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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1221-D1223 on Nov. 16, 2005.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch resumed hearings to examine the progress of Capitol Visitor Center construction, focusing on the estimate of the cost-to-complete the project, efforts to keep the project on schedule, and the status of critical activities such as stone installation and the utility tunnel construction, receiving testimony from Alan M. Hantman, Architect, and Robert C. Hixon, Jr., Capitol Visitor Center Project Manager, both of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol; Bernard L. Ungar, Director, and Terrell Dorn, Assistant Director, both of Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability Office; and Marvin Shenkler, Gilbane Company, Washington, D.C.
Hearing recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,442 military Nominations: in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 467, to extend the applicability of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
An original bill to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to award grants to public transportation agencies to improve security; and
The nominations of Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, to be a Member and to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
MAGNUSON-STEVENS FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act of 2005, after receiving testimony from James L. Connaughton, Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality; John H. Dunnigan, Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Admiral James D. Watkins, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Chairman, U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy; and George LaPointe, State of Maine Department of Marine Resources, Augusta.
VEHICLE FRAUD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing to examine how to protect the consumer from flooded and salvage vehicle fraud, focusing on efforts to provide greater protection to the car buying public and to ensure that the used vehicle marketplace operates more efficiently and fairly, after receiving testimony from William L. Brauch, Iowa Attorney General's Office, Des Moines; Karen Chappell, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, on behalf of American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, and Donald L. Hall, Virginia Automobile Dealers Association, on behalf of the National Automobile Dealers Association, both of Richmond; Robert M. Bryant, National Insurance Crime Bureau, Fairfax, Virginia; Rosemary Shahan, Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, Sacramento, California; and Alan Fuglestad, Experian Automotive, Schaumberg, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 310, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey the Newlands Project Headquarters and Maintenance Yard Facility to the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District in the State of Nevada;
S. 435, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Farmington River and Salmon Brook in the State of Connecticut for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, with an amendment;
S. 648, to amend the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to extend the authority for drought assistance;
S. 1025, to amend the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the construction of the Cheney division, Wichita Federal reclamation project, Kansas, and for other purposes'' to authorize the Equus Beds Division of the Wichita Project, with an amendment;
S. 1096, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate portions of the Musconetcong River in the State of New Jersey as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
S. 1310, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to allow the Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation to increase the diameter of a natural gas pipeline located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, with an amendment;
S. 1552, to amend Public Law 97-435 to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to release certain conditions contained in a patent concerning certain land conveyed by the United States to Eastern Washington University until December 31, 2009;
S. 1578, to reauthorize the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basin endangered fish recovery implementation programs;
S. 1760, to authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within Medford Irrigation District;
S. 1860, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to improve energy production and reduce energy demand through improved use of reclaimed waters, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Jeffrey D. Jarrett to be Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, and Edward F. Sproat III to be Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, both of the Department of Energy.
TRANSPORTATION FUELS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine transportation fuels of the future, after receiving testimony from Red Cavaney, American Petroleum Institute, and Richard F. Goodstein, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey McDougall, JMA Energy Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on behalf of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association; Bill Honnef, VeraSun Energy, Brookings, South Dakota; and John B. Holmes, Jr., Syntroleum Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
OIL CONSUMPTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the new currency of foreign policy, focusing on the high costs of crude, including the effects of U.S. oil consumption on American foreign policy and on economic and security interests, after receiving testimony from James R. Schlesinger, Lehman Brothers, Washington, D.C.; and R. James Woolsey, Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Virginia.
HURRICANE KATRINA RESPONSE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine how government can learn from the private sector's response to Hurricane Katrina, focusing on improving disaster readiness and response at all levels of government and within communities, after receiving testimony from David M. Ratcliffe, Southern Company, and Kevin T. Regan, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc., both of Atlanta, Georgia; Stanley S. Litow, IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York; and Jason F. Jackson, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas.
HABEAS REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 1088, to establish streamlined procedures for collateral review of mixed petitions, amendments, and defaulted claims, after receiving testimony from Judge Howard D. McKibben, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, and Chairman of the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction; Ronald Eisenberg, Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Seth P. Waxman, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale, and Dorr, Washington, D.C., former Solicitor General of the United States.
NEW FEDERAL JUDGESHIPS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts concluded a hearing to examine issues relative to creating new Federal judgeships, focusing on recommendations of the Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Resources, after receiving testimony from W. Royal Furgeson, Jr., District Judge for the Western District of Texas, and Chairman of the Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Resources; William H. Steele, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama; Robyn J. Spalter, Federal Bar Association, Miami, Florida; and Marc Galanter, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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