[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 37 (Tuesday, March 3, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D199]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE ACQUISITIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
acquisition of major weapons systems by the Department of Defense, and 
S. 454, to improve the organization and procedures of the Department of 
Defense for the acquisition of major weapon systems, after receiving 
testimony from Michael J. Sullivan, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing 
Management, Government Accountability Office; Jacques S. Gansler, 
former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and 
Logistics, Defense Science Board Task Force on Industrial Structure for 
Transportation, College Park, Maryland; Paul G. Kaminski, National 
Research Council, Fairfax Station, Virginia; and Charles Adolph, 
Defense Science Board Task Force on Developmental Test and Evaluation, 
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
CONSUMER PROTECTIONS IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine consumer protections in financial services, after 
receiving testimony from Steve Bartlett, Financial Services Roundtable, 
and Ellen Seidman, New America Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.; 
and Patricia A. McCoy, University of Connecticut School of Law, 
Hartford.
ECONOMIC AND BUDGET CHALLENGES
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
economic and budget challenges for the short and long term, after 
receiving testimony from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors 
of the Federal Reserve System.
SMART GRID TECHNOLOGIES AND INITIATIVES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the progress on smart grid initiatives 
authorized in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, and 
funded in the stimulus bill, and opportunities and impediments in 
installation of smart grid technologies, after receiving testimony from 
Suedeen G. Kelly, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; 
Patrick D. Gallagher, Deputy Director, National Institute of Standards 
and Technology, Department of Commerce; Patricia Hoffman, Acting 
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Electricity Delivery and Energy 
Reliability; Frederick F. Butler, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, 
Newark, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility 
Commissioners; Edward Lu, Google, Inc., Mountain View, California; 
Katherine Hamilton, The GridWise Alliance, Washington, D.C.; and Evan 
R. Gaddis, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Rosslyn, 
Virginia.
IRANIAN POLITICAL AND NUCLEAR REALITIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Iranian political and nuclear realities and United States 
policy options, after receiving testimony from Frank G. Wisner, former 
United States Ambassador to Zambia, Egypt, the Philippines, and India, 
and Richard N. Haass, Council on Foreign Relations, both of New York, 
New York; Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic 
Studies, London, United Kingdom; and Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie 
Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.