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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D270-D271 on March 17, 2009.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOUTHERN, NORTHERN, AFRICA, AND TRANSPORTATION COMMANDS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine United States Southern Command, United States Northern Command, United States Africa Command, and United States Transportation Command, after receiving testimony from Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, Commander, United States Southern Command; General Victor E. Renuart, Jr., USAF, Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command; General William E. Ward, USA, Commander, United States Africa Command; and General Duncan J. McNabb, USAF, United States Transportation Command.
INSURANCE REGULATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine perspectives on modernizing insurance regulation, after receiving testimony from Michael T. McRaith, Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Springfield, on behalf of National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Frank Keating, American Council of Life Insurers, Franklin W. Nutter, Reinsurance Association of America, and J. Robert Hunter, Consumer Federation of America, all of Washington, D.C.; William R. Berkley, W.R. Berkley Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, on behalf of the American Insurance Association; Spencer M. Houldin, Ericson Insurance, Washington Depot, Connecticut, on behalf of Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, Inc.; and John T. Hill, Magna Carta Companies, New York, New York, on behalf of National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies.
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine energy development on public lands and the Outer Continental Shelf, focusing on the range of issues associated with the development of energy resources from public lands and the Outer Continental Shelf, after receiving testimony from Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior; Philip D. Moeller, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy; Joanna Prukop, New Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department, Santa Fe; George Cooper, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Washington, D.C.; Steven R. Kopf, Pacific Energy Ventures, LLC, Portland, Oregon; and Robert Bryce, Austin, Texas.
FRAUD SCHEMES AND OFFSHORE TAX EVASION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine tax issues related to fraud schemes and an update on offshore tax evasion legislation, after receiving testimony from Doug Shulman, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Michael Brostek, Director, Strategic Issues Team, Government Accountability Office; and William Josephson, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson, LLP, New York, New York.
MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded a joint hearing with the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control to examine law enforcement responses to Mexican drug cartels, after receiving testimony from William Hoover, Assistant Director, Field Operations, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Anthony P. Placido, Assistant Administrator, Intelligence Division, Drug Enforcement Agency, both of Department of Justice; Kumar C. Kibble, Deputy Director, Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security; Terry Goddard, Arizona Attorney General, Phoenix; Denise Dresser, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City; and Jorge Luis Aguirre, El Paso, Texas.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
