[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 61 (Wednesday, April 28, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D450-D451]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL ENERGY POLICIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine a national assessment of 
energy policies, focusing on significant achievements since the 1970s 
and an examination of U.S. energy policies and goals in the coming 
decades, after receiving testimony from former Representative Philip R. 
Sharp, and Robert W. Fri, both of Resources for the Future, Washington, 
D.C.; Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy; and Eric P. Loewen, GE Hitachi 
Nuclear Energy Americas LLC, Wilmington, North Carolina.
APPROPRIATIONS: COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION AND SECURITIES AND 
EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine the President's 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Commodity 
Futures Trading Commission and for the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, after receiving testimony from Gary Gensler, Chairman, 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and Mary Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. 
Securities and Exchange Commission.
MILITARY COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a 
hearing to examine military compensation and benefits, including 
special and incentive pays, in review of the Defense Authorization 
request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from William J. Carr, Deputy Under Secretary 
of Defense for Military Personnel Policy; Brenda S. Farrell, Director, 
Defense Capabilities and Management, Government Accountability Office; 
Carla Tighe Murray, Senior Analyst, National Security Division, 
Congressional Budget Office; and James R. Hosek, RAND National Security 
Research Division, Santa Monica, California.
MOTOR CARRIER OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and 
Security concluded an oversight hearing to examine motor carrier safety 
efforts including S. 779, to amend titles 23 and 49, United States 
Code, to modify provisions relating to the length and weight 
limitations for vehicles operating on Federal-aid highways, after 
receiving testimony from Anne S. Ferro, Administrator, Federal Motor 
Carrier Safety Administration, Department of Transportation; Deborah 
A.P. Hersman, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; Francis 
France, Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, Jacqueline S. Gillan, 
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, both of Washington, D.C.; David 
J. Osiecki, American Trucking Associations, Inc., Arlington, Virginia; 
and Todd Spencer, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Grain 
Valley, Missouri.
PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 1241, to amend Public Law 
106-206 to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture to require annual permits and assess annual fees for 
commercial filming activities on Federal land for film crews of 5 
persons or fewer, S. 1571 and H.R. 1043, bills to provide for a land 
exchange involving certain National Forest System lands in the 
Mendocino National Forest in the State of California, S. 2762, to 
designate certain lands in San Miguel, Ouray, and San Juan Counties, 
Colorado, as wilderness, S. 3075, to withdraw certain Federal land and 
interests in that land from location, entry, and patent under the 
mining laws and disposition under the mineral and geothermal leasing 
laws, S. 3185, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain Federal land to Elko County, Nevada, and to take land into 
trust for the Te-moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, and 
H.R. 86, to eliminate an unused lighthouse reservation, provide 
management consistency by incorporating the rocks and small islands 
along the coast

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of Orange County, California, into the California Coastal National 
Monument managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and meet the 
original Congressional intent of preserving Orange County's rocks and 
small islands, after receiving testimony from Senators Baucus, Inhofe 
and Tester; Marcilynn A. Burke, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land 
Management, Department of the Interior; and Faye Krueger, Acting 
Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 3267, Fire Grants Reauthorization Act of 2010, with an amendment;
  S. 2782, to provide personal jurisdiction in causes of action against 
contractors of the United States performing contracts abroad with 
respect to members of the Armed Forces, civilian employees of the 
United States, and United States citizen employees of companies 
performing work for the United States in connection with contractor 
activities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3167, to amend title 13 of the United States Code to provide for a 
5-year term of office for the Director of the Census and to provide for 
authority and duties of the Director and Deputy Director of the Census, 
with an amendment;
  S. 3249, to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act to reauthorize the predisaster hazard 
mitigation program and for other purposes, with an amendment; and
  The Nominations of Todd E. Edelman, Milton C. Lee, Jr., and Judith 
Anne Smith, all to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia, Dana Katherine Bilyeu, of Nevada, and Michael D. 
Kennedy, of Georgia, both to be a Member of the Federal Retirement 
Thrift Investment Board, and Dennis P. Walsh, of Maryland, to be 
Chairman of the Special Panel on Appeals.
CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES OVERSIGHT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine contract management at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, after receiving testimony from Kay L. Daly, Director, 
Financial Management and Assurance, Government Accountability Office; 
and Rodney L. Benson, Director, Office of Acquisition and Grants 
Management, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
continued hearings to examine Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
(ESEA) reauthorization, focusing on standards and assessments, after 
receiving testimony from Steven L. Paine, West Virginia Superintendent 
of Schools, Charleston; Gary W. Phillips, American Institutes for 
Research (AIR), Washington, D.C.; Charlene Rivera, The George 
Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, 
Alexandria, Virginia; Cynthia B. Schmeiser, ACT, Inc., Iowa City, Iowa; 
and Martha L. Thurlow, National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO), 
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Robert Neil Chatigny, of Connecticut, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senators Dodd and Lieberman, and John A. Gibney, Jr., to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, who was 
introduced by Senators Webb and Warner, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.