Committee Highlights
Hearings
House Committee on Appropriations
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Chair: Alan Mollohan (D-WV)
H-309, The Capitol
9:30 a.m.
Hearing on "What Works" for successful prisoner reentry
WITNESSES
James Byrne
Professor
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Jeremy Travis
Former Director
National Institute of Justice
Senate Committee on Finance
Chair: Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)
215 Dirksen Senate Office Building
10:00 a.m.
Hearing to examine workforce issues in health care reform, focusing on assessing the present and preparing for the future. Business meeting to consider the nomination of Ronald Kirk, of Texas, to be United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
WITNESSES
David Goodman
Associate Director, Center for Health Policy Research
Dartmouth College
Allan Gorall
Professor of Medicine
Organization: Harvard University
Fitzhugh Mullan
Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
George Washington University
Stephen Wartman
President
Association of Academic Health Centers
House Committee on Small Business
Subcommittee on Contracting & Technology
Chair: Rep. Bruce Braley (D-PA)
2360 Rayburn House Office Building
10:00 a.m.
Hearing on ensuring stimulus contracts for small and veteran-owned businesses
House Committee on Ways and Means
Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support
Chair: Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA)
B-318 Rayburn House Office Building
10:00 a.m.
Hearing on protecting lower-Income families while fighting global warming
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Chair: Christopher Todd (D-CT)
538 Dirksen Senate Office Building
10:00 a.m.
Hearing to examine sustainable transportation solutions, focusing on investing in transit to meet 21st century challenges.
Senate Committee on the Budget
Chair: Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND)
608 Dirksen Senate Office Building
10:00 a.m.
Hearing to examine the President's fiscal year 2010 budget and revenue proposals.
WITNESSES
Name: Geithner, Timothy Geithner
Title: Secretary
Organization: Department of the Treasury
House Committee on the Budget
Chair: Rep. John Spratt (D-SC)
210 Cannon House Office Building
10:00 a.m.
Hearing on the Education Department’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget
WITNESSES
Arne Duncan
Secretary
Department of Education
House Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security
Chair: Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA)
2175 Rayburn House Office Building
10:00 a.m.
Hearing on lost educational opportunities in alternative settings
This is a Joint hearing with the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities
WITNESSES
Thomas Blomberg
Professor of Criminology
Florida State University
Linda Brooke
Director of Government Relations and Education Services, Juvenile Probation Commission
State of Texas
Cynthia Cave
Director
Office of Student Services, Richmond, Va.
Leonard Dixon
Executive Director
Wayne County, Mich., Juvenile Detention Facility
Janeen Steel
Executive Director
Learning Rights Law Center
House Committee on Financial Service
Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises
Chair: Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)
2128 Rayburn House Office Building
10:00 a.m.
Hearing on Mark-to-Market accounting
WITNESSES
Jim Amorin
President
Appraisal Institute
Steven Antonakes
Commissioner, Massachusetts Division of Banks
Conference of State Bank Supervisors
Graciela Aponte
Analyst
National Council of La Raza
David Berenbaum
Executive Vice President
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Sandra Braunstein
Director, Division of Consumer and Community Affairs
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Julia Gordon
Senior Policy Counsel
Center for Responsible Lending
Stephanie Jones
Executive Director
National Urban League Policy Institute
David Kittle
Chairman
Mortgage Bankers Association
Donald Lampe
Partner
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
Charles McMillan
President
National Association of Realtors
Michael Middleton
President and CEO, Community Bank of Tri-County
American Bankers Association
Laurence Platt
Partner, K&L Gates
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
Joe Robson
Chairman of the Board
National Association of Homebuilders
Margot Saunders
Counsel
National Consumer Law Center
Marc Savitt
President
National Association of Mortgage Brokers
House Committee on Appropriations
Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
Chair: Hon. Nita Lowey (D-NY)
2359 Rayburn House Office Building
11:00 a.m.
Hearing on Africa: Great Lakes, Sudan and the Horn
WITNESSES
Suliman Baldo
Africa Director
International Center for Transitional Justice
John Prendergast
Co-Founder
ENOUGH Project
David Shinn
Former Ambassador
Department of State
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