[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 17, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D270-D271]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOUTHERN, NORTHERN, AFRICA, AND TRANSPORTATION COMMANDS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
United States Southern Command, United States Northern Command, United 
States Africa Command, and United States Transportation Command, after 
receiving testimony from Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, Commander, 
United States Southern Command; General Victor E. Renuart, Jr., USAF, 
Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace 
Defense Command; General William E. Ward, USA, Commander, United States 
Africa Command; and General Duncan J. McNabb, USAF, United States 
Transportation Command.
INSURANCE REGULATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine perspectives on modernizing insurance regulation, 
after receiving testimony from Michael T. McRaith, Illinois

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Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Springfield, on 
behalf of National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Frank 
Keating, American Council of Life Insurers, Franklin W. Nutter, 
Reinsurance Association of America, and J. Robert Hunter, Consumer 
Federation of America, all of Washington, D.C.; William R. Berkley, 
W.R. Berkley Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, on behalf of the 
American Insurance Association; Spencer M. Houldin, Ericson Insurance, 
Washington Depot, Connecticut, on behalf of Independent Insurance 
Agents and Brokers of America, Inc.; and John T. Hill, Magna Carta 
Companies, New York, New York, on behalf of National Association of 
Mutual Insurance Companies.
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine energy development on public lands and the 
Outer Continental Shelf, focusing on the range of issues associated 
with the development of energy resources from public lands and the 
Outer Continental Shelf, after receiving testimony from Ken Salazar, 
Secretary of the Interior; Philip D. Moeller, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission; Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 
Department of Energy; Joanna Prukop, New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and 
Natural Resources Department, Santa Fe; George Cooper, Theodore 
Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Washington, D.C.; Steven R. Kopf, 
Pacific Energy Ventures, LLC, Portland, Oregon; and Robert Bryce, 
Austin, Texas.
FRAUD SCHEMES AND OFFSHORE TAX EVASION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine tax 
issues related to fraud schemes and an update on offshore tax evasion 
legislation, after receiving testimony from Doug Shulman, Commissioner, 
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Michael Brostek, 
Director, Strategic Issues Team, Government Accountability Office; and 
William Josephson, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson, LLP, 
New York, New York.
MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded a 
joint hearing with the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control 
to examine law enforcement responses to Mexican drug cartels, after 
receiving testimony from William Hoover, Assistant Director, Field 
Operations, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and 
Anthony P. Placido, Assistant Administrator, Intelligence Division, 
Drug Enforcement Agency, both of Department of Justice; Kumar C. 
Kibble, Deputy Director, Investigations, Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security; Terry Goddard, Arizona 
Attorney General, Phoenix; Denise Dresser, Instituto Tecnologico 
Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City; and Jorge Luis Aguirre, El Paso, 
Texas.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.