[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 136 (Thursday, September 24, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1086-D1087]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,559 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
MISSILE DEFENSE IN EUROPE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the President's decision on missile defense in Europe, after receiving 
testimony from Michele A. Flournoy, Under Secretary for Policy, General 
James E. Cartwright, USMC, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 
Lieutenant General Patrick J. O'Reilly, USA, Director, Missile Defense 
Agency, all of the Department of Defense.
EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, one year 
later, focusing on the status of efforts to address transparency and 
accountability issues, after receiving testimony from Herbert M. 
Allison, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability, Neil 
Barofsky, Special Inspector General, Troubled Asset Relief Program, 
both of the Department of the Treasury; Gene L. Dodaro, Acting 
Comptroller General of the United States, Government Accountability 
Office; and Elizabeth Warren, Chairman, Congressional Oversight Panel.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee continued consideration of an original 
bill entitled, ``America's Healthy Future Act of 2009'', but did not 
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to the call and will meet 
again on Friday, September 25, 2009.
GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine the 
government, focusing on performance, including key management practices 
in an agency which managers' reported use of performance information 
has improved, looking at agencies with relatively low use of 
performance information and the factors that contribute to this 
condition, and review the role the President and Congress can play in 
promoting a results-oriented and collaborative culture in the federal 
government, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey D. Zients, Deputy 
Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget; Bernice 
Steinhardt, Director, Strategic Issues, Government Accountability 
Office; W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, Department of Homeland Security; Rhea Suh, Assistant Secretary 
for Policy, Management and Budget, Department of the Interior; Michelle 
Snyder, Acting Deputy Administrator and the Deputy Chief Operating 
Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health 
and Human Services; and Paul L. Posner, George Mason University Public 
Administration Program, Clifton, Virginia.
U.S. DIPLOMATIC READINESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government

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Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia 
concluded a hearing to examine a review of United States diplomatic 
readiness, focusing on the staffing and foreign language challenges 
facing the foreign service, after receiving testimony from Nancy J. 
Powell, Director General, Foreign Service, Department of State; Jess T. 
Ford, Director, International Affairs and Trade, Government 
Accountability Office; and Ronald E. Neumann, American Academy of 
Diplomacy, and Susan Rockwell Johnson, American Foreign Service 
Association, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1670, to reform and modernize the limitations on exclusive rights 
relating to secondary transmissions of certain signals, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Paul Joseph Fishman, to be United States Attorney 
for the District of New Jersey, Jenny A. Durkan, to be United States 
Attorney for the Western District of Washington, Florence T. Nakakuni, 
to be United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, Deborah K. R. 
Gilg, to be United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska, and 
Ignacia S. Moreno, of New York, to be Assistant Attorney General, all 
of the Department of Justice.
INTELLIGENCE
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.