[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 74 (Tuesday, May 6, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D550-D551]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
including H.R. 1187, to expand the boundaries of the Gulf of the 
Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Cordell Bank National 
Marine Sanctuary, and S. 2281, to expand the boundaries of the Thunder 
Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Levin; Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr., 
USN (Ret.), Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, and 
Administrator, National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration; Jefferson 
Gray, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve, 
Alpena, Michigan; Susan L. Williams, University of California-Davis, 
Bodega Bay; and Kathy Fosmark, Alliance of Communities for Sustainable 
Fisheries, Monterey, California.
PERCHLORATE AND TCE IN WATER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine perchlorate and trichloroethylene (TCE) in water, 
including S. 24, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to require a 
health advisory and monitoring of drinking water for perchlorate, after 
receiving testimony from Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator 
for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; George V. Alexeeff, 
California Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental 
Health Hazard Assessment, Sacramento; Michael G. Baker, Ohio 
Environmental Protection Agency Division of Drinking and Ground Waters, 
Columbus, on behalf of the Association of State Drinking Water 
Administrators; Carol Rowan West, Massachusetts Department of 
Environmental Protection Office of Research and Standards, Boston; New 
York State Representative Donna A. Lupardo, Albany; Gail Charnley, 
HealthRisk Strategies, and Richard Wiles, Environmental Working Group, 
both of Washington, D.C.; and David G. Hoel, Medical University of 
South Carolina, Charleston.

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HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine seizing 
the new opportunity for health care reform, after receiving testimony 
from Donna E. Shalala, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, and Tommy 
G. Thompson, Logistics Health, Inc., Washington, D.C., both former 
Secretaries of Health and Human Services.
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON HOLOCAUST ERA INSURANCE CLAIMS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims 
(ICHEIC), after receiving testimony from Anna B. Rubin, New York State 
Banking Department Holocaust Claims Processing Office, Roman Kent, 
American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, 
and Thane Rosenbaum, Fordham Law School, all of New York, New York; 
Jack Rubin, Holocaust Survivors of West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, 
Florida; Lawrence S. Eagleburger, former Secretary of State and former 
Chairman, International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, 
Charlottesville,Virginia; Stuart E. Eizenstat, Covington and Burling 
LLP, former Special Representative of the President and Secretary of 
State on Holocaust Issues, Washington, D.C.; and Samuel J. Dubbin, 
Dubbin and Kravetz, LLP, Miami, Florida.
FORECLOSURE CRISIS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded a hearing to examine policing lenders and 
protecting homeowners, focusing on the current housing foreclosure 
crisis, after receiving testimony from Clifford J. White, III, 
Director, Executive Office for United States Trustees, Department of 
Justice; Steve Bailey, Countrywide Financial Corporation, Simi Valley, 
California; Debra Miller, Standing Chapter 13 Trustee, South Bend, 
Indiana; Katherine Porter, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa 
City; and Robin Atchley, Ballground, Georgia.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Michael E. Leiter, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, 
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, after the nominee, who 
was introduced by former Senator Robb, testified and answered questions 
in his own behalf.