[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 43 (Thursday, March 13, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D298-D299]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony 
from Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,614 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of John J. Sullivan, of Maryland, to 
be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, and Simon Charles Gros, of New Jersey, 
to be Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Governmental Affairs, 
and promotion lists in the United States Coast Guard and the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of John J. Sullivan, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Commerce, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
FOREST MANAGEMENT IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine old-growth forest science, 
focusing on policy and management in the Pacific Northwest region, 
after receiving testimony from Linda Goodman, Regional Forester, 
Pacific Northwest Region, United States Department of Agriculture 
Forest Service; James Caswell, Director, Bureau of Land Management, 
Department of the Interior; Marvin D. Brown, Oregon Department of 
Forestry, Salem; David A. Perry, and John Tappeiner, both of Oregon 
State University Department of Forest Engineering, Corvallis; Paul H. 
Beck, Herbert Lumber Company, Riddle, Oregon; and Randi Spivak, 
American Lands Alliance, Washington, D.C.
U.S. ECONOMIC INTERESTS AND SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine customs 
reauthorization relative to the activity of the U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection agency and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
agency, both of the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on 
strengthening United States economic interests and security, after 
receiving testimony from Samuel H. Banks, Sandler and Travis Trade 
Advisory Services, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Charlene N. Stocker, Procter 
and Gamble Distributing, LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the 
American Association of Exporters and Importers; Greg P. Brown, Ford 
Global Technologies, Dearborn, Michigan; and Antoinette M. Tease, 
Antoinette M. Tease, P.L.L.C., Billings, Montana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following:
  S. 2731, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 
2013 to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, 
tuberculosis, and malaria, with amendments; and
  The nominations of William Raymond Steiger, of Wisconsin, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique, Department of State, and a 
promotion list in the Foreign Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following:
  S. 579, to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the 
Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to 
make grants for the development and operation of research centers 
regarding environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of 
breast cancer, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1810, to amend the Public Health Service Act to increase the 
provision of scientifically sound information and support services to 
patients receiving a positive test diagnosis for Down syndrome or other 
prenatal and postnatal diagnosed conditions, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 999, to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve stroke 
prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;

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  S. 1760, to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the 
Healthy Start Initiative, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1042, to amend the Public Health Service Act to make the provision 
of technical services for medical imaging examinations and radiation 
therapy treatments safer, more accurate, and less costly, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Jan Cellucci, of Massachusetts, William J. 
Hagenah, of Illinois, Mark Y. Herring, of South Carolina, and Julia W. 
Bland, of Louisiana, each to be a Member of the National Museum and 
Library Services Board, Jamsheed K. Choksy, of Indiana, Gary D. Glenn, 
of Illinois, David Hertz, of Indiana, Marvin Bailey Scott, of Indiana, 
Carol M. Swain, of Tennessee, and Dawn Ho Delbanco, of New York, each 
to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities, Jonathan 
Baron, of Maryland, Sally Epstein Shaywitz, of Connecticut, and Frank 
Philip Handy, of Florida, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors 
of the National Board for Education Sciences, Javaid Anwar, of Nevada, 
to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman 
Scholarship Foundation, Neil Romano, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Labor, Joxel Garcia, of Connecticut, to be Medical 
Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service and to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Robert F. Cohen, 
Jr., of West Virginia, and Michael F. Duffy, of the District of 
Columbia, each to be a Member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health 
Review Commission.