[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 185 (Wednesday, December 5, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1574-D1575]
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: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following:
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; and
  The nominations of John S. Bresland, of New Jersey, to be 
Chairperson, and Charles Russell Horner Shearer, of Delaware, both to 
be Members of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, and 
William H. Graves, of Tennessee, Susan Richardson Williams, of 
Tennessee, and Thomas C. Gilliland, of Georgia, all to be Members of 
the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act 
(Public Law 93-415), focusing on protecting children and communities, 
after receiving testimony from J. Robert Flores, Administrator, Office 
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice 
Programs, Department of Justice; Shay Bilchik, Georgetown University 
Public Policy Institute Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Washington, 
D.C.; Deirdre Wilson Garton, Governor's Juvenile Justice Commission, 
Madison, Wisconsin; Anne Marie Ambrose, Pennsylvania Department of 
Public Welfare, Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Services, Office of 
Children, Youth, and Families, Harrisburg; and Richard Miranda, Tucson 
Police Department, Tucson, Arizona.
FORECLOSURE CRISIS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the foreclosure crisis, focusing on helping families save their homes, 
including S. 2136, to address the treatment of primary mortgages in 
bankruptcy, after receiving testimony from Jacqueline P. Cox, Judge, 
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois; 
Thomas B. Bennett, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the 
Northern District of Alabama; Mark M. Zandi, Moody's Economy.com, Inc., 
West Chester, Pennsylvania; Joseph R. Mason, Drexel University LeBow 
College of Business, and Henry J. Sommer, National Association of 
Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mark 
S. Scarberry, American Bankruptcy Institute, Washington, D.C.; and 
Nettie McGee, Chicago, Illinois.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of James B. Peake, of the District of Columbia, 
to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Inouye and former Senator Bob Dole, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
HEALTH AND WELFARE NEEDS OF ELDERLY REFUGEES
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the elderly who have been displaced by war, poverty, and persecution 
abroad, after receiving testimony from Kelly Ryan, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and 
Migration; Brent Orrell, Acting Director, Office of Refugee 
Resettlement (ORR), Administration for Children and Families, 
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of Health and Human Services; Michael Gabaudan, Regional Representative 
for the United States of America and the Caribbean, Office of the 
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; C. Richard Parkins, 
Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM), on behalf of the Refugee Council 
USA, and Khammany Mathavongsy, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center 
California Projects, both of Washington, D.C.; Maria Teverovsky, Hebrew 
Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), New York, New York; and Salahuddin 
Ansary, Lutheran Community Services Northwest (LCSNW), Portland Oregon.