[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 168 (Thursday, November 1, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1460-D1461]
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 Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Private 
Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection 
approved for full Committee consideration S. 2191, to direct the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a 
program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Christopher A. Padilla, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Christina H. 
Pearson, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, and Benjamin Eric Sasse, of Nebraska, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, who was introduced by Senators 
Hagel and Nelson (NE), after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION LOAN PROGRAM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine the 
Small Business Administration (SBA), focusing on the efficacy of the 
7(a) loan program, including the 7(a) program's purpose and the 
performance measures SBA uses to assess the program's results, evidence 
of any market constraints that may affect small businesses' access to 
credit in the conventional lending market, the segments of the small 
business lending market that were served by 7(a) loans and the segments 
that were served by conventional loans, and the factors that may cause 
uncertainty about these costs, after receiving testimony from William 
B. Shear, Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, 
Government Accountability Office; Grady Hedgespeth, Director of 
Financial Assistance, Small Business Administration; Veronique de Rugy, 
George Mason University Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia; and 
Anthony R. Wilkinson, National Association of Government Guaranteed 
Lenders, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Gregory F. Jacob, of 
New Jersey, to be Solicitor, and Howard Radzely, of Maryland, to be 
Deputy Secretary, both of the Department of Labor, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.

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FLOOD CONTROL ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the impact of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (Public Law 78-
534) on Indian Tribes along the Missouri River, after receiving 
testimony from Robin M. Nazzaro, Director, and Jeffery Malcolm, 
Assistant Director, both of Natural Resources and Environment, 
Government Accountability Office; Ron His Horse Is Thunder, Standing 
Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, North Dakota; Michael B. Jandreau, Lower 
Brule Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule, South Dakota; Marcus Wells, Jr., Three 
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North 
Dakota; Roger Trudell, Santee Sioux Nation, Niobrara, Nebraska; Robert 
W. Cournoyer, Yankton Sioux Tribe, Marty, South Dakota; and John 
Yellowbird Steele, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  S. 1946, to help Federal prosecutors and investigators combat public 
corruption by strengthening and clarifying the law, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2168, to amend title 18, United States Code, to enable increased 
federal prosecution of identity theft crimes and to allow for 
restitution to victims of identity theft, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of John Daniel Tinder, of Indiana, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, and Julie L. Myers, of 
Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.