[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 16, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1097]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BROADBAND DATA IMPROVEMENT ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine reasons that broadband Internet access matters, 
including S. 1492, to improve the quality of Federal and State data 
regarding the availability and quality of broadband services and to 
promote the deployment of affordable broadband services to all parts of 
the Nation, after receiving testimony from Margaret Conroy, Missouri 
State Librarian, Jefferson City, on behalf of the American Library 
Association; Rey Ramsey, One Economy Corporation, Larry Cohen, 
Communications Workers of America, Jonathan Linkous, American 
Telemedicine Association, and Mara Mayor, AARP, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Gene Peltola, Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, Bethel, 
Alaska.
ELECTRIC POWER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the current state of vehicles powered by the 
electric grid and the prospects for wider deployment in the near 
future, after receiving testimony from Brian P. Wynne, Electric Drive 
Transportation Association, and Robert Wimmer, Toyota Motor North 
America, both of Washington, D.C.; Ed Kjaer, Southern California Edison 
Company, Rosemead; Joseph T. Dalum, DUECO, Waukesha, Wisconsin; and 
Thad Balkman, Phoenix Motorcars, Ontario, California.
ENERGY MARKETS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
concluded a hearing to examine recent analyses of the role of 
speculative investment in energy markets, after receiving testimony 
from Jeffrey Harris, Chief Economist, Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission; Michael W. Masters, Masters Capital Management, LLC, Saint 
Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; Robert F. McCullough, Jr., McCullough 
Research, Portland, Oregon; and Lawrence Eagles, JPMorgan Chase and 
Company, on behalf of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets 
Association (SIFMA), James Newsome, CME Group, and Fadel Gheit, 
Oppenheimer and Company, Inc., all of New York, New York.
CHILDREN'S HEALTH PROTECTION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the children's health protection efforts 
of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after receiving testimony 
from George Gray, Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, 
Environmental Protection Agency; John B. Stephenson, Director, Natural 
Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; Leonardo 
Trasande, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Children's Environmental 
Health Center, New York, New York; Susan West Marmagas, Commonweal, 
Bolinas, California; and Robert L. Brent, A.I. duPont Hospital for 
Children, Wilmington, Delaware.
DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine aligning 
incentives, focusing on the case for health care delivery system 
reform, after receiving testimony from Mark E. Miller, Executive 
Director, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; Glenn D. Steele, Jr., 
Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania; Robert A. Berenson, 
Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Eric G. Campbell, Massachusetts 
General Hospital, Boston.
RULE OF LAW
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
a hearing to examine restoring the rule of law, after receiving 
testimony from former Representative Mickey Edwards, Constitution 
Project, Charles J. Cooper, Cooper and Kirk, PLCC, Elisa Massimino, 
Human Rights First, Patrick F. Philbin, Kirkland and Ellis LLP, John D. 
Podesta, Center for American Progress Action Fund, and Suzanne E. 
Spaulding, Bingham Consulting Group, all of Washington, D.C.; Harold 
Hongju Koh, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Frederick A.O. 
Schwarz, Jr., New York University School of Law Brennan Center for 
Justice, New York, New York; Robert Turner, University of Virginia 
School of Law Center for National Security Law, Charlottesville; Walter 
Dellinger, former Solicitor General of the United States, Department of 
Justice, Duke University School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 
and Kyndra Rotunda, Chapman University School of Law, Orange, 
California.