[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 148 (Wednesday, October 14, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1174]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BANKING INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions concluded a hearing to examine the state of the 
banking industry, after receiving testimony from Sheila C. Bair, 
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; John C. Dugan, 
Comptroller of the Currency, and Timothy T. Ward, Deputy Director, 
Examinations, Supervision and Consumer Protection, Office of Thrift 
Supervision, both of the Department of the Treasury; Daniel K. Tarullo, 
Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Deborah Matz, 
Chairman, National Credit Union Administration; Joseph A. Smith, Jr., 
North Carolina Commissioner of Banks, Raleigh; and Thomas J. Candon, 
Deputy Commissioner, Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, 
Securities and Health Care Administration, Montpelier, on behalf of the 
National Association of State Credit Union Supervisors.
ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine energy and related economic effects of global 
climate change legislation, after receiving testimony from Douglas W. 
Elmendorf, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Richard Newell, 
Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy; 
Reid P. Harvey, Chief, Climate Economics Branch, Office of Air and 
Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; and Larry Parker, 
Specialist in Energy and Environmental Policy, Congressional Research 
Service, Library of Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Arun Majumdar, of California, to be 
Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Department of 
Energy, and Marcia K. McNutt, of California, to be Director of the 
United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.
HEALTH INSURANCE ISSUERS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
prohibiting price fixing and other anticompetitive conduct in the 
health insurance industry, including S. 1681, to ensure that health 
insurance issuers and medical malpractice insurance issuers cannot 
engage in price fixing, bid rigging, or market allocations to the 
detriment of competition and consumers, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Reid; Christine A. Varney, Assistant Attorney General, 
Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; J. Robert Hunter, Consumer 
Federation of America, Washington, D.C.; and Lawrence S. Powell, 
University of Arkansas-Little Rock, on behalf of the Physician Insurers 
Association of America.
FEDERAL LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a joint hearing with 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, The Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia to examine the cost of federal 
long-term care insurance, after receiving testimony from Daniel Green, 
Deputy Associate Director for Employee and Family Support Policy, 
United States Office of Personnel Management; Mary Beth Senkewicz, 
Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Tallahassee; Margaret L. 
Baptiste, National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, 
Alexandria, Virginia; Marianne Harrison, John Hancock Life & Health 
Insurance Company, Boston, Massachusetts; and Colleen M. Kelley, 
National Treasury Employees Union, and Chester M. Joy, both of 
Washington, D.C.