[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 13, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D590-D591]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request 
for fiscal year 2009 for the Transportation Security Administration 
(TSA), after receiving testimony from Kip Hawley, Assistant Secretary 
for Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration; and 
Cathleen A. Berrick, Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, 
Government Accountability Office.
CLIMATE CHANGE IN COASTAL REGIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the impacts of climate change on the reliability, 
security, economics, and design of critical energy infrastructure in 
coastal regions of the United States, after receiving testimony from 
Thomas J. Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, 
Tennessee, and Terry Wallace, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los 
Alamos, New Mexico, both of the Department of Energy; Virginia Burkett, 
Chief Scientist for Global Change Research, United States Geological 
Survey, Department of the Interior; Lisa Polak Edgar, Florida Public 
Service Commission, Tallahassee; Charles T. Drevna, National 
Petrochemical and Refiners Association, Washington, D.C.; and Ted 
Falgout, Port Fourchon, Galliano, Louisiana.
MERCURY LEGISLATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed legislation on mercury, including S. 2643, 
to amend the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations to control 
hazardous air pollutant emissions from electric utility steam 
generating units, S. 906, to prohibit the sale, distribution, transfer, 
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export of elemental mercury, and H.R. 1534, to prohibit certain sales, 
distributions, and transfers of elemental mercury, to prohibit the 
export of elemental mercury, after receiving testimony from Robert J. 
Meyers, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and 
Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; Lisa P. Jackson, New Jersey 
Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton; Michael D. Durham, ADA 
Environmental Solutions, on behalf of the Institute of Clean Air 
Companies, and Linda E. Greer, Natural Resources Defense Council, both 
of Washington, D.C.; Steven A. Benson, University of North Dakota 
Energy and Environmental Research Center, Grand Forks; Leonard Levin, 
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California; Vickie 
Patton, Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder, Colorado; and Arthur E. 
Dungan, Chlorine Institute, Inc., Arlington, Virginia.
TAX REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
individual income tax reform, focusing on the efficacy of the tax 
system relative to the current laws for businesses, individuals, and 
government agencies, after receiving testimony from Leonard E. Burman, 
Urban Institute, William G. Gale, Brookings Institution, Stephen J. 
Entin, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, and J.D. 
Foster, Heritage Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: On February 13, 2008, Committee 
announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics 
Affairs: Senators Dodd (Chairman), Kerry, Nelson (FL), Menendez, Webb, 
Corker, Isakson, Coleman, and Barrasso;
  Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs: 
Senators Kerry (Chairman), Dodd, Feingold, Boxer, Cardin, Coleman, 
Hagel, Voinovich, and Barrasso;
  Subcommittee on African Affairs: Senators Feingold (Chairman), Nelson 
(FL), Obama, Cardin, Webb, Isakson, Coleman, Vitter, and Hagel;
  Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs: Senators Boxer 
(Chairman), Kerry, Feingold, Obama, Webb, Murkowski, Isakson, Vitter, 
and Hagel;
  Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, 
Democracy, and Human Rights: Senators Nelson (FL) (Chairman), Feingold, 
Menendez, Casey, Webb, Vitter, Voinovich, DeMint, and Barrasso;
  Subcommittee on European Affairs: Senators Obama (Chairman), Dodd, 
Menendez, Cardin, Casey, DeMint, Voinovich, Corker, and Murkowski; and
  Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, 
Economic Affairs, and International Environmental Protection: Senators 
Menendez (Chairman), Kerry, Boxer, Obama, Casey, Hagel, Corker, 
Murkowski, and DeMint.
  Senators Biden and Lugar are ex officio members of each Subcommittee.
SUDAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing to examine United States policy toward Sudan from 
Richard Williamson, President's Special Envoy to Sudan, Department of 
State.
INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the successes and shortfalls of Title IV of the Indian Self-
Determination and Education Assistance Act (P.L. 93-638), focusing on 
twenty years of tribal self-governance, after receiving testimony from 
James Cason, Associate Deputy Secretary of the Interior; W. Ron Allen, 
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, Washington; Clifford Lyle Marshall, 
Hoopa Valley Tribe, Hoopa, California; James Steele, Jr., Confederated 
Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Pablo, 
Montana; and Gene Peltola, Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, Bethel, 
Alaska.
BULLETPROOF VEST PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Bulletproof Vest Partnership program, focusing on protecting the 
nation's law enforcement officers, including a bill entitled, ``The 
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Reauthorization Act'', after 
receiving testimony from Michael C. Macarilla, Vermont State Police, 
Waterbury; and David F. Azur, Baltimore Police Department, Baltimore, 
Maryland.
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.