[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 80 (Thursday, May 15, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D609-D610]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported a 
bill providing emergency supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 
2008, with amendments.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following:
  S. 2685, to prohibit cigarette manufacturers from making claims or 
representations based on data derived from the cigarette testing method 
established by the Federal Trade Commission;
  H.R. 1187, to expand the boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones 
National Marine Sanctuary and the Cordell Bank National Marine 
Sanctuary, with amendments;
  S. 2281, to expand the boundaries of the Thunder Bay National Marine 
Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve;
  H.R. 1006, to amend the provisions of law relating to the John H. 
Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2997, to reauthorize the Maritime Administration, with amendments;
  S. 2699, to require new vessels for carrying oil fuel to have double 
hulls, with amendments; and
  The nominations of Lily Fu Claffee, of Illinois, to be General 
Counsel, and William J. Brennan, of Maine, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Oceans and Atmosphere, both of the Department of Commerce.
OIL SHALE RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine development of oil shale resources, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Hatch and Allard; C. Stephen Allred, Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Colorado 
Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., Terry O'Connor, Shell Exploration and 
Production Company, and Steve Smith, Wilderness Society, all of Denver, 
Colorado; and James V. Hansen, Oil Shale Exploration Company, 
Farmington, Utah.
UNITED STATES-CHINA RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held a hearing to examine 
United States-China relations in the era of globalization, receiving 
testimony from John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Richard 
N. Haass, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York; and Kurt 
Campbell, Center for a New American Security, and Harry Harding, George 
Washington University, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call of the Chair.
MEDICAL CARE IN AFTERMATH OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine nuclear terrorism, focusing on providing 
medical care and meeting basic needs in the aftermath of an attack, 
after receiving testimony from Irwin Redlener, Columbia University 
Mailman School of Public Health National Center for Disaster 
Preparedness, New York, New York; Ira Helfand, Physicians for Social 
Responsibility, Leeds, Massachusetts; and Joseph C. Becker, American 
Red Cross, and John Ullyot, Hill and Knowlton, Inc., both of 
Washington, D.C.
STATE DEPARTMENT ROLE IN ARMS CONTROL
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 the organizational 
structures of the Department of

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State responsible for arms control, counterproliferation, and 
nonproliferation, focusing on the processes they have in place for 
optimizing national efforts, and how responsive those structures and 
processes are to the Executive Branch's nonproliferation and 
counterproliferation policies, after receiving testimony from Thomas 
Graham, Jr., former Acting Director, Bethesda, Maryland, and Norman A. 
Wulf, former Deputy Assistant Director, Nonproliferation and Arms 
Control, Fairfax, Virginia, both of the U.S. Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency; and Andrew K. Semmel, former Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy and 
Negotiations, Arlington, Virginia.
NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 1080, to develop a program to acquire interests in land from 
eligible individuals within the Crow Reservation in the State of 
Montana, H.R. 2120, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to proclaim 
as reservation for the benefit of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of 
Chippewa Indians a parcel of land now held in trust by the United 
States for that Indian tribe, S. 2494, to provide for equitable 
compensation to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation 
for the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by the 
Grand Coulee Dam, H.R. 2963, to transfer certain land in Riverside 
County, California, and San Diego County, California, from the Bureau 
of Land Management to the United States to be held in trust for the 
Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, and S. 531, to repeal section 
10(f) of Public Law 93-531, commonly known as the ``Bennett Freeze'', 
after receiving testimony from Jerry Gidner, Director, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Richard Sherwood, Spokane Tribe of 
Indians, Wellpinit, Washington; Carl Venne, Crow Nation, Crow Agency, 
Montana; Mark Macarro, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, 
Temecula, California; Aaron Payment, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa 
Indians, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Benjamin H. Nuvamsa, Hopi Tribe, 
Kykotsmovi, Arizona; and Raymond Maxx, Navajo Nation Council, Window 
Rock, Arizona.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  S. 2913, to provide a limitation on judicial remedies in copyright 
infringement cases involving orphan works, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2511, to amend the grant program for law enforcement armor vests 
to provide for a waiver of or reduction in the matching funds 
requirement in the case of fiscal hardship, with an amendment;
  S. 2565, to establish an awards mechanism to honor exceptional acts 
of bravery in the line of duty by Federal law enforcement officers, 
with an amendment;
  H.R. 4056, to establish an awards mechanism to honor Federal law 
enforcement officers injured in the line of duty, with an amendment;
  S. 2774, to provide for the appointment of additional Federal circuit 
and district judges;
  S. 1738, to establish a Special Counsel for Child Exploitation 
Prevention and Interdiction within the Office of the Deputy Attorney 
General, to improve the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, to 
increase resources for regional computer forensic labs, and to make 
other improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies 
to investigate and prosecute predators, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 1515, to establish a domestic violence volunteer attorney network 
to represent domestic violence victims, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 2942, to authorize funding for the National Advocacy Center; and
  The nomination of G. Steven Agee, of Virginia, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.