[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 144 (Wednesday, September 26, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1267-D1268]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2008 for the President's 
supplemental request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, after 
receiving testimony from Robert Gates, Secretary, Tina W. Jonas, Under 
Secretary (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer, and General Peter 
Pace, USMC, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of the Department of 
Defense; and John Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State.
SUBPRIME CREDIT MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the role and impact of credit rating agencies on the 
subprime credit markets, after receiving testimony from Christopher 
Cox, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and John C. 
Coffee, Jr., Columbia University Law School, Michael Kanef, Moody's 
Investors Service, Vickie A. Tillman, Standard and Poor's Credit Market 
Services, and Lawrence J. White, New York University Leonard N. Stern 
School of Business, all of New York, New York.
GEOTHERMAL INITIATIVE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1543, to establish a national geothermal 
initiative to encourage increased production of energy from geothermal 
resources, after receiving testimony from Alexander Karsner, Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Mark D. 
Myers, Director, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; 
Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, Reykjavik; David R. Wunsch, 
New Hampshire Geological Survey, Concord, on behalf of the Association 
of American State Geologists; Susan Petty, AtlaRock Energy, Inc., 
Seattle, Washington; Lisa Shevenell, University of Nevada Great Basin 
Center for Geothermal Energy, Reno; and Kenneth H. Williamson, Santa 
Rosa, California.
IMPACTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the impacts of global warming on the Chesapeake Bay, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Mikulski; Representative 
Gilchrest; Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine, Richmond; Maryland 
Governor Martin O'Malley, and William C. Baker, Chesapeake Bay

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Foundation, both of Annapolis; Christopher R. Pyke, CTG Energetics, 
Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; Donald F. Boesch, University of Maryland 
Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge; Dennis T. Avery, Hudson 
Institute, Churchville, Virginia; David W. Schnare, Thomas Jefferson 
Institute for Public Policy, Burke, Virginia; and Richard Edmund, 
United Methodist Church, Ewell, Maryland.
OFFSHORE TAX ISSUES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine offshore 
tax issues, focusing on reinsurance and hedge funds, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Dorgan; Jane G. Gravelle, Senior Specialist in 
Economic Policy, Congressional Research Service Library of Congress; 
William R. Berkley, W.R. Berkley Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, 
on behalf of sundry organizations; Donald Kramer, Ariel Reinsurance 
Company, Hamilton, Bermuda, on behalf of the Association of Bermuda 
Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR); Suzanne Ross McDowell, Steptoe and 
Johnson, LLP, and Lynne Munson, Center for College Affordability and 
Productivity, both of Washington, D.C.; and Daniel S. Shapiro, Schulte 
Roth and Zabel, LLP, London, England, on behalf of the Managed Funds 
Association.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following:
   H.R. 2654, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 202 South Dumont Avenue in Woonsocket, South Dakota, 
as the ``Eleanor McGovern Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 2467, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 69 Montgomery Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, as 
the ``Frank J. Guarini Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 2587, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 555 South 3rd Street Lobby in Memphis, Tennessee, as 
the ``Kenneth T. Whalum, Sr. Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 2778, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 3 Quaker Ridge Road in New Rochelle, New York, as 
the ``Robert Merrill Postal Station'';
   H.R. 2825, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 326 South Main Street in Princeton, Illinois, as the 
``Owen Lovejoy Princeton Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 3052, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 954 Wheeling Avenue in Cambridge, Ohio, as the 
``John Herschel Glenn, Jr. Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 3106 and S. 2023, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 805 Main Street in Ferdinand, Indiana, 
as the ``Staff Sergeant David L. Nord Post Office'';
   H.R. 2765, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 44 North Main Street in Hughesville, Pennsylvania, 
as the ``Master Sergeant Sean Michael Thomas Post Office''; and
  The nomination of Julie L. Myers, of Kansas, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Homeland Security.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of Michael J. Sullivan, of Massachusetts, to be 
Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, after 
the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Kerry, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of Robert Charles Tapella, of Virginia, to be 
Public Printer.
  Also, Committee ordered reported the nominations of Steven T. 
Walther, of Nevada, Hans von Spakovsky, of Georgia, David M. Mason, of 
Virginia, and Robert D. Lenhard, of Maryland, all to be Members of the 
Federal Election Commission, without recommendation.
IMPROVING INTERNET ACCESS
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine improving internet access to help small business 
compete in a global economy, after receiving testimony from Michael J. 
Copps, and Jonathan S. Adelstein, both Commissioners, Federal 
Communications Commission; Ben Scott, Free Press, on behalf of 
Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America, and Scott 
Wallsten, Progress and Freedom Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Brian R. Mefford, Connected Nation, Inc., Bowling Green, Kentucky; and 
Douglas A. Levin, Black Duck Software, Waltham, Massachusetts.