[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 185 (Wednesday, December 10, 2008)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1315]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CLEAN ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine investments in clean energy and natural resources 
projects and programs to create ``green jobs''--family-supporting, 
middle-skill jobs in the primary sectors of a clean energy economy of 
efficiency, renewables, and alternative transportation and fuels, and 
to stimulate the economy, after receiving testimony from Mark A. 
Limbaugh, former Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, and Denis 
Galvin, former Deputy Director National Park Service, National Parks 
Conservation Association, both of the Department of the Interior; 
Malcolm D. Woolf, Maryland Energy Administration, Annapolis, on behalf 
of the National Association of State Energy Officials; Bracken 
Hendricks, Center for American Progress Action Fund, and Joe Loper, 
Alliance to Save Energy, both of Washington, D.C.; Steven G. Hauser, 
GridPoint, Inc., and Kevin Book, Friedman Billings Ramsey and Company 
Capital Markets Corporation, both of Arlington, Virginia; and Cassandra 
Moseley, University of Oregon Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 
Eugene.
PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine disease prevention and public health, 
focusing on transforming the health care system, after receiving 
testimony from Donald Wright, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Health and Human Services for Health; Jeffrey Levi, Trust for America's 
Health, Washington, D.C.; Kenneth E. Thorpe, Emory University Rollins 
School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management, 
Atlanta, Georgia; John J. Mahoney, Pitney Bowes, Stamford, Connecticut; 
and Carol Hibbs, Marshalltown Community Y, Marshalltown, Iowa, on 
behalf of the YMCA of the USA's Activate America: Pioneering Healthier 
Communities.