[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 70 (Tuesday, May 11, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D513-D514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine current issues related to offshore oil and gas 
development including the Department of the Interior's recent five year 
planning announcements and the accident in the Gulf of Mexico involving 
the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon, after receiving testimony from 
Elmer P. Danenberger III, former Chief, Offshore Regulatory Program, 
Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior; F.E. Beck, 
Texas A&M University, College Station; and Lamar McKay, BP America, 
Steven Newman, Transocean, Ltd., and Tim Probert, Global Business 
Lines, all of Houston, Texas.
EPA'S ROLE IN PROTECTING OCEAN HEALTH
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Oversight 
concluded a joint hearing with the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife 
to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) role in 
protecting ocean health, after receiving testimony from Nancy Stoner, 
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, and James J. Jones, 
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution 
Prevention, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Roger Payne, 
Ocean Alliance, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Carys L. Mitchelmore, 
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons; Sam 
Waterston, Oceana, Washington, D.C.; and John T. Everett, Ocean 
Associates, Inc., Arlington, Virginia.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF RECENT OIL SPILL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine economic and environmental impacts of the recent oil 
spill in the Gulf of Mexico, after receiving testimony from Lamar 
McKay, BP America, Tim Probert, Global Business Lines, and Steven 
Newman, Transocean, Ltd., all of Houston, Texas; Stephen A. Bortone, 
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, Tampa, Florida; Keith 
Overton, TradeWinds Island Resorts, St. Pete Beach, Florida; Eric B. 
May, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne; Margaret R. 
Caldwell, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California; and Lieutenant 
General Thomas G. McInerney, United States Army, (Ret.), Clifton, 
Virginia.
TROUBLED ASSET RELIEF PROGRAM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed fee on financial institutions regarding the 
Troubled Asset Relief Program, after receiving testimony from Edward J. 
DeMarco, Acting Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency; David C. 
John, The Heritage Foundation, and Nancy L. McLernon, Organization for 
International Investment (OFII), both of Washington, D.C.; and Douglas 
J. Elliott, Brookings Institution, New York, New York.

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STANDARDS FOR A SAFER AMERICAN WORKFORCE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine safe 
patient handling and lifting standards for a safer American workforce, 
including S. 1788, to direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an 
occupational safety and health standard to reduce injuries to patients, 
direct-care registered nurses, and all other health care workers by 
establishing a safe patient handling and injury prevention standard, 
after receiving testimony from Captain James W. Collins, Associate 
Director for Science, Division of Safety Research, National Institute 
for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; Michael Hodgson, 
Chief Consultant, Occupational Health Strategic Health Care Group, 
Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards, Veterans Health 
Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; Barbara Silverstein, 
Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, Olympia; Bettye 
Shogren, Minnesota Nurses Association, St. Paul; June M. Altaras, 
Swedish Health Services, Seattle, Washington; and Douglas S. Erickson, 
Facility Guidelines Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, after 
receiving testimony from Alejandro Mayorkas, Director, United States 
Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security.
INTELLIGENCE
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.