[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 16 (Thursday, January 31, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D71-D72]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILITARY RECRUITING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine military recruiting, after receiving 
testimony from Major General Thomas P. Bostick, USA, Commanding 
General, U.S. Army Recruiting Command, Rear Admiral Joseph F. Kilkenny, 
USN, Commander, Navy Recruiting Command, Brigadier General Suzanne M. 
Vautrinot, USAF, Commander, Air Force Recruiting Service, Major General 
Richard T. Tryon, USMC, Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruiting 
Command, and Sergeant First Class Ricky Lee Webb, USA, Master Chief 
Petty Officer Travis P. Brummer, USN, Master Sergeant David B. White, 
USAF, and Staff Sergeant James M. Britton, USMC, all Active Duty 
Recruiters, all of the Department of Defense.
FORECLOSURE PREVENTION AND NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine strengthening our economy, focusing on foreclosure 
prevention and neighborhood preservation, after receiving testimony 
from Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; 
Robert K. Steel, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; 
Michael S. Barr, Center for American Progress, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 
Alex J. Pollock, American Enterprise Institute, and Wade Henderson, 
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Doris W. Koo, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., Seattle, Washington.
HEALTH CARE SPENDING
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
long-term federal budget outlook and sources of growth in health care 
spending, after receiving testimony from Peter R. Orszag, Director, 
Congressional Budget Office.
PIPELINES AND CARBON CAPTURE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 2323, to provide for the conduct of carbon 
capture and storage technology research, development, and demonstration 
projects, and S. 2144, to require the Secretary of Energy to conduct a 
study of feasibility relating to the construction and operation of 
pipelines and carbon dioxide sequestration facilities, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Kerry and Coleman; Joseph T. Kelliher, 
Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory

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Commission, Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, 
Environmental Protection Agency; James Slutz, Acting Prinicipal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; Krista L. Edwards, 
Deputy Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, Department of Transportation; C. Stephen Allred, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; 
Lawrence E. Bengal, Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission, Little Rock, on 
behalf of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission Task Force on 
Carbon Capture and Geologic Storage; Ronald T. Evans, Denbury 
Resources, Inc., Plano, Texas; and Scott Anderson, Environmental 
Defense, Austin, Texas.
NATIONAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY AND REVENUE STUDY COMMISSION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine a report of the National Surface Transportation 
Policy and Revenue Study Commission, after receiving testimony from 
Frank Busalacchi, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Madison; Jack 
L. Schenendorf, Covington and Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.; Matthew K. 
Rose, BNSF Railway Company, Fort Worth, Texas; and Tom Skancke, Skancke 
Company, Las Vegas, Nevada.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the counternarcotics strategy and police training for 
Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from Richard A. Boucher, 
Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, David T. 
Johnson, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs, Thomas R. Pickering, former Under Secretary for 
Political Affairs, and Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Permanent 
Representative to the United Nations, all of the Department of State; 
and General James L. Jones, Jr., USMC (Ret.), former Commander, 
European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Department of 
Defense.
ELIMINATING AGENCY PAYMENT ERRORS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
eliminating agency payment errors, after receiving testimony from McCoy 
Williams, Managing Director, Financial Management and Assurance, 
Government Accountability Office; Daniel I. Werfel, Acting Controller, 
Office of Management and Budget; Charles R. Christopherson, Jr., Chief 
Financial Officer, Department of Agriculture; Anthony J. Dale, Managing 
Director, Federal Communications Commission; Charles E. Johnson, 
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Resources and 
Technology and Chief Financial Officer; and David A. Rust, Acting 
Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs, Social 
Security Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  S. 1638, to adjust the salaries of Federal justices and judges, with 
amendments;
  S. 2450, to amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to address the waiver 
of the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine; and
  The nominations of Mark R. Filip, of Illinois, to be Deputy Attorney 
General, Ondray T. Harris, of Virginia, to be Director, Community 
Relations Service, and David W. Hagy, of Texas, to be Director of the 
National Institute of Justice, all of the Department of Justice.
ELDERLY VOTERS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
elderly voters, focusing on opportunities and challenges for the 2008 
election, after receiving testimony from Barbara D. Bovbjerg, Director, 
Education, Workforce, and Income Security, Government Accountability 
Office; Deb Markowitz, Vermont Secretary of State, Montpelier; Michael 
E. Waterstone, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California; Jason 
Karlawish, University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine, 
Philadelphia; and Wendy R. Weiser, New York University School of Law 
Brennan Center for Justice, New York.