[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 29 (Thursday, February 12, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D147-D148]
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 Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
CONSUMER PROTECTION IN THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine consumer protection in the financial regulatory 
system, focusing on strengthening credit card protections, after 
receiving testimony from Travis B. Plunkett, Consumer Federation of 
America, Adam J. Levitin, Georgetown University Law Center, and Kenneth 
J. Clayton, American Bankers Association, all of Washington, DC; James 
C. Sturdevant, The Sturdevant Law Firm, San Francisco, California, on 
behalf of The National Association of Consumer Advocates; Lawrence M. 
Ausubel, University of Maryland, College Park; and Todd J. Zywicki, 
George Mason University School of Law, Falls Church, Virginia.
BUDGET RESOLUTION/RECONCILIATION
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Senate procedures for consideration of the budget resolution/
reconciliation, after receiving testimony from Senators Byrd and 
Specter; William Hennif, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; G. William Hoagland, former Staff Director, Senate Budget 
Committee, Fairfax, Virginia; and Robert Dove, former Senate 
Parliamentarian, Falls Church, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by 
the Committee.
   Also, Committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 111th 
Congress.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Jane Lubchenco, of Oregon, to 
be Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, who was introduced by 
Senator Wyden, and John P. Holdren, of Massachusetts, to be Director of 
the Office of Science and Technology Policy, both of the Department of 
Commerce, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program, 
authorized under Title 17 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and how the 
delivery of services to support the deployment of clean energy 
technologies might be improved, after receiving testimony from David G. 
Frantz, Director, Loan Guarantee Program, and Andy Karsner, former 
Assistant Secretary for Efficiency and Renewable Energy, both of the 
Department of Energy; Kevin Book, Friedman, Billings, Ramsey and Co., 
Inc., Arlington, Virginia; and James K. Asselstine, Barclays Capital, 
New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee.
   Also, Committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 111th 
Congress and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Senators Baucus 
(Chair), Carper, Lautenberg, Cardin, Sanders, Klobuchar, Boxer (ex 
officio), Voinovich, Vitter, Barrasso, Specter, and Inhofe (ex 
officio).
  Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety: Senators Carper 
(Chair), Baucus, Cardin, Sanders, Merkley, Boxer (ex officio), Vitter, 
Voinovich, Bond, and Inhofe (ex officio).
  Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health: Senators 
Lautenberg (Chair), Baucus, Klobuchar, Whitehouse, Gillibrand, Boxer 
(ex officio), Specter, Crapo, Bond, and Inhofe (ex officio).
  Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife: Senators Cardin (Chair), 
Lautenberg, Whitehouse, Udall (NM), Merkley, and Boxer (ex officio).
  Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy: Senators Sanders 
(Chair), Carper, Gillibrand, Boxer (ex officio), Bond, Voinovich, and 
Inhofe (ex officio).
  Subcommittee on Children's Health: Senators Klobuchar (Chair), Udall 
(NM), Merkley, Boxer (ex officio), Alexander, Specter, and Inhofe (ex 
officio).

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  Subcommittee on Oversight: Senators Whitehouse (Chair), Udall (NM), 
Gillibrand, Boxer (ex officio), Barrasso, Vitter, and Inhofe (ex 
officio).
DARFUR
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine United States relations with Darfur, after receiving testimony 
from Timothy M. Carney, former United States Ambassador to Sudan, Roger 
P. Winter, former Special Representative on Sudan, Michael Gerson, 
Council on Foreign Relations, Jerry Fowler, Save Darfur Coalition, and 
John Prendergast, The Enough Project, all of Washington, DC.
NATIONAL AND HOMELAND SECURITY AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine structuring national security and 
homeland security at the White House, after receiving testimony from 
Thomas J. Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security; Frances Fragos 
Townsend, former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to 
President George W. Bush; Christine E. Wormuth, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, Washington, DC; and James R. Locher III, 
Project on National Security Reform, Arlington, Virginia.
INDIAN AFFAIRS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine matters relating to Indian affairs, after receiving 
testimony from Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts: Senators 
Whitehouse (Chair), Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, Cardin, Kaufman, 
Sessions, Grassley, Kyl, and Graham.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights: 
Senators Kohl (Chair), Schumer, Whitehouse, Wyden, Klobuchar, Kaufman, 
Hatch, Specter, Grassley, and Cornyn.
  Subcommittee on the Constitution: Senators Feingold (Chair), 
Feinstein, Durbin, Cardin, Whitehouse, Kaufman, Coburn, Specter, 
Graham, and Cornyn.
  Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs: Senators Durbin (Chair), Kohl, 
Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, Cardin, Klobuchar, Kaufman, Graham, 
Specter, Hatch, Grassley, Sessions, and Coburn.