[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 77 (Thursday, May 20, 2010)] [Daily Digest] [Pages D573-D575] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] Committee Meetings (Committees not listed did not meet) HOMELESS VETERANS Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, with the Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a joint hearing to examine the progress in ending veterans' homelessness, after receiving testimony from Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Barbara Poppe, Executive Director, Interagency on Homelessness; Stephen Norman, King County Housing Authority, Seattle, Washington; and Mike Brown, Valley Residential Services, Walla Walla, Washington. APPROPRIATIONS: FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the Federal Trade Commission, after receiving testimony from Jon Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission. MINE SAFETY Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine investing in mine safety, focusing on preventing another disaster, after receiving testimony from Joseph A. Main, Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health, and M. Patricia Smith, Solicitor of Labor, both of the Department of Labor; John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; Mary Lu Jordan, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; Don L. Blankenship, Massey Energy, Richmond Virginia; and Cecil E. Roberts, United Mine Workers of America, Fairfax, Virginia. MAY 6TH MARKET PLUNGE Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine the causes and lessons of the May 6th market plunge, after receiving testimony from Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Gary Gensler, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Richard G. Ketchum, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Washington, D.C.; Larry Leibowitz, NYSE Euronext, and Eric Noll, NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., both of New York, New York; and Terrence A. Duffy, CME Group Inc., Chicago, Illinois. NOMINATION Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Carl Wieman, of Colorado, to be an Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Udall (CO), testified and answered questions in his own behalf. CALIFORNIA DESERT PROTECTION ACT Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 2921, to provide for the conservation, enhanced recreation opportunities, and development of renewable energy in the California Desert Conservation Area, to require the Secretary of the Interior to designate certain offices to serve as Renewable Energy Coordination Offices for coordination of Federal permits for renewable energy projects and transmission lines to integrate renewable energy development, after receiving testimony from Senator Feinstein; Robert V. Abbey, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Dorothy Robyn, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment; Faye Krueger, Acting Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Department of Agriculture; David Myers, The Wildlands Conservancy, Oak Glen, California; Pedro Pizarro, Southern California Edison, Rosemead; David P. Hubbard, Gatzke, Dillon & Balance LLP, Escondido, California; Harry Baker, California Association of 4 Wheel Drive Clubs, Encino; V. John White, Center for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Technologies, Sacramento, California; and Johanna Wald, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), San Francisco, California. [[Page D574]] BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items: S. 3362, to amend the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide competitive grants to publicly funded schools to implement effective technologies to reduce air pollutants (as defined in section 302 of the Clean Air Act), including greenhouse gas emissions, in accordance with that Act, with amendments; S. 3250, to provide for the training of Federal building personnel; S. 3372, to modify the date on which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and applicable States may require permits for discharges from certain vessels; S. 3363, to amend the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to reauthorize grants for and require applied water supply research regarding the water resources research and technology institutes established under that Act; S. 3374, to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to establish a grant program to revitalize brownfield sites for the purpose of locating renewable electricity generation facilities on those sites, with an amendment; S. 3373, to address the health and economic development impacts of nonattainment of federally mandated air quality standards in the San Joaquin Valley, California, by designating air quality empowerment zones; H.R. 4275, to designate the annex building under construction for the Elbert P. Tuttle United States Court of Appeals Building in Atlanta, Georgia, as the ``John C. Godbold Federal Building'', and S. 3248, to designate the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, District of Columbia, as the ``Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building'', with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. CLEAN TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING COMPETITIVENESS Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure concluded a hearing to examine clean technology manufacturing competitiveness, focusing on the role of tax incentives, after receiving testimony from Mark Mazur, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis; Henry Kelly, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Robert D. Atkinson, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Kevin Book, ClearView Energy Partners, LLC, Karen Alderman Harbert, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy, and J.D. Foster, The Heritage Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.; Jon Sakoda, New Enterprise Associates, Chevy Chase, Maryland; and Douglas Parks, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Lansing. NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO) Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), focusing on a report of the group of experts, after receiving testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, former Secretary of State, Principal, Albright Stonebridge Group, Washington, D.C. COUNTERNARCOTICS CONTRACTS Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine counternarcotics contracts in Latin America, after receiving testimony from David T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; and William F. Weschler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE-TO-CONTRACTOR MIX 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 efforts to right- size the Federal employee-to-contractor mix, focusing on initial agency efforts to balance the Government to contractor mix in the multisector workforce, after receiving testimony from Daniel I. Gordon, Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Jeffrey R. Neal, Chief Human Capital Officer, Department of Homeland Security; Charles D. Grimes III, Deputy Associate Director for Employee Services, Office of Personnel Management; John K. Needham, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office; Maureen Gilman, National Treasury Employees Union, and Mark Whetstone, American Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO), both of Washington, D.C.; and Alan Chvotkin, Professional Services Council (PSC), Arlington, Virginia. [[Page D575]]