[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 19, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D986-D987]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS:
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of General Bantz J. Craddock, USA, for reappointment to 
be general and to be Commander, U.S. European Command, Vice Admiral 
James G. Stavridis, USN for appointment to be admiral and to be 
Commander, U.S. Southern Command, Nelson M. Ford, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and 
Comptroller, and Ronald J. James, of Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary of 
the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
COMBATING PORNOGRAPHY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the problem of child pornography and what financial 
service companies and their regulators can do to eliminate child 
pornography from the financial payment system, after receiving 
testimony from Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, Department of 
Justice; Ernie Allen, National Center for Missing and Exploited 
Children, Alexandria, Virginia; Kim Mowder, Bank of America, 
Louisville, Kentucky; Mark MacCarthy, Visa U.S.A., Inc., Washington, 
D.C.; Mike DeNoma, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore; and Jodi 
Golinsky, MasterCard Worldwide, Purchase, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Kevin J. Martin, of North 
Carolina, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, John 
M. R. Kneuer, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Communications and Information, and 2 nomination lists in the Coast 
Guard.
ONLINE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine certain issues relating to online child 
pornography, identifying, investigating, and prosecuting those who use 
the Internet to sexually exploit children, after receiving testimony 
from Alice S. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, 
Department of Justice; Jim Finch, Assistant Director, Cyber Division, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation; Michael J. Brown, Bedford County, 
Bedford, Virginia; Ernie Allen and John Shehan, both of the National 
Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Alexandria, Virginia; and 
Sharon W. Cooper, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of 
Medicine, Fayetteville.
IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the policy of the United States towards Iran, focusing on the 
response to Iran's continued pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability 
including its nuclear enrichment and re-processing activities, after 
receiving testimony from R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State 
for Political Affairs; Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations, and 
Martin S. Indyk, Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Ashton B. Carter, Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and 
International Affairs, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
PRISON RADICALIZATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to discuss Federal efforts to prevent the 
recruitment of terrorists and extremists in Federal prisons, after 
receiving testimony from John M. Vanyur, Assistant Director, 
Correctional Programs Division, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Donald 
N. Van Duyn, Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice;

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Javed Ali, Senior Intelligence Officer, Office of Intelligence and 
Analysis, Department of Homeland Security; Frank J. Cilluffo, George 
Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute, and Daveed 
Gartenstein-Ross, Counterterrorism Foundation, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Gregory B. Saathoff, University of Virginia School of 
Medicine, Charlottesville.
COST OF CRIME
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the financial and human impact of criminal activity relating to the 
cost of crime, focusing on the federal inmate population, and 
recidivism, after receiving testimony from Harley G. Lappin, Director, 
Federal Bureau of Prisons, Jeffrey Sedgwick, Director, Bureau of 
Justice Statistics, both of the Department of Justice; and Jens Ludwig, 
Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, and Mary Lou Leary, 
National Center for Victims of Crime, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Robert James Jonker, Paul Lewis Maloney, and Janet 
T. Neff, each to be a United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Michigan, who were introduced by Senators Levin and 
Stabenow, and Leslie Southwick, of Mississippi, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, who was 
introduced by Senators Cochran and Lott, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.