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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D965-D967 on Sept. 14, 2006.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PARTNERSHIP
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water, Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, including proposed advanced reactor technologies for recycling nuclear waste, after receiving testimony from Dennis Spurgeon, Assistant Secretary of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy; Alan Hanson, AREVA NC, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland; Kelly Fletcher, GE Global Research, Fairfield, Connecticut; and Matthew Bunn, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
CATCHING TERRORISTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security concluded a hearing to examine the British system versus the U.S. system relating to catching terrorists, after receiving testimony from Judge Richard Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; John Yoo, University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law; and Tom Parker, Halo Partnership Consulting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill (S. 3901) to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war.
PREDATORY LENDING PRACTICES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Defense's report on predatory lending practices directed at members of the armed forces and their dependents, after receiving testimony from David S. C. Chu, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; Admiral Charles S. Abbot, USN (Ret.), Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, Arlington, Virginia; William O. Brown, Jr., University of North Carolina at Greensboro Department of Accounting and Finance, on behalf of the Consumer Credit Research Foundation; Lynn Drysdale, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Jacksonville, Florida; Hilary B. Miller, Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of the Payday Loan Bar Association, and Community Financial Services Association; and Christopher L. Peterson, University of Florida, Gainesville.
RURAL AIR SERVICE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation concluded a hearing to examine rural air service, focusing on the development and impact of funding programs including Essential Air Service, and the status of Small Community Air Service Development Program that help small communities retain or attract air service, after receiving testimony from Michael W. Reynolds, Acting Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs; Gerald L. Dillingham, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability Office; Faye Malarkey, Regional Airline Association, Washington, D.C.; John Torgerson, Alaska Department of Transportation, Anchorage; and Douglas Kaercher, Hill County Commissioner, Havre, Montana, on behalf of the National Association of Counties.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of C. Stephen Allred, of Idaho, to be Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, who was introduced by Senators Craig and Crapo, and Robert W. Johnson, of Nevada, to be Commissioner of Reclamation, who was introduced by Senators Reid and Ensign, both of the Department of the Interior, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety concluded an oversight hearing to examine Nuclear Regulatory Commission responsibility and capability for long- and short-term spent fuel storage programs, focusing on the effect on the NRC's resources of current and proposed nuclear waste management programs, after receiving testimony from Edward F. Sproat, III, Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and R. Shane Johnson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, both of the Department of Energy; Luis A. Reyes, Executive Director for Operations, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Admiral Frank L. Bowman, USN (Ret.), Nuclear Energy Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Victor Gilinsky, Santa Monica, California.
FEDERAL AGENCIES CONFERENCE SPENDING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine Federal agencies spending on conference meetings and travel, focusing on how they monitor and track conference participation and spending and control these activities, after receiving testimony from Lisa Fiely, Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development; Nina Rose Hatfield, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management and Budget; Lee J. Lofthus, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Administration, Department of Justice; Michell Clark, Assistant Secretary of Education for Management; Edward C. Hugler, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration, Department of Labor; Clarence C. Crawford, Chief Financial Officer, Office of Personnel Management; Eugene Schied, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Department of Homeland Security; Jeffery K. Nulf, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Administration; Richard Holcomb, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Department of the Treasury; and Charles R. Christopherson, Jr., Chief Financial Officer, Department of Agriculture.
SKILLS-BASED POINT SYSTEM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the value of a skills-based point system relating to employment-based permanent immigration, after receiving testimony from Charles M. Beach, Queen's University John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; George J. Borjas, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey; and Alan Tonelson, U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
H.R. 854, to provide for certain lands to be held in trust for the Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe;
S. 3648, to compromise and settle all claims in the case of Pueblo of Isleta v. United States, to restore, improve, and develop the valuable on-reservation land and natural resources of the Pueblo;
S. 3687, to waive application of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to a specific parcel of real property transferred by the United States to 2 Indian tribes in the State of Oregon; and
The nomination of the nomination of Carl Joseph Artman, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.
Prior to this action, committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Carl Joseph Artman (listed above), after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS
Committee on the Judiciary: On Wednesday, September 13, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded a hearing to examine challenges facing today's federal prosecutors, including efforts to combat terrorism, violent crime, the exploitation of children, cyber-crime, drug trafficking, civil rights violations, and corporate and public corruption, after receiving testimony from Michael A. Battle, Director, Executive Office for United States Attorneys, and Susan W. Brooks, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, Vice-Chair, Attorney General's Advisory Committee, Chair, Office of Management and Budget Subcommittee, both of the Department of Justice; and William I. Shockley, Lake Ridge, Virginia, on behalf of the National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys.
SENIOR SUICIDE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine mental illness and suicide prevention, focusing on the quality of geriatric psychiatry, and the rate of suicide among senior citizens, after receiving testimony from Melvin Kohn, Oregon Department of Human Services, Salem; David Carl Steffens, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Christopher C. Colenda, Texas A&M University, College Station; Art Walaszek, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison; and David Shern, National Mental Health Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
