[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 64 (Wednesday, May 11, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D480-D483]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal

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year 2012 for the National Institutes of Health, after receiving 
testimony from Francis S. Collins, Director, Anthony S. Fauci, 
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 
Griffin P. Rodgers, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and 
Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Harold Varmus, Director, National Cancer 
Institute, and Susan B. Shurin, Acting Director, National Heart, Lung, 
and Blood Institute, all of the National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS: GUARD AND RESERVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2012 for the Guard and Reserve, after receiving testimony from 
General Craig R. McKinley, U.S. Air Force, Chief, National Guard 
Bureau, Major General Raymond W. Carpenter, U.S Army, Acting Director, 
Army National Guard, Lieutenant General Harry M. Wyatt III, U.S. Air 
Force, Director, Air National Guard, Lieutenant General Jack Stultz, 
Chief, U.S. Army Reserve, Vice Admiral Dirk Debbink, U.S. Navy, Chief, 
Navy Reserve, Major General Darrell L. Moore, U.S. Marine Corps, 
Director, Reserve Affairs, and Lieutenant General Charles E. Stenner, 
Jr., U.S. Air Force, Chief, Air Force Reserve, all of the Department of 
Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a 
hearing to examine the Active, Guard, Reserve, and civilian personnel 
programs in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 
2012 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony 
from Thomas R. Lamont, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and 
Reserve Affairs, Lieutenant General Thomas P. Bostick, USA, Deputy 
Chief of Staff, G1, Juan M. Garcia, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Vice Admiral Mark E. Ferguson III, USN, 
Chief of Naval Personnel, Lieutenant General Robert E. Milstead, Jr., 
USMC, Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Daniel B. 
Ginsberg, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve 
Affairs, and Lieutenant General Darrell D. Jones, USAF, Deputy Chief of 
Staff, Manpower, Personnel and Services, all of the Department of 
Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded 
a hearing to examine military space programs in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Gregory L. Schulte, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Space Policy, Rear Admiral David W. Titley, 
Director, Oceanography, Space and Maritime Domain, Awareness Division, 
OPNAV N2/N6 (Information Dominance), John A. Zangardi, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Navy for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, 
Intelligence, Information and Space, General William L. Shelton, 
Commander, Air Force Space Command, Lieutenant General Susan J. Helms, 
Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, Lieutenant 
General Richard P. Formica, USA, Commanding General, United States Army 
Space and Missile Defense Command and Army Forces Strategic Command, 
and Major General John E. Hyten, Director, Space Programs, Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, all of the Department of 
Defense; and Christina T. Chaplain, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing 
Management, Government Accountability Office.
MANUFACTURING A STRONGER ECONOMY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine manufacturing our way to a stronger economy, after 
receiving testimony from Leo W. Gerard, United Steel, Paper and 
Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service 
Workers International Union (USW), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf 
of the United Steelworkers; Stephanie A. Burns, Dow Corning 
Corporation, Midland, Michigan; and Mike Rowe, Discovery 
Communications, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland.
NATIONAL PARKS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 114, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to enter into a cooperative agreement for a park 
headquarters at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, to 
expand the boundary of the Park, to conduct a study of potential land 
acquisitions, S. 127, to establish the Buffalo Bayou National Heritage 
Area in the State of Texas, S. 140, to designate as wilderness certain 
land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore 
in the State of Michigan, S. 161, to establish Pinnacles National Park 
in the State of California as a unit of the National Park System, S. 
177, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Gold 
Hill Ranch in Coloma, California, S. 247, to establish the Harriet 
Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn, New York, and the Harriet 
Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Caroline, 
Dorchester, and Talbot Counties, Maryland, S. 279, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study to determine the 
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establishing Camp Hale as a unit of the National Park System, S. 302, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue right-of-way 
permits for a natural gas transmission pipeline in nonwilderness areas 
within the boundary of Denali National Park, S. 313, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to issue permits for a microhydro project in 
nonwilderness areas within the boundaries of Denali National Park and 
Preserve, to acquire land for Denali National Park and Preserve from 
Doyon Tourism, Inc, S. 323, to establish the First State National 
Historical Park in the State of Delaware, S. 403, to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla River in the 
State of Oregon, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
System, S. 404, to modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary 
of the Interior, S. 508, to establish the Chimney Rock National 
Monument in the State of Colorado, S. 535, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to lease certain lands within Fort Pulaski National 
Monument, S. 564, to designate the Valles Caldera National Preserve as 
a unit of the National Park System, S. 599, to establish a commission 
to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, S. 713, 
to modify the boundary of Petersburg National Battlefield in the 
Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 765, to modify the boundary of the Oregon 
Caves National Monument, S. 779, to authorize the acquisition and 
protection of nationally significant battlefields and associated sites 
of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 under the American 
Battlefield Protection Program, S. 849, to establish the Waco Mammoth 
National Monument in the State of Texas, and S. 858, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to 
determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the Colonel 
Charles Young Home in Xenia, Ohio as a unit of the National Park 
System, after receiving testimony from Senator Carper; Stephen E. 
Whitesell, Associate Director, Park Planning, Facilities, and Lands, 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Joel Holtrop, Deputy 
Chief, National Forest Systems, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; and Raymond Loretto, Valles Caldera Trust, Jemez Springs, 
New Mexico.
UNITED STATES-COLOMBIA TRADE PROMOTION AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, after receiving 
testimony from Miriam Sapiro, Deputy United States Trade 
Representative; Sandra Polaski, Deputy Under Secretary of Labor for 
International Affairs; General James T. Hill, USA (Ret.), former 
Combatant Commander, United States Southern Command, Department of 
Defense, Coral Gables, Florida; Jeffrey S. Vogt, American Federation of 
Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Washington, D.C.; and 
Gordon Stoner, Montana Grain Growers Association, Outlook, Montana.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
and Central Asian Affairs concluded a hearing to examine human rights 
and democratic reform in Iran, after receiving testimony from Michael 
Posner, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and 
Philo Dibble, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iran, and Near Eastern 
Affairs, both of the Department of State; Kambiz Hosseini, Voice of 
America Persian, and Andrew Apostolou, Freedom House, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Rudi Bakhtiar, International Campaign for Human 
Rights in Iran, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. Res. 174, expressing the sense of the Senate that effective 
sharing of passenger information from inbound international flight 
manifests is a crucial component of our national security and that the 
Department of Homeland Security must maintain the information sharing 
standards required under the 2007 Passenger Name Record Agreement 
between the United States and the European Union;
  H.R. 793, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 12781 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Inverness, 
California, as the ``Specialist Jake Robert Velloza Post Office'';
  S. 349, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 4865 Tallmadge Road in Rootstown, Ohio, as the ``Marine Sgt. 
Jeremy E. Murray Post Office''; and
  S. 655, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 95 Dogwood Street in Cary, Mississippi, as the ``Spencer 
Byrd Powers, Jr. Post Office''.
DIVERTING NON-URGENT EMERGENCY ROOM USE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine diverting non-
urgent emergency room use, focusing on if it can provide better care 
and lower costs, and health center strategies that may help reduce 
their use, after receiving testimony from Jim Macrae, Associate 
Administrator, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and 
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Health and Human Services; Debra A. Draper, Director, Health Care, 
Government Accountability Office; Peter Cunningham, Center for Studying 
Health System Change (HSC), Washington, D.C.; Alieta Eck, Zarephath 
Health Center, Zarephath, New Jersey; and Dana Kraus, St. Johnsbury 
Family Health Center, St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
AT&T/T-MOBILE MERGER
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine the AT&T/T-
Mobile merger, after receiving testimony from Randall Stephenson, AT&T 
Inc., Dallas, Texas; Philipp Humm, T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, 
Washington; Daniel R. Hesse, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Overland Park, 
Kansas; Victor H. Meena, Cellular South, Inc., Ridgeland, Mississippi; 
and Gigi B. Sohn, Public Knowledge, and Larry Cohen, Communications 
Workers of America, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. Res. 116, to provide for expedited Senate consideration of certain 
nominations subject to advice and consent;
  S. 739, to authorize the Architect of the Capitol to establish 
battery recharging stations for privately owned vehicles in parking 
areas under the jurisdiction of the Senate at no net cost to the 
Federal Government; and
  The nomination of William J. Boarman, of Maryland, to be Public 
Printer, Government Printing Office.