[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 15, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D114-D116]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MEDICARE AND MEDICAID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine fighting fraud and waste in Medicare and Medicaid, after 
receiving testimony from Peter Budetti, Deputy Administrator and 
Director, Center for Program Integrity Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Tony West, 
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice; 
Rebecca Nurick, Pennsylvania Senior Medicare Patrol Program, 
Philadelphia; and Robert Rolf, CGI Federal, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Michael Vickers, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary 
for Intelligence, and Jo Ann Rooney, of Massachusetts, to be Principal 
Deputy Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, both of the 
Department of Defense, after

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the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2012, after 
receiving testimony from Jacob J. Lew, Director, Office of Management 
and Budget.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Daniel M. Ashe, of Maryland, to be 
Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of 
the Interior, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Cardin, 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the 
committee.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 112th Congress 
and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Senators Baucus 
(Chair), Carper, Lautenberg, Cardin, Sanders, Whitehouse, Udall (NM), 
Vitter, Barrasso, Sessions, Crapo, Johanns, and Boozman.
  Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety: Senators Carper 
(Chair), Baucus, Lautenberg, Cardin, Sanders, Merkley, Barrasso, 
Vitter, Sessions, Alexander, and Johanns.
  Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health: Senators 
Lautenberg (Chair), Baucus, Carper, Merkley, Gillibrand, Crapo, 
Alexander, Johanns, and Boozman.
  Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife: Senators Cardin (Chair), Baucus, 
Lautenberg, Whitehouse, Udall (NM), Gillibrand, Sessions, Barrasso, 
Vitter, Crapo, and Alexander.
  Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy: Senators Sanders 
(Chair), Carper, Merkley, Boozman, and Sessions.
  Subcommittee on Oversight: Senators Whitehouse (Chair), Cardin, 
Sanders, Johanns, and Boozman.
  Subcommittee on Children's Health and Environmental Responsibility: 
Senators Udall (NM) (Chair), Whitehouse, Gillibrand, Alexander, and 
Vitter.
  Senators Boxer and Inhofe are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
GREEN JOBS AND TRADE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Green Jobs 
and the New Economy concluded a hearing to examine green jobs and 
trade, after receiving testimony from Leo W. Gerard, United 
Steelworkers (USW), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Paul N. Cicio, Industrial 
Energy Consumers of America (IECA), W. David Montgomery, Charles River 
Associates, and Kate Gordon, The Center for American Progress Action 
Fund, all of Washington, D.C.; and John P. Danner, Northern Power 
Systems, Barre, Vermont.
BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee began hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2012, after 
receiving testimony from Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and 
Human Services.
  Committee will meet again Wednesday, February 16, 2011.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported an original resolution authorizing 
expenditures by the committee.
   Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 112th 
Congress and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Levin (Chair), 
Carper, Landrieu, McCaskill, Tester, Begich, Coburn, Collins, Brown 
(MA), McCain, and Paul.
  Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia: Senators Akaka (Chair), Levin, 
Landrieu, Begich, Johnson (WI), Coburn, and Ensign.
  Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
Federal Services, and International Security: Senators Carper (Chair), 
Levin, Akaka, Pryor, McCaskill, Begich, Brown (MA), Coburn, McCain, 
Johnson (WI), and Portman.
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental 
Affairs: Senators Pryor (Chair), Akaka, Landrieu, Tester, Ensign, Brown 
(MA), and Johnson (WI).
  Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight: Senators McCaskill 
(Chair), Carper, Pryor, Tester, Begich, Portman, Collins, McCain, and 
Paul.
  Senators Lieberman and Collins are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
COUNTERTERRORISM LESSONS FROM FORT HOOD ATTACK
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine counterterrorism lessons from the U.S. 
government's failure to prevent the Fort Hood attack, after receiving 
testimony from Charles E. Allen, former Under Secretary of Homeland 
Security for Intelligence and

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Analysis, and Assistant DCI for Collection, Central Intelligence 
Agency; General Jack Keane, USA, Retired, former Vice Chief of Staff of 
the United States Army, and Samuel J. Rascoff, New York University 
School of Law Center on Law and Security, both of New York, New York; 
and Philip Mudd, Oxford Analytica, Alexandria, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee and 
rules of procedure for the 112th Congress; and
  The nomination of Stephanie O'Sullivan, of Virginia, to be Principal 
Deputy Director of National Intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.
BUSINESS MEETING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee.
   Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 112th 
Congress.