[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 176 (Wednesday, November 19, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1281-D1282]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

 Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
 DOMESTIC AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:  On Tuesday, 
November 18, Committee concluded a hearing to examine the state of the 
domestic automobile industry, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Stabenow; Ron Gettelfinger, International Union, United Automobile, 
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), and Rick 
Wagoner, General Motors Corporation, both of Detroit, Michigan; Alan R. 
Mulally, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan; Robert Nardelli, 
Chrysler LLC, Auburn Hills, Michigan; and Peter Morici, University of 
Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, College Park.
 NOMINATION
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:  Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Neil M. Barofsky, of 
New York, to be Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief 
Program of the Department of the Treasury, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senators Dodd and Schumer, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
 ECONOMIC STIMULUS
  Committee on the Budget:  Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the economic outlook and options for stimulus, after receiving 
testimony from Mark M. Zandi, Moody's Economy.com, West Chester, 
Pennsylvania; Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Sloan School of Management, Cambridge; and John B. Taylor, Stanford 
University, Palo Alto, California.
 HEALTH CARE REFORM
  Committee on Finance:  Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
health care reform, focusing on the economic perspective, after 
receiving testimony from Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon, Inc., New York, New 
York, on behalf of the Business Roundtable; Andrew L. Stern, Service 
Employees International Union, Washington, D.C.; Uwe Reinhardt, 
Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International 
Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey; and Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University 
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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 BANKRUPTCY LAW
  Committee on the Judiciary:  Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
helping families stay in their homes, focusing on the role of 
bankruptcy laws, including S. 2136, to address the treatment of primary 
mortgages in bankruptcy, and S. 3690, to help struggling families stay 
in their homes and to ensure that taxpayers are protected when the 
Secretary of the Treasury purchases equity shares in financial 
situations, after receiving testimony from Tom Dart, Cook County 
Sheriff's Office, Chicago, Illinois; Michael D. Calhoun, Center for 
Responsible Lending, Durham, North Carolina; Adam J. Levitin, 
Georgetown University Law Center, David G. Kittle, Mortgage Bankers 
Association, and Scott A. Stengel, Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe 
LLP, all of Washington, D.C.; and Christopher J. Mayer, Columbia 
Business School, New York, New York.