[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 5, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D767]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EXECUTIVE STOCK OPTIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine executive 
stock options, focusing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and 
stockholders information, after receiving testimony from Kevin M. 
Brown, Acting Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the 
Treasury; John W. White, Director, Division of Corporation Finance, and 
Lynn E. Turner, former Chief Accountant, Broomfield, Colorado, both of 
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Stephen F. Bollenbach, KB 
Homes, and John S. Chalsty, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, both of 
Los Angeles, California; William Y. Tauscher, Safeway Inc., Pleasanton, 
California; Jeffrey P. Mahoney, Council of Institutional Investors, 
Washington, D.C.; and Mihir A. Desai, Harvard University Business 
School, Boston, Massachusetts.
GANG ABATEMENT AND PREVENTION ACT OF 2007
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the federal role to work with communities to prevent and respond to 
gang violence, focusing on S. 456, to increase and enhance law 
enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of 
violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-
abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and 
enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve 
gang prevention programs, after receiving testimony from Senator Boxer; 
Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, and William J. Bratton, Los Angeles 
Police Department, both of Los Angeles, California; Boni Gayle 
Driskill, Wings of Protection, Modesto, California; District Attorney 
James P. Fox, Redwood City, California, on behalf of the National 
District Attorneys Association; Claude A. Robinson Jr., Uhlich 
Children's Advantage Network, Chicago, Illinois; Gregg Croteau, United 
Teen Equality Center, Lowell, Massachusetts; and Patrick Word, 
Gaithersburg City Police Department, Gaithersburg, Maryland, on behalf 
of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Gang Investigators Network.
PRESERVING PROSECUTORIAL INDEPENDENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Department of Justice and politicizing the hiring and firing of 
United States Attorneys, focusing on preserving prosecutorial 
independence, after receiving testimony from Bradley J. Schlozman, 
Associate Counsel to the Director, Executive Office for United States 
Attorneys, Department of Justice; and Todd P. Graves, Graves Bartle and 
Marcus LLC, Kansas City, Missouri.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.