[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.

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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.

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