[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 35 (Thursday, March 11, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D232-D234]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
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 Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony 
from Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
APPROPRIATIONS: ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2011 for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of 
Reclamation, after receiving testimony from Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, and Lieutenant General Robert L. 
Van Antwerp, Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, both of 
the Department of Defense; and Anne Castle, Assistant Secretary for 
Water and Science, and Michael L. Connor, Commissioner, Bureau of 
Reclamation, both of the Department of the Interior.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command in review of the 
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Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from General Victor E. Renuart, Jr., 
Commander, United States Northern Command, and Commander, North 
American Aerospace Defense Command, and General Douglas M. Fraser, 
Commander, United States Southern Command, both of the Air Force, 
Department of Defense.
JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Joint Strike Fighter, focusing on significant challenges the 
Department of Defense faces to restructure the program, after receiving 
testimony from Ashton B. Carter, Under Secretary for Acquisition, 
Technology & Logistics, Christine H. Fox, Director, and Fred Janicki, 
Weapons Systems Cost Analysis, both of the Cost Assessment and Program 
Evaluation, J. Michael Gilmore, Director, Operational Test and 
Evaluation, Office of the Secretary, and Major General C. D. Moore, 
USAF, Acting Program Executive Officer F-35 Lightning II Program, all 
of the Department of Defense; and Michael Sullivan, Director, 
Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office.
VIDEO AND BROADBAND MARKET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, and the Internet concluded a hearing to 
examine consumers, competition, and consolidation in the video and 
broadband market, after receiving testimony from Julius Genachowski, 
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Christine A. Varney, 
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; 
Brian L. Roberts, Comcast Corporation, and Christopher S. Yoo, 
University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology, Innovation, and 
Competition, both of Philadelphia; John Wells, Writers Guild of 
America, West, Los Angeles, California; Mark Cooper, Consumer 
Federation of America, Washington, DC., on behalf of Free Press; and 
Colleen Abdoulah, WOW!, Englewood, Colorado, on behalf of the American 
Cable Association.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY JOBS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine legislative proposals designed to create jobs 
related to energy efficiency, including proposed legislation on energy 
efficient building retrofits, including S. 1320, to provide assistance 
to owners of manufactured homes constructed before January 1, 1976, to 
purchase Energy Star-qualified manufactured homes, and S. 3079, to 
assist in the creation of new jobs by providing financial incentives 
for owners of commercial buildings and multifamily residential 
buildings to retrofit their buildings with energy efficient building 
equipment and materials and for other purposes, after receiving 
testimony from Paul W. Parfomak, Specialist in Energy and 
Infrastructure Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; Cathy Zoi, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Larry Laseter, WellHome, Atlanta, 
Georgia, on behalf of the Home Star Coalition; Jeffrey D. DeBoer, Real 
Estate Roundtable, Washington, DC., on behalf of Building Star; Stacey 
Epperson, Frontier Housing, Morehead, Kentucky; Philip Giudice, 
Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, Boston, on behalf of the 
National Association of State Energy Officials; Terrence J. Mierzwa, 
Consumers Energy Company, Jackson, Michigan; and Bob Hanbury, House of 
Hanbury, Newington, Connecticut, on behalf of the National Association 
of Home Builders.
TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Federal, state and local partnerships to accelerate 
transportation benefits, after receiving testimony from Roy Kienitz, 
Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; Mayor Antonio R. 
Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, California; Lowell R. Clary, P3 Development 
Company, LLC, Clary Consulting, LLC, Tallahassee, Florida; Max I. 
Inman, Mercator Advisors, LLC, Fairfax, Virginia; and JayEtta Z. 
Hecker, Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Elizabeth L. Littlefield, of the District of 
Columbia, to be President of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation, Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, who was introduced by former 
Senator Harris Wofford, and Raul Yzaguirre, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who was introduced by 
Representative Hinojosa, and Theodore Sedgwick, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, who was introduced by Senator 
Warner, both of the Department of State, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
DRUG CARTELS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and 
Integration concluded a hearing to examine U.S. officials involved in 
drug cartels, after receiving testimony from Kevin L. Perkins, 
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Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; and 
Thomas M. Frost, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, and 
James F. Tomsheck, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Internal Affairs, 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, both of the Department of Homeland 
Security.
EQUAL PAY IN AMERICAN WORKPLACES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine pay equity in the new American 
workplace, including S. 182, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in 
the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and S. 904, to amend the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination in the payment 
of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin, after receiving 
testimony from Representative DeLauro; Stuart J. Ishimaru, Acting 
Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Heather Boushey, 
Center for American Progress Action Fund, and Deborah L. Frett, 
Business and Professional Women's Foundation, both of Washington, DC.; 
Deborah L. Brake, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 
and Jane M. McFetridge, Jackson Lewis LLP, Chicago, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1789, to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing, with 
amendments;
  S. 2772, to establish a criminal justice reinvestment grant program 
to help States and local jurisdictions reduce spending on corrections, 
control growth in the prison and jail populations, and increase public 
safety, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Jane E. Magnus-Stinson, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, and Kelvin 
Corneilius Washington, to be United States Marshal for the District of 
South Carolina, and Christopher Tobias Hoye, to be United States 
Marshal for the District of Nevada, both of the Department of Justice.
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.