[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 82 (Wednesday, June 3, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D629-D631]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2010 for the 
Department of Education, after receiving testimony from Arne Duncan, 
Secretary, and Thomas P. Skelly, Director, Budget Services, both of the 
Department of Education.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and 
Related Agencies concluded

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a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2010 for 
the Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony from Ken 
Salazar, Department of the Interior.
ELECTRICITY GRID VULNERABILITY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support received a closed briefing to examine electricity grid 
vulnerabilities to critical defense assets and missions from James R. 
Schlesinger, Co-Chairman, and R. James Woolsey, Jr., Co-Chair, Policy 
Panel, both of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Department of 
Defense Energy Strategy.
STRATEGIC FORCES BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded 
a hearing to examine the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 
2010 and the Future Years Defense Program for strategic forces 
programs, after receiving testimony from Thomas P. D'Agostino, Under 
Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator for the National 
Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy; and Major 
General C. Donald Alston, USAF, Assistant Chief of Staff, Strategic 
Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, and Major General Floyd L. 
Carpenter, USAF, Commander, 8th Air Force, Air Combat Command, both of 
the United States Air Force, and Rear Admiral Stephen E. Johnson, USN, 
Director, Strategic Systems Programs, United States Navy, all of the 
Department of Defense.
MILITARY FAMILY PROGRAMS BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a 
hearing to examine the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 
2010 and the Future Years Defense Program for military family programs, 
policies, and initiatives, after receiving testimony from Arthur J. 
Myers, Principal Director and Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense 
for Military Community and Family Policy, Terri J. Rau, Deputy Director 
for Research and Development and Performance Measurement, Navy 
Installations Command, United States Navy, Eliza G. Nesmith, Chief, 
Airmen and Family Services Division, United States Air Force, Kathleen 
Marin, Director, Installation Services, Office of the Assistant Chief 
of Staff for Installation Management, United States Army, and Major 
General Timothy R. Larsen, USMC (Ret.), Director, Personal and Family 
Readiness Division, Manpower and Reserve Affairs Department, United 
States Marine Corps, all of the Department of Defense; Kathleen B. 
Moakler, National Military Family Association; and Sheila L. Casey, 
Colleen K. Smith, Jennifer A. Mancini, and Patricia Davis.
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION NEW STARTS PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine a fresh start for the Federal Transportation 
Administration's New Starts Program, after receiving testimony from A. 
Nicole Clowers, Acting Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; Richard Sarles, Executive Director, 
New Jersey Transit, Newark; Gary C. Thomas, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, 
Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the American Public Transportation 
Association; and Mariia Zimmerman, Reconnecting America, Washington, 
DC.
GM AND CHRYSLER DEALERSHIP CLOSURES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine General Motors and Chrysler dealership closures, 
focusing on dealers and consumers, after receiving testimony from James 
Press, Chrysler LLC, Auburn Hills, Michigan; Fritz Henderson, General 
Motors, Detroit, Michigan; John P. McEleney, National Automobile 
Dealers Association, McLean, Virginia; Peter Lopez, Spencer Auto Group, 
Spencer, West Virginia; and Russell Whatley, Mineral Wells, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee announced the 
following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Senators Baucus 
(Chair), Carper, Lautenberg, Cardin, Sanders, Klobuchar, Specter, 
Voinovich, Vitter, Barrasso, and Crapo.
  Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety: Senators Carper 
(Chair), Baucus, Cardin, Sanders, Merkley, Vitter, Voinovich, and Bond.
  Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health: Senators 
Lautenberg (Chair), Baucus, Klobuchar, Whitehouse, Gillibrand, Specter, 
Crapo, and Bond.
  Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife: Senators Cardin (Chair), 
Lautenberg, Whitehouse, Udall (NM), Merkley, Crapo, Barrasso, and 
Alexander.
  Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy: Senators Sanders 
(Chair), Carper, Gillibrand, Bond, and Voinovich.
  Subcommittee on Children's Health: Senators Klobuchar (Chair), Udall 
(NM), Merkley, Specter, Alexander, and Vitter.
  Subcommittee on Oversight: Senators Whitehouse (Chair), Udall (NM), 
Gillibrand, Barrasso, and Vitter.

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  Senators Boxer and Inhofe are ex-officio members of each of the 
Subcommittees.
PAKISTAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing to examine the security of Pakistan's nuclear 
program from national security briefers.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Eric P. Schwartz, of New York, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration, who was 
introduced by Senator Merkley and former Representative Solarz, and 
Andrew J. Shapiro, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Political-Military Affairs, who was introduced by Representative Lowey, 
both of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Martha N. Johnson, of 
Maryland, to be Administrator, General Services Administration, after 
the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
PANDEMIC FLU
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and 
Integration concluded a hearing to examine pandemic flu, after 
receiving testimony from Bernice Steinhardt, Director, Strategic 
Issues, Government Accountability Office; Stephen M. Ostroff, Director, 
Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology, Harrisburg, 
on behalf of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; John 
Thomasian, National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, 
Washington, D.C.; and Paul E. Jarris, Association of State and 
Territorial Health Officials, Arlington, Virginia.
FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
The Uniting American Families Act, focusing on addressing inequalities 
in federal immigration law, after receiving testimony from Julian Bond, 
National Board of Directors of the National Association for the 
Advancement of Colored People, and Christopher Nugent, American Bar 
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Roy Beck, NumbersUSA Education 
and Research Foundation, Arlington, Virginia; Jessica M. Vaughn, Center 
for Immigration Studies, Franklin, Massachusetts; Shirley Tan, 
Pacifica, California; and Gordon Stewart, London, United Kingdom.
LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the value of long-term care insurance, after receiving testimony from 
Sean Dilweg, Wisconsin Commissioner of Insurance, Madison; Carol 
Cutter, Indiana Department of Insurance Chief Deputy Commissioner 
Health and Legislative Affairs, Indianapolis; Diane Rowland, Kaiser 
Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Washington, D.C.; Thomas M. 
Stinson, Genworth Financial, Richmond, Virginia; and Bonnie Burns, 
California Health Advocates, Scotts Valley.