[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 17 (Thursday, February 4, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D90-D92]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Kevin Wolf, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, Suresh Kumar, of New 
Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary and Director General of the United 
States and Foreign Commercial Service, and David W. Mills, of Virginia, 
to be Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, all of the Department 
of Commerce, Douglas A. Criscitello, of Virginia, to be Chief Financial 
Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Theodore W. 
Tozer, of Ohio, to be President, Government National Mortgage 
Association, and Orlan Johnson, of Maryland, and Sharon Y. Bowen, of 
New York, both to be a Director of the Securities Investor Protection 
Corporation.
FINANCIAL STABILITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the implications of the ``Volcker Rules'' for 
financial stability, after receiving testimony from E. Gerald Corrigan, 
Goldman, Sachs and Co., and John Reed, both of New York, New York; 
Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of 
Management, and Hal S. Scott, Harvard Law School, both of Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; and Barry Zubrow, JPMorgan Chase, Far Hills, New Jersey.
BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request and revenue proposals for fiscal 
year 2011, after receiving testimony from Timothy F. Geithner, 
Secretary of the Treasury.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine financial services and products, focusing on the 
role of the Federal Trade Commission in protecting consumers, after 
receiving testimony from Jonathan D. Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade 
Commission.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2011 for the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from 
Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy.

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TOXIC CHEMICALS EXPOSURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Toxics and Environmental Health concluded a hearing to examine current 
science on public exposures to toxic chemicals, including the extent to 
which the Environmental Protection Agency incorporates information from 
biomonitoring studies into its assessments of chemicals, after 
receiving testimony from Steve Owens, Assistant Administrator, Office 
of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental 
Protection Agency; Henry Falk, Acting Director, National Center for 
Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and Linda Birnbaum, 
Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National 
Institutes of Health, and Director, National Toxicology Program, both 
of the Department of Health and Human Services; John Stephenson, 
Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability 
Office; Kenneth A. Cook, Environmental Working Group, Washington, D.C.; 
Charles McKay, Hartford Hospital Department of Traumatology and 
Emergency Medicine, Hartford, Connecticut; Tracey J. Woodruff, 
University of California Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and 
Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco; and Molly Jones Gray, Seattle, 
Washington.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported General Services Administration (GSA) resolutions.
BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011, after 
receiving testimony from Peter Orszag, Director, Office of Management 
and Budget.
HAITI RECONSTRUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and International 
Environmental Protection concluded a hearing to examine Haiti 
reconstruction, focusing on smart planning moving forward, after 
receiving testimony from Robert Maguire, Trinity Washington University, 
and Mark L. Schneider, International Crisis Group, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Charles MacCormack, Save the Children, Westport, Connecticut.
FOREIGN CORRUPTION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine keeping 
foreign corruption out of the United States, focusing on four case 
histories, after receiving testimony from David T. Johnson, Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement 
Affairs, Department of State; Janice Ayala, Assistant Director, Office 
of Investigations, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 
Department of Homeland Security; James H. Freis, Jr., Director, 
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Department of the Treasury; 
Jeffery C. Birrell, The Grace Group, McLean, Virginia; William J. Fox, 
Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina; Brenda K. Cobb, Insured 
Aircraft Title Service, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Wiecher 
Mandemaker, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., Washington, D.C.; Michael Jay Berger, 
and George I. Nagler, both of Beverly Hills, California; and Neal 
Baddin, West Hollywood, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Craig Becker, of Illinois, to be 
a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, Cynthia L. Attwood, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review 
Commission, Irvin M. Mayfield, Jr., of Louisiana, to be a Member of the 
National Council on the Arts, and Kathleen S. Tighe, of Virginia, to be 
Inspector General, Department of Education,
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Edward Milton Chen, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of California, Louis B. Butler, Jr., to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, and 
Christopher H. Schroeder, of North Carolina, and Mary L. Smith, of 
Illinois, both to be an Assistant Attorney General, both of the 
Department of Justice.
COMCAST/UNIVERSAL MERGER
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights to examine the Comcast/NBC Universal Merger, 
focusing on the future of competition and consumers, after receiving 
testimony from Brian L. Roberts, Comcast Corporation, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania; Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal, New York, New York; Colleen 
Abdoulah, WOW!, Denver, Colorado; and Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation 
of America, and Andrew Schwartzman, Media Access Project, both of 
Washington, D.C.

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BUSINESS MEETING
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
   Committee recessed subject to the call.