[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 164 (Thursday, November 5, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1294-D1296]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Steven L. Jacques, of Kansas, to 
be Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public 
Affairs, who was introduced by Senator McCaskill, Eric L. Hirschhorn, 
of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export 
Administration, who was introduced by former Representative Stephen 
Solarz, and Marisa Lago, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for International Markets and Development, who was introduced 
by Senator Reed, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
WATER AND POWER BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 1757, to provide for the 
prepayment of a repayment contract between the United States and the 
Uintah Water Conservancy District, S. 1758, to provide for the 
allocation of costs to project power with respect to power development 
within the Diamond Fork System, and S. 1759, to authorize certain 
transfers of water in the Central Valley Project, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Feinstein and Boxer; Michael L. Connor, 
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Martin 
R. McIntyre, San Luis Water District, Los Banos, California; and 
Hamilton Candee, Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, California, on 
behalf of the Grassland Water District.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported S. 1733, to create clean energy jobs, promote energy 
independence, reduce global warming pollution, and transition to a

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clean energy economy, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Jeffrey L. Bleich, of California, to be 
Ambassador to Australia, who was introduced by Senator Kerry, David 
Huebner, of California, to be Ambassador to New Zealand, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
Samoa, Robert R. King, of Virginia, to be Special Envoy on North Korean 
Human Rights Issues, with the rank of Ambassador, who was introduced by 
Representatives Berman and Ros-Lehtinen, and Peter Alan Prahar, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, all 
of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
INCORPORATION TRANSPARENCY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE ACT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine S. 569, to ensure that persons who form 
corporations in the United States disclose the beneficial owners of 
those corporations, in order to prevent wrongdoers from exploiting 
United States corporations for criminal gain, to assist law enforcement 
in detecting, preventing, and punishing terrorism, money laundering, 
and other misconduct involving United States corporations, after 
receiving testimony from David S. Cohen, Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Terrorist Financing; Jennifer Shasky, Senior Counsel to 
the Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; David H. Kellogg, 
Solers Inc., Arlington, Virginia; Kevin L. Shepherd, American Bar 
Association, Baltimore, Maryland; John R. Ramsey, Federal Law 
Enforcement Officers Association, Lewisberry, Pennsylvania; and Jack A. 
Blum, Tax Justice Network-USA, Washington, D.C., on behalf of Global 
Financial Integrity.
EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine S. 1584, to prohibit employment 
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney 
General, Department of Justice; Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney 
General, and Camille A. Olson, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, both of Chicago, 
Illinois; Helen Norton, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder; 
Virginia Nguyen, Nike, Beaverton, Oregon; Michael P. Carney, City of 
Springfield Police Department, Springfield, Massachusetts; and Craig L. 
Parshall, National Religious Broadcasters, Manassas, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1490, to prevent and mitigate identity theft, to ensure privacy, 
to provide notice of security breaches, and to enhance criminal 
penalties, law enforcement assistance, and other protections against 
security breaches, fraudulent access, and misuse of personally 
identifiable information, with an amendment;
  S. 139, to require Federal agencies, and persons engaged in 
interstate commerce, in possession of data containing sensitive 
personally identifiable information, to disclose any breach of such 
information;
  S. 1472, to establish a section within the Criminal Division of the 
Department of Justice to enforce human rights laws, to make technical 
and conforming amendments to criminal and immigration laws pertaining 
to human rights violations, with an amendment; and
  The nominations of Ketanji Brown Jackson, of Maryland, to be a Member 
of the United States Sentencing Commission, Kenyen Ray Brown, to be 
United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, Stephanie 
M. Rose, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of 
Iowa, and Nicholas A. Klinefeldt, to be United States Attorney for the 
Southern District of Iowa, all of the Department of Justice.
RECIDIVISM AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded a 
hearing to examine reducing recidivism at the local level, after 
receiving testimony from Harvey Bartle III, Chief Judge, United States 
District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 
Doug Burris, Chief Probation Officer, United States District Court for 
the Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis; Sheriff Andrea Cabral, 
Suffolk County Sheriff's Department, Boston, Massachusetts; Chief 
Stefan LoBuglio, Montgomery County Department of Correction and 
Rehabilitation Pre-Release and Reentry Services Division, Rockville, 
Maryland; and Amy L. Solomon, Urban Institute Justice Policy Center, 
and David B. Muhlhausen, Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis, 
both of Washington, D.C.
VETERANS' AFFAIRS AND INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE COOPERATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Veterans' Affairs and Indian Health Service cooperation, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Murkowski; James R. Floyd, Network

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Director, VA Heartland Network (VISN 15), Veterans Health 
Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; Randy E. Grinnell, 
Deputy Director, Indian Health Service, and Theresa Cullen, Director of 
Information Technology, Indian Health Service, both of the Department 
of Health and Human Services; W.J. Richardson, Rocky Mountain Health 
Network, Helena, on behalf of the Montana Healthcare System; William 
Clayton Sam Park, Papa Ola Lokahi, Honolulu, Hawaii; S. Kevin Howlett, 
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, St. 
Ignatius, Montana, on behalf of the Tribes Health & Human Services 
Department; and Andy Joseph, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville 
Reservation and the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Indian Health Board.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.