[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 130 (Wednesday, September 5, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1154-D1155]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
UTAH MINE DISASTER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine the Utah mine disaster, focusing on preventing future coal 
mining tragedies, after receiving testimony from Richard E. Stickler, 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Administration; 
Cecil E. Roberts, United Mine Workers of America, Fairfax, Virginia; J. 
Davitt McAteer, Wheeling Jesuit University, Shepherdstown, West 
Virginia; and Bruce Watzman, National Mining Association, Washington, 
D.C.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing on the 
nominations of Nancy Goodman Brinker, of Florida, to be Chief of 
Protocol, and to have the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of 
service, Harry K. Thomas, Jr., of New York, to be Director General of 
the Foreign Service, who was introduced by Representative Lantos and 
Senator Hutchison, Mark Kimmitt, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of State (Political-Military Affairs), who was introduced by 
Senator Warner, and Ned L. Siegel, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the 
Commonwealth of The Bahamas, who was introduced by Senator Martinez, 
after each nominee testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and its continuing 
importance, after receiving testimony from Representative John Lewis 
(GA); Gail Heriot, Commissioner, United States Commission on Civil 
Rights; Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Theodore 
M. Shaw, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Peter A. 
Zamora, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Robert 
N. Driscoll, Alston and Bird LLP, all of Washington, D.C.; and Robert 
P. Moses, Algebra Project, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ADVISING SENIORS ON FINANCIAL ISSUES
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the qualifications for those who advise seniors about financial issues, 
after receiving testimony from Christopher Cox, Chairman, United States 
Securities and Exchange Commission; Minnesota Attorney General Lori 
Swanson, St. Paul; William Francis Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of 
State, Boston; Joseph P. Borg, North America Securities Administrators 
Association, Inc., and Nicholas A. Nicolette, Financial Planning 
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Sandy Praeger, Kansas Insurance 
Commissioner, Topeka, on behalf of the National Association of 
Insurance Commissioners (NAIC); Gary Bhojwani, Allianz Life Insurance 
Company of North America, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Edwin J. Pittock, 
Society of Certified Senior Advisors, Denver, Colorado.