[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 158 (Thursday, October 18, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1379-D1380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the Department of Transportation, 
focusing on issues related to funding and overseeing infrastructure 
projects, strengthening highway, rail, and air safety, reducing 
congestion, and modernizing the National Airspace System, after 
receiving testimony from Mary E. Peters, Secretary, and Calvin L. 
Scovel, III, Inspector General, both of the Department of 
Transportation.
SCIENCE PARKS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Innovation concluded a hearing to examine 
science parks, focusing on bolstering United States competitiveness, 
including S. 1373, to provide grants and loan guarantees for the 
development and construction of science parks to promote the clustering 
of innovation through high technology activities, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Bingaman; J. Michael Bowman, Delaware Technology 
Park, Inc., Newark, on behalf of the Association of University Research 
Parks (AURP); Phillip S. Stafford, University of Arkansas Technology 
Development Foundation, Fayetteville; and Randall T. Kempner, Regional 
Innovation, Washington, D.C, on behalf of the Council on 
Competitiveness.
LEAD EFFECTS ON CHILDREN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine lead and children's health, focusing on scientific 
evidence of lead's effects on children, recent research and incidents 
highlighting exposures and risks to children from lead, and mechanisms 
for addressing and preventing childhood lead exposures, after receiving 
testimony from James B. Gulliford, Assistant Administrator, Office of 
Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Olivia

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Farrow, Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, Maryland; Bruce P. 
Lanphear, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, 
Ohio; Thomas G. Neltner, Sierra Club, Indianapolis, Indiana, on behalf 
of sundry organizations; Mike Nagel, National Association of Home 
Builders, Roselle, Illinois; and David E. Jacobs, National Center for 
Healthy Housing, Columbia, Maryland.
TRADE: HEALTH AND SAFETY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
international trade, focusing on import health and safety for today and 
the future, after receiving testimony from Daniel Baldwin, Assistant 
Commissioner, Office of International Trade, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Cal Dooley, Grocery 
Manufacturers/Food Products Association, Washington, D.C.; Sandy 
Kennedy, Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), Arlington, 
Virginia; and Jean Halloran, Consumers Union, Yonkers, New York.
HATCH ACT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine politics in 
government, focusing on the scope and enforcement of the Hatch Act, 
after receiving testimony from James M. Byrne, Deputy Special Counsel, 
and Ana Galindo-Marrone, Chief, Hatch Act Unit, both of the Office of 
Special Counsel; B. Chad Bungard, General Counsel, Merit Systems 
Protection Board; and Colleen M. Kelley, National Treasury Employees 
Union, John Gage, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, 
and Thomas Devine, Government Accountability Project, all of 
Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Ellen C. Williams, of 
Kentucky, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, after 
the nominee, who was introduced by Senator McConnell, testified and 
answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
nomination of Michael B. Mukasey, of New York, to be Attorney General, 
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf, 
and receiving testimony from Dick Thornburgh, Kirkpatrick and Lockhart 
Preston Gates Ellis, LLP, and Chuck Canterbury, Fraternal Order of 
Police, both of Washington, D.C.; Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, JAGC, 
USN (Ret.), Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire; Dawn E. 
Johnsen, Indiana University Bloomington School of Law, Bloomington, 
Illinois; and Theodore M. Shaw, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 
Fund, Inc., and Mary Jo White, Debevoise and Plimpton, LLP, both of New 
York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session and 
ordered favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``Foreign 
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2007''.