[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 25 (Thursday, February 25, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D148-D149]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Department of the Navy in review of the Defense Authorization 
request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy, 
Admiral Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations, and General James T. 
Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps, all of the Department of 
Defense.
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the 
Congress, after receiving testimony from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
AVIATION SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security concluded a hearing to 
examine aviation safety, focusing on one year after the crash of flight 
3407, after receiving testimony from Deborah A. P. Hersman, Chairman, 
National Transportation Safety Board; and Margaret Gilligan, Associate 
Administrator for Aviation Safety, Federal Aviation Administration, 
Department of Transportation.
ASIAN CARP IN THE GREAT LAKES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded an oversight hearing to examine the science and policy 
behind the Federal framework and non-Federal efforts to prevent 
introduction of the aquatic invasive Asian carp into the Great Lakes, 
after receiving testimony from Nancy H. Sutley, Chair, Council on 
Environmental Quality; Leon Carl, Midwest Area Regional Executive, 
United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; J. Michael 
Hayden, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Topeka; Ken 
DeBeaussaert, Michigan Office of the Great Lakes Department of Natural 
Resources and Environment, Lansing; Marc Miller, Illinois Department of 
Natural Resources, Springfield; Jim Farrell, Illinois Chamber 
Infrastructure Council Waterways Committee, Chicago; John C. Taylor, 
Wayne State University School of Business Administration, Detroit, 
Michigan; Andy Buchsbaum, National Wildlife Federation Great Lakes 
Regional Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
INTERAGENCY CONTRACTS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine 
interagency contracts, focusing on an overview and recommendations for 
reform, after receiving testimony from Ralph C. Nash, Steven L. 
Schooner, and Joshua I. Schwartz, all of George Washington University 
Law School, Washington, D.C.; and Marshall J. Doke, Jr., Gardere Wynne 
Sewell LLP, Dallas, Texas.
TRIBAL PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES BUDGET
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 
for tribal programs and initiatives, after receiving testimony from 
Thomas J. Perrelli, Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice; 
Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affiars; Yvette Roubideaux, Director, Indian Health Service, Department 
of Health and Human Services; and Jefferson Keel, National Congress of 
American Indians, Patricia Whitefoot, National Indian Education 
Association, and Marty Shuravloff, National American Indian Housing 
Council, all of Washington, D.C.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 
1741, to require the Attorney General to make competitive grants to 
eligible State, tribal, and local governments to establish and maintain 
certain protection and witness assistance programs, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of William Joseph Hochul, Jr., to be United States 
Attorney for the Western District of New York, and Sally Quillian 
Yates, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of 
Georgia.
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.