[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 172 (Wednesday, November 7, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1488-D1489]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CARBON SEQUESTRATION TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Innovation concluded a hearing to examine 
carbon sequestration technologies, after receiving testimony from 
Robert C. Burruss, Research Geologist, Energy Resources Team, United 
States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; Howard Herzog, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Energy and 
Environment, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Charles E. Fox, Kinder Morgan, 
Houston, Texas; Sally M. Benson, Stanford University Global Climate and 
Energy Project, Stanford, California; Ron Wolfe, Sealaska Corporation, 
Juneau, Alaska; and Bryan Hannegan, Electric Power Research Institute, 
Palo Alto, California.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the United States government enforcement of intellectual property 
rights, including S. 522, to safeguard the economic health of the 
United States and the health and safety of the United States citizens 
by improving the management, coordination, and effectiveness of 
domestic and international intellectual property rights enforcement, 
and S. 2317, to amend titles 17 and 18, United States Code, and the 
Trademark Act of 1946 to strengthen and harmonize the protection of 
intellectual property, after receiving testimony from Senator Bayh; 
Chris S. Israel, Coordinator for International Intellectual Property 
Enforcement, Department of Commerce; Christopher L. Moore, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State for Trade Policy and Programs, Bureau of 
Economic, Energy and Business Affairs; and Kevin J. O'Connor, United 
States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Chairman, Task 
Force on Intellectual Property, Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 2300, to improve the Small Business Act, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.

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VETERANS CLAIMS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine the performance and structure of the United States 
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, after receiving testimony from 
William P. Greene, Jr., Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for 
Veterans Claims; R. Randall Campbell, Assistant General Counsel, 
Department of Veterans Affairs; and Richard Paul Cohen, National 
Organization of Veterans Advocates (NOVA), Inc., Christine Cote, 
National Veterans Legal Services Program, and Joseph A. Violante, 
Disabled American Veterans (DAV), all of Washington, D.C.