[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 24, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D307-D308]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. EUROPEAN COMMAND AND U.S. JOINT FORCES COMMAND
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
United States European Command and United States Joint Forces Command, 
after receiving testimony from General Bantz J. Craddock, USA, 
Commander, United States European Command, and General James N. Mattis, 
USMC, Commander, United States Joint Forces Command, both of the 
Department of Defense.
BANK SUPERVISION AND REGULATION MODERNIZING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine modernizing bank supervision and regulation, after 
receiving testimony from William R. Attridge, Connecticut River 
Community Bank, Wethersfield, on behalf of the Independent Community 
Bankers of America; Daniel A. Mica, Credit Union National Association, 
Washington, D.C.; Aubrey B. Patterson, BancorpSouth, Inc., Tupelo, 
Mississippi, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; and 
Christopher Whalen, Institutional Risk Analytics, Croton-on-Hudson, New 
York; and Gail Hillebrand, Consumers Union, Yonkers, New York.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Thomas L. Strickland, of Colorado, 
to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Department 
of the Interior, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Udall 
(CO), testified and answered questions on his own behalf.
THREE MILE ISLAND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine Three Mile Island, 
focusing on lessons learned over the past 30 years, after receiving 
testimony from Dale E. Klein, Chairman, Gregory B. Jaczko, Peter B. 
Lyons, and Kristine L. Svinicki, each a Commissioner, and Harold R. 
Denton, Former Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, all of 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Dick Thornburgh, former Pennsylvania 
Governor, K&L Gates LLP, and Marvin S. Fertel, Nuclear Energy 
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Peter A. Bradford, Vermont Law 
School Institute for Energy and the Environment, South Royalton.
GLOBAL HUNGER CHALLENGES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine alleviating global hunger, focusing on challenges and 
opportunities for United States leadership, after receiving testimony 
from Dan Glickman, former Secretary of Agriculture; Catherine Bertini, 
former Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, 
Syracuse, New York; David Beckmann, Bread for the World, Washington, 
D.C.; Robert Paarlberg, Wellesey College, Wellesey, Massachusetts; 
Edwin C. Price, Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, 
College Station, Texas; and Gebisa Ejeta, Purdue University, West 
Lafayette, Indiana.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Richard Rahul Verma, of Maryland, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, who was introduced by 
Senator Reid, Melanne Verveer, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador at Large for Women's Global Issues, who was introduced by 
Senators Casey and Hutchison, and Esther Brimmer, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for International Organization 
Affairs, who was introduced by Representative Norton, all of the 
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
INSURANCE MARKET REFORM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine addressing insurance market reform in 
national health reform, after receiving testimony from Sandy Praeger, 
Kansas Commissioner of Insurance, Kansas City, on

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behalf of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Janet 
Stokes Trautwein, National Association of Health Underwriters, 
Arlington, Virginia; Ronald A. Williams, Aetna, Inc., Hartford, 
Connecticut; Karen Pollitz, Georgetown University Health Policy 
Institute, Karen Ignagni, America's Health Insurance Plans, and Len M. 
Nichols, New America Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.; and Katherine 
Baicker, Harvard School of Public Health Department of Health Policy 
and Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
CREDIT CARD PRACTICES AND BANKRUPTCY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded a hearing to examine abusive credit card 
practices and bankruptcy, after receiving testimony from Rosemary 
Gambardella, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New 
Jersey, Newark; Adam J. Levitin, Georgetown University Law Center, and 
David C. John, Heritage Foundation Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic 
Policy Studies, both of Washington, D.C.; Mark S. Scarberry, Pepperdine 
University School of Law, Malibu, California; and Douglas J. Corey, 
North Scituate, Rhode Island.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.