[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 61 (Thursday, April 17, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D454-D455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FAA SAFETY AND MODERNIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) safety and 
modernization performance, after receiving testimony from Robert A. 
Sturgell, Acting Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration; and 
Calvin L. Scovel, III, Inspector General, Department of Transportation.
U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine the United States Bureau of 
Reclamation, focusing on issues associated with aging water resource 
infrastructure, after receiving testimony from Senator Reid; Robert W. 
Johnson, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the 
Interior; Mayor Todd Cutler, Fernley, Nevada; Major General Charles I. 
McGinnis, USA (Ret.), United States Army Corps of Engineers, 
Charlottesville, Virginia, on behalf of the National Research Council; 
Thomas F. Donnelly, National Water Resources Association, Arlington, 
Virginia; Wesley Randal Reed, St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group, 
Chinook, Montana; and Tony Willardson, Western States Water Council, 
Midvale, Utah, on behalf of the Western Governors' Association (WGA).
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Deanna Tanner Okun, of Idaho, to be a Deputy United 
States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, who was 
introduced by Senator Roberts, David Gustafson, of Virginia, Richard T. 
Morrison, of Virginia, and Elizabeth Crewson Paris, of the District of 
Columbia, who was introduced by Senator Grassley, each to be a Judge of 
the United States Tax Court, and Eric M. Thorson, of Virginia, to be 
Inspector General, and Edwin Eck, of Montana, to be a Member of the 
Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, both of the Department of the 
Treasury, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
FUSION CENTERS
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 national strategy for 
information sharing relating to fusion centers-collaborative efforts to 
detect, prevent, investigate, and respond to criminal terrorist 
activity, focusing on a recent progress report from federal, state, and 
local agencies, after receiving testimony from Eileen R. Larence, 
Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government 
Accountability Office; Vance E. Hitch, Chief Information Officer, 
Department of Justice; Jack Thomas Tomarchio, Deputy Under Secretary of 
Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis; Captain Charles W. 
Rapp, Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC), Baltimore; 
Matthew Bettenhausen, California Governor's Office of Homeland 
Security, Sacramento; and Russell M. Porter, Iowa Department of Public 
Safety, Des Moines.

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NATIONAL INDIAN GAMING COMMISSION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the National Indian Gaming Commission, after receiving 
testimony from Philip N. Hogen, Chairman, National Indian Gaming 
Commission; Delia Carlyle, Arizona Indian Gaming Association, Phoenix, 
on behalf of the Ak-Chin Indian Community Council; J.R. Matthews, 
Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Quapaw, Oklahoma; Mark Van Norman, National 
Indian Gaming Association, Washington, D.C.; Brian Patterson, United 
South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee; Kurt Luger, Great 
Plains Indian Gaming Association, Bismarck, North Dakota; and Kathryn 
R.L. Rand and Steven Light, both of the University of North Dakota 
Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy, Grand Forks.
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.