[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 20, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D23]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AVIATION SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the state of aviation security, focusing on 
current system capabilities of meeting threats, after receiving 
testimony from Janet A. Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security; 
Michael E. Leiter, Director, National Counterterrorism Center; and 
former Representative Lee Hamilton, and former Governor Tom Kean, both 
of the Bipartisan Policy Center National Security Preparedness Group, 
Washington, D.C.
YEMEN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Yemen, focusing on confronting Al-Qaeda, preventing state 
failure, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey D. Feltman, Assistant 
Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, and Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator 
for Counterterrorism, both of the Department of State; Emile Nakhleh, 
former Senior Intelligence Service Officer, Central Intelligence 
Agency; Barbara K. Bodine, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School 
of Public and International Affairs, and Gregory Johnsen, Princeton 
University, both of Princeton, New Jersey; and Frederick W. Kagan, 
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE REFORM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine intelligence reform, focusing on the 
lessons and implications of the attack on flight 253 on December 25, 
2009, after receiving testimony from Michael E. Leiter, Director of the 
National Counterterrorism Center, and Dennis C. Blair, Director of 
National Intelligence, both of the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence; and Janet A. Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Joshua Gotbaum, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty 
Corporation, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
IMPROVING EFFECTIVE ANTI-TERRORISM TOOLS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
securing America's safety, focusing on improving the effectiveness of 
anti-terrorism tools and inter-agency communication, after receiving 
testimony from Robert S. Mueller, III, Director, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, Department of Justice; Patrick F. Kennedy, Under 
Secretary of State for Management; and David Heyman, Assistant 
Secretary of Homeland Security for Policy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Nancy D. Freudenthal, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Wyoming, who was introduced by Senators Enzi 
and Barrasso, Denzil Price Marshall Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, who was introduced by 
Senators Pryor and Lincoln, Benita Y. Pearson, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, who was introduced by 
Senator Brown, Timothy S. Black, to be United States District Judge for 
the Southern District of Ohio, who was introduced by Senator Brown, and 
James P. Lynch, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of the 
Bureau of Justice Statistics, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.