[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 108 (Wednesday, September 6, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D914-D915]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine recent controversies in stem cell research, after receiving 
testimony from James F. Battey, Chairman, National Institutes of Health 
Stem Cell Task Force; Robert Lanza, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc., 
Worcester, Massachusetts; Ronald M. Green, Dartmouth College, Hanover, 
New Hampshire; and Kevin Eggan, Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
ARMY FIELD MANUAL ON INTERROGATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing regarding the Army Field Manual on Interrogation from 
Stephen A. Cambone, Under Secretary for Intelligence, Lieutenant 
General John F. Kimmons, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, Office of the 
Chief of Staff of the Army, and Cully Stimson, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Detainee Affairs, all of the Department of Defense.
STOCK OPTIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Federal accounting and regulation of stock options 
backdating, after receiving testimony from Christopher Cox, Chairman, 
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Mark W. Olson, Public Company 
Accounting Oversight Board, Washington, D.C.; Erik Lie, University of 
Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business, Iowa City; Lynn E. Turner, 
Glass, Lewis and Co. LLC, San Francisco, California; Kurt N. Schacht, 
CFA Centre for Financial Market Integrity, Charlottesville, North 
Carolina; and Russell Read, California Public Employees' Retirement 
System, Sacramento.
FEDERAL RENEWABLE FUELS PROGRAM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the implementation of the federal 
renewable fuels programs, after receiving testimony from William 
Wehrum, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Alexander Karsner, Assistant Secretary 
of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; and Keith 
Collins, Chief Economist, Department of Agriculture.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine current 
issues regarding executive compensation, including backdating of stock 
options, and tax treatment of executive compensation, retirement and 
benefits, after receiving testimony from Paul J. McNulty, Deputy 
Attorney General, Department of Justice; Mark Everson, Commissioner, 
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Linda Thomsen, 
Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission; Nell Minow, The Corporate Library, Portland, Maine; Lucian 
A. Bebchuk, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Charles M. 
Elson, University of Delaware Lerner College of Business and Economics, 
Newark; and Steven Balsam, Temple University Fox School of Business, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
GROUP HEALTH CARE
Committee on the Judiciary:Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
competition in group health care, focusing on enforcement actions and 
competition advocacy to protect and promote competition in health care 
markets, after receiving testimony from Senator

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Coburn; J. Bruce McDonald, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust 
Division, Department of Justice; David P. Wales, Deputy Director, 
Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission; Mark A. Piasio, 
Pennsylvania Medical Society, Harrisburg; Edward L. Langston, American 
Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois; Stephanie W. Kanwit, America's 
Health Insurance Plans, Washington, D.C.; and David A. Hyman, 
University of Illinois Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy, 
Champaign.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Kent A. Jordan, of Delaware, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, who was introduced by Senators 
Biden and Carper and Representative Castle; Marcia Morales Howard, to 
be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, who 
was introduced by Senator Martinez; John Alfred Jarvey, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa, who was 
introduced by Senators Harkin and Grassley; and Sara Elizabeth Lioi, to 
be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, who 
was introduced by Senators DeWine and Voinovich, after each nominee 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.