[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 149 (Wednesday, October 3, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1314-D1315]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMBATING DARFUR GENOCIDE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine combating genocide in Darfur, focusing on the role 
of divestment and other policy tools, including S. 831, to authorize 
States and local governments to prohibit the investment of State assets 
in any company that has a qualifying business relationship with Sudan, 
after receiving testimony from Senators Durbin and Brownback; Jendayi 
E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, and Elizabeth L. 
Dibble, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance 
and Development, Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, both 
of the Department of State; Adam J. Szubin, Director, Office of Foreign 
Assets Control, Department of the Treasury; Rhode Island General 
Treasurer Frank T. Caprio, Providence; Bennett Freeman, Calvert Group, 
Bethesda, Maryland; and John Prendergast, ENOUGH Project, William A. 
Reinsch, National Foreign Trade Council, on behalf of USA Engage, and 
Adam Sterling, Sudan Divestment Task Force, all of Washington, D.C.
NRC'S REACTOR OVERSIGHT PROCESS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission's reactor oversight process, focusing on 
licensing the construction and operation of new nuclear reactors, after 
receiving testimony from Dale E. Klein, Chairman, Gregory B. Jaczko and 
Peter B. Lyons, each a Commissioner, all of the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission; Mark E. Gaffigan, Acting Director, Natural Resources and 
Environment, United States Government Accountability Office; and David 
A. Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Marvin S. Fertel, 
Nuclear Energy Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Gail Dennise Mathieu, of New Jersey, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, William Raymond Steiger, of 
Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique, Dan Mozena, 
of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola, and Eunice S. 
Reddick, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic, and to 
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe,

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after the nominees testified and answer questions in their own behalf.
BURMA'S SAFFRON REVOLUTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded a hearing to examine Burma, focusing on anti-
government protests led by saffron-robed Buddhist monks (''Saffron 
Revolution''), after receiving testimony from Senators McConnell and 
Feinstein; Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the 
Bureau of East Asian and Public Affairs; and Michael J. Green, Center 
for Strategic and International Studies, Aung Din, United States 
Campaign for Burma, and Tom Malinowski, Human Rights Watch, all of 
Washington, D.C.
PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and 
Integration concluded a hearing to examine pandemic influenza, focusing 
on state and local government efforts to prepare, after receiving 
testimony from Rear Admiral William C. Vanderwagen, Assistant Secretary 
for Preparedness and Response, Department of Health and Human Services; 
B. Tilman Jolly, Associate Chief Medical Officer for Medical Readiness, 
Office of Health Affairs, Department of Homeland Security; Paul K. 
Halverson, Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock; Christopher M. 
Pope, New Hampshire Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 
Concord; and Yvonne S. Madlock, Memphis and Shelby County Health 
Department, Memphis, Tennessee, on behalf of the National Association 
of County and City Health Officials.
RAILROAD ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 
772, to amend the Federal antitrust laws to provide expanded coverage 
and to eliminate exemptions from such laws that are contrary to the 
public interest with respect to railroads, after receiving testimony 
from Charles D. Nottingham, Chairman, Surface Transportation Board, 
Department of Transportation; William L. Berg, Dairyland Power 
Cooperative, La Crosse, Wisconsin; Ken Vander Schaaf, Alliant 
Techsystems Ammunition and Energetics Systems, Radford, Virginia; 
Robert G. Szabo, Van Ness Feldman, P.C., on behalf of Consumers United 
for Rail Equity (CURE), and G. Paul Moates, Sidley Austin, LLP, on 
behalf of the Association of American Railroads, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Darren Bush, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, 
Texas.
VETERANS HEALTH
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
veterans health, focusing on ensuring the care of aging members of the 
military and military retirees, after receiving testimony from former 
Senator Robert Dole; Michael Shepherd, Physician, Office of Healthcare 
Inspections, and Larry M. Reinkemeyer, Director, Kansas City Audit 
Operations Division, both of the Office of Inspector General, 
Department of Veterans Affairs; Steven R. Berg, National Alliance to 
End Homelessness, and Fred Cowell, Paralyzed Veterans of America, both 
of Washington, D.C.; and Mark S. Kaplan, Portland State University 
School of Community Health, Portland, Oregon.