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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1174 on Oct. 14, 2009.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BANKING INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial Institutions concluded a hearing to examine the state of the banking industry, after receiving testimony from Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; John C. Dugan, Comptroller of the Currency, and Timothy T. Ward, Deputy Director, Examinations, Supervision and Consumer Protection, Office of Thrift Supervision, both of the Department of the Treasury; Daniel K. Tarullo, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Deborah Matz, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration; Joseph A. Smith, Jr., North Carolina Commissioner of Banks, Raleigh; and Thomas J. Candon, Deputy Commissioner, Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration, Montpelier, on behalf of the National Association of State Credit Union Supervisors.
ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine energy and related economic effects of global climate change legislation, after receiving testimony from Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Richard Newell, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy; Reid P. Harvey, Chief, Climate Economics Branch, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; and Larry Parker, Specialist in Energy and Environmental Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Arun Majumdar, of California, to be Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Department of Energy, and Marcia K. McNutt, of California, to be Director of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.
HEALTH INSURANCE ISSUERS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine prohibiting price fixing and other anticompetitive conduct in the health insurance industry, including S. 1681, to ensure that health insurance issuers and medical malpractice insurance issuers cannot engage in price fixing, bid rigging, or market allocations to the detriment of competition and consumers, after receiving testimony from Senator Reid; Christine A. Varney, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; J. Robert Hunter, Consumer Federation of America, Washington, D.C.; and Lawrence S. Powell, University of Arkansas-Little Rock, on behalf of the Physician Insurers Association of America.
FEDERAL LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a joint hearing with the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, The Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia to examine the cost of federal long-term care insurance, after receiving testimony from Daniel Green, Deputy Associate Director for Employee and Family Support Policy, United States Office of Personnel Management; Mary Beth Senkewicz, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Tallahassee; Margaret L. Baptiste, National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Marianne Harrison, John Hancock Life & Health Insurance Company, Boston, Massachusetts; and Colleen M. Kelley, National Treasury Employees Union, and Chester M. Joy, both of Washington, D.C.
