[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D137-D139]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEVILS LAKE REGION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine protecting residents of the 
Devils Lake region from rising water, after receiving testimony from 
Colonel Jon L. Christensen, District Commander, Saint Paul District, 
Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense; Scott Dummer, 
Hydrologist-in-

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Charge, North Central River Forecast Center, National Weather Service, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of 
Commerce; Dale Frink, North Dakota State Engineer, Bismarck, on behalf 
of the North Dakota Water Commission; Mayor Fred Bott, Devils Lake, 
North Dakota; and Mayor Dennis Walaker, Fargo, North Dakota.
FINANCIAL AND HOUSING MARKETS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
crises in financial and housing markets, after receiving testimony from 
Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee.
  Also, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Energy: Senators Cantwell (Chair), Dorgan, Wyden, 
Landrieu, Menendez, Sanders, Bayh, Stabenow, Udall (CO), Shaheen, 
Risch, Burr, Barrasso, Brownback, Bennett, Bunning, Sessions, and 
Corker.
  Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests: Senators Wyden (Chair), 
Johnson, Landrieu, Cantwell, Menendez, Lincoln, Udall (CO), Shaheen, 
Barrasso, Risch, McCain, Bennett, Sessions, and Corker.
  Subcommittee on National Parks: Senators Udall (CO) (Chair), Dorgan, 
Landrieu, Menendez, Lincoln, Sanders, Bayh, Stabenow, Burr, Barrasso, 
Brownback, McCain, Bunning, and Corker.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power: Senators Stabenow (Chair), Dorgan, 
Johnson, Cantwell, Lincoln, Sanders, Bayh, Shaheen, Brownback, Risch, 
McCain, Bennett, Bunning, and Sessions.
GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine foreign policy implications of the global economic crisis, 
after receiving testimony from Niall Ferguson, Harvard Business School, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; and David Gordon, The Eurasia Group, Desmond 
Lachman, American Enterprise Institute, Sebastian Mallaby, Council on 
Foreign Relations, and Douglas Rediker, The New America Foundation, all 
of Washington, DC.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 160, to provide the District of Columbia a voting seat and the 
State of Utah an additional seat in the House of Representatives, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 303, to reauthorize and improve the Federal Financial Assistance 
Management Improvement Act of 1999;
  S. 69, to establish a fact-finding Commission to extend the study of 
a prior Commission to investigate and determine facts and circumstances 
surrounding the relocation, internment, and deportation to Axis 
countries of Latin Americans of Japanese descent from December 1941 
through February 1948, and the impact of those actions by the United 
States, and to recommend appropriate remedies; and
  S. 234, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 2105 East Cook Street in Springfield, Illinois, as the 
``Colonel John H. Wilson, Jr. Post Office Building''.
   Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution 
authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
   Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 111th 
Congress andannounced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Levin (Chair), 
Carper, Pryor, McCaskill, Tester, Bennet, Coburn, Collins, McCain, and 
Ensign.
  Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia: Senators Akaka (Chair), Levin, 
Landrieu, Burris, Bennet, Voinovich, and Graham.
  Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
Federal Services, and International Security: Senators Carper (Chair), 
Levin, Akaka, Pryor, McCaskill, Burris, McCain, Coburn, Voinovich, and 
Graham.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness 
and Integration: Senators Pryor (Chair), Akaka, Landrieu, Tester, 
Bennet, Ensign, Voinovich, and Graham.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery: Senators Landrieu (Chair), 
McCaskill, Burris, and Graham.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight*: Senators McCaskill 
(Chair), Levin, Carper, Pryor, Tester, Coburn, and McCain.
  * The Ranking Member for the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting 
Oversight has not been appointed, pending designation of another 
Republican member to the committee. In the interim, Senator Collins 
will serve as the ex-officio ranking member of the subcommittee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:

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  An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee; and
  The nomination of Hilda L. Solis, of California, to be Secretary of 
Labor.
FRAUD ENFORCEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the need for increased fraud enforcement in the wake of the economic 
downturn, after receiving testimony from John Pistole, Deputy Director, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Rita Glavin, Acting Assistant 
Attorney General, Criminal Division, both of the Department of Justice; 
and Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General, Troubled Asset Relief 
Program, Department of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee adopted its rules of 
procedure for the 111th Congress.
VETERANS' DISABILITY COMPENSATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine veterans' disability compensation, focusing on the appeals 
process, after receiving testimony from Bruce E. Kasold, United States 
Judge for the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; James P. Terry, 
Chairman, Board of Veterans' Appeals, Department of Veterans Affairs; 
Kerry Baker, Disabled American Veterans, Cold Spring, Kentucky; and 
Richard Paul Cohen, National Organization of Veterans' Advocates, Inc., 
and Barton F. Stichman, National Veterans Legal Services Program, both 
of Washington, DC.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Leon E. Panetta, of California, to be Director of the 
Central Intelligence Agency.
  Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution 
authorizing expenditures by the Committee.