[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 190 (Wednesday, December 12, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1613-D1614]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing to examine North Korea, focusing on the six-party 
talks, from Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for the 
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Harvey E. Johnson, 
Jr., of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating 
Officer, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Jeffrey William 
Runge, of North Carolina, to be Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs 
and Chief Medical Officer, who was introduced by Senator Burr, both of 
the Department of Homeland Security, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
ARBITRATION FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
a hearing to examine S. 1782, to amend chapter 1 of title 9 of United 
States Code with respect to arbitration, after receiving testimony from 
Tanya Solov, Office of the Secretary of State, Securities Department, 
Springfield, Illinois, on behalf of the North American Securities 
Administrators Association; Mark A. de Bernardo, Jackson Lewis,

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LLP, Vienna, Virginia; Richard M. Alderman, University of Houston Law 
Center Consumer Law Center, Houston, Texas; Richard Naimark, American 
Arbitration Association (AAA), Peter B. Rutledge, Catholic University 
of America Columbus School of Law, and F. Paul Bland, Jr., Public 
Justice, all of Washington, D.C.; and Fonza Luke, Birmingham, Alabama.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine a recently released Government Accountability Office report, 
focusing on funding challenges and facilities maintenance issues at the 
Smithsonian Institution, and the Smithsonian's real property management 
efforts and its efforts to develop and implement strategies to fund its 
facilities projects, after receiving testimony from Mark L. Goldstein, 
Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability 
Office; and Cristian Samper, Acting Secretary, and Roger W. Sant, 
Chairman, Executive Committee, and Robert P. Kogod, Chairman, 
Facilities Revitalization Committee, both of the Board of Regents, all 
of the Smithsonian Institution.
REVERSE MORTGAGES
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
reverse mortgages, focusing on the Federal Housing Administration's 
Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, after receiving 
testimony from Meg Burns, Director, Federal Housing Administration 
(FHA) Single Family Program Development, Department of Housing and 
Urban Development; Prescott Cole, Coalition to End Elder Financial 
Abuse (CEASE), San Francisco, California; Donald L. Redfoot, American 
Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Public Policy Institute, 
Billings, Montana; George B. Lopez, James B. Nutter and Company, Kansas 
City, Missouri; and Carol Anthony, King City, California.
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