[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 166 (Tuesday, October 30, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1442-D1443]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 33 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following:
  S. 2045, to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide 
greater protection for children's products, to improve the screening of 
noncompliant consumer products, to improve the effectiveness of 
consumer product recall programs, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2096, to amend the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act to eliminate the 
automatic removal of telephone numbers registered on the Federal ``do-
not-call'' registry, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1580, to reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, with 
amendments;
  S. 1853, to promote competition, to preserve the ability of local 
governments to provide broadband capability and services, with 
amendments;
  S. 1675, to implement the recommendations of the Federal 
Communications Commission report to the Congress regarding low-power FM 
service, with amendments;
  H. Con. Res. 225, honoring the 50th anniversary of the dawn of the 
Space Age, and the ensuing 50 years of productive and peaceful space 
activities; and
  The nominations of Todd J. Zinser, of Virginia, to be Inspector 
General, Department of Commerce, Robert Clarke Brown, of Ohio, to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington 
Airports Authority, and promotion lists in the United States Coast 
Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Daniel D. Heath, of New Hampshire, to be 
United States Alternate Executive Director of the International 
Monetary Fund, Sean R. Mulvaney, of Illinois, to be an Assistant 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, and Patrick Francis Kennedy, of Illinois, to be an Under 
Secretary of State (Management), after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
ISLAMIST EXTREMISM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the role of local law enforcement in 
countering violent Islamist extremism, focusing on the radicalization 
process, after receiving testimony from Lawrence H. Sanchez, and 
Mitchell D. Silber, both of the New York City Police Department, New 
York, New York; Michael P. Downing, Los Angeles Police Department 
Counter-Terrorism/Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Los Angeles, 
California; Michael R. Ronczkowski, Miami-Dade Police Department 
Homeland Security Bureau, Miami, Florida; and Thomas Dailey, Kansas 
City Police Department Homeland Security Division, Kansas City, 
Missouri.

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PROTECTING THE U.S. FROM DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine ways to protect the United States from 
the rising threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis, focusing on 
reinvesting in control and new tools research, after receiving 
testimony from Kenneth G. Castro, Assistant Surgeon General, and 
Director, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas 
R. Frieden, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New 
York, New York; Jerald C. Sadoff, Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, 
Rockville, Maryland; and Randall Reves, University of Colorado Health 
Sciences Center Department of Preventative Medicine and Biometrics, 
Denver, on behalf of the National Tuberculosis Controller's Association 
(NTCA), and sundry organizations.
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.