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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D532-D535 on May 23, 2006.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BIODEFENSE AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security concluded a hearing to examine biodefense and pandemic influenza preparedness issues, after receiving testimony from John M. Clerici, McKenna Long, and Aldridge, LLP, and Frank J. Cilluffo, George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Scott R. Lillibridge, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health; and Paul Offit, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the status of financial literacy and financial education in the United States, focusing on the importance of financial literacy, both as a source of better decisionmaking by consumers and as a means of improving the functioning of financial markets, including initiatives to promote financial education and address opportunities and challenges that policymakers and financial educators face as they seek to improve financial literacy, after receiving testimony from Senator Akaka; Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Christopher Cox, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; M. Cindy Hounsell, Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement, and Stephen Brobeck, Consumer Federation of America, both of Washington, D.C.; and Sarah Teslik, Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., Denver, Colorado.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Robert J. Portman, of Ohio, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
GASOLINE PRICE GOUGING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine if the price of gasoline is being artificially manipulated by reducing refinery capacity or by any other form of market manipulation or price gouging practices, including recommendations for Congress's consideration in its ongoing efforts to protect consumers in petroleum markets, after receiving testimony from Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Nariman Behravesh, Global Insight, Lexington, Massachusetts; and Bob Slaughter, National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, and Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, both of Washington, D.C.
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the National Research Council report, Managing Construction and Infrastructure in the 21st Century Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Report, Managing for Excellence: An Action Plan for the 21st Century, after receiving testimony from William E. Rinne, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; New Mexico State Senator H. Diane Snyder, Albuquerque, on behalf of the American Council of Engineering Companies; Lloyd A. Duscha, Reston, Virginia, on behalf of the National Research Council; Dan Keppen, Family Farm Alliance, Klamath Falls, Oregon; and Thomas F. Donnelly, National Water Resources Association, and Scott Yates, Trout Unlimited, both of Arlington, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 2781, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to enhance the security of wastewater treatment works, with an amendment;
S. 2023, to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to improve that Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2735, to amend the National Dam Safety Program Act to reauthorize the national dam safety program, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2430, to amend the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act of 1990 to provide for implementation of recommendations of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service contained in the Great Lakes Fishery Resources Restoration Study, with an amendment;
S. 2912, to establish the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force, to establish the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration, with an amendment;
S. Res. 301, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the National Audubon Society, with an amendment;
S. 2832, to reauthorize and improve the program authorized by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965;
S. 1509, to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to add non-human primates to the definition of prohibited wildlife species;
S. 2041, to provide for the conveyance of a United States Fish and Wildlife Service administrative site to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada;
S. 2127, to redesignate the Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge in the State of Virginia as the ``Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge'';
S. 2650, to designate the Federal courthouse to be constructed in Greenville, South Carolina, as the ``Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Federal Courthouse.'';
S. 801, to designate the United States courthouse located at 300 North Hogan Street, Jacksonville, Florida, as the ``John Milton Bryan Simpson United States Courthouse''; and The nominations of Molly A. O'Neill, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and and Dale Klein, of Texas, Gregory B. Jaczko, of the District of Columbia, and Peter B. Lyons, of Virginia, each to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
TRIBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Long-Term Growth and Debt Reduction held a hearing to examine the ability of tribal governments to implement long-term, self-sustaining economic development, focusing on Tribal tax-exempt bond issues, receiving testimony from Raymond C. Etcitty, Navajo Nation Office of Legislative Counsel, Window Rock, Arizona; Lenor A. Scheffler, Best and Flanagan LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Gavin Clarkson, University of Michigan School of Information, School of Law, and Native American Studies, Ann Arbor; Scott Schickli, Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP, Portland, Oregon; and Wayne A. Shammel, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Roseburg, Oregon.
Hearing recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. Res. 312, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the need for the United States to address global climate change through the negotiation of fair and effective international commitments, with amendments;
S. Res. 359, concerning the Government of Romania's ban on intercountry adoptions and the welfare of orphaned or abandoned children in Romania;
S. Res. 456, expressing the sense of the Senate on the discussion by the North Atlantic Council of secure, sustainable, and reliable sources of energy;
S. Res. 469, condemning the April 25, 2006, beating and intimidation of Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque;
S. 559, to make the protection of vulnerable populations, especially women and children, who are affected by a humanitarian emergency a priority of the United States Government, with amendments;
S. 1950, to promote global energy security through increased cooperation between the United States and India in diversifying sources of energy, stimulating development of alternative fuels, developing and deploying technologies that promote the clean and efficient use of coal, and improving energy efficiency, with amendments;
S. 2125, to promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
S. 2200, to establish a United States-Poland parliamentary youth exchange program, with amendments;
S. 2566, to provide for coordination of proliferation interdiction activities and conventional arms disarmament, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2697, to establish the position of the United States Ambassador for ASEAN, with amendments;
The Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, with a declaration, done at Vienna on September 12, 1997, Convention Adopted by a Diplomatic Conference convened by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and opened for signature at Vienna, September 29, 1997, during the IAEA General Conference (Treaty Doc. 107-21), with one declaration and one condition; and
The nominations of Rajkumar Chellaraj, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, Patricia P. Brister, of Louisiana, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as the U.S. Representative on the Commission on the Status of Women of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Warren W. Tichenor, of Texas, to be U.S. Representative to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador, Mark C. Minton, of Florida, to be Ambassador to Mongolia, Robert F. Godec, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia, Robert S. Ford, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, David M. Robinson, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname, Anne E. Derse, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan, William B. Taylor, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Ukraine, Daniel S. Sullivan, of Alaska, to be an Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Goli Ameri, of Oregon, to be a U.S. Representative to the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Duane Acklie, of Nebraska, to be an Alternate U.S. Representative to the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Robert C. O'Brien, of California, to be an Alternate U.S. Representative to the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Michael D. Kirby, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, John A. Cloud, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania, April H. Foley, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary, Tracey Ann Jacobson, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, Michael Wood, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to Sweden, Robert Anthony Bradtke, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia, and certain Foreign Service Officer promotion lists.
PATENT REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Intellectual Property concluded a hearing to examine post-grant review procedures and other litigation reforms relating to patents, after receiving testimony from Mark Chandler, Cisco Systems, San Jose, California; Philip S. Johnson, Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Nathan P. Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, Washington; John R. Thomas, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; and Andrew Cadel, JP Morgan Chase, New York, New York, on behalf of the Financial Services Roundtable.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session and ordered favorably reported the following business items:
An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Intelligence Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System; and
The nomination of General Michael V. Hayden, United States Air Force, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
