[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 112 (Thursday, July 23, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D901-D902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered
favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``The Public
Transportation Extension Act of 2009''.
SYSTEMIC RISK REGULATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a
hearing to examine establishing a framework for systemic risk
regulation, after receiving testimony from Sheila C. Bair, Chairman,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman,
United States Securities and Exchange Commission; Daniel K. Tarullo,
Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Alice M.
Rivlin, The Brookings Institution, Vincent Reinhart, American
Enterprise Institute, and Paul Schott Stevens, Investment Company
Institute, all of Washington D.C.; and Allan H. Meltzer, Carnegie
Mellon University Tepper School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
WATER AND POWER LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 637, to authorize the
construction of the Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System in the
State of Montana and a portion of McKenzie County, North Dakota, S.
789, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the
feasibility and suitability of constructing a storage reservoir, outlet
works, and a delivery system for the Tule River Indian Tribe of the
Tule River Reservation in the State of California to provide a water
supply for domestic, municipal, industrial, and agricultural purposes,
S. 1080, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior
with respect to the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and S. 1453, to
amend Public Law 106-392 to maintain annual base funding for the Bureau
of Reclamation for the Upper Colorado River and San Juan fish recovery
programs through fiscal year 2023, after receiving testimony from
Michale L. Connor, Commissioner, Bureau of
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Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Tod Kasten, Dry Redwater
Regional Water Authority, Circle, Montana; Ryan Garfield, Tule River
Tribe of California, Porterville; and John F. Sullivan, Salt River
Project, Phoenix, Arizona.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S.J. Res. 17, approving the renewal of import restrictions contained
in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003; and
The nominations of Miriam E. Sapiro, of the District of Columbia, to
be a Deputy United States Trade Representative, with the rank of
Ambassador, Executive Office of the President, Daniel M. Tangherlini,
of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Financial Officer, William J.
Wilkins, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Counsel for the
Internal Revenue Service and Assistant General Counsel, Kim N. Wallace,
of Texas, to be Deputy Under Secretary, George Wheeler Madison, of
Connecticut, to be General Counsel, and Rosa Gumataotao Rios, of
California, to be Treasurer, all of the Department of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to
examine the nominations of Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., of Utah, to be
Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, who was introduced by
Senators McCain, Hatch, and Bennett, John Victor Roos, of California,
to be Ambassador to Japan, who was introduced by former Vice President
Walter Mondale, former Senator Bill Bradley, former Speaker of the
House Tom Foley, Jonathan S. Addleton, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to
Mongolia, Teddy Bernard Taylor, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Papua
New Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands and Ambassador to the
Republic of Vanuatu, Martha Larzelere Campbell, of Michigan, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Kenneth E.
Gross, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Tajikistan, all of the Department of State, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine D.C. public
schools, focusing on education reform, after receiving testimony from
Cornelia M. Ashby, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security,
Government Accountability Office; Michelle Rhee, District of Columbia
Public Schools Chancellor, Victor Reinoso, and Kerri L. Briggs, both of
the District of Columbia Department of Education, all of Washington,
D.C.
BANKRUPTCY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight
and the Courts concluded a hearing to examine the reconsideration of
bankruptcy reform, after receiving testimony from Alys Cohen, National
Consumer Law Center, on behalf of the National Association of Consumer
Advocates and the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy
Attorneys, Adam J. Levitin, Georgetown University Law Center, and Mark
A. Calabria, Cato Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard
Genirberg, Genirberg Law Office, Jonesboro, Georgia; and Joe
Verdelotti, Jr., West Warwick, Rhode Island.
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.
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