[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 46 (Tuesday, April 25, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D376-D377]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine current securities issues, focusing on improving 
financial disclosure for individual investors, after receiving 
testimony from Christopher Cox, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission.
NASA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science and Space concluded a hearing to examine activities of the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, focusing on space 
exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research, after 
receiving testimony from Michael D. Griffin, Administrator, National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
METHAMPHETAMINE
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine the social 
and economic effects of the methamphetamine epidemic on America's child 
welfare system, receiving testimony from Kevin T. Frank, Montana 
Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family 
Services, Billings; Nancy K. Young, Children and Family Futures, Inc., 
Irvine, California; Frederick Aigner, Lutheran Social Services of 
Illinois, Des Plaines; and certain other witnesses.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and 
International Security concluded a hearing to examine the scope of 
illicit activity funding the current regime of North Korea, focusing on 
narcotics trafficking, manufacturing and trading in counterfeit 
cigarettes, and the Supernote family of counterfeit currency notes, 
after receiving testimony from Peter A. Prahar, Director, Office of 
Africa, Asia and Europe Programs, Bureau for International Narcotics 
and Law Enforcement Affairs, Department of State; Michael Merritt, 
Deputy Assistant Director, U.S. Secret Service, Department of Homeland 
Security; Kim Seung Min, Free North Korea Radio, Seoul, South Korea; 
David Asher, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia; and 
Marcus Noland, Institute for International Economics, and Chuck Downs, 
both of Washington, D.C.
IMMIGRATION AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
immigration issues, focusing on economic impacts relating to trade and 
capital flows and policies that affect trade and capital that alter 
immigration, after receiving testimony from Richard B. Freeman, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dan Siciliano, Stanford Law 
School, Stanford, California; Barry R. Chiswick, University of Illinois 
at Chicago; and Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University, Washington, 
D.C.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Milan D. Smith, Jr., of California, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senators Feinstein and Boxer, and Renee Marie Bumb, Noel Lawrence 
Hillman, Peter G. Sheridan, and Susan Davis Wigenton, each to be United 
States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, who were 
introduced by Senators Lautenberg and Menendez, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.