[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 29, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D284-D285]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
U.S. European Command and U.S. Strategic Command in review of the 
Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years 
Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Admiral James G. 
Stavridis, USN, Commander, United States European Command, and Supreme 
Allied Commander, Europe, and General C. Robert Kehler, USAF, 
Commander, United States Strategic Command, both of the Department of 
Defense.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EFFICIENCIES INITIATIVES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine Department of Defense 
efficiencies initiatives, after receiving testimony from Robert F. 
Hale, Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller, Joseph Westphal, Under 
Secretary of the Army, Robert O. Work, Under Secretary of the Navy, and 
Erin C. Conaton, Under Secretary of the Air Force, all of the 
Department of Defense.
HOUSING FINANCE SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine public proposals for the future of the housing 
finance system, after receiving testimony from Michael D. Berman, 
Mortgage Bankers Association, and Janneke Ratcliffe, Center for 
American Progress Action Fund, both of Washington, D.C.; Arnold Kling, 
George Mason University Mercatus Center, Alexandria, Virginia; and Mark 
Zandi, Moody's Analytics, Atlanta, Georgia.
DISEASE CLUSTERS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine disease clusters and environmental health, 
including S. 76, to direct the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency to investigate and address cancer and disease 
clusters, including in infants and children, after receiving testimony 
from Trevor Schaefer, Trevor's Trek Foundation, Boise, Idaho; Erin 
Brockovich, Brockovich Research and Consulting, Agora Hills, 
California; Richard B. Belzer, Regulatory Checkbook, Mt. Vernon, 
Virginia; and Gina M. Solomon, Natural Resources Defense Council, San 
Francisco.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Suzan D. Johnson Cook, of New York, to be 
Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Department of 
State, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Gillibrand, 
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
STRENGTHENING THE SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine strengthening the 
Senior Executive Service, focusing on a review of challenges facing the 
government's Leadership Corps, after receiving testimony from Nancy H. 
Kichak, Associate Director, Employee Services, U.S. Office of Personnel 
Management; and Carol Bonosaro, Senior Executives Association (SEA), 
and Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service, both of Washington, D.C.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE COST OVERRUNS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
tools to prevent Department of Defense cost overruns, focusing on 
trends in Nunn-McCurdy breaches and tools to manage weapon systems 
acquisition costs, after receiving testimony from Frank Kendall, 
Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and 
Logistics, Richard P. Burke, Deputy Director, Cost Assessment, Office 
of the Secretary, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, and John J. 
Young Jr., former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 
Technology and Logistics, San Francisco, California, all of the 
Department of Defense; Michael J. Sullivan, Director, Acquisition and 
Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office; and Moshe 
Schwartz, Specialist in Defense Acquisition, Congressional Research 
Service, Library of Congress.
MUSLIM AMERICANS' CIVIL RIGHTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Human Rights concluded a hearing to examine protecting the 
civil rights of

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American Muslims, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. Perez, 
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of 
Justice; Farhana Khera, Muslim Advocates, San Francisco, California; 
Archbishop Emeritus of Washington Theodore E. McCarrick, Washington, 
D.C., on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; 
and R. Alexander Acosta, Florida International University College of 
Law, Miami.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.