[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 31, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D344-D346]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine Federal school meal programs, focusing on 
nutrition for kids in schools, after receiving testimony from Pat 
Cooper, Early Childhood and Family Learning Foundation, New Orleans, 
Louisiana; Nancy Huehnergarth, New York State Healthy Eating and 
Physical Activity Alliance, Chappaqua; Byron V. Garrett, National 
Parent Teacher Association, Chicago, Illinois; Reginald M. Felton, 
National School Boards Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Karen Ehrens, 
North Dakota Dietetic Association, Bismarck, on behalf of the

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American Dietetic Association; Miriam Erickson Brown, Anderson Dairy 
Company, Des Moines, Iowa; Hank Izzo, Mars, Snackfood US, Hackettstown, 
New Jersey; and Susan K. Neely, American Beverage Association, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 414, to amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act, 
to ban abusive credit practices, enhance consumer disclosures, protect 
underage consumers, with amendments.
LESSONS FROM THE NEW DEAL
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Economic Policy concluded a hearing to examine lessons from the New 
Deal, after receiving testimony from Christina D. Romer, Chair, 
President's Council of Economic Advisers; James K. Galbraith, 
University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public 
Affairs; J. Bradford DeLong, University of California Berkeley; Allan 
M. Winkler, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; and Lee E. Ohanian, 
University of California Los Angeles Ettinger Family Program in 
Macroeconomic Research.
HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY PRACTICES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine health insurance industry practices, after 
receiving testimony from Stephen J. Hemsley, UnitedHealth Group, 
Washington, D.C.; and Andy Slavitt, Ingenix, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of Thomas L. Strickland, of Colorado, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Department of the 
Interior.
PROMOTING WATER USE EFFICIENCY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water and 
Wildlife concluded a hearing to examine Environmental Protection 
Agency's role in promoting water use efficiency, after receiving 
testimony from Michael Shapiro, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office 
of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Martha Davis, Inland Empire 
Utilities Agency, Chino, California; Mary Ann Dickinson, Alliance for 
Water Efficiency, Chicago, Illinois; Mark A. Shannon, University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Center of Advanced Materials for the 
Purification of Water with Systems, Urbana; and G. Tracy Mehan, III, 
Cadmus Group, Inc., Arlington, Virginia.
TARP OVERSIGHT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine a six month update on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), 
after receiving testimony from Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector 
General, Troubled Asset Relief Program Department of the Treasury; Gene 
L. Dodaro, Acting Comptroller General, Government Accountability 
Office; and Elizabeth Warren, Chair, Congressional Oversight Panel.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
   S. 384, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2010 through 
2014 to provide assistance to foreign countries to promote food 
security, to stimulate rural economies, and to improve emergency 
response to food crises, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 
with an amendment;
  S. 705, to reauthorize the programs of the Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation;
  S. Res. 90, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the Fifth 
Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from 
April 17-19, 2009;
  S. Con. Res. 11, condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and 
reaffirming the support of Congress for the mandate of the Special 
Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, with an amendment;
  S. Res. 9, commemorating 90 years of U.S.-Polish diplomatic 
relations, during which Poland has proven to be an exceptionally strong 
partner to the United States in advancing freedom around the world;
  S. Res. 20, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization;
  S. Res. 56, urging the Government of Moldova to ensure a fair and 
democratic election process for the parliamentary elections on April 5, 
2009; and
  The nominations of Timothy F. Geithner, of New York, to be United 
States Governor of the International Monetary Fund, the International 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development 
Bank, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the 
African Development Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and 
Development; and Esther Brimmer, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs, Karl 
Winfrid Eikenberry, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Islamic 
Republic of Afghanistan, Philip H. Gordon, of the District of Columbia, 
to be Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Rose 
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Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Verification 
and Compliance, Christopher R. Hill, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Iraq, Richard Rahul Verma, of Maryland, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, and Melanne Verveer, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador at Large for Women's Global 
Issues, all of the Department of State.
RETURN AND RESETTLEMENT OF DISPLACED IRAQIS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
and Central Asian Affairs concluded a hearing to examine the return and 
resettlement of displaced Iraqis, after receiving testimony from Ellen 
Laipson, The Stimson Center, and Nancy A. Aossey, International Medical 
Corps, both of Washington, D.C.; and Nabil Al-Tikriti, University of 
Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
D.C. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine the Office of the 
Chief Financial Officer, focusing on the progress it has made since the 
financial crisis of the 1990s, the financial management challenges in 
the years ahead, and the steps that are being taken to address those 
challenges, after receiving testimony from Natwar M. Gandhi, Chief 
Financial Officer, and Charles J. Willoughby, Inspector General, both 
of the Government of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Kathleen Sebelius, of 
Kansas, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by former Senator Robert J. Dole and 
Senator Roberts, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
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.