[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 14, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D188-D189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IRANIAN ACTIVITIES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing regarding Iranian activities in Iraq from Eric S. Edelman, 
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Lieutenant General Douglas E.

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Lute, USA, Director for Operations, J-3, The Joint Staff; Lieutenant 
General Michael D. Maples, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; 
and David Satterfield, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, 
Coordinator for Iraq, Department of State.
MONETARY POLICY REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the 
Congress, after receiving testimony from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
TAX COMPLIANCE
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's fiscal year 2008 budget proposals on tax compliance, after 
receiving testimony from Mark W. Everson, Commissioner, Internal 
Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
OVERSEAS SWEATSHOP ABUSES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Interstate Commerce, Trade, and Tourism concluded a hearing to examine 
overseas sweatshop abuses, focusing on their impact on U.S. workers and 
the need for anti-sweatshop legislation, including S. 367, to amend the 
Tariff Act of 1930 to prohibit the import, export, and sale of goods 
made with sweatshop labor, after receiving testimony from David J. 
Socolow, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, 
Trenton; Betty Fuentes, International Labor Rights Fund, and Daniel T. 
Griswold, Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Sheikh Nazma, and 
Charles Kernaghan, both of the National Labor Committee, New York, New 
York; James D. English, United Steelworkers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 
and Steven A. Jesseph, Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production, 
Arlington, Virginia.
DEEPWATER PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine recent setbacks to the Coast Guard Deepwater 
Program, focusing on efforts to improve management and address certain 
operations challenges, after receiving testimony from Admiral Thad W. 
Allen, Commandant, and Captain Kevin P. Jarvis, (Ret.), both of the 
U.S. Coast Guard, and Richard L. Skinner, Inspector General, all of the 
Department of Homeland Security; Stephen L. Caldwell, Acting Director, 
Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government Accountability Office; 
Leo S. Mackay, Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, Arlington, 
Virginia; and Philip A. Teel, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, 
Pascagoula, Mississippi.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 558, to provide parity between health insurance coverage of mental 
health benefits and benefits for medical and surgical services, with an 
amendment;
  S. 556, to reauthorize the Head Start Act; and
  The nomination of Leon R. Sequeira, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Labor.
JUDICIAL SECURITY AND INDEPENDENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
judicial security and independence, including S. 378, to amend title 
18, United States Code, to protect judges, prosecutors, witnesses, 
victims, and their family members, S. 197, to authorize salary 
adjustments for justices and judges of the United States for fiscal 
year 2007, S. 344, to permit the televising of Supreme Court 
proceedings, and S. 352, to provide for media coverage of Federal court 
proceedings, after receiving testimony from Associate Justice Anthony 
M. Kennedy, United States Supreme Court.
COMMITTEE FUNDING RESOLUTIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing on 
proposed legislation authorizing expenditures by the Select Committee 
on Intelligence, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee 
on Finance, after receiving testimony from Senators Rockefeller, Bond, 
Lugar, and Grassley.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.