[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 171 (Tuesday, November 6, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1480-D1481]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DOMESTIC ENERGY INDUSTRY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the efficacy of the domestic energy industry, 
focusing on its available workforce to meet our Nation's growing energy 
needs, after receiving testimony from Emily S. DeRocco, Assistant 
Secretary, Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor; 
Patricia A. Hoffman, Deputy Director of Research and Development, and 
Acting Chief Operating Officer, Office of Electricity Delivery and 
Energy Reliability, and Ray Stults, Associate Director for Energy 
Sciences, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, both of the Department 
of Energy; Andra Cornelius, Workforce Florida, Inc., Tallahassee; Norm 
Szydlowski, Colonial Pipeline Company, Alpharetta, Georgia; James L. 
Hunter, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Utility 
Department, and Carol L. Berrigan, Nuclear Energy Institute, both of 
Washington, DC; and W. Paul Bowers, Southern Company Generation, 
Atlanta, Georgia.
PENSIONS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and 
Family Policy concluded a hearing to examine the Government Pension 
Offset (GPO), and the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), focusing on 
policies affecting pensions from employment not covered by Social 
Security, after receiving testimony from Senator Collins; Barbara D. 
Bovbjerg, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, 
Government Accountability Office; Priya S. Mathur, California Public 
Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Sacramento, on behalf of the 
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; Lawrence 
H. Thompson, Urban Institute, Washington, DC; and Margaret Kane, 
Medford, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Michael B. Mukasey, of New York, to be Attorney General.
VA MEDICAL FACILITIES
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine the hiring practices and quality control in 
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities, after receiving 
testimony from Gerald Cross, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for 
Health, Peter Almenoff, Director, VA Heartland Network, VISN 15, George 
O. Maish, Jr.,

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Chief of Surgery, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, VA Medical Center, and Kathryn 
Enchelmayer, Director of Quality Standards, Office of Quality 
Performance, Veterans' Health Administration, all of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs; Randall B. Williamson, Acting Director, Health Care, 
Government Accountability Office; Tammy Duckworth, Illinois Department 
of Veterans' Affairs, Springfield; and Steve McCarty, Bedford, Texas.
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.