[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 60 (Wednesday, April 16, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D444-D446]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MEDICAL PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine Department of Defense medical programs, after 
receiving testimony from Lieutenant General Eric B. Schoomaker, Surgeon 
General, and Major General Gale S. Pollock, Chief, Army Nurse Corps, 
both of the United States Army, Vice Admiral Adam M. Robinson, USN, MC, 
Surgeon General, and Rear Admiral Christine M. Bruzek-Kohler, USN, NC, 
Director, Navy Nurse Corps, both of the United States Navy, and 
Lieutenant General James G. Roudebush, Surgeon General, and Major 
General Melissa A. Rank, Assistant Surgeon General, Nursing Services 
and Medical Force Development, both of the United States Air Force, all 
of the Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING REQUEST
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the supplemental request for war funding for fiscal year 2008, after 
receiving testimony from former Representative Jim Nussle, Director, 
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2009 for the Department of Energy, after receiving 
testimony from Thomas P. D'Agostino, Administrator, Thomas O. Hunter, 
President and Director, Sandia National Laboratories, both of the 
National Nuclear Security Administration, George H. Miller, Director, 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Michael R. Anastasio, 
Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, all of the Department of 
Energy.
APPROPRIATIONS: IRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the Internal Revenue Service, after 
receiving testimony from Douglas Shulman, Commissioner, Nina E. Olson, 
National Taxpayer Advocate, both of the Internal Revenue Service, J. 
Russell George, Inspector General for Tax Administration, and Paul 
Cherecwich, Jr., Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, all of the 
Department of the Treasury.
APPROPRIATIONS: FBI
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2009 for the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, after receiving testimony from Robert S. Mueller, III, 
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a 
hearing to examine the defense authorization request for fiscal year 
2009 relative to military beneficiary organizations regarding the 
quality of life of Active, Reserve, and retired military personnel and 
their members, and the future years defense program, after receiving 
testimony from Colonel Steven P. Strobridge, USAF (Ret.), Military 
Officers Association of America (MOAA), and Master Chief Joseph L. 
Barnes, USN (Ret.), Fleet Reserve Association (FRA), both of the 
Military Coalition, and Kathleen B. Moakler, National Military Family 
Association, and Master Sergeant Michael P. Cline, USA (Ret.), Enlisted 
Association of the National Guard of the United States, all of 
Alexandria, Virginia; and Meredith M. Beck, Wounded Warrior Project, 
Arlington, Virginia.
U.S. CREDIT MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine credit markets in the United States, focusing on 
proposals to mitigate foreclosures and restore liquidity to the 
mortgage markets, after receiving testimony from Brian D. Montgomery, 
Assistant Secretary of Housing, Federal Housing Commissioner, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development; Arthur J. Murton, 
Director, Division of Insurance and Research, Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation; and Scott M. Polakoff, Senior Deputy Director and Chief 
Operating Officer, Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the 
Treasury.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
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Community Development concluded a hearing to examine affordable housing 
opportunities, focusing on reforming the housing voucher program, 
including S. 2684, to reform the housing choice voucher program under 
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, after receiving 
testimony from Shaun Donovan, New York City Department of Housing 
Preservation and Development, New York, New York; Barbara Sard, Center 
on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C.; George Moses, 
National Low Income Housing Coalition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; P. 
Curtis Hiebert, Keene Housing Authority, Keene, New Hampshire; and Jack 
Murray, National Affordable Housing Management Association, Silver 
Spring, Maryland, on behalf of the National Leased Housing Association.
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded a hearing to examine 
surface transportation challenges and the global economy, after 
receiving testimony from Siva Yam, United States-China Chamber of 
Commerce, Chicago, Illinois; John Isbell, Nike, Inc., Beaverton, 
Oregon; Ray Kuntz, Watkins and Shepard Trucking, Helena, Montana, on 
behalf of the American Trucking Associations; and Edward Wytkind, 
Transportation Trades Department (TTD) AFI-CIO, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Robert J. Callahan, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, Heather M. Hodges, of Ohio, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, Barbara J. Stephenson, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, Peter E. 
Cianchette, of Maine, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica, 
who was introduced by Senators Collins and Snowe, Hugo Llorens, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, who was 
introduced by Senator Martinez, Stephen George McFarland, of Texas, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala, all of the Department of 
State, and Samuel W. Speck, of Ohio, to be a Commissioner on the part 
of the United States on the International Joint Commission, United 
States and Canada, who was introduced by Senator Voinovich, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
CHILD PROTECTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded a 
hearing to examine violence against and exploitation of youth in the 
21st century, focusing on solutions for protecting children, including 
S. 1738, to establish a Special Counsel for Child Exploitation 
Prevention and Interdiction within the Office of the Deputy Attorney 
General, to improve the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, to 
increase resources for regional computer forensic labs, and to make 
other improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies 
to investigate and prosecute predators, after receiving testimony from 
McGregor Scott, United States Attorney, Eastern District of California, 
Department of Justice; Flint Waters, Wyoming Office of the Attorney 
General, Division of Criminal Investigation, Cheyenne; Robert Moses, 
Delaware State Police, Dover; Randall I. Hillman, Alabama District 
Attorneys Association, Montgomery; Michelle K. Collins, National Center 
for Missing and Exploited Children, Alexandria, Virginia; and Grier 
Weeks, National Association to Protect Children, Asheville, North 
Carolina.
SMALL BUSINESS AND THE CREDIT CRUNCH
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the impact of the credit market on small businesses, 
including S. 1256, to amend the Small Business Act to reauthorize loan 
programs under that Act, S. 2553, to modify certain fees applicable 
under the Small Business Act for 2008, to make an emergency 
appropriation for certain small business programs, and to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide increased expensing for 2008, 
to provide a 5-year carryback for certain net operating losses, and S. 
2612, to provide economic stimulus for small business concerns, after 
receiving testimony from Frederic S. Mishkin, Member, Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Steven C. Preston, 
Administrator, Small Business Administration; Daniel O'Connell, 
Massachusetts Secretary for the Executive Office of Housing and 
Economic Development, Boston; Mayor Carolyn A. Kirk, Gloucester, 
Massachusetts; Marilyn D. Landis, Basic Business Concepts, Inc., 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Small Business 
Association; Robert Mitchell, Mitchell and Best Homebuilders, LLC, 
Rockville, Maryland, on behalf of National Association of Home 
Builders; Cynthia Blankenship, Bank of the West, Irving, Texas, on 
behalf of the Independent Community Bankers of America; and Samuel D. 
Bornstein, Kean University School of Business, Union, New Jersey.
CARING FOR SENIORS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
caring for the elderly, focusing on ways to support care providers, 
after receiving testimony from John W. Rowe, Columbia University

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Mailman School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and 
Management, and Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, both 
of New York, New York; Robyn I. Stone, Institute for the Future of 
Aging Services, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American Association 
of Homes and Services for the Aging; Todd Semla, American Geriatrics 
Society, Evanston, Illinois; Mary McDermott, Wisconsin Home Care 
Commission, Verona; and Sally Bowman, Oregon State University College 
of Health and Human Sciences, Corvallis.