[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 74 (Thursday, May 14, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D556-D557]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a closed 
hearing to examine the proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2010 
for national intelligence program and military intelligence program, 
after receiving testimony from Dennis Blair, Director of National 
Intelligence; and James R. Clapper, Jr., Under Secretary of Defense for 
Intelligence.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported a 
bill providing supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for 
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and pandemic flu, with amendments.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the defense authorization request for fiscal year 2010 for the Future 
Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Robert M. Gates, 
Secretary, and Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary (Comptroller) and Chief 
Financial Officer, both of the Department of Defense; and Admiral 
Michael G. Mullen, USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Raymond Edwin Mabus, Jr., of Mississippi, to be 
Secretary, and Robert O. Work, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary, both 
of the Department of the Navy, Andrew Charles Weber, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant to the Secretary for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological 
Defense Programs, Paul N. Stockton, of California, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs, Thomas 
R. Lamont, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Manpower and Reserve Affairs, and Charles A. Blanchard, of Arizona, to 
be General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, all of the 
Department of Defense.

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CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1013, the Department of Energy Carbon Capture and 
Sequestration Program Amendments Act of 2009, after receiving testimony 
from Victor K. Der, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Fossil 
Energy, Department of Energy; Kit Batten, Science Advisor in the Office 
of the Deputy Secretary, Department of the Interior; Wyoming State 
Representative Thomas E. Lubnau II, Gillette; John Tombari, 
Schlumberger Carbon Services, Houston, Texas; Karl Moor, Southern 
Company, Atlanta, Georgia; A. Scott Anderson, Environmental Defense 
Fund, Austin, Texas; and Chiara Trabucchi, Industrial Economics 
Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following items:
  S. 1005, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the 
Safe Drinking Water Act to improve water and wastewater infrastructure 
in the United States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 849, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency to conduct a study on black carbon emissions;
  H.R. 80, to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to treat nonhuman 
primates as prohibited wildlife species under that Act, to make 
corrections in the provisions relating to captive wildlife offenses 
under that Act;
  H.R. 388, to assist in the conservation of cranes by supporting and 
providing, through projects of persons and organizations with expertise 
in crane conservation, financial resources for the conservation 
programs of countries the activities of which directly or indirectly 
affect cranes and the ecosystems of cranes;
  S. 529, to assist in the conservation of rare fields and rare canids 
by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation 
programs of countries within the range of rare felid and rare canid 
populations and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the 
conservation of rare felid and rare canid populations;
  H.R. 813, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse located at 306 East Main Street in Elizabeth City, North 
Carolina, as the ``J. Herbert W. Small Federal Building and United 
States Courthouse'';
  H.R. 837, to designate the Federal building located at 799 United 
Nations Plaza in New York, New York, as the ``Ronald H. Brown United 
States Mission to the United Nations Building''; and
  Army Corps of Engineers Study Resolution: Miles City and Vicinity, 
Montana.
HEALTH CARE COVERAGE
Committee on Finance: Committee met in closed session to discuss 
expanding health care coverage.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Jeffrey D. Feltman, of Ohio, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, and Robert Orris Blake, Jr., of 
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs, who was 
introduced by Senator Whitehouse, both of the Department of State, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
MIDDLE EAST ROAD TO PEACE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Middle East, focusing on the road to peace, after receiving 
testimony from the Right Honorable Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of 
the United Kingdom, Quartet Representative, London, United Kingdom.
DELIVERY REFORM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine delivery reform, focusing on the roles 
of primary and specialty care in innovative new delivery models, after 
receiving testimony from Kenneth E. Thorpe, Emory University, Atlanta, 
Georgia; Richard A. Cooper, University of Pennsylvania School of 
Medicine, Philadelphia; Steven Schlossberg, American Urological 
Association, Norfolk, Virginia, on behalf of the Alliance of Specialty 
Medicine; Michael Nochomovitz, University Hospitals Medical Practices 
and University Hospitals Management Services Organization, Cleveland, 
Ohio; and Marsha Raulerson, American Academy of Pediatrics, Brewton, 
Alabama.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Larry J. Echo Hawk, of Utah, to be Assistant Secretary of 
the Interior for Indian Affairs.