[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 3, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D676]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MAJOR WEAPONS SYSTEMS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the acquisition of major weapons systems by the Department of Defense, 
after receiving testimony from John J. Young, Jr., Under Secretary of 
Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics; and Katherine V. 
Schinasi, Managing Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, 
Government Accountability Office.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Neel T. Kashkari, of California, 
to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Christopher R. Wall, of 
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Michael E. Fryzel, 
of Illinois, to be a Member of the National Credit Union Administration 
Board, Donald B. Marron, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Council of 
Economic Advisers, Sheila McNamara Greenwood, of Louisiana, and Susan 
D. Peppler, of California, both to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development, Joseph J. Murin, of Pennsylvania, to be 
President, Government National Mortgage Association, and Luis Aguilar, 
of Georgia, Troy A. Paredes, of Missouri, and Elisse Walter, of 
Maryland, each to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, after each nominee testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
ENERGY MARKET MANIPULATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine energy market manipulation and federal enforcement 
regimes, after receiving testimony from Lee Ann Watson, Deputy 
Director, Division of Investigations, Office of Enforcement, Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission; George Soros, Soros Fund Management, New 
York, New York; Michael Greenberger, University of Maryland School of 
Law, Baltimore; Gerry Ramm, Inland Oil Company, Ephrata, Washington, on 
behalf of the Petroleum Marketers Association of America; and Mark 
Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, Washington, D.C.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine rising 
costs and low quality in health care, focusing on the necessity for 
reform, after receiving testimony from Paul B. Ginsburg, Center for 
Studying Health System Change, and Arlene Holt Baker, American 
Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), 
both of Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth A. McGlynn, RAND Corporation, Santa 
Monica, California; and Felicia J. Fields, Ford Motor Company, 
Dearborn, Michigan.