[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 6 (Thursday, January 11, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D33-D34]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LONG-TERM BUDGET OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
long-term budget outlook and the challenges it presents, after 
receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller General, 
Government Accountability Office.
MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine an 
overview and economic perspectives for the Medicare Prescription Drug 
Benefit, focusing on prescription drug pricing and negotiation by 
governments and other countries, by U.S. private payers, such as 
employer-based health plans, and by Federal programs other than 
Medicare Part D, after receiving testimony from John E. Dicken, 
Director, Health Care, Government Accountability Office; Gerard F.

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Anderson, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 
Baltimore, Maryland; Edmund F. Haislmaier, Heritage Foundation, 
Washington, DC; Richard G. Frank, Harvard University Department of 
Health Care Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Fiona M. Scott 
Morton, Yale University School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
remaining options relating to securing America's interests in Iraq, 
focusing on troop surge, partition, withdrawal, or strengthening the 
center, receiving testimony from Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State; 
and Peter W. Galbraith, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, 
Frederick W. Kagan, American Enterprise Institute, and Ted Galen 
Carpenter, CATO Institute, all of Washington, DC.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine current and projected national security threats, after 
receiving testimony from John D. Negroponte, Director of National 
Intelligence, General Michael V. Hayden, Director, Central Intelligence 
Agency; Lieutenant General Michael D. Maples, U.S. Army, Director, 
Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense; Robert S. Mueller, 
III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; 
and Randall M. Fort, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of 
Intelligence and Research.