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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D232-D234 on March 11, 2010.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony from Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
APPROPRIATIONS: ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, after receiving testimony from Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, and Lieutenant General Robert L. Van Antwerp, Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, both of the Department of Defense; and Anne Castle, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, and Michael L. Connor, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, both of the Department of the Interior.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from General Victor E. Renuart, Jr., Commander, United States Northern Command, and Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command, and General Douglas M. Fraser, Commander, United States Southern Command, both of the Air Force, Department of Defense.
JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Joint Strike Fighter, focusing on significant challenges the Department of Defense faces to restructure the program, after receiving testimony from Ashton B. Carter, Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, Christine H. Fox, Director, and Fred Janicki, Weapons Systems Cost Analysis, both of the Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, J. Michael Gilmore, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary, and Major General C. D. Moore, USAF, Acting Program Executive Officer F-35 Lightning II Program, all of the Department of Defense; and Michael Sullivan, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office.
VIDEO AND BROADBAND MARKET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet concluded a hearing to examine consumers, competition, and consolidation in the video and broadband market, after receiving testimony from Julius Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Christine A. Varney, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Brian L. Roberts, Comcast Corporation, and Christopher S. Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition, both of Philadelphia; John Wells, Writers Guild of America, West, Los Angeles, California; Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, Washington, DC., on behalf of Free Press; and Colleen Abdoulah, WOW!, Englewood, Colorado, on behalf of the American Cable Association.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY JOBS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine legislative proposals designed to create jobs related to energy efficiency, including proposed legislation on energy efficient building retrofits, including S. 1320, to provide assistance to owners of manufactured homes constructed before January 1, 1976, to purchase Energy Star-qualified manufactured homes, and S. 3079, to assist in the creation of new jobs by providing financial incentives for owners of commercial buildings and multifamily residential buildings to retrofit their buildings with energy efficient building equipment and materials and for other purposes, after receiving testimony from Paul W. Parfomak, Specialist in Energy and Infrastructure Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Cathy Zoi, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Larry Laseter, WellHome, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Home Star Coalition; Jeffrey D. DeBoer, Real Estate Roundtable, Washington, DC., on behalf of Building Star; Stacey Epperson, Frontier Housing, Morehead, Kentucky; Philip Giudice, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, Boston, on behalf of the National Association of State Energy Officials; Terrence J. Mierzwa, Consumers Energy Company, Jackson, Michigan; and Bob Hanbury, House of Hanbury, Newington, Connecticut, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders.
TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Federal, state and local partnerships to accelerate transportation benefits, after receiving testimony from Roy Kienitz, Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, California; Lowell R. Clary, P3 Development Company, LLC, Clary Consulting, LLC, Tallahassee, Florida; Max I. Inman, Mercator Advisors, LLC, Fairfax, Virginia; and JayEtta Z. Hecker, Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Elizabeth L. Littlefield, of the District of Columbia, to be President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, who was introduced by former Senator Harris Wofford, and Raul Yzaguirre, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who was introduced by Representative Hinojosa, and Theodore Sedgwick, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, who was introduced by Senator Warner, both of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
DRUG CARTELS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration concluded a hearing to examine U.S. officials involved in drug cartels, after receiving testimony from Kevin L. Perkins, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; and Thomas M. Frost, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, and James F. Tomsheck, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, both of the Department of Homeland Security.
EQUAL PAY IN AMERICAN WORKPLACES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine pay equity in the new American workplace, including S. 182, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and S. 904, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin, after receiving testimony from Representative DeLauro; Stuart J. Ishimaru, Acting Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Heather Boushey, Center for American Progress Action Fund, and Deborah L. Frett, Business and Professional Women's Foundation, both of Washington, DC.; Deborah L. Brake, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Jane M. McFetridge, Jackson Lewis LLP, Chicago, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1789, to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing, with amendments;
S. 2772, to establish a criminal justice reinvestment grant program to help States and local jurisdictions reduce spending on corrections, control growth in the prison and jail populations, and increase public safety, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Jane E. Magnus-Stinson, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, and Kelvin Corneilius Washington, to be United States Marshal for the District of South Carolina, and Christopher Tobias Hoye, to be United States Marshal for the District of Nevada, both of the Department of Justice.
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.
