[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 138 (Tuesday, September 29, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1100-D1101]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PRIMARY EDUCATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine the use, impact, and 
accomplishments of Federal appropriations provided to improve the 
education of children in the District of Columbia, after receiving 
testimony from Mary M. Levy, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil 
Rights and Urban Affairs, Robert Cane, Friends of Choice in Urban 
Schools, Patricia Weitzel-O'Neill, Archdiocese of Washington, and 
Gregory M. Cork, Washington Scholarship Fund, all of Washington, D.C.
PRUDENTIAL BANK SUPERVISION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine strengthening and streamlining Prudential Bank 
supervision, focusing on how regulation has evolved and varying 
regulatory systems used during the financial crisis, after receiving 
testimony from Richard J. Hillman,

[[Page D1101]]

Managing Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, 
Government Accountability Office; Eugene A. Ludwig, Promontory 
Financial Group, and Martin Neil Baily, Brookings Institution, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Richard S. Carnell, Fordham University School of 
Law, New York, New York.
CHILDREN'S HEALTH PROTECTION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Children's 
Health concluded a hearing to examine promoting and improving 
children's health protections, after receiving testimony from Peter 
Grevatt, Director, Office of Children's Health Protection and 
Environmental Education, Environmental Protection Agency; Linda S. 
Birnbaum, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Mary Story, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 
Minneapolis, on behalf of Healthy Eating Research National Program 
Office; and Reid Ewing, University of Utah Department of City and 
Metropolitan Planning, Salt Lake City.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed 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 Wednesday, September 30, 2009.
FEDERAL CONTRACTING DATABASES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine 
improving transparency and accessibility of federal contracting 
databases, focusing on the correct diagnoses of the problems with 
contracting data systems, after receiving testimony from William T. 
Woods, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government 
Accountability Office; Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer, 
Administrator for Electronic Government and Information Technology, 
Office of Management and Budget; Adam Hughes, OMB Watch, Washington, 
D.C.; and Trey Hodgkins, TechAmerica, Arlington, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the nominations of Richard Serino, of 
Massachusetts, to be Deputy Administrator, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, Department of Homeland Security, and Daniel I. Werfel, of 
Virginia, to be Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, 
Office of Management and Budget.
BODY BUILDING PRODUCTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded a 
hearing to examine body building products and hidden steroids, focusing 
on enforcement barriers, after receiving testimony from Michael Levy, 
Director, Division of New Drugs and Labeling Compliance, Office of 
Compliance, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, United States Food 
and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Joseph T. Rannazzisi, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 
Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of 
Justice; Travis T. Tygart, United States Anti-Doping Agency, Colorado 
Springs, Colorado; and Daniel Fabricant, Natural Products Association, 
and Richard Kingham, Covington & Burling LLP, both of Washington, D.C.