[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 58 (Tuesday, April 21, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D422]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE AND NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE 
AGENCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Select Intelligence 
Oversight Panel met in executive session to hold a hearing on the 
National Reconnaissance Office, NRO, and the National Geospatial 
Intelligence Agency, NGA. Testimony was heard from MG Ellen 
Pawlikowski, USAF, Acting Director, NRO; and ADM Robert B. Murrett, 
USN, Director, NGA, Department of Defense.
AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY SECURITY ACT OF 2009
Committee on Energy and Commerce: and the Subcommittee on Energy and 
Environment began joint hearings on the American Clean Energy Security 
Act of 2009.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BAYER'S FATAL CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSION
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations held a hearing entitled ``Secrecy in the Response to 
Bayer's Fatal Chemical Plant Explosion.'' Testimony was heard from John 
Bresland, Chairman, Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; 
RADM James Watson, USCG, Director, Prevention Policy and Marine Safety, 
Security and Stewardship, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland 
Security; the following officials of West Virginia: Michael Dorsey, 
Chief, Homeland Security and Emergency Response; and Pamela Nixon, 
Environmental Advocate, both with the Department of Environment 
Protection; and Joseph Crawford, Chief of Police, St. Albans; and 
public witnesses.
NEWSPAPER COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Competition 
Policy held a hearing on A New Age for Newspapers: Diversity of Voices, 
Competition and the Internet. Testimony was heard from Carl Shapiro, 
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Economics, Antitrust Division, 
Department of Justice; and public witnesses.

Joint Meetings
SYSTEMIC THREATS OF LARGE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
systemic threats of large financial institutions, after receiving 
testimony from Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, former 
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, New York, NY; Simon Johnson, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, 
Cambridge; and Thomas M. Hoenig, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 
Kansas City, MO.