[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 128 (Tuesday, November 14, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1099]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Michele A. Davis, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Public Affairs, Robert F. Hoyt, of Maryland, to be General Counsel, 
and Paul Cherecwich, Jr., of Utah, and Deborah L. Wince-Smith, of 
Virginia, each to be a Member of the Internal Revenue Service Oversight 
Board, all of the Department of the Treasury, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of James H. Bilbray, of 
Nevada, who was introduced by Representative Bilbray, and Thurgood 
Marshall, Jr., of Virginia, who was introduced by Representative Jim 
Moran of Virginia, each to be a Governor of the United States Postal 
Service, and Dan G. Blair, to be Chairman, Postal Rate Commission, who 
was introduced by Senator Bond, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
TAX LAWS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing to examine the issue of 
states incorporating new, non-publicly traded companies in the United 
States each year without obtaining the identity of corporate owners, 
and its impact on law enforcement investigations into persons misusing 
U.S. shell corporations for money laundering, tax evasion, terrorist 
financing, or other crimes, and a GAO report entitled ``Company 
Formations: Minimal Ownership Information Is Collected and Available'', 
receiving testimony from Stuart G. Nash, Associate Deputy Attorney 
General, Department of Justice; K. Steven Burgess, Director, 
Examination, and Robert Northcutt, Acting Director of the Abusive 
Transactions Office, both of the Small Business/Self-Employed Division, 
Internal Revenue Service, and Jamal El-Hindi, Financial Crimes 
Enforcement Network, all of the Department of the Treasury; Yvonne 
Jones, Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment Team, 
Government Accountability Office; Richard J. Geisenberger, Delaware 
Assistant Secretary of State, Dover; Scott W. Anderson, Nevada Deputy 
Secretary of State for Commercial Recordings, Carson City; and Laurie 
Flynn, Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
Boston.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
SPORTS PROGRAMMING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held a hearing to examine 
competition in sports programming and broadcasting, focusing on the 
goals of the program access statute and fostering competition to the 
incumbent cable operators, receiving testimony from Roger Noll, 
Stanford University Department of Economics, Stanford, California; 
Jeffrey Pash, National Football League, and Landel C. Hobbs, Time 
Warner Cable, both of New York, New York; and Daniel M. Fawcett, 
DIRECTV, Inc., Washington, D.C.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of Thomas M. Hardiman, of Pennsylvania, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senators Specter and Santorum, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.