[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 70 (Thursday, May 19, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D524-D526]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of the 
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the United 
States Forest Service, after receiving testimony from Tom Tidwell, 
Chief, and Kathleen Atkinson, Director, Strategic Planning, Budget, and 
Accountability, both of the United States Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture.
F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Ashton Carter, Under Secretary 
for Acquisition Technology and Logistics, David M. Van Buren, Air Force 
Service Acquisition Executive, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the 
Air Force for Acquisition, Vice Admiral David J. Venlet, Program 
Executive

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Officer for the F-35 Program, Christine H. Fox, Director, Cost 
Assessment and Program Evaluation, J. Michael Gilmore, Director, 
Operational Test and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary, all of the 
Department of Defense; Michael Sullivan, Director, Acquisition and 
Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office; and Tom Burbage, 
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine public transportation, focusing on priorities and 
challenges for reauthorization, after receiving testimony from Peter M. 
Rogoff, Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Department of 
Transportation; William Millar, American Public Transportation 
Association, Falls Church, Virginia; Dale J. Marsico, Community 
Transportation Association, College Station, Texas; Larry Hanley, 
Amalgamated Transit Union, New York, New York; and JayEtta Z. Hecker, 
Bipartisan Policy Center National Transportation Policy Project, 
Washington, D.C.
CONSUMER PRIVACY AND PROTECTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing 
to examine consumer privacy and protection in the mobile marketplace, 
after receiving testimony from David C. Vladeck, Director, Bureau of 
Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Bret Taylor, Facebook, 
Morgan Reed, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), Catherine A. 
Novelli, Apple Inc., and Alan Davidson, Google Inc., all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Amy Guggenheim Shenkan, Common Sense Media, San Francisco, 
California.
POLICIES TO REDUCE OIL CONSUMPTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine policies to reduce oil consumption through the 
promotion of advanced vehicle technologies and accelerated deployment 
of electric-drive vehicles, including S. 734, to provide for a program 
of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application in 
vehicle technologies at the Department of Education, and S. 948, to 
promote the deployment of plug-in electric drive vehicles, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Merkley and Alexander; Patrick Davis, 
Program Director, Vehicle Technologies Program, Office of Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy; Seifi Ghasemi, 
Rockwood Holdings, Inc., and David Crane, NRG Energy, Inc., both of 
Princeton, New Jersey; Genevieve Cullen, Electric Drive Transportation 
Association (EDTA), Washington, D.C.; and Bill Van Amburg, CALSTART, 
Pasadena, California.
WATER AND POWER BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 201, to clarify the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to the C.C. 
Cragin Dam and Reservoir, S. 333, to reinstate and extend the deadline 
for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving 
the Little Wood River Ranch, S. 334, to reinstate and extend the 
deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project 
involving the American Falls Reservoir, S. 419, to authorize the Dry-
Redwater Regional Water Authority System, S. 499, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the development of 
hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the Central Utah 
Project, S. 519, to further allocate and expand the availability of 
hydroelectric power generated at Hoover Dam, and S. 808, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment 
contracts between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy 
District, after receiving testimony from David Murillo, Deputy 
Commissioner, Operations, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the 
Interior; and Darrick Moe, Regional Manager of the Desert Southwest 
Region, Western Area Power Administration, Department of Energy.
NEXT STEPS IN COTE D'IVOIRE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded a hearing to examine the next steps in Cote d'Ivoire, after 
receiving testimony from William Fitzgerald, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of State for African Affairs; Nancy E. Lindborg, Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian 
Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development; Mike McGovern, 
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; and Jennifer Cooke, Center for 
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Raymond Gilpin, United 
States Institute of Peace, both of Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE REFORM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine ten years after 9/11, focusing on if 
intelligence reform is working, after receiving testimony from Admiral 
Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.), former Director of National Intelligence.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:

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  S. 350, to require restitution for victims of criminal violations of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act;
  S. 623, to amend chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, 
relating to protective orders, sealing of cases, disclosures of 
discovery information in civil actions, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute; and
  S. 890, to establish the supplemental fraud fighting account.
SMALL BUSINESS RECOVERY
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine small business recovery, focusing on the progress 
report on ``Small Business Jobs Act of 2010'' implementation, after 
receiving testimony from Marie Johns, Deputy Administrator, Small 
Business Administration; Don Graves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury; Eric H. Blinderman, Mas (Farmhouse), New York, New York; 
Kristie L. Arslan, National Association for the Self-Employed, 
Washington, D.C.; and Patrick Woodie, North Carolina Rural Economic 
Development Center, Inc., Raleigh.
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.