[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 143 (Tuesday, September 25, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1255-D1257]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GULF COAST HOUSING NEEDS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine certain

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issues two years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, focusing on housing 
needs in the Gulf Coast, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Landrieu; Orlando J. Cabrera, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development for Public and Indian Housing; James Perry, Greater New 
Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, on behalf of the National Low 
Income Housing Coalition, James R. Kelly, Providence Community Housing, 
Emelda Paul, Lafitte Resident Council, and Edgar A.G. Bright, III, 
Standard Mortgage Corporation, on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers 
Association, all of New Orleans, Louisiana; Alan Brown, United 
Methodist Senior Services of Mississippi, Inc., Tupelo, on behalf of 
the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging; and Amy 
Liu, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS SUPPLEMENTAL NUCLEAR COMPENSATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1756, to provide supplemental ex gratia 
compensation to the Republic of the Marshall Islands for impacts of the 
nuclear testing program of the United States, after receiving testimony 
from Thomas Bussanich, Acting Director, Office of Insular Affairs, 
Department of the Interior; David B. Gootnick, Director, International 
Affairs and Trade, Government Accountability Office; Witten T. 
Philippo, Minister in Assistance to the President, and Jonathan M. 
Weisgall, Legal Counsel, both of Majuro, Republic of the Marshall 
Islands.
GLOBAL WARMING INITIATIVES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine jobs in the renewable energy industries created by 
global warming initiatives, after receiving testimony from Sigmar 
Gabriel, Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear 
Safety, Berlin, Germany; former Representative Richard K. Armey, 
FreedomWorks, Jerome Ringo, Apollo Alliance, Kenneth P. Green, American 
Enterprise Institute, and Carol L. Berrigan, Nuclear Energy Institute, 
all of Washington, D.C.; Wayne H. Winegarden, Arduin, Laffer, and Moore 
Econometrics, Tallahassee, Florida; Vinod Khosla, Klosla Ventures, 
Menlo Park, California; Daniel M. Kammen, University of California, 
Berkeley; David Blittersdorf, NRG Systems and Earth Turbines, 
Hinesburg, Vermont; Mark Culpepper, SunEdison, LLC, Beltsville, 
Maryland; and Donald D. Gilligan, National Association of Energy 
Service Companies, Sharon, Massachusetts.
HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine home and 
community-based care, focusing on expanding options for long-term care 
services, after receiving testimony from Senator Harkin; Patrick Flood, 
Vermont Agency of Human Services, Waterbury; Kevin W. Concannon, Iowa 
Department of Human Services, Des Moines; Robert D. Liston, Montana 
Fair Housing, Missoula; and Mitch LaPlante, University of California, 
San Francisco.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of David T. Johnson, of Georgia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of State (International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs), P. Robert Fannin, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to 
the Dominican Republic, who was introduced by Senator Kyl, and Paul E. 
Simons, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
STRENGTHENING FISA
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
strengthening the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 
including S. 1927, to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 
of 1978 to provide additional procedures for authorizing certain 
acquisitions of foreign intelligence information, and S. 2011, ``The 
Protect America Act of 2007'', after receiving testimony from J. 
Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence; James A. Baker, 
Harvard Law School, former Counsel for Intelligence Policy, Department 
of Justice, and Suzanne E. Spaulding, Bingham Consulting Group, both of 
Washington, D.C.; James X. Dempsey, Center for Democracy and 
Technology, San Francisco, California; and H. Bryan Cunningham, Morgan 
and Cunningham LLC, Greenwood Village, Colorado.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of John Daniel Tinder, of Indiana, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, who was introduced by Senators 
Lugar and Bayh, and Robert M. Dow, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, who was introduced by 
Senator Durbin, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
GULF WAR ILLNESSES
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine research and treatment for Gulf War illnesses, after 
receiving testimony from Michael E. Kilpatrick, Deputy Director, Force 
Health Protection and Readiness Program, and Colonel Janet Harris, 
Director, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, 
Department of

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the Army, both of the Department of Defense; Joel Kupersmith, Chief 
Research and Development Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs; James 
H. Binns, Jr., Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans 
Illnesses, Phoenix, Arizona; Julie Mock, Veterans of Modern Warfare, 
Inc., Washington, D.C.; Meryl Nass, Mount Desert Island Hospital, Bar 
Harbor, Maine; Lea Steele, Kansas State University, Topeka, on behalf 
of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses; and 
Roberta White, Boston University School of Public Health Department of 
Environmental Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
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.