[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 17, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D713-D714]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security approved 
for full Committee consideration an original bill making appropriations 
for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year 2010.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND BASE CLOSURE PROGRAMS BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2010 and the Future 
Years Defense Program for military construction, environmental, and 
base closure programs, after receiving testimony from B.J. Penn, 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment, 
Kathleen I. Ferguson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for 
Installations, Joseph F. Calcara, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Army for Installations and Housing, and Wayne Arny, Deputy Under 
Secretary for Installations and Environment, all of the Department of 
Defense.
COMMERCIAL AIR CARRIERS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security concluded a hearing to 
examine aviation safety, focusing on the role and responsibility of 
commercial air carriers and employees, after receiving testimony from 
James C. May, Air Transport Association of America, Inc., Roger Cohen, 
Regional Airline Association, and Captain John Prater, Air Line Pilots 
Association, International, all of Washington, D.C.; and Scott Maurer, 
Families of Continental Flight 3407, Moore, South Carolina.
CONSUMER WIRELESS EXPERIENCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the consumer wireless experience, focusing on 
consumers' current satisfaction with wireless phone service, problems 
consumers have experienced with this service, and the Federal 
Communications Commission's efforts to assist wireless consumers with 
complaints, after receiving testimony from Mark Goldstein, Director, 
Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability Office; John 
E. Rooney, United States Cellular Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Paul 
Roth, AT&T Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Rob Frieden, Penn State University, 
University Park, Pennsylvania; Barbara S. Esbin, The Progress and 
Freedom Foundation Center for Communications and Competition Policy, 
Washington, D.C.; and Victor H. Meena, Cellular South, Inc., Ridgeland, 
Mississippi.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original bill entitled ``The American Clean Energy 
Leadership Act''.
PUBLIC LAND AND FOREST LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 409, to secure Federal 
ownership and management of significant natural, scenic, and 
recreational resources, to provide for the protection of cultural 
resources, to facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral resources 
by authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-Federal 
land, S. 782, to provide for the establishment of the National Volcano 
Early Warning and Monitoring

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System, S. 874, to establish El Rio Grande Del Norte National 
Conservation Area in the State of New Mexico, S. 1139, to require the 
Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a property conveyance with the 
city of Wallowa, Oregon, and S. 1140, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain Federal land to Deschutes County, Oregon, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Kyl; Ned Farquhar, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; 
Joel Holtrop, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, United States 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Norman Cooeyate, Zuni Tribe, 
Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona; 
David Salisbury, Resolution Copper Mining, LLC, and Roy C. Chavez, 
Retired Miners Coalition, both of Superior, Arizona; and Rosemary 
Shearer, Superstition Area Land Trust, Apache Junction, Arizona.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from Eric 
H. Holder Jr., Attorney General, Department of Justice.
SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Social Security in the 21st Century, after receiving testimony from 
Leon Burzynski, Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans, Pewaukee; 
Kenneth S. Apfel, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, 
College Park; and Joan Entmacher, National Women's Law Center, Melissa 
M. Favreault, The Urban Institute, Andrew G. Biggs, American Enterprise 
Institute, and John S. Irons, Economic Policy Institute, all of 
Washington, DC.