[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 134 (Friday, October 1, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1050-D1051]
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: On Thursday, 
September 30, 2010, Committee ordered favorably reported the following 
business items:
  S. 118, to amend section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, to improve 
the program under such section for supportive housing for the elderly, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1481, to amend section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act to improve the program under such section for 
supportive housing for persons with disabilities, with an amendment.
WALL STREET REFORM AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Thursday, 
September 30, 2010, committee concluded a hearing to examine 
implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection 
Act, after receiving testimony from Neal Wolin, Deputy Secretary, and 
John Walsh, Acting Comptroller of the Currency, both of the Department 
of the Treasury; Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System; Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation; Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman, United States 
Securities and Exchange Commission; and Gary Gensler, Chairman, 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
ROLE OF STRATEGIC MINERALS IN CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Thursday, September 30, 
2010, Subcommittee on Energy concluded a hearing to examine the role of 
strategic minerals in clean energy technologies and other applications, 
including S. 3521, to provide for the reestablishment of a domestic 
rare earths materials production and supply industry in the United 
States, after receiving testimony from David Sandalow, Assistant 
Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Office of Policy and 
International Affairs, Department of Energy; Roderick Eeggert, Colorado 
School of Mines, Golden; Preston Rufe, Formation Capital Corporation, 
Salmon, Idaho; Peter Brehm, Infinia Corporation, Kennewick, Washington.
FEDERAL INVESTMENT IN FOR-PROFIT EDUCATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: On Thursday, 
September 30, 2010, committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
Federal investment in for-profit education, focusing on if students are 
succeeding, after receiving testimony Lauren Asher, The Institute for 
College Access and Success, Oakland, California; Arnold Mitchem, 
Council for Opportunity in Education, Washington, D.C.; Danielle 
Johnson, Tama, Iowa; and Kathleen Bittel, Acme, Pennsylvania.
EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: On Thursday, 
September 30, 2010, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private 
Sector Preparedness and Integration concluded a hearing to examine 
earthquake preparedness, focusing on what the United States can learn 
from the 2010 Chilean and Haitian earthquakes, after receiving 
testimony from William Carwile, III, Associate Administrator, Office of 
Response and Recovery, Federal Emergency

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Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security; Dirk W. Dijkerman, 
Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and 
Humanitarian Assistance, and Carol Chan, Director, Office of U.S. 
Foreign Disaster Assistance, both of the U.S. Agency for International 
Development; Cristobal Lira, Chilean Ministry of Interior, Santiago, 
Chile; James Wilkinson, Central United States Earthquake Consortium, 
Memphis, Tennessee; Ellis Stanley, Sr., Dewberry, Los Angeles, 
California; Reginald DesRoches, Georgia Institute of Technology School 
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: On Thursday, 
September 30, 2010, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, 
the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia concluded a hearing 
to examine implementation, improvement, sustainability, focusing on 
management matters at the Department of Homeland Security, after 
receiving testimony from Jane Holl Lute, Deputy Secretary of Homeland 
Security; and Cathleen A. Berrick, Managing Director, Homeland Security 
and Justice Issues, Government Accountability Office.