[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 13, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D319-D320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment 
and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the Environmental Protection Agency, 
after receiving testimony from Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator, 
William Wehrum, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, 
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Susan Bodine, Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and 
Emergency Response, all of the Environmental Protection Agency.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of James R. Kunder, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
Administrator, Douglas Menarchik, of Texas, to be an Assistant 
Administrator, Paul J. Bonicelli, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Administrator, and Katherine Almquist, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Administrator, all of the United States Agency for International 
Development, Margrethe Lundsager, of Virginia, to be United States 
Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, Eli Whitney 
Debevoise II, of Maryland, to be United States Executive Director of 
the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Curtis 
S. Chin, of New York, to be United States Director of the Asian 
Development Bank, with the rank of Ambassador, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
RADIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia to examine international action by the United 
States to secure radiological materials, focusing on Department of 
Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission efforts through the 
International Atomic Energy Agency and the other multilateral 
organizations, after receiving testimony from Richard J.K. Stratford, 
Director, Office of Nuclear Energy, Safety and Security, Bureau of 
International Security and Nonproliferation, Department of State; 
Andrew Bieniawski, Assistant Deputy Administrator, Office of Global 
Threat Reduction, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department 
of Energy; Janice Dunn Lee, Director, Office of International Programs, 
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Gene Aloise, Director, 
Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; 
Brian Dodd, Health Physics Society, McLean, Virginia; Charles D. 
Ferguson, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York; and Joel O. 
Lubenau, Lititz, Pennsylvania.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Halil Suleyman Ozerden, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, who was introduced by 
Senators Cochran and Lott, Benjamin Hale Settle, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Washington, and Frederick J. 
Kapala, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Illinois, who were both introduced by Senator Durbin, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
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.