[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 76 (Thursday, May 8, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D575-D576]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: ARMY AND AIR FORCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction, 
Veterans' Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the United States 
Army and Air Force, after receiving testimony from Keith E. Eastin, 
Assistant Secretary for Installations and Environment, Lieutenant 
General Robert Wilson, U.S. Army Assistant Chief of Staff, Installation 
Management, Major General Raymond W. Carpenter, Special Assistant to 
the Director, Army National Guard, and Brigadier General Julia Ann 
Kraus, Deputy Chief, Army Reserve, all of the Department of the Army, 
and Kathleen I. Ferguson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Installations, 
Brigadier General James Rubeor, Deputy to the Chief of the Air Force 
Reserve, and Brigadier General Stanley Clarke III, Deputy Director, Air 
National Guard, all of the Department of the Air Force, all of the 
Department of Defense.
FUTUREGEN PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Energy's 
decision to restructure the FutureGen program and obtain information 
about the elements of the original and revised approaches to advance 
carbon capture and storage technologies, after receiving testimony from 
Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy; and Paul Thompson, FutureGen 
Alliance, Washington, D.C.
U.S. CLIMATE MODELING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing on improving the capacity of United States climate modeling--
using quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the 
atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice to project the future 
climate, after receiving testimony from Alexander MacDonald, Deputy 
Assistant Administrator for Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes, 
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; James J. Hack, 
Director, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge 
National Laboratory; Bruce K. Carlisle, Massachusetts Executive Office 
of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Boston; Daniel A. Reed, Computing 
Research Association (CRA), Redmond, Washington; Edward Sarachik, 
University of Washington, Seattle; and John E. Walsh, University of 
Alaska, Fairbanks.
MOVEMENT OF GOODS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the importance to the economy of the United States 
of the efficient movement of goods on the nation's highways and to 
explore ways to improve the efficiency, after receiving testimony from 
Michael Gallis, Michael Gallis and Associates, Charlotte, North 
Carolina; Charles Potts, Heritage Construction and Materials, 
Indianapolis, Indiana, on behalf of the American Road and 
Transportation Builders Association; and Mortimer Downey, Coalition for 
America's Gateways and Trade Corridors, Washington, D.C.
SOCIAL SECURITY FIELD OFFICES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Social 
Security field offices, focusing on the resources and workforce needed 
to deliver quality service to the public, after receiving testimony 
from Barbara D. Bovbjerg, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income 
Security, Government Accountability Office; Linda S. McMahon, Deputy 
Commissioner for Operations, Social Security Administration; Richard E. 
Warsinskey, National Council of Social Security Management 
Associations, Inc., Washington, D.C.; and Witold Skwierczynski, 
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), Baltimore, 
Maryland.
NEXT GENERATION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine recruiting and 
hiring the next generation of federal

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employees, after receiving testimony from Robert N. Goldenkoff, 
Director, Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office; Angela 
Bailey, Deputy Associate Director for Talent and Capacity Policy, 
United States Office of Personnel Management; John Crum, Acting 
Director, Office of Policy and Evaluation, United States Merit Systems 
Protection Board; James F. McDermott, Director, Office of Human 
Resources, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; John Gage, 
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), AFL-CIO, Colleen M. 
Kelley, National Treasury Employees Union, Max Stier, Partnership for 
Public Service, and Dan Solomon, Virilion, Inc., all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Donna Mathews, Hewitt Associates, LLC, Falls Church, 
Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the nominations of Nanci E. Langley, of 
Virginia, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, and 
Andrew Saul, of New York, Alejandro Modesto Sanchez, of Florida, and 
Gordon James Whiting, of New York, each to be a Member of the Federal 
Retirement Thrift Investment Board.
FIGHTING CANCER
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine cancer relating to challenges and 
opportunities in the 21st century, after receiving testimony from 
Elizabeth Edwards, Center for American Progress, Steve Case, Revolution 
LLC, and Gregory C. Simon, FasterCures, all of Washington, D.C.; Lance 
Armstrong, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Austin, Texas; Edward J. Benz, 
Jr., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; and Hala 
Moddelmog, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Dallas, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  S. 2840, to establish a liaison with the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation in United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to 
expedite naturalization applications filed by members of the Armed 
Forces and to establish a deadline for processing such applications, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2504, to amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal 
charter to the Military Officers Association of America; and
  S. Res. 537, commemorating and acknowledging the dedication and 
sacrifice made by the men and women who have lost their lives while 
serving as law enforcement officers.
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.

Joint Meetings
RUSSIAN FEDERATION PRESIDENT
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission concluded 
a hearing to examine the future administration of the President of the 
Russian Federation Dmitri Medvedev, focusing on the United States and 
Russia's relationship, after receiving testimony from Daniel Fried, 
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Celeste 
A. Wallander, Georgetown University Center for Eurasian, Russian and 
East European Studies, and Stephen Blank, United States Army War 
College Strategic Studies Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
David Foglesong, Rutgers University Department of History, New 
Brunswick, New Jersey.