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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D618-D620 on June 9, 2011.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to examine the nomination of Leon E. Panetta, of California, to be Secretary of Defense, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Feinstein and Boxer, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program, after receiving testimony from Senator Wicker; and Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 963, to reduce energy costs, improve energy efficiency, and expand the use of renewable energy by Federal agencies, S. 1000, to promote energy savings in residential and commercial buildings and industry, and S. 1001, to reduce oil consumption and improve energy security, after receiving testimony from Kathleen Hogan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and Jonathan Silver, Executive Director of the Loan Programs Office, both of the Department of Energy; Frank Rusco, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; Tony Crasi, National Association of Home Builders, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Jay Scripter, Owens-Illinois, Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio; Kateri Callahan, Alliance to Save Energy, Shane Karr, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, and Kevin Book, Clear View Energy Partners, LLC, all of Washington, D.C.; and Philip Damiano, Velcro Group Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire.
CRITICAL MINERALS AND MATERIALS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy concluded a hearing to examine critical minerals and materials legislation, including S. 383, to promote the domestic production of critical minerals and materials, S. 421, to amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to require the Secretary of Energy to provide grants for lithium production research and development, and S. 1113, to facilitate the reestablishment of domestic, critical mineral designation, assessment, production, manufacturing, recycling, analysis, forecasting, workforce, education, research, and international capabilities in the United States, after receiving testimony from Senator Hagan; David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs; Marcilynn Burke, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Jonathan G. Price, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno; Luka Erceg, Simbol Materials, Pleasanton, California; Steven J. Duclos, GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York; and Mark Caffarey, Umicore USA Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 76, to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate and address cancer and disease clusters, including in infants and children: and
The nominations of William Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Richard C. Howorth, of Mississippi, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
LIBYA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on Libya from National Security Briefers.
BORDER CORRUPTION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs concluded a hearing to examine border corruption, focusing on assessing customs and border protection and the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's office collaboration in the fight to prevent corruption, after receiving testimony from Alan D. Bersin, Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Charles K. Edwards, Acting Inspector General, both of the Department of Homeland Security.
FEDERAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine Federal asset management, focusing on eliminating waste by disposing of unneeded Federal real property through a proposed civilian board, after receiving testimony from former Senator Alan J. Dixon; Daniel I. Werfel, Controller, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President; Robert A. Peck, Commissioner, Public Building Service, U.S. General Services Administration; James M. Sullivan, Director, Asset Enterprise Management, Department of Veterans Affairs; David J. Wise, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, and Brian J. Lepore, Director, Defense Capabilities and Management Issues, both of the Government Accountability Office; David B. Baxa, VISTA Technology Services, Inc., Richmond, Virginia; Tim Ford, Association of Defense Communities (ADC), Arlington, Virginia; and Maria Foscarinis, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, New York, New York.
QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded a hearing to examine quality early education and care, after receiving testimony from Joan Lombardi, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Inter-
Departmental Liaison for Early Childhood Development, Administration for Children and Families; Dennis Hillian, Judy Center, Waldorf, Maryland; Linda K. Smith, National Association of Child Care Resources and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA), Arlington, Virginia; Arthur J. Rolnick, University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Minneapolis; Eva Tansky Blum, The PNC Financial Services Group, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Charlie Mills III, Salera Capital Management, LLC, Potomac Falls, Virginia.
U.N. DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine domestic policy implications of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, after receiving testimony from Donald Laverdure, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Robert T. Coulter, Indian Law Resource Center, Helena, Montana; James Anaya, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Tucson, on behalf of the United Nations Human Rights Council; Lindsay G. Robertson, University of Oklahoma College of Law American Indian Law and Policy Center, Norman; Fawn R. Sharp, Quinault Indian Nation, Taholah, Washington; Frank Ettawageshik, United Tribes of Michigan, Harbor Springs; Duane H. Yazzie, Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, Window Rock, Arizona; Melanie Knight, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma; and Thomas Ryan Red Corn, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Felicia C. Adams, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, Ronald W. Sharpe, to be United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands, and George Lamar Beck, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, all 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.
