[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 118 (Thursday, July 17, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D911-D912]
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 Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of State, 
foreign operations, and related

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programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009;
  An original bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and related agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2009; and
  An original bill making appropriations for military construction and 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2009.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following:
  An original bill entitled, ``The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, 
Accountability and Divestment Act of 2008''.
HIGHWAY SAFETY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine ways to make the nation's highways safer for 
travelers, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey F. Paniati, Executive 
Director, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; 
Katherine A. Siggerud, Managing Director, Physical Infrastructure 
Issues, Government Accountability Office; Susan Martinovich, Nevada 
Department of Transportation, Carson City, on behalf of the American 
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; Jacqueline 
S. Gillan, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Washington, D.C.; and 
Robert C. Johns, University of Minnesota Center for Transportation 
Studies, Minneapolis.
HEALTH CARE QUALITY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
leveraging innovation to improve health care quality for all Americans, 
focusing on the federal government's long-term fiscal challenges with 
the rising costs of health care, after receiving testimony from Peter 
R. Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Richard Hillestad, 
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California; George C. Halvorson, Kaiser 
Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals, Oakland, California; and Gail R. 
Wilensky, Project HOPE, Bethesda, Maryland.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Mimi Alemayehou, of the District of 
Columbia, to be United States Director of the African Development Bank, 
Kenneth L. Peel, of Maryland, to be United States Director of the 
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Miguel R. San Juan, 
of Texas, to be United States Executive Director of the Inter-American 
Development Bank, and Patrick J. Durkin, of Connecticut, to be a Member 
of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.


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  On page D912, July 17, 2008, the following appears under the 
heading ``Nominations.'' Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Mimi Alemayehou, 
of the District of Columbia, to be United States Director of the 
African Development Bank, Kenneth L. Peel, of Maryland, to be 
United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and 
Development, Miguel R. San Juan, of Texas, to be United States 
Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank, who was 
introduced by Senator Hutchison and Patrick J. Durkin, of 
Connecticut, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
  
  The online Record has been corrected to read: Committee on 
Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Mimi Alemayehou, of the District of Columbia, to be 
United States Director of the African Development Bank, Kenneth L. 
Peel, of Maryland, to be United States Director of the European 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Miguel R. San Juan, of 
Texas, to be United States Executive Director of the Inter-
American Development Bank, and Patrick J. Durkin, of Connecticut, 
to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.


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OFFSHORE TAX HAVENS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing to examine financial 
institutions located in tax haven countries, focusing on ways to 
strengthen United States domestic and international tax enforcement 
efforts, receiving testimony from Douglas Shulman, Commissioner, 
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Kevin J. 
O'Connor, Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice; Martin 
Liechti and Mark Branson, both of UBS, Zurich, Switzerland; Shannon 
Marsh, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and William Wu, Forest Hills, New 
York.
  Hearing recessed until Friday, July 25, 2008.
FEMA
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery concluded a hearing to examine major 
disaster recovery and assessing the performance of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) since October 2007, after receiving 
testimony from Harvey E. Johnson, Deputy Administrator and Chief 
Operating Officer, FEMA, Department of Homeland Security; Major General 
Tod M. Bunting, Kansas Emergency Management and Homeland Security, 
Topeka; Stephen Sellers, Governor's Office of Emergency Services, 
Mather, California; David Maxwell, Arkansas Department of Emergency 
Management, North Little Rock; and James H. Bassham, Tennessee 
Emergency Management Agency, Nashville.
TRIBAL IMPLEMENTATION OF ADAM WALSH ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine tracking sex offenders in Indian country, focusing on tribal 
implementation of the Adam Walsh Act (Public Law 109-248), after 
receiving testimony from Ron Suppah, Sr., Confederated Tribes of the 
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, Warm Springs; Isidro B. Lopez, 
Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells, Arizona; Robert Moore, Rosebud Sioux 
Tribe, Mission, South Dakota; William Gregory, Little Traverse Bay 
Bands of Odawa Indians, Harbor Springs, Michigan, on behalf of the 12 
federally recognized Michigan tribes; and Jacqueline Johnson, National 
Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.