[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 117 (Wednesday, July 16, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D900-D902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the National 
Institutes of Health, after receiving testimony from Elias A. Zerhouni, 
Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services.
IRAQ NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on the status of negotiations with Iraq on a strategic 
framework agreement and a status of forces agreement from Lieutenant 
General Douglas E. Lute, USA, Assistant to the President and Deputy 
National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, and Christopher C. 
Straub, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Middle Eastern Affairs, both of 
the Department of Defense; and Richard J. Schmierer, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, 
Department of State.
LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 2354, to direct the 
Secretary

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of the Interior to convey 4 parcels of land from the Bureau of Land 
Management to the city of Twin Falls, Idaho, S. 3065, to establish the 
Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area and the Dominguez Canyon 
Wilderness Area, S. 3069, to designate certain land as wilderness in 
the State of California, S. 3085, to require the Secretary of the 
Interior to establish a cooperative watershed management program, H.R. 
3473, to provide for a land exchange with the City of Bountiful, Utah, 
involving National Forest System land in the Wasatch-Cache National 
Forest and to further land ownership consolidation in that national 
forest, H.R. 3490, to transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain 
Federal lands from the Bureau of Land Management to the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, to take such lands into trust for Tuolumne Band of Me-
Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria, H.R. 3651, to require the 
conveyance of certain public land within the boundaries of Camp 
Williams, Utah, to support the training and readiness of the Utah 
National Guard, H.R. 2632, to establish the Sabinoso Wilderness Area in 
San Miguel County, New Mexico, and S. 2448, to amend the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to make certain technical 
corrections, after receiving testimony from Senator Boxer; Brent 
Wahlquist, Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 
Enforcement, and Henri Bisson, Deputy Director, and Avra Morgan, 
Reclamation Drought Coordinator, Office of Program and Policy Services, 
both of the Bureau of Reclamation, all of the Department of the 
Interior; Joel Holtrop, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, United 
States Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Jan McCracken, Delta 
County, Delta, Colorado; and Tom Hinz, Greater Gallatin Watershed 
Council, Bozeman, Montana.
NUCLEAR PLANTS LICENSING AND RELICENSING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission's licensing and relicensing processes for nuclear 
power plants, after receiving testimony from Dale E. Klein, Chairman, 
Gregory B. Jaczko, Peter B. Lyons, and Kristine L. Svinicki, each a 
Commissioner, and Hubert T. Bell, Inspector General, all of the U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; David A. Christian, Dominion Nuclear, 
Glenn Allen, Virginia; Anthony R. Pietrangelo, Nuclear Energy 
Institute, and Joseph Romm, Center for American Progress Action Fund, 
both of Washington, D.C.; Richard Webster, Eastern Environmental Law 
Center, Newark, New Jersey; and H. John Gilbertson, Jr., Goldman, Sachs 
and Company, Chicago, Illinois.
SIX-PARTY TALKS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a closed hearing to 
examine North Korea's declaration and the Six-Party Talks on North 
Korea's nuclear weapons program, after receiving testimony from 
Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of 
East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
GLOBAL NUCLEAR DETECTION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine global nuclear detection architecture--
an integrated system of radiation detection equipment and interdiction 
activities, focusing on ways to build domestic defenses to combat a 
possible future attack, after receiving testimony from Chuck Gallaway, 
Deputy Director, and Mark Mullen, Assistant Director, Architecture 
Directorate, both of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Department 
of Homeland Security; David C. Maurer, Acting Director, Natural 
Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; Dana A. 
Shea, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy, Resources, Science, 
and Industry Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; and Robert F. Nesbit, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, 
Massachusetts.
HUMAN CAPITAL CRISIS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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 human capital 
crisis at the Department of State, focusing on the Department's efforts 
to hire, develop, position, and support a dedicated corps of Foreign 
Service, Civil Service, and locally employed staff to effectively meet 
the global implications, challenges, standards of operational 
readiness, and the worldwide mission of the Department, after receiving 
testimony from Harry K. Thomas, Director General of the Foreign Service 
and Director of Human Resources, Department of State; and John K. 
Naland, American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), and Ronald E. 
Neumann, American Academy of Diplomacy, both of Washington, D.C.
CHILDHOOD OBESITY (PART I)
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families held a hearing to examine childhood obesity, 
focusing on the declining health of America's next generation (Part I), 
receiving testimony from Jeffrey Levi, Trust for America's Health 
(TFAH), and Bruce Lesley, First

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Focus, both of Washington, D.C.; Francine Kaufman, University of 
Southern California, Los Angeles; and Margaret Grey, Yale University 
School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
U.S. DETAINEE/TERRORISM POLICIES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Administration's detainee policies and the global fight against 
terrorism, focusing on legal foundations and the military justice and 
federal court systems, after receiving testimony from Kate Martin, 
Center for National Security Studies, and David B. Rivkin, Jr., Baker 
Hostetler, LLP, both of Washington, D.C.; and Colonel Will A. Gunn, 
USAF (Ret.), Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
U.S. CAPITOL POLICE
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine administrative and management operations of the United States 
Capitol Police, after receiving testimony from Phillip D. Morse, Sr., 
Chief of Police, United States Capitol Police; Richard A. Stana, 
Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government Accountability 
Office; and Matthew A. Tighe, Fraternal Order of Police U.S. Capitol 
Police Labor Committee, Washington, D.C.
RETIREMENT SAVINGS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
smart ways Americans can save for their retirement, after receiving 
testimony from Gregory T. Long, Executive Director, Federal Retirement 
Thrift Investment Board; Christian E. Weller, University of 
Massachusetts Boston Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs; J. 
Mark Iwry, Brookings Institution, and David C. John, Heritage 
Foundation, both on behalf of the Retirement Security Project, and John 
Gannon, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Bruce R. Bent, The Reserve, New York, New York.