[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 112 (Thursday, July 23, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D901-D902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``The Public 
Transportation Extension Act of 2009''.
SYSTEMIC RISK REGULATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine establishing a framework for systemic risk 
regulation, after receiving testimony from Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman, 
United States Securities and Exchange Commission; Daniel K. Tarullo, 
Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Alice M. 
Rivlin, The Brookings Institution, Vincent Reinhart, American 
Enterprise Institute, and Paul Schott Stevens, Investment Company 
Institute, all of Washington D.C.; and Allan H. Meltzer, Carnegie 
Mellon University Tepper School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
WATER AND POWER LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 637, to authorize the 
construction of the Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System in the 
State of Montana and a portion of McKenzie County, North Dakota, S. 
789, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the 
feasibility and suitability of constructing a storage reservoir, outlet 
works, and a delivery system for the Tule River Indian Tribe of the 
Tule River Reservation in the State of California to provide a water 
supply for domestic, municipal, industrial, and agricultural purposes, 
S. 1080, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior 
with respect to the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and S. 1453, to 
amend Public Law 106-392 to maintain annual base funding for the Bureau 
of Reclamation for the Upper Colorado River and San Juan fish recovery 
programs through fiscal year 2023, after receiving testimony from 
Michale L. Connor, Commissioner, Bureau of

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Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Tod Kasten, Dry Redwater 
Regional Water Authority, Circle, Montana; Ryan Garfield, Tule River 
Tribe of California, Porterville; and John F. Sullivan, Salt River 
Project, Phoenix, Arizona.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S.J. Res. 17, approving the renewal of import restrictions contained 
in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003; and
  The nominations of Miriam E. Sapiro, of the District of Columbia, to 
be a Deputy United States Trade Representative, with the rank of 
Ambassador, Executive Office of the President, Daniel M. Tangherlini, 
of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Financial Officer, William J. 
Wilkins, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Counsel for the 
Internal Revenue Service and Assistant General Counsel, Kim N. Wallace, 
of Texas, to be Deputy Under Secretary, George Wheeler Madison, of 
Connecticut, to be General Counsel, and Rosa Gumataotao Rios, of 
California, to be Treasurer, all of the Department of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., of Utah, to be 
Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, who was introduced by 
Senators McCain, Hatch, and Bennett, John Victor Roos, of California, 
to be Ambassador to Japan, who was introduced by former Vice President 
Walter Mondale, former Senator Bill Bradley, former Speaker of the 
House Tom Foley, Jonathan S. Addleton, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to 
Mongolia, Teddy Bernard Taylor, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Papua 
New Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without additional 
compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands and Ambassador to the 
Republic of Vanuatu, Martha Larzelere Campbell, of Michigan, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Kenneth E. 
Gross, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Tajikistan, all of the Department of State, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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 D.C. public 
schools, focusing on education reform, after receiving testimony from 
Cornelia M. Ashby, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, 
Government Accountability Office; Michelle Rhee, District of Columbia 
Public Schools Chancellor, Victor Reinoso, and Kerri L. Briggs, both of 
the District of Columbia Department of Education, all of Washington, 
D.C.
BANKRUPTCY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded a hearing to examine the reconsideration of 
bankruptcy reform, after receiving testimony from Alys Cohen, National 
Consumer Law Center, on behalf of the National Association of Consumer 
Advocates and the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy 
Attorneys, Adam J. Levitin, Georgetown University Law Center, and Mark 
A. Calabria, Cato Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard 
Genirberg, Genirberg Law Office, Jonesboro, Georgia; and Joe 
Verdelotti, Jr., West Warwick, 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.
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