[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 100 (Wednesday, June 30, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D755-D757]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EXPANDING OUR FOOD AND FIBER SUPPLY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine expanding our food and fiber supply through a 
strong United States farm policy, after receiving testimony from Thomas 
J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture; Roger Johnson, National Farmers 
Union, and Bob Stallman, American Farm Bureau Federation, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Christopher Pawelski, Pawelski Farms, Goshen, New 
York; Laudies Dow Brantley III, England, Arkansas; Johnny Cochran, 
Sylvester, Georgia; and Mark Watne, Jamestown, North Dakota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Elisabeth Ann Hagen, of Virginia, 
to be Under Secretary for Food Safety, and Catherine E. Woteki, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary for Research, Education, 
and Economics, both of the Department of Agriculture, and Sara Louise 
Faivre-Davis, of Texas, Lowell Lee Junkins, of Iowa, and Myles J. 
Watts, of Montana, all to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, Farm Credit Administration.
ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine green housing for the 21st century, focusing on retrofitting 
the past and building an energy-efficient future, including S. 1379, to 
encourage energy efficiency and conservation and development of 
renewable energy sources for housing, commercial structures, and other 
buildings, and to create sustainable communities, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Whitehouse; Representative Perlmutter; Ron Sims, 
Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; David Caldwell, Jr., 
Caldwell and Johnson, Inc., North Kingstown, Rhode Island; Trisha 
Miller, Enterprise Community Partners, Columbia, Maryland; and Kenneth 
Gear, Leading Builders of America, Washington, D.C.
DEEPWATER HORIZON TRAGEDY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, focusing on holding 
industry accountable, after receiving testimony from Thomas C. 
Galligan, Jr., Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire; Fred 
McCallister, Allegiance Capital Corporation, Dallas, Texas; Shelley 
Anderson, Midfield, Texas; and Natalie Roshto, Liberty, Mississippi.
VALLES CALDERA NATIONAL PRESERVE MANAGEMENT ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 3452, to designate the Valles Caldera National 
Preserve as a unit of the National Park System, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Udall (NM); Daniel N. Wenk, Deputy Director, 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Harris Sherman, 
Under Secretary, Natural Resources and Environment, Department of 
Agriculture; Jemez Pueblo Governor Joshua Madalena, Jemez Pueblo, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara Governor Walter Dasheno, Espanola, New 
Mexico; Michael E. Wismer, Incorporated County of Los Alamos, Los 
Alamos, New Mexico; Stephen E. Henry, Valles Caldera Trust, Jemez 
Springs, New Mexico; and Jeremy Vesbach, New Mexico Wildlife 
Federation, Albuquerque.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported S. 3516, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to 
reform the management of energy and mineral resources on the Outer 
Continental Shelf, with amendments.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 3305, to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to require oil 
polluters to pay the full cost of oil spills, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 3515, to authorize and enhance the programs of the Department of 
the Interior relating to the detection of, response to, and mitigation 
and cleanup of oil spills on Federal land managed by the Department, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1311, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to expand 
and strengthen cooperative efforts to monitor, restore, and protect the 
resource productivity, water quality, and marine ecosystems of the Gulf 
of Mexico, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

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  An original bill entitled, ``Columbia River Basin Restoration Act of 
2010'';
  S. 3073, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to protect 
and restore the Great Lakes, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 3539, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 
establish a grant program to assist in the restoration of San Francisco 
Bay, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 4715, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 
reauthorize the National Estuary Program, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1816, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve 
and reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Program, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2739, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide 
for the establishment of the Puget Sound Program Office, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3119, to amend and reauthorize certain provisions relating to Long 
Island Sound restoration and stewardship, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 3481, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify 
Federal responsibility for stormwater pollution;
  S. 3354, to redesignate the North Mississippi National Wildlife 
Refuges Complex as the Sam D. Hamilton North Mississippi National 
Wildlife Refuges Complex;
  H.R. 3562, to designate the federally occupied building located at 
1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi, as the ``James Chaney, 
Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner Federal Building'', with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  A proposed resolution relating to the General Services 
Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S.J. Res. 29, approving the renewal of import restrictions contained 
in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003; and
  The nominations of Francisco J. Sanchez, of Florida, to be Under 
Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Richard Sorian, of 
New York, to be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.
NUCLEAR TERRORISM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine nuclear terrorism, focusing on 
strengthening our domestic defenses, after receiving testimony from 
Gene Aloise, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government 
Accountability Office; Dana A. Shea, Specialist in Science and 
Technology Policy, Resources, Science, and Industry Division, 
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and Micah D. 
Lowenthal, National Research Council of the National Academies, 
Washington, D.C.
INTERAGENCY CONTRACTS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine 
interagency contracts, after receiving testimony from John K. Needham, 
Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government 
Accountability Office; Daniel I. Gordon, Administrator, Office of 
Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Steven J. 
Kempf, Acting Commissioner, Federal Acquisition Service, General 
Services Administration; Richard K. Gunderson, Acting Chief Procurement 
Officer, Department of Homeland Security; and Diane Frasier, Director, 
Office of Acquisition and Logistics Management, National Institutes of 
Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
DIABETES IN INDIAN COUNTRY
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine diabetes in Indian country and beyond, after receiving 
testimony from Judith E. Fradkin, Director, Division of Diabetes, 
Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes 
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Gary Hall, Jr., Seattle, 
Washington, on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 
International; Melvina McCabe, University of New Mexico School of 
Medicine Department of Family Medicine, Albuquerque; Caitlin Baker, 
CAITLINB, Norman, Oklahoma; Wes Studi, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Isabel 
Burger, Silver Spring, Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  H.R. 3553, to exclude from consideration as income under the Native 
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 amounts 
received by a family from the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
service-related disabilities of a member of the family; and
  S. 3235, to amend the Act titled ``An Act to authorize the leasing of 
restricted Indian lands for public, religious, educational, 
recreational, residential, business, and other purposes requiring the 
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long-term leases'', approved August 9, 1955, to provide for Indian 
tribes to enter into certain leases without prior express approval from 
the Secretary of the Interior, with an amendment.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings to examine the 
nomination of Elena Kagan, of Massachusetts, to be an Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court of the United States, after the nominee testified 
and answered questions in her own behalf.
   Hearings recessed subject to the call and will meet again on 
Thursday, July 1, 2010.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG WASTE AND DISPOSAL
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
drug waste and disposal, focusing on when prescriptions become poison, 
after receiving testimony from R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director, National 
Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President; Joseph T. 
Rannazzisi, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion 
Control, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; Mary 
L. Hendrickson, Genco Pharmaceutical Services, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 
Stevan Gressitt, University of Maine Center on Aging, Unity; Bruce 
Behringer, East Tennessee State University Office of Rural and 
Community Health, Johnson City; and Bernie A. Strain, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.