[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 105 (Tuesday, July 14, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D833-D834]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection 
Agency, after receiving testimony from Michael Barr, Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions; Richard 
Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General, Hartford; Edward L. Yingling, 
American Bankers Association, Travis Plunkett, Consumer Federation of 
America, and Peter J. Wallison, American Enterprise Institute, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
THE ECONOMY AND FRAUD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety,

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and Insurance concluded a hearing to examine consumer protection from 
fraud, after receiving testimony from David Vladeck, Director, Bureau 
of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Chris Koster, 
Missouri Attorney General, Jefferson City; Charles Bell, Consumers 
Union, Yonkers, New York; and Sally Greenberg, National Consumers 
League, and Timothy J. Muris, George Mason University School of Law, 
both of Washington, D.C.
HARDROCK MINING AND RECLAMATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 796, to modify the requirements applicable to 
locatable minerals on public domain land, focusing on the royalties 
states charge and number of abandoned hardrock mine sites and hazards, 
after receiving testimony from Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior; 
Robin M. Nazzaro, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, 
Government Accountability Office; Jim Butler, Parsons Behle & Latimer, 
Salt Lake City, Utah; Phillips Baker, Jr., Hecla Mining Company, Coeur 
d'Alene, Idaho; John D. Leshy, University of California Hastings 
College of Law, San Francisco; and Cathy Carlson, EARTHWORKS, Boulder, 
Colorado.
GLOBAL WARMING REDUCTION: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY COMMUNITIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine economic opportunities for agriculture, forestry 
communities, and others in reducing global warming pollution, after 
receiving testimony from William Hohenstein, Director, Global Change 
Program Office, Department of Agriculture; Jeffrey W. Hopkins, Rio 
Tinto, and Bob Stallman, American Farm Bureau Federation, both of 
Washington, D.C., and Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, 
New York.
TRANSPORTATION'S ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine transportation's role in climate change and reducing 
greenhouse gases, after receiving testimony from Ray LaHood, Secretary 
of Transportation; Regina A. McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, Office 
of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; Mayor Ralph 
Becker, Salt Lake City, Utah; David Bragdon, Metro Council, Portland, 
Oregon; Steve Winkelman, Center for Clean Air Policy, Port Chester, New 
York; and Ray Kuntz, Watkins and Shepard Trucking, Helena, Montana.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of William J. Wilkins, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General 
Counsel, Daniel M. Tangherlini, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Financial Management and to be Chief Financial 
Officer, and Rosa Gumataotao Rios, of California, to be Treasurer of 
the United States, all of the Department of the Treasury, and Carmen R. 
Nazario, of Puerto Rico, to be Assistant Secretary for Family Support, 
Department of Health and Human Services, who was introduced by Senator 
Carper, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
continued consideration of Affordable Health Choices Act, but did not 
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, July 15, 
2009.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings to examine the 
nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, of New York, to be an Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court of the United States, the nominee testified and 
answered questions in her own behalf.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call and will meet again on 
Wednesday, July, 15, 2009.
HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR WOMEN VETERANS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine health care services for women veterans, focusing on the on-
site availability of health care services for women veterans at VA 
facilities and key challenges that VA facilities are experiencing in 
providing health care services for women veterans, after receiving 
testimony from Patricia Hayes, Chief Consultant, Women Veterans Health 
Strategic Health Care Group, Veterans Health Administration, and Irene 
Trowell-Harris, Director, Center for Women Veterans, both of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs; Randall B. Williamson, Director, Health 
Care, Government Accountability Office; Joy J. Ilem, Disabled American 
Veterans, and Jennifer Olds, Veterans of Foreign Wars, both of 
Washington, DC; Tia Christopher, Swords to Plowshares, San Francisco, 
California; Genevieve Chase, American Women Veterans, Alexandria, 
Virginia; and Kayla M. Williams, Broadlands, Virginia.