[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 30, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D523-D524]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the Consumer Product Safety 
Commission, and H.R. 4040, to establish consumer product safety 
standards and other safety requirements for children's products and to 
reauthorize and modernize the Consumer Product Safety Commission, after 
receiving testimony from Nancy A. Nord, Acting Chairman, and Thomas H. 
Moore, Commissioner, both of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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 and nuclear weapon 
non-proliferation efforts of the United States, after receiving 
testimony from William H. Tobey, Deputy Administrator for Defense 
Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, 
Department of Energy; Matthew Bunn, Harvard University John F. Kennedy 
School of Government Belfer Center for Science and International 
Affairs, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Siegfried S. Hecker, Stanford 
University Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, 
California.
NRO/SPACE PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in closed 
session to examine the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)/Space 
Programs, after receiving testimony from Scott F. Large, Director, 
National Reconnaissance Office, General C. Robert Kehler, Commander, 
Air Force Space Command, and Gary E. Payton, Deputy Under Secretary of 
the Air Force for Space Programs, all of the Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL, CAPITOL POLICE, LIBRARY OF 
CONGRESS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2009 for the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the United 
States Capitol Police, and the Library of Congress, after receiving 
testimony from Stephen T. Ayers, Acting Architect of the Capitol, 
Office of the Architect of the Capitol; Phillip D. Morse, Sr., Chief of 
Police, United States Capitol Police; and James Billington, Librarian 
of Congress, Library of Congress.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces met in 
closed session and approved for full committee consideration, those 
provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of 
the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2009.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland met in closed 
session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2009.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills: An original bill entitled ``National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009'';
  An original bill entitled ``Department of Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2009'';
  An original bill entitled ``Military Construction Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2009''; and
  An original bill entitled ``Department of Energy National Security 
Act for Fiscal Year 2009''.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of

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Kameran L. Onley, of Washington, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior, and Jeffrey F. Kupfer, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Energy, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
SECRET LAW
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
a hearing to examine secret law--certain counterterrorist measures 
employed since the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the threat to 
democratic and accountable government, after receiving testimony from 
John P. Elwood, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal 
Counsel, Department of Justice; Steven Aftergood, Federation of 
American Scientists, Bradford A. Berenson, Sidley Austin, LLP, former 
Associate Counsel to the President, and David B. Rivkin, Jr., Baker 
Hostetler, all of Washington, D.C.; Dawn E. Johnsen, Indiana University 
School of Law-Bloomington, former Acting Assistant Attorney General for 
the Office of Legal Counsel; Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota 
Law School, Minneapolis; and J. William Leonard, former Director of the 
Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives, Leonardtown, 
Maryland.
HIRING AND RETAINING ELDERLY WORKERS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
establishing government as a model for hiring and retaining elderly 
workers, focusing on critical gaps in leadership and institutional 
knowledge, increasing the challenges government agencies face in 
maintaining a skilled workforce, after receiving testimony from Barbara 
D. Bovbjerg, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security 
Issues, and Robert N. Goldenkoff, Director, Strategic Issues, both of 
the Government Accountability Office; Nancy H. Kichak, Associate 
Director for Strategic Human Resources Policy, United States Office of 
Personnel Management; Thomas M. Dowd, Administrator, Office of Policy 
Development and Research, Employment and Training Administration, 
Department of Labor; and Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service, and 
Chai R. Feldblum, Georgetown University Law Center, both of Washington, 
D.C.