[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 15 (Wednesday, February 2, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D68-D69]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TAX REFORM
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine tax 
reform, focusing on fiscal responsibility, after receiving testimony 
from C. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, and Donald B. Marron, Urban-
Brookings Tax Policy Center, both of Washington, D.C.; Rosanne 
Altshuler, Rutgers University, New York, New York; and Lawrence B. 
Lindsey, Lindsey Group, Fairfax, Virginia.
OVERSIGHT: PUBLIC HEALTH AND DRINKING WATER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine public health and drinking water issues, 
after receiving testimony from Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Linda S. Birnbaum, Director, National 
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of 
Health, and Director, National Toxicology Program, Department of Health 
and Human Services; Kenneth A. Cook, Environmental Working Group, and 
Diane VanDe Hei, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Charles Murray, Fairfax Water, Fairfax, Virginia, on 
behalf of the American Water Works Association; and Thomas A. Burke, 
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, after receiving 
testimony from John Kroger, Oregon Attorney General, Salem; Randy E. 
Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center, and Michael A. Carvin, Jones 
Day, both of Washington, D.C.; Walter Dellinger, Duke University School 
of Law, Durham, North Carolina; and Charles Fried, Harvard Law School, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Caitlin Joan Halligan, of New York, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, Kathleen M. 
Williams, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District 
of Florida, who was introduced by Senators Nelson (FL) and Rubio, and 
Mae A.

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D'Agostino, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of New York, and Timothy J. Feighery, of New York, to be 
Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United 
States, Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.