[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 62 (Thursday, April 29, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D460-D462]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION AND NATIONAL RAILROAD 
PASSENGER CORPORATION (AMTRAK)
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 Federal 
Railroad Administration and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
(Amtrak), after receiving testimony from Joseph C. Szabo, 
Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, and Ann Calvaresi Barr, 
Deputy Inspector General, both of the Department of Transportation; and 
Joseph H. Boardman, and Theodore Alves, both of the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), both of Washington, D.C.
HOLDING BANKS ACCOUNTABLE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine holding banks 
accountable, focusing on if treasury and banks are doing enough to help 
families save their homes, after receiving testimony from Timothy 
Geithner, Secretary, and Richard Neiman, Member, Congressional 
Oversight Panel, both of the Department of the Treasury; Kevin 
Puvalowski, Deputy Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset 
Relief Program; and Katie Van Tiem, Neighborhood Housing Services of 
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
APPROPRIATIONS: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND OPEN WORLD LEADERSHIP CENTER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2011 for the Library of Congress and the Open World Leadership 
Center, after receiving testimony from James H. Billington, Librarian 
of Congress, and John O'Keefe, Executive Director, Open World 
Leadership Center, Library of Congress.
BRIEFING ON YEMEN AND SOMALIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
United States policy towards Yemen and Somalia, from Michael G. 
Vickers, Assistant Secretary for Special Operations/Low-Intensity 
Conflict and Interdependent Capabilities, Brigadier

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General Raymond A. Thomas III, USA, Deputy Director of Special 
Operations and Counterterrorism (J-3), and Brigadier General Gregg C. 
Potter, USA, Vice Director for Intelligence (J-2), both of the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff, all of the Department of Defense.
FINANCIAL MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Economic Policy concluded a hearing to examine short-termism in 
financial markets, after receiving testimony from James E. Rogers, Duke 
Energy Corporation, Damon A. Silvers, American Federation of Labor and 
Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Judith Samuelson, Aspen 
Institute Business and Society Program, all of Washington, D.C.; and 
J.W. Verret, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, 
Virginia.
CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing 
to examine children's privacy, focusing on new technologies and the 
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, after receiving testimony 
from Jessica Rich, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, 
Federal Trade Commission; Timothy Sparapani, Facebook, Kathryn C. 
Montgomery, American University School of Communication, Marc 
Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center, and Berlin Szoka, 
Progress and Freedom Foundation Center for Internet Freedom, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Michael D. Hintze, Microsoft Corporation, 
Redmond, Washington.
DOUBLING UNITED STATES EXPORTS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and 
Global Competitiveness concluded a hearing to examine doubling United 
States exports, focusing on United States seaports after receiving 
testimony from Polly Trottenberg, Assistant Secretary of Transportation 
for Transportation Policy; Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale, Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Manufacturing and Services, International Trade 
Administration; Leal Sundet, International Longshore and Warehouse 
Union, and Bill Wyatt, Port of Portland, both of Portland Oregon; Steve 
Larson, Caterpillar Inc., Morton, Illinois; Errol Rice, Montana 
Stockgrowers Association (MSGA), Helena; Phil Lutes, Port of Seattle, 
Seattle, Washington; Larry Paulson, Port of Vancouver, Vancouver, 
Washington; and Jeff Bishop, Oregon International Port of Coos Bay, 
Coos Bay.
UNITED STATES-RUSSIAN ARMS CONTROL
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine historical and modern context for United States-Russian arms 
control, after receiving testimony from James Schlesinger, MITRE 
Corporation, McLean, Virginia; and William J. Perry, Stanford 
University Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, 
California.
DEVELOPING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND SUPERVISORS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine developing Federal 
employees and supervisors, focusing on mentoring, internships, and 
training in the Federal government, after receiving testimony from 
Nancy H. Kichak, Associate Director, Chief Human Capital Officer, 
Office of Personnel Management; Marilee Fitzgerald, Acting Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy; Colleen M. Kelley, 
National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), J. David Cox, Sr., American 
Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO), and John Palguta, 
Partnership for Public Service, all of Washington, D.C.; and Laura 
Mattimore, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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 meeting the needs of special 
populations, after receiving testimony from Lucinda Hundley, Littleton 
Public Schools, Littleton, Colorado; Carmen Medina, Pennsylvania 
Department of Education, Harrisburg; Michael Hinojosa, Dallas 
Independent School District, Dallas, Texas; Denise Ross, Prince 
George's County Public Schools, Upper Marlboro, Maryland; and Kayla 
VanDyke, Eagan, Minnesota.
INDIAN LANDS BILLS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 2802, to settle land claims within the Fort Hall Reservation, S. 
1264, to require the Secretary of the Interior to assess the irrigation 
infrastructure of the Pine River Indian Irrigation Project in the State 
of Colorado and provide grants to, and enter into cooperative 
agreements with, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe to assess, repair, 
rehabilitate, or reconstruct existing infrastructure, and S. 439, to 
provide for and promote the economic development of Indian tribes by 
furnishing the necessary capital, financial services, and technical 
assistance to

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Indian-owned business enterprises, to stimulate the development of the 
private sector of Indian tribal economies, after receiving testimony 
from Alan R. Parker, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington; W. 
Ron Allen, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; 
Alonzo Coby, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Fort Hall Business Council, Fort 
Hall, Idaho; Matthew J. Box, and Lena Atencio, both of the Southern Ute 
Indian Tribe, Ignacio, Colorado; and Marion P. Walker, Blackfoot, 
Idaho.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 657, to provide for media coverage of Federal court proceedings;
  S. 446, to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings;
  S. Res. 339, to express the sense of the Senate in support of 
permitting the televising of Supreme Court proceedings;
  S. 1684, to establish guidelines and incentives for States to 
establish criminal arsonist and criminal bomber registries and to 
require the Attorney General to establish a national criminal arsonist 
and criminal bomber registry program, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute; and
  The nominations of David B. Fein, to be United States Attorney for 
the District of Connecticut, Paul Ward, to be United States Marshal for 
the District of North Dakota, Clifton Timothy Massanelli, to be United 
States Marshal for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Zane David 
Memeger, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, all 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.