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HRG. 109–1155 NOMINATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING, OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS AUTHORITY, AND SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SEPTEMBER 21, 2006 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 71–811 PDF WASHINGTON : 2011 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Nov 24 2008 16:15 Dec 22, 2011 Jkt 071811 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 S:\GPO\DOCS\71811.TXT SCOM1 PsN: JACKIE SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION TED STEVENS, Alaska, Chairman JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii, Co-Chairman CONRAD BURNS, Montana JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, West Virginia TRENT LOTT, Mississippi JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, Texas BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, Maine BARBARA BOXER, California GORDON H. SMITH, Oregon BILL NELSON, Florida JOHN ENSIGN, Nevada MARIA CANTWELL, Washington GEORGE ALLEN, Virginia FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, New Jersey JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire E. BENJAMIN NELSON, Nebraska JIM DEMINT, South Carolina MARK PRYOR, Arkansas DAVID VITTER, Louisiana LISA J. SUTHERLAND, Republican Staff Director CHRISTINE DRAGER KURTH, Republican Deputy Staff Director KENNETH R. NAHIGIAN, Republican Chief Counsel MARGARET L. CUMMISKY, Democratic Staff Director and Chief Counsel SAMUEL E. WHITEHORN, Democratic Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel LILA HARPER HELMS, Democratic Policy Director (II) VerDate Nov 24 2008 16:15 Dec 22, 2011 Jkt 071811 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\GPO\DOCS\71811.TXT SCOM1 PsN: JACKIE C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on September 21, 2006 ..................................................................... 1 Statement of Senator Inouye .................................................................................. 28 Prepared statement of Senator Rockefeller .................................................... 28 Statement of Senator Pryor .................................................................................... 29 Statement of Senator Stevens ................................................................................ 1 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 3 Prepared statement of the Chairman regarding the Background of: Hon. David Pryor .............................................................................................. 3 Cynthia Glassman ............................................................................................ 13 Sharon Hays ..................................................................................................... 20 Calvin L. Scovel III .......................................................................................... 30 Charles Snelling ............................................................................................... 35 WITNESSES Boskin, Chris, Nominee to be a Member of the Board of Directors, Corpora- tion for Public Broadcasting ................................................................................ 9 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 11 Biographical information ................................................................................. 12 Ehlers, Hon. Vernon, U.S. Representative from Michigan .................................. 1 Glassman, Ph.D., Hon. Cynthia A., Nominee to be Under Secretary for Eco- nomic Affairs, Department of Commerce ........................................................... 14 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 15 Biographical information ................................................................................. 16 Hays, Dr. Sharon Lynn, Nominee to be Associate Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy .......................................................................................... 20 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 22 Biographical information ................................................................................. 24 Johnson, Jr., Collister ‘‘Terry,’’ Nominee to be Administrator, Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation ...................................................................... 43 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 44 Biographical information ................................................................................. 45 Pryor, Hon. David, Nominee to be a Member of the Board of Directors, Corporation for Public Broadcasting .................................................................. 4 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 5 Biographical information ................................................................................. 6 Scovel III, Calvin L., Nominee to be Inspector General, Department of Trans- portation ................................................................................................................ 30 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 31 Biographical information ................................................................................. 32 Snelling, Hon. Charles Darwin, Nominee to be a Member of the Board of Directors, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority .................................. 35 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 37 Biographical information ................................................................................. 38 Specter, Hon. Arlen, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania ......................................... 19 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 19 (III) VerDate Nov 24 2008 16:15 Dec 22, 2011 Jkt 071811 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\GPO\DOCS\71811.TXT SCOM1 PsN: JACKIE VerDate Nov 24 2008 16:15 Dec 22, 2011 Jkt 071811 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\GPO\DOCS\71811.TXT SCOM1 PsN: JACKIE NOMINATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING, OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS AUTHORITY, AND SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2006 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION, Washington, DC. The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:30 p.m. in room SR–253, Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Committee, presiding. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. TED STEVENS, U.S. SENATOR FROM ALASKA The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much. We’re going to start off the afternoon with presentations made by Representative Ehlers and by Senator Specter. We’re happy to have you come over and make this presentation, Mr. Ehlers. We’re at your service. STATEMENT OF HON. VERNON EHLERS, U.S. REPRESENTATIVE FROM MICHIGAN Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Chairman, it is, indeed, a great pleasure to come over here, and it’s an honor for me to introduce Dr. Sharon Hays, the President’s nominee for the position of Associate Director of Science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy. I suspect most people here know that I am a scientist, a nuclear physicist. I have done a good deal of work on science in my life, and also in the Congress. And one of those tasks was to, at the be- hest of Speaker Gingrich when he was the Speaker, to try to de- velop a new national science policy. The last time that had been done was 1945, and an excellent piece of work at that time, but Newt and others felt it should be updated. Fortunately, at the time this project was started, I was fortunate enough to have an excellent science fellow from the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Sharon Hays—she only stayed with me a year, but that was more than enough to produce this book, one of the few government documents that has been (1) VerDate Nov 24 2008 16:15 Dec 22, 2011 Jkt 071811 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 S:\GPO\DOCS\71811.TXT SCOM1 PsN: JACKIE 2 printed in paperback and distributed worldwide. And she did an absolutely incredible job on that. I could not have produced this work without her help. She is astute, knowledgeable, capable, a good writer, and an incredibly capable person to have working for the U.S. Government. After she left my office, she worked for the Science Committee in the House, but now has been working in the Office of Science and Technology Policy for several years. That agency, of course, provides scientific and technical advice to the President, works to assess and coordinate science and technology efforts across the Federal Government. And the position she has been nominated for as the OSTP Associate Director for Science leads these important activities within the science division of OSTP,
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