[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 152 (Tuesday, October 20, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1199]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL HOUSING MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the state of the nation's housing market, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Isakson; Shaun Donovan, Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development; Diane Randall, Partnership for Strong 
Communities, Hartford, Connecticut; and Ron Phipps, National 
Association of Realtors, Emile J. Brinkmann, Mortgage Bankers 
Association, and David Crowe, National Association of Home Builders, 
all of Washington, DC.
CUSTOMS FACILITATION AND TRADE ENFORCEMENT ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 1631, 
to reauthorize customs facilitation and trade enforcement functions and 
programs, after receiving testimony from Jerry Cook, Hanesbrands Inc., 
Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Richard Cotton, NBC Universal, New York, 
New York; Ted Sherman, Target, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Mary Ann 
Comstock, UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc., Sweet Grass, Montana.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Susan Tsui Grundmann, 
of Virginia, to be Chairman, and Anne Marie Wagner, of Virginia, to be 
a Member, both of the Merit Systems Protection Board, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
MEDICAL BANKRUPTCY FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded a hearing to examine medical debt, focusing on 
bankruptcy reform, including S. 1624, to amend title 11 of the United 
States Code, to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to 
restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic 
distress as caregivers to ill, injured, or disabled family members, and 
to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were 
caused by serious medical problems, after receiving testimony from 
Elizabeth Edwards, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Aparna 
Mathur, American Enterprise Institute, and Diana Furchtgott-Roth, 
Hudson Institute, all of Washington, DC; John A. E. Pottow, University 
of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor; and Kerry Burns, Coventry, Rhode 
Island.
HEALTH CARE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine health care solutions for America's small 
businesses, after receiving testimony from Karen G. Mills, 
Administrator, United States Small Business Administration; Gene 
Sperling, Counselor to the Secretary, Department of the Treasury; and 
John Arensmeyer, Small Business Majority, Amanda L. Austin, National 
Federation of Independent Business, Ann Sullivan, Madison Services 
Group, Inc., on behalf of Women Impacting Public Policy, Edmund F. 
Haislmaier, The Heritage Foundation, and Keith Ashmus, National Small 
Business Association, all of Washington, DC.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.