[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 22, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D924-D925]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Michael Bruce Donley, of Virginia, to be Secretary, 
General Norton A. Schwartz, for reappointment to the grade of general 
and to be Chief of Staff, who was introduced by Senator Stevens, and 
General Duncan J. McNabb, for reappointment to the grade of general and 
to be Commander, United States Transportation Command, who was 
introduced by Senator Conrad, all of the United States Air Force, 
Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,981 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine global warming, focusing on an update on the science 
of climate change and its implications, after receiving testimony from 
Roy W. Spencer, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Kevin E. 
Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado; 
and Jason Burnett, Washington, D.C.
INDIAN GOVERNMENTS AND TAX CODE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Indian 
governments and the tax code, focusing on maximizing tax incentives for 
economic development, after receiving testimony from Dante Desiderio, 
National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; Donald 
Laverdure, Crow Nation Executive Branch, Crow Agency, Montana; and 
Wayne Shammel, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Roseburg, 
Oregon.
ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine ways for the United States to gain 
energy security, focusing on the importation and exportation of oil, 
development of new energy resources, and ways for the United States to 
be less dependent on foreign oil, including S. 3303, to require 
automobile manufacturers to ensure that not less than 80 percent of the 
automobiles manufactured or sold in the United States by each 
manufacturer operate on fuel mixtures containing 85 percent ethanol, 85 
percent methanol, or biodiesel, after receiving testimony from T. Boone 
Pickens, BP Capital Management, Dallas, Texas; Gal Luft, Institute for 
the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), and Geoffrey Anderson, Smart 
Growth America, both of Washington, D.C.; and Joseph Dagher, University 
of Maine, Orono.
PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS
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 improving worker 
performance relating to a review

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of pay-for-performance systems in the federal government, after 
receiving testimony from Linda M. Springer, Director, Office of 
Personnel Management; Richard A. Spires, Deputy Commissioner, 
Operations Support, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the 
Treasury; Gale Rossides, Deputy Administrator, Transportation Security 
Administration, Department of Homeland Security; Ronald P. Sanders, 
Associate Director, Human Capital, Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence; Bradley Bunn, Program Executive Officer, National 
Security Personnel System, Department of Defense; J. Christopher Mihm, 
Managing Director, Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office; 
Carol A. Bonosaro, Senior Executives Association, John Gage, American 
Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO), Colleen M. Kelley, 
National Treasury Employees Union, and Jonathan D. Breul, IBM Center 
for The Business of Government, all of Washington, D.C.; and Charles H. 
Fay, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, 
Piscataway, New Jersey.
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.