[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 27, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D76-D77]
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 S. 
336, making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and 
creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, 
assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 111th 
Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 654 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
challenges facing the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony 
from Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES FRAUD
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine investment securities fraud, focusing on regulatory 
and oversight concerns, after receiving testimony from Lori A. 
Richards, Director, Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, 
and Linda Chatman Thomsen, Director, Division of Enforcement, both of 
the Securities and Exchange Commission; John C. Coffee, Jr., Columbia 
University Law School, New York, New York; Stephen I. Luparello, 
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and Stephen P. Harbeck, 
Securities Investor Protection Corporation, both of Washington, D.C.; 
and Henry A. Backe, Jr., Fairfield, Connecticut.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine access to prevention and public health 
for high risk populations, after receiving testimony from Risa Lavizzo-

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Mourey, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey; David 
Stevens, National Association of Community Health Centers, Bethesda, 
Maryland; Michael Meit, University of Chicago National Option Research 
Center, Chicago, Illinois; Lisa I. Iezzoni, Harvard Medical School, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert N. Butler, International Longevity 
Center, New York, New York; and Joseph F. Hagan, Jr., University of 
Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, on behalf of the American 
Academy of Pediatrics.
DIGITAL AGE PRIVACY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
health information technology (IT), focusing on protecting Americans' 
privacy in the digital age, after receiving testimony from James 
Hester, Vermont State Legislature Health Care Reform Commission, 
Montpelier; Adrienne Hahn, Consumers Union, Deven McGraw, Center for 
Democracy and Technology Health Privacy Project, and David Merritt, 
Center for Health Transformation, all of Washington, D.C.; Michael 
Stokes, Microsoft Corporation Health Solutions Group, Eagle, Idaho; and 
John P. Houston, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania.