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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D679-D680 on May 15, 2007.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SHORT-TERM ENERGY OUTLOOK FOR SUMMER 2007
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the short-term energy outlook for the summer of 2007, focusing on oil and gasoline, after receiving testimony from Guy Caruso, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy; Kevin J. Lindemer, Global Insight, Lexington, Massachusetts; Paul Sankey, Deutsche Bank, New York, New York; and Geoff Sundstrom, AAA, Heathrow, Florida.
WATER AND LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 553, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Eightmile River in the State of Connecticut as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 800, to establish the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area in the State of New York, S. 916, to modify the boundary of the Minidoka Internment National Monument, to establish the Minidoka National Historic Site, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land and improvements of the Gooding Division of the Minidoka Project, Idaho, S. 1057, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the New River in the States of North Carolina and Virginia as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 1209, to provide for the continued administration of Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, in accordance with the laws (including regulations) and policies of the National Park Service, S. 1281, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain rivers and streams of the headwaters of the Snake River System as additions to the National Wild and Scenic River System, H.R. 161, to adjust the boundary of the Minidoka Internment National Monument to include the Nidoto Nai Yoni Memorial in Bainbridge Island, Washington, H.R. 247, to designate a Forest Service trail at Waldo Lake in the Willamette National Forest in the State of Oregon as a national recreation trail in honor of Jim Weaver, a former Member of the House of Representatives, and H.R. 376, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of including the battlefields and related sites of the First and Second Battles of Newtonia, Missouri, during the Civil War as part of Wilson's Creek National Battlefield or designating the battlefields and related sites as a separate unit of the National Park System, after receiving testimony from Senators Feinstein and Schumer; Daniel N. Wenk, Deputy Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Joel Holtrop, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Jack Dennis, Campaign for the Snake Headwaters, Jackson, Wyoming; Tom Ikeda, Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, Seattle, Washington; George Santucci, National Committee for the New River, West Jefferson, North Carolina; and Timothy D. Vail, Vail and Vickers Company, Santa Rosa Island, California.
GREEN BUILDINGS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine energy savings, water and air quality, economic, and other benefits of green buildings, after receiving testimony from Robert F. Fox, Jr., Cook and Fox Architects, New York, New York; Peter Templeton, United States Green Building Council, Washington, D.C.; Claire L. Barnett, Healthy Schools Network, Inc., Albany, New York; Ray Tonjes, Ray Tonjes Builder, Inc., Austin, Texas, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders; and Ward Hubbell, Green Building Initiative, Portland, Oregon.
EQUAL REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine equal representation in Congress, focusing on providing voting rights to the District of Columbia, including S. 1257, to provide the District of Columbia a voting seat and the State of Utah an additional seat in the House of Representatives, after receiving testimony from Senator Hatch, Representatives Tom Davis and Norton; Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Jack Kemp, Kemp Partners, Wade J. Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Viet D. Dinh, Georgetown University Law Center, and Jonathan R. Turley, George Washington University Law School, all of Washington, D.C.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: CURRENT AND FUTURE BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Retirement and Aging concluded a hearing to examine Alzheimer's disease, focusing on current and future breakthrough research, after receiving testimony from Paul S. Aisen, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study; Arthur F. Kramer, University of Illinois, Urbana; Robert Essner, Wyeth, Madison, New Jersey; and J. Donald deBethizy, Targacept, Inc., Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
PRESERVING PROSECUTORIAL INDEPENDENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Justice and its handling of the hiring and firing of United States Attorneys, focusing on preserving prosecutorial independence, after receiving testimony from James B. Comey, Lockheed Martin Corporation, McLean, Virginia.
