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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D855-D857 on July 9, 2008.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Walter Lukken, of Indiana, to be Chairman, and Bartholomew H. Chilton, of Delaware, and Scott O'Malia, of Michigan, both to be a Commissioner, all of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
APPROPRIATIONS: DOT, HUD, AND RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies approved for full Committee consideration an original bill making appropriations for the Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009.
OTC CREDIT DERIVATIVES MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment concluded a hearing to examine reducing risks and improving oversight in the over-the-counter (OTC) credit derivatives market, after receiving testimony from Patrick M. Parkinson, Deputy Director, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; James A. Overdahl, Chief Economist, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Kathryn E. Dick, Deputy Comptroller for Credit and Market Risk, Comptroller of the Currency, Administrator of National Banks, Department of the Treasury; Darrell Duffie, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California; Craig S. Donohue, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) Group Inc., and Edward J. Rosen, Clearing Corporation, both of Chicago, Illinois; and Robert Pickel, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Washington, D.C.
ONLINE ADVERTISING PRIVACY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the privacy implications of online behavioral advertising, which is the practice of collecting information about an individual's online activities in order to serve advertisements that are tailored to that individual's interests, after receiving testimony from Lydia Parnes, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Jane Horvath, Google Inc., Leslie Harris, Center for Democracy and Technology, and Wayne Crews, Competitive Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Bob Dykes, NebuAd, Inc., Redwood City, California; Chris Kelly, Facebook, Palo Alto, California; and Michael D. Hintze, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington.
FISHING SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to examine fishing safety, focusing on policy implications of cooperatives and vessel improvements, after receiving testimony from Commander Christopher Woodley, 13th Coast Guard District Staff, United States Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security; James Sanchirico, University of California at Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy; Leslie J. Hughes, North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners' Association, John Bundy, Glacier Fish Company, Michael Hyde, American Seafoods Group, and Donna Parker, Arctic Storm Management Group, all of Seattle, Washington; and David E. Frulla, Kelley Drye and Warren LLP, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Fishing Company of Alaska.
LANDS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 2443 and H.R. 2246, bills to provide for the release of any revisionary interest of the United States in and to certain lands in Reno, Nevada, S. 2779, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects, S. 2875, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants to designated States and tribes to carry out programs to reduce the risk of livestock loss due to predation by gray wolves and other predator species or to compensate landowners for livestock loss due to predation, S. 2898, and H.R. 816, bills to provide for the release of certain land from the Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area in the State of Nevada, S. 3088, to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, S. 3089, to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, to provide for the exchange of certain Federal land and non-Federal land, S. 3157, to provide for the exchange and conveyance of certain National Forest System land and other land in southeast Arizona, and S. 3179, to authorize the conveyance of certain public land in the State of New Mexico owned or leased by the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from Senator Kyl; Alice C. Williams, Associate Administrator for Infrastructure and Environment, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy; Michael Nedd, Assistant Director, Minerals, Realty and Resource Protection, Danny Lytton, and Ed Bangs, all of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Joel Holtrop, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; George Edwards, Montana Department of Livestock, Helena; David Salisbury, Resolution Copper Mining, LLC, Superior, Arizona; Shan Lewis, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Phoenix; Roger Featherstone, EARTHWORKS, Tucson, Arizona; and Charles C. Price, Daniel, Wyoming.
IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the strategic challenges posed by Iran, after receiving testimony from William J. Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
MEDICARE VULNERABILITIES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine Medicare vulnerabilities, focusing on payments for claims with the identification numbers of deceased doctors, after receiving testimony from Herb B. Kuhn, Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Robert Vito, Regional Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector General, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; and Bill Gray, Deputy Commissioner of Systems, Social Security Administration.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued oversight hearings to examine the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Michael B. Mukasey, Attorney General, Department of Justice.
Hearings recessed subject to the call.
VETERANS DISABILITY COMPENSATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine veterans disability compensation, focusing on undue delay in the claims processing system, after receiving testimony from Rear Admiral Patrick W. Dunne, USN
(Ret.), Acting Under Secretary for Benefits, and Michael Walcoff, Deputy Under Secretary for Benefits, both of the Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; Kerry Baker, Disabled American Veterans, Cold Spring, Kentucky; J. David Cox, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, and William Rollins, Paralyzed Veterans of America, both of Washington, D.C.; and Howard Pierce, Problem-Knowledge Couplers (PKC) Corporation, Burlington, Vermont.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Christine O. Hill, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Congressional Affairs.
