[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 30 (Thursday, March 4, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D189-D191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the 
Department of Transportation, after receiving testimony from Ray 
LaHood, Secretary of Transportation.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Commerce, 
after receiving testimony from Gary Locke, Secretary, and Todd J. 
Zinser, Inspector General, both of the Department of Commerce.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Energy, after receiving 
testimony from Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy.
APPROPRIATIONS: SECRETARY OF THE SENATE, SERGEANT AT ARMS, AND U.S. 
CAPITOL POLICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2011 for the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Office of 
the Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the Office of the U.S. Capitol Police, 
after receiving testimony from Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate; 
Terrance W. Gainer, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate; and 
Chief Phillip D. Morse, Sr., United States Capitol Police.

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DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the 
Air Force in review of the Defense Authorization Request and the Future 
Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Michael B. 
Donley, Secretary, and General Norton A. Schwartz, USAF, Chief of 
Staff, both of the Air Force, Department of Defense.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the 
Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from William J. Lynn, 
III, Deputy Secretary, and Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary, Comptroller 
and Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of Defense.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2011 for the Department of Transportation, after receiving 
testimony from John D. Porcari, Deputy Secretary of Transportation.
ENERGY PROGRAMS IN THE RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Department of Energy's implementation of 
programs authorized and funded under the American Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act of 2009, after receiving testimony from Matt Rogers, 
Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Department of Energy; Patricia A. 
Dalton, Managing Director, Natural Resources and Environment, 
Government Accountability Office; Malcolm Woolf, Maryland Energy 
Administration, Annapolis, on behalf of the National Association of 
State Energy Officials; and Michele Nellenbach, National Governors 
Association, Washington, D.C.
CLEAN AIR ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee with the 
Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety concluded a joint hearing 
to examine S. 2995, to amend the Clean Air Act to establish a national 
uniform multiple air pollutant regulatory program for the electric 
generating sector, after receiving testimony from Regina A. McCarthy, 
Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental 
Protection Agency; Collin P. O'Mara, Delaware Secretary of Natural 
Resources and Environmental Control, Dover; Albert A. Rizzo, Christiana 
Care Health Systems, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American Lung 
Association; Michael D. Durham, ADA Environmental Solutions, Littleton, 
Colorado; and John M. McManus, American Electric Power, Columbus, Ohio.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of William D. Magwood, IV, of Maryland, 
William Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, and George Apostolakis, of 
Massachusetts, all to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Arthur Allen Elkins, Jr., of Maryland, to be Inspector General, 
Environmental Protection Agency, Earl F. Gohl, Jr., of the District of 
Columbia, to be Federal Cochairman of the Appalachian Regional 
Commission, Sandford Blitz, of Maine, to be Federal Cochairperson of 
the Northern Border Regional Commission, and Marilyn A. Brown, of 
Georgia, Barbara Short Haskew, of Tennessee, Neil G. McBride, of 
Tennessee, and William B. Sansom, of Tennessee, all to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
MIDDLE EAST PEACE CHALLENGES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Middle East peace, focusing on ground truths, challenges ahead, 
after receiving testimony from Daniel C. Kurtzer, Princeton University 
Woodrow Wilson School on Public and International Affairs, Robert 
Malley, International Crisis Group, Ziad J. Asali, American Task Force 
on Palestine, and David Makovsky, Washington Institute for Near East 
Policy, all of Washington, D.C.
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and 
Integration concluded a hearing to examine disaster preparedness in the 
private sector, after receiving testimony from Stephen C. Jordan, 
Business Civic Leadership Center, John R. Harrald, Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute and State University Center for Technology, Security and 
Policy, and Stephen E. Flynn, Center for National Policy, all of 
Washington, D.C.
CHILDHOOD OBESITY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine childhood obesity, focusing on reversing 
the epidemic, after receiving testimony from Regina M. Benjamin, 
Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services; Joe Thompson, 
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, 
Little Rock, Arkansas; Sandra Hassink, American Academy of Pediatrics 
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Workgroup, Wilmington, Delaware; and Rashard Mendenhall, National 
Football League, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
1132, to amend title 18, United States Code, to improve the provisions 
relating to the carrying of concealed weapons by law enforcement 
officers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen, of Indiana, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, and Gloria M. 
Navarro, to be United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, 
Audrey Goldstein Fleissig, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Missouri, Lucy Haeran Koh, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of California, Jon E. 
DeGuilio, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District 
of Indiana, and Tanya Walton Pratt, to be United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of Indiana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 2989, to improve the Small Business Act, with 
amendments.
VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS LEGISLATIVE PRESENTATIONS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a joint hearing 
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine legislative 
presentations from the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Jewish War 
Veterans, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Ex-Prisoners of War, 
Blinded Veterans Association, Military Officers Association of America, 
Air Force Sergeants Association, and the Wounded Warrior Project, after 
receiving testimony from Gene Crayton, Paralyzed Veterans of America, 
St. Louis, Missouri; Edwin M. Robins, Jewish War Veterans of the United 
States of America, Cleveland, Ohio; James M. Sims, Military Order of 
the Purple Heart, Annandale, Virginia; Kenny Hanson, American Ex-
Prisoners of War, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Roy Kekahuna, Blinded 
Veterans Association, Las Vegas, Nevada; Rene A. Campos, Military 
Officers Association of America, Washington, D.C.; John R. McCauslin, 
Air Force Sergeants Association, Suitland, Maryland; and Andrew Kinard, 
Wounded Warrior Project, Boston, Massachusetts.