[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 132 (Thursday, September 17, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1055-D1056]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine countering the threat of failure in Afghanistan, after 
receiving testimony from General John Craddock, United States Army 
(Ret.), Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Ryan C. Crocker, former United 
States Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, United States Charge 
d'Affaires to Afghanistan, Department of State, Spokane, Washington; 
Clare Lockhart, Institute of State Effectiveness (ISE), Washington, 
D.C.; and Khaled Hosseini, United Nations High Commissioner for 
Refugees (UNHCR), San Jose, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Michael H.

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Posner, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human 
Rights, and Labor, Robert D. Hormats, of New York, to be Under 
Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs, and to be 
United States Alternate Governor of the International Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development for a term of five years, United States 
Alternate Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank for a term of 
five years, United States Alternate Governor of the African Development 
Bank for a term of five years, United States Alternate Governor of the 
African Development Fund, United States Alternate Governor of the Asian 
Development Bank, and United States Alternate Governor of the European 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, David C. Jacobson, of 
Illinois, to be Ambassador to Canada, Alan D. Solomont, of 
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Spain, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to Andorra, Lee Andrew 
Feinstein, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, and 
Barry B. White, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Norway, all of 
the Department of State.
SECURITIES VIOLATIONS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1551, to amend section 20 of the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934 to allow for a private civil action against a 
person that provides substantial assistance in violation of such Act, 
after receiving testimony from John C. Coffee, Jr., Columbia University 
Law School, and Robert J. Giuffra, Jr., Sullivan and Cromwell LLP, both 
of New York, New York; Patrick J. Szymanski, Change to Win, and Tanya 
Solov, Director, Illinois Securities Department, Illinois Secretary of 
State, on behalf of the North American Securities Administrators, both 
of Washington, D.C.; and Adam C. Pritchard, University of Michigan 
Empirical Legal Studies Center, Ann Arbor.
VETERANS' DISABILITY COMPENSATION REVIEW
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine veterans' disability compensation, focusing on benefits in the 
21st century, after receiving testimony from Patrick W. Dunne, Under 
Secretary for Benefits, Veterans Benefits Administration, and 
Lieutenant General James Terry Scott, USA (Ret.), Chairman, Advisory 
Committee on Disability Compensation, both of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs; George Kettner, Economic Systems Inc., Falls Church, 
Virginia; Katy Neas, Easter Seals, Chicago, Illinois; Susan Prokop, 
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Washington, D.C.; and John L. Wilson, 
Disabled American Veterans, Cold Springs, Kentucky.