[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 4, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D207-D208]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CHILDREN'S NUTRITION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine improving nutrition for America's children in 
difficult economic times, after receiving testimony from Katie Wilson, 
Onalaska School District, Onalaska, Wisconsin; Susan Bartlett, Abt 
Associates Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Connie K. Boldt, Knoxville 
Community Schools, Knoxville, Iowa; David M. Page, The John Hopkins 
University, Baltimore, Maryland; Lucy Nolan, End Hunger Connecticut!, 
Hartford; and Kenneth Hecht, California Food Policy Advocates, Oakland.
BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2010, after receiving 
testimony from Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury.
IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing to examine the Iran status report, focusing on 
nuclear and political issues, from national security briefers.
FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE SYSTEMIC RISK AND BREAKDOWN
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine systemic risk and breakdown of financial 
governance, after receiving testimony from Robert E. Litan, Ewing 
Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri; Damon A. Silvers, 
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations 
(AFL-CIO), Washington, D.C.; and Robert C. Pozen, MFS Investment 
Management, Boston, Massachusetts.
TAX HAVEN BANKS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine financial 
institutions which are located in offshore tax havens and which use 
practices that facilitate tax evasion and other misconduct by United 
States clients, after receiving testimony from John DiCicco, Acting 
Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, Department of Justice; Doug 
Shulman, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the 
Treasury; and Mark Branson, UBS Global Wealth Management and Swiss 
Bank, Zurich, Switzerland.

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NONPARTISAN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine a 
nonpartisan commission of inquiry, after receiving testimony from 
Thomas R. Pickering, Hills and Company, and David B. Rivkin, Jr., Baker 
Hostetler LLP, both of Washington, D.C.; Lee F. Gunn, Vice Admiral, USN 
(Ret.), Institute for Public Research, and Jeremy A. Rabkin, George 
Mason University School of Law, both of Arlington, Virginia; John J. 
Farmer, Jr., Arseneault, Whipple, Farmer, Fassett, and Azzarello, LLP, 
Chatham, New Jersey; and Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., New York 
University School of Law Brennan Center for Justice, New York.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
health reform in an aging America, after receiving testimony from 
Thomas E. Hamilton, Center for Medicaid and State Operations, Centers 
for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Karen E. Timberlake, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, 
Madison; Holly Benson, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, 
Tallahassee; Henry Claypool, Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute 
(PHI), New York, New York; Melanie Bella, Center for Health Care 
Strategies, Hamilton, New Jersey; and Judith Feder, Georgetown 
University, Washington, D.C.