[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 92 (Thursday, June 5, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D693-D694]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
STATE OF THE BANKING INDUSTRY (PART II)
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the state of the banking industry, after receiving 
testimony from Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation; John C. Dugan, Comptroller of the Currency, and John M. 
Reich, Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, both of the Department 
of the Treasury; Joann M. Johnson, Chairman, National Credit Union 
Administration; Donald L. Kohn, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of 
the Federal Reserve System; and Timothy J. Karsky, North Dakota 
Department of Financial Institutions, Bismarck, on behalf of the 
Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine off-highway vehicle management on public lands, 
after receiving testimony from Henri Bisson, Deputy Director, Bureau of 
Land Management, and Jayne Belnap, Research Ecologist, United States 
Geological Survey, both of the Department of the Interior; Joel 
Holtrop, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; Edward Moreland, American Motorcyclist 
Association, Washington, D.C.; Greg Mumm, BlueRibbon Coalition, Rapid 
City, South Dakota; Nada Culver, Wilderness Society, Denver, Colorado; 
Bradley Powell, Trout Unlimited, Payson, Arizona; Frank Adams, Nevada 
Sheriffs' and Chiefs' Association, Mesquite.
TAX REFORM FOR SMALL BUSINESS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
choices for small business in advance of tax reform, focusing on 
Internal Revenue Service Form 1040 Schedule C, Form 1065 Schedule K-1, 
and Schedule S, after receiving testimony from Douglas A. Shackelford, 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business 
School; Eric J. Toder, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, and Samuel P. 
Starr, Georgetown University Law Center, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Dewey Martin, Husson College Accounting Department, Hampden, Maine, on 
behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business.
COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS FOR DISASTERS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on State, Local, and

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Private Sector Preparedness and Integration concluded a hearing to 
examine individual and community preparedness efforts for disasters and 
emergencies, after receiving testimony from Dennis Schrader, Deputy 
Administrator, National Preparedness Directorate, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security; Russell Decker, 
Allen County Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Lima, Ohio, on 
behalf of the International Association of Emergency Managers; and Suzy 
DeFrancis, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C.
PREDATORY LENDING IN INDIAN COUNTRY
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine predatory lending in Indian country, after receiving 
testimony from Donna J. Gambrell, Director, Community Development 
Financial Institutions Fund, Department of the Treasury; Jerilyn 
Decoteau, First Nations Development Institute, Longmont, Colorado; W. 
Ron Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, Washington, on behalf of 
the National Congress of American Indians; Darwin Brokke, Citizens 
Community Credit Union, Devils Lake, North Dakota, on behalf of the 
Credit Union National Association; John Barkley, Confederated Tribes of 
the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon; Jamie Fulmer, 
Advance America Cash Advance Centers, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, on 
behalf of the Community Financial Services Association of America.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
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.