[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 100 (Tuesday, June 17, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D754-D755]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ENERGY AND AGRICULTURE MARKETS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a joint hearing with the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on 
Financial Services and General Government to examine the role, 
responsibilities, and resource needs of the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission on oversight of futures and derivatives markets in energy 
and agriculture, after receiving testimony from Walter Lukken, Acting 
Chairman, Commodities Futures Trading Commission; Mark Cooper, Consumer 
Federation of America, and James C. May, Air Transport Association of 
America, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; Terrence A. Duffy, Chicago 
Mercantile Exchange Group Inc., Chicago, Illinois; James Newsome, New 
York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., New York, New York; and Charles A. 
Vice, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES AND TREATMENT OF DETAINEES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held a hearing to examine the 
origins of aggressive interrogation techniques, focusing the 
Committee's inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody, 
receiving testimony from Richard L. Shiffrin, former Deputy General 
Counsel for Intelligence, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel J. Baumgartner, 
Jr., USAF (Ret.), Former Chief of Staff, Joint Personnel Recovery 
Agency, Jerald F. Ogrisseg, former Chief, Psychology Services, 336th 
Training Group, United States Air Force Survival School, Alberto J. 
Mora, former General Counsel, United States Navy, Rear Admiral Jane G. 
Dalton, USN (Ret.), former Legal Adviser to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs 
of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Diane E. Beaver, USA (Ret.), former Staff 
Judge Advocate, Joint Task Force 170/JTF Guantanamo Bay, and William J. 
Haynes, II, former General Counsel, all of the Department of Defense.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the challenges and regional solutions to developing 
transmission for renewable electricity resources, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Reid; Kevin M. Kolevar, Assistant Secretary for 
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, and Stephen J. Wright, 
Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, both of the Department 
of Energy; Bryce Freeman, Wyoming Infrastructure Authority, Cheyenne; 
Gary Hanson, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, Pierre; T. Boone 
Pickens, BP Capital, Dallas, Texas; Richard Halvey, Western Governors 
Association, Denver, Colorado; William Kaul, Great River Energy, Maple 
Grove, Minnesota; and Don Furman, American Wind Energy Association, 
Washington, D.C.
LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 1774 and H.R. 3022, bills to 
designate the John Krebs Wilderness in the State of California, to add 
certain land to the Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park Wilderness, S. 
2255, to amend the National Trails System Act to provide for studies of 
the Chisholm Trail and Great Western Trail to determine whether to add 
the trails to the National Trails System, S. 2359, to establish the St. 
Augustine 450th Commemoration Commission, S. 2943, to amend the 
National Trails System Act to designate the Pacific Northwest National 
Scenic Trail, S. 3017, to designate the Beaver Basin Wilderness at 
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the State of Michigan, S. 3010, to 
reauthorize the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program, S. 3045, to 
establish the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Forest Heritage 
Area in the State of Alaska, H.R. 1143, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to lease certain lands in Virgin Islands National Park, 
and S. 3096, to amend the National Cave and Karst Research Institute 
Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations for the National Cave and Karst 
Research Institute, after receiving testimony from Senator Boxer; 
Representative Christensen; Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture 
for Natural Resources and Environment; Karen Taylor-Goodrich, Associate 
Director, Visitor and Resource Protection, National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior; and Jon Knechtel, Pacific Northwest Trail 
Association, Sedro-Woolley, Washington.
U.S. ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
long-term fiscal outlook of the United States economy, focusing on the 
federal debt, health care costs, Social Security, and the gross 
domestic product (GDP), after receiving testimony from Peter R. Orszag, 
Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Gene L. Dodaro, Acting 
Comptroller General of the United States, Government Accountability 
Office.
INTERNATIONAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and International 
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Protection concluded a hearing to examine international disaster 
assistance, focusing on policy options, after receiving testimony from 
James B. Warlick, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for 
International Organization Affairs; James Kunder, Acting Deputy 
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Edward C. 
Luck, United Nations, New York, New York; and Mark L. Schneider, 
International Crisis Group, and Stewart Patrick, Council on Foreign 
Relations, both of Washington, D.C.
RUSSIA, IRAN, AND U.S.-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on Russia, Iran, and United States-Russian nuclear 
cooperation from William J. Burns, Under Secretary of State for 
Political Affairs.
PROTECTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
protecting consumers by protecting intellectual property, after 
receiving testimony from Loren Yager, Director, International Affairs 
and Trade, Government Accountability Office; Brian Monks, Underwriters 
Laboratories, Inc., Melville, New York; Mike Rose, Johnson and Johnson 
Health Care Systems, Inc., Fountainville, Pennsylvania; and Jeff 
Thurnau, Gates Corporation, Denver, Colorado.