge, focusing on political prospects, 
after receiving testimony from Yahia Khairi Said, Revenue Watch 
Institute, and Nir Rosen, New York University Center on Law and 
Security, both of New York, New York; and Stephen Biddle, Council on 
Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.
ASSESSING THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine nuclear terrorism, focusing on assessing 
the threat to the United States, after receiving testimony from Charles 
E. Allen, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and 
Analysis; Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Director, Office of Intelligence and 
Counterintelligence, Department of Energy; Matthew Bunn, Harvard 
University John F. Kennedy School of Government Belfer Center for 
Science and International Affairs, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Gary 
Anthony Ackerman, University of Maryland National

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Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism 
(START), College Park.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on the 
Department's progress in securing the United States and protecting the 
American people, after receiving testimony from Michael Chertoff, 
Secretary of Homeland Security.