[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 144 (Wednesday, October 7, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1144-D1145]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SECURITIZATION OF ASSETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine 
securitization of assets, focusing on problems and solutions, after 
receiving testimony from Patricia A. McCoy, University of Connecticut 
School of Law Insurance Law Center, Hartford; George P. Miller, 
American Securitization Forum, Andrew Davidson, Andrew Davidson and Co, 
and J. Christopher Hoeffel, Commercial Mortgage Securities Association, 
all of New York, New York; and William W. Irving, Fidelity Investments, 
Smithfield, Rhode Island.
SATELLITE HOME VIEWER EXTENSION AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2004
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications and Technology concluded a hearing to examine 
reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and 
Reauthorization Act of 2004, after receiving testimony from Robert 
Gabrielli, DIRECTV, Inc., El Segundo, California; Stanton Dodge, DISH 
Network L.L.C., Englewood, Colorado; Paul A. Karpowicz, Meredith 
Broadcasting Group, Rocky Hill, Connecticut; and Lonna Thompson, 
Association of Public Television Stations, Arlington, Virginia.
CIVILIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
and Central Asian Affairs concluded a hearing to examine the proposed 
agreement between the United States and the United Arab Emirates on 
civilian nuclear cooperation, after receiving testimony from Vann Van 
Diepen, Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and 
Nonproliferation, and Janet Sanderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Near Eastern Affairs, both of the Department of State; and Harold 
McFarlane, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear Science and 
Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, Department of Energy, on behalf 
of the International Nuclear Energy Academy.
AL-QAEDA AND AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Al-Qaeda, focusing on Afghanistan, after receiving testimony 
from Peter Bergen, New American Foundation, Marc Sageman, Foreign 
Policy Research Institute, and Bob Grenier, all of Washington, D.C.
2010 CENSUS
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 
2010 census, focusing on a status update of key decennial operations, 
the delivery of key IT systems, preliminary findings on the results of 
address canvassing and the lessons learned from that operation that can 
be applied to subsequent field operations, and the Bureau's progress in 
improving its cost estimation abilities, after receiving testimony from 
Robert M. Groves, Director, United States Census Bureau, and Todd J. 
Zinser, Inspector General, both of the Department of Commerce; and

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Robert Goldenkoff, Director, Strategic Issues, Government 
Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of M. Patricia Smith, of New York, 
to be Solicitor, Joseph A. Main, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Mine Safety and Health, and William E. Spriggs, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Policy, all of the Department of Labor, and 
Regina M. Benjamin, of Alabama, to be Surgeon General of the Public 
Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.
WORKPLACE FAIRNESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
workplace fairness, after receiving testimony from Michael Foreman, 
Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law Civil Rights 
Appellate Clinic, University Park; Michael W. Fox, Ogletree, Deakins, 
Nash, Smoak, and Stewart, P.C., Austin, Texas; Mark A. de Bernardo, 
Jackson Lewis, LLP, Washington D.C., on behalf of the Council for 
Employment Law Equity; Jamie Leigh Jones, Spring, Texas; and Jack 
Gross, Des Moines, Iowa.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Barbara Milano Keenan, of Virginia, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senators Webb and Warner, Laurie O. Robinson, of the District of 
Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 
who was introduced by Senator Specter, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, of 
Maryland, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.