[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 10, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D237-D238]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine current and future worldwide threats to the 
national security of the United States, after receiving testimony from 
Dennis C. Blair, Director, National Intelligence; and Michael D. 
Maples, United States Army, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, and 
David J. Dorsett, Director, Naval Intelligence, both of the Department 
of Defense.
SECURITIES MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine enhancing investor protection and the regulation of 
securities markets, after receiving testimony from Lynn E. Turner, 
former Chief Accountant, Securities and Exchange Commission; John C. 
Coffee, Jr., Columbia University Law School, T. Timothy Ryan, Jr., 
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and Robert 
Pickel, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, all of New 
York, New York; Paul Schott Stevens, Investment Company Institute, 
Alexandria, Virginia; Mercer E. Bullard, University of Mississippi 
School of Law, Oxford; Damon A. Silvers, American Federation of Labor 
and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Takoma Park, 
Maryland; and Thomas Doe, Municipal Market Advisors, Concord, 
Massachusetts.
BUDGET PROPOSAL
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2010, after receiving 
testimony from Peter R. Orszag, Director, Office of Management and 
Budget.
WATER RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 531, to provide for the conduct of an in-depth 
analysis of the impact of energy development and production on the 
water resources of the United States, after receiving testimony from 
Carl O. Bauer, Director, National Energy

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Technology Laboratory, Department of Energy; Lon W. House, Association 
of California Water Agencies, Cameron Park; Stephen Bolze, General 
Electric Power and Water, Schenectady, New York; Peter H. Gleick, 
Pacific Institute, Oakland, California; and Michael E. Webber, 
University of Texas Center for International Energy and Environmental 
Policy, Austin.
HEALTH CARE PROPOSALS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's fiscal year 2010 health care proposals, after receiving 
testimony from Peter R. Orszag, Director, Office of Management and 
Budget.
REBUILDING ECONOMIC SECURITY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine rebuilding economic security, focusing 
on empowering workers to restore the middle class, after receiving 
testimony from Paula B. Voos, Rutgers the State University of New 
Jersey, New Brunswick; Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil 
Rights, and Jim Wallis, Sojourners, both of Washington, DC.; Anne 
Layne-Farrar, LECG, LLC, Chicago, Illinois; Deborah Kelly, 
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Anchorage, Alaska; 
Kelly Badillo, Service Employees International Union, Jersey City, New 
Jersey; Larry Getts, Dana Corporation, Albion, Indiana; and Sharon 
Harrison, AT&T Mobility, Lebanon, Virginia.
NATIONAL SERVICE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the future of national service, after 
receiving testimony from Alan Solomont, Weston, Massachusetts, 
Chairman, and Stephen Goldsmith, Vice-Chairman, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, both of the Board of Directors, Corporation for National 
and Community Service; former Montana Governor Marc Racicot, Bigfork; 
Lester Strong, Experience Corps, and Shirley Sagawa, Center for 
American Progress, both of Washington, DC; Michael Brown, City Year, 
Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; and Michelle Bouchard, HealthCorps, New 
York, New York.
PATENT REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
patent reform in the 111th Congress, focusing on legislation and recent 
court decisions, after receiving testimony from Steven R. Appleton, 
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, Idaho; Philip S. Johnson, Johnson and 
Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey; David J. Kappos, International 
Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Armonk, New York; Taraneh Maghame, 
Tessera, Inc., San Jose, California; Herbert C. Wamsley, Intellectual 
Property Owners Association, Washington, DC; and Mark A. Lemley, 
Stanford Law School, Stanford, California.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Lanny A. Breuer, of the District of Columbia, who 
was introduced by Representative Harmon, Christine Anne Varney, of the 
District of Columbia, who was introduced by Senator Schumer, and Tony 
West, of California, each to be an Assistant Attorney General, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUDGET FOR VETERANS PROGRAMS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine Department of Veterans Affairs budget programs for 
fiscal year 2010, after receiving testimony from Eric K. Shinseki, 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Carl Blake, Paralyzed Veterans of 
America, Fredericksburg, Virginia; Kerry Baker, Disabled American 
Veterans, Cold Spring, Kentucky; Raymond C. Kelley, AMVETS, Lanham, 
Maryland; Dennis M. Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kansas City, 
Missouri; Steve Robertson, American Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana; and 
Rick Weidman, Vietnam Veterans of America, Silver Spring, Maryland.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of David S. Kris, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.