[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 11, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D246]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2010 for the 
Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from Steven Chu, 
Secretary of Energy.
AL-SHABAAB RECRUITMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine violent Islamist extremism, focusing on 
al-Shabaab recruitment in the United States, after receiving testimony 
from Philip Mudd, Associate Executive Assistant Director, National 
Security Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; Andrew Liepman, Deputy Director of Intelligence, National 
Counterterrorism Center, Directorate of Intelligence; Ken Menkhaus, 
Davidson College, Davidson, NC; and Abdirahman Mukhtar, Brian Coyle 
Center of Pillsbury United Communities, and Osman Ahmed, both of 
Minneapolis, MN.
VOTER REGISTRATION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine voter registration, focusing on assessing current problems, 
after receiving testimony from Chris Nelson, South Dakota Secretary of 
State, Pierre; Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; 
Curtis Gans, Center for the Study of the American Electorate, Kristen 
Clarke, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., and Jonah H. 
Goldman, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, all of 
Washington, DC; and Nathaniel Persily, Columbia Law School, New York, 
NY.