[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 175 (Tuesday, November 13, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1512-D1513]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FTC TAR AND NICOTINE CIGARETTE RATING SYSTEM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the accuracy of the Federal Trade Commission on 
the tar and nicotine cigarette rating system, after receiving testimony 
from William E. Kovacic, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission; Cathy 
Backinger, Acting Chief, Tobacco Control Research Branch, National 
Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and David Ashley, 
Chief, Emergency Response and Air Toxicants Branch, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, both of the Department of Health and Human 
Services; Jonathan M. Samet, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public 
Health Department of Epidemiology, Baltimore, Maryland; Jack E. 
Henningfield, Pinney Associates, Bethesda, Maryland; Marvin E. 
Goldberg, Penn State University Smeal College of Business, University 
Park, Pennsylvania; and Stephen A. Sheller, Sheller, P.C., 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 
Act (Public Law 95-87), focusing on policy issues thirty years after 
its enactment, after receiving testimony from Brent Wahlquist, 
Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 
Department of the Interior; Gregory E. Conrad, Interstate Mining 
Compact Commission, Herndon, Virginia; Joanna Prukop, New Mexico 
Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, Santa Fe; Arvin 
Trujillo, Najavo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Harold P. Quinn, Jr., 
National Mining Association, and Joan Mulhern, Earthjustice, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Bill Banig, United Mine Workers of America, Fairfax, 
Virginia; and Cindy Rank, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Rock 
Cave.
AMERICA'S CLIMATE SECURITY ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee continued hearings 
to examine S. 2191, to direct the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of 
greenhouse gases, receiving testimony from David L. Greene, Corporate 
Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Engineering Science and 
Technology Division, Department of Energy; Robert C. Baugh, AFL-CIO 
Industrial Union Council and AFL-CIO Energy Task Force, David Hawkins, 
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Climate Center, and Andrew G. 
Sharkey, III, American Iron and Steel Institute, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Donald R. Rowlett, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OGE) 
Energy Corporation, Oklahoma City.
   Hearings recessed until Thursday, November 15.
INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine international climate change negotiations, focusing on 
restoring United States leadership, after receiving testimony from 
Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global 
Affairs; former Senator Timothy E. Wirth, United Nations Foundation, 
and Jonathan Pershing, World Resources Institute, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Richard Sandor, Chicago Climate Exchange, Chicago, Illinois.
U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION
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 the human capital 
needs of a United States Customs and Border Protection initiative, 
focusing on border security, and progress and weaknesses in traveler 
inspections at our nation's ports of entry, after receiving testimony 
from Paul M. Morris, Executive Director, Admissibility and Passenger 
Programs, Office of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Richard M. Stana, 
Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government 
Accountability Office; and Colleen M. Kelley, National Treasury 
Employees Union, Washington, D.C.
PUBLIC PERFORMANCE RIGHTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the scope of public performance rights, after receiving testimony from 
Lyle Lovett, musicFIRST Coalition, Nashville, Tennessee; Steven M. 
Newberry, Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation, Glasgow, Kentucky, on 
behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters; Dan DeVany, WETA, 
Arlington, Virginia; and Alice Peacock, Chicago, Illinois.
SBA: LENDING AND INVESTMENT PROGRAMS
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine

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the Small Business Administration (SBA), focusing on preventing loan 
fraud and improving regulation of lenders, after receiving testimony 
from Steven C. Preston, Administrator, and Eric M. Thorson, Inspector 
General, both of the Small Business Administration; Robert F. 
Tannenhauser, Business Loan Express, LLC., New York, New York; Anthony 
R. Wilkinson, National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, 
Stillwater, Oklahoma; and James Baird, Bay Area Development Company, 
Walnut Creek, California, on behalf of the National Association of 
Development Companies (NADCO).
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine congressional oversight of the intelligence community, after 
receiving testimony from Lee H. Hamilton, former Vice Chair, and 
Timothy Roemer, former Member, both of the National Commission On 
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; James Saturno, Congressional 
Research Service, Library of Congress; and Amy Zegart, University of 
California, Los Angeles.