[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 9, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D855-D857]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Walter Lukken, of Indiana, to be 
Chairman, and Bartholomew H. Chilton, of Delaware, and Scott O'Malia, 
of Michigan, both to be a Commissioner, all of the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission.
APPROPRIATIONS: DOT, HUD, AND RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies approved for full Committee 
consideration an original bill making appropriations for the Department 
of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009.
OTC CREDIT DERIVATIVES MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance, and Investment concluded a hearing to examine 
reducing risks and improving oversight in the over-the-counter (OTC) 
credit derivatives market, after receiving testimony from Patrick M. 
Parkinson, Deputy Director, Division of Research and Statistics, Board 
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; James A. Overdahl, Chief 
Economist, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Kathryn E. Dick, 
Deputy Comptroller for Credit and Market Risk, Comptroller of the 
Currency, Administrator of National Banks, Department of the Treasury; 
Darrell Duffie, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 
Stanford, California; Craig S. Donohue, Chicago Mercantile Exchange 
Group (CME) Group Inc., and

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Edward J. Rosen, Clearing Corporation, both of Chicago, Illinois; and 
Robert Pickel, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, 
Washington, D.C.
ONLINE ADVERTISING PRIVACY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the privacy implications of online behavioral 
advertising, which is the practice of collecting information about an 
individual's online activities in order to serve advertisements that 
are tailored to that individual's interests, after receiving testimony 
from Lydia Parnes, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal 
Trade Commission; Jane Horvath, Google Inc., Leslie Harris, Center for 
Democracy and Technology, and Wayne Crews, Competitive Enterprise 
Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Bob Dykes, NebuAd, Inc., Redwood 
City, California; Chris Kelly, Facebook, Palo Alto, California; and 
Michael D. Hintze, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington.
FISHING SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to 
examine fishing safety, focusing on policy implications of cooperatives 
and vessel improvements, after receiving testimony from Commander 
Christopher Woodley, 13th Coast Guard District Staff, United States 
Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security; James Sanchirico, 
University of California at Davis Department of Environmental Science 
and Policy; Leslie J. Hughes, North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners' 
Association, John Bundy, Glacier Fish Company, Michael Hyde, American 
Seafoods Group, and Donna Parker, Arctic Storm Management Group, all of 
Seattle, Washington; and David E. Frulla, Kelley Drye and Warren LLP, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Fishing Company of Alaska.
LANDS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 2443 and H.R. 2246, bills 
to provide for the release of any revisionary interest of the United 
States in and to certain lands in Reno, Nevada, S. 2779, to amend the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that 
uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain 
payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects, S. 2875, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants to designated 
States and tribes to carry out programs to reduce the risk of livestock 
loss due to predation by gray wolves and other predator species or to 
compensate landowners for livestock loss due to predation, S. 2898, and 
H.R. 816, bills to provide for the release of certain land from the 
Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area in the State of Nevada, S. 3088, to 
designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, S. 3089, 
to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, to 
provide for the exchange of certain Federal land and non-Federal land, 
S. 3157, to provide for the exchange and conveyance of certain National 
Forest System land and other land in southeast Arizona, and S. 3179, to 
authorize the conveyance of certain public land in the State of New 
Mexico owned or leased by the Department of Energy, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Kyl; Alice C. Williams, Associate Administrator 
for Infrastructure and Environment, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy; Michael Nedd, Assistant Director, 
Minerals, Realty and Resource Protection, Danny Lytton, and Ed Bangs, 
all of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Joel 
Holtrop, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, U.S. Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; George Edwards, Montana Department of 
Livestock, Helena; David Salisbury, Resolution Copper Mining, LLC, 
Superior, Arizona; Shan Lewis, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, 
Phoenix; Roger Featherstone, EARTHWORKS, Tucson, Arizona; and Charles 
C. Price, Daniel, Wyoming.
IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the strategic challenges posed by Iran, after receiving 
testimony from William J. Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political 
Affairs.
MEDICARE VULNERABILITIES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine Medicare 
vulnerabilities, focusing on payments for claims with the 
identification numbers of deceased doctors, after receiving testimony 
from Herb B. Kuhn, Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, and Robert Vito, Regional Inspector General for 
Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector General, both of the 
Department of Health and Human Services; and Bill Gray, Deputy 
Commissioner of Systems, Social Security Administration.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued oversight hearings to 
examine the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Michael B. 
Mukasey, Attorney General, Department of Justice.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.
VETERANS DISABILITY COMPENSATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine veterans disability

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compensation, focusing on undue delay in the claims processing system, 
after receiving testimony from Rear Admiral Patrick W. Dunne, USN 
(Ret.), Acting Under Secretary for Benefits, and Michael Walcoff, 
Deputy Under Secretary for Benefits, both of the Veterans Benefits 
Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; Kerry Baker, Disabled 
American Veterans, Cold Spring, Kentucky; J. David Cox, American 
Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, and William Rollins, 
Paralyzed Veterans of America, both of Washington, D.C.; and Howard 
Pierce, Problem-Knowledge Couplers (PKC) Corporation, Burlington, 
Vermont.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Christine O. Hill, of Georgia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Congressional Affairs.