[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 53 (Tuesday, April 12, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D395-D397]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the United States Agency for 
International Development, after receiving testimony from Rajiv Shah, 
Administrator, United States Agency for International Development.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Forces Korea in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Admiral Robert F. Willard, USN, 
Commander, United States Pacific Command, and General Walter L. Sharp, 
USA, Commander, United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and 
United States Forces Korea, both of the Department of Defense.
COUNTERTERRORISM, COUNTERNARCOTICS, AND BUILDING PARTNERSHIP CAPACITY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine Department of Defense plans 
and programs relating to counterterrorism, counternarcotics, and 
building partnership capacity, after receiving testimony from Garry 
Reid, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Operations and Combating 
Terrorism, James A. Schear, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Partnership 
Strategy and Stability Operations, and William F. Wechsler, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Counternarcotics and Global Threats, all of the 
Department of Defense.
DODD-FRANK ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine building the new derivatives regulatory framework, 
focusing on oversight of Title VII of the ``Dodd-Frank Act'', after 
receiving testimony from Mary L. Schapiro,

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Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Gary Gensler, 
Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Daniel K. Tarullo, 
Governor, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Mary J. 
Miller, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets; 
Thomas C. Deas, Jr., FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lee 
Olesky, Tradeweb Markets LLC, New York, New York; Terrence A. Duffy, 
CME Group Inc., Chicago, Illinois; Ian Axe, LCH.Clearnet Group Limited, 
London, England; and Jennifer Paquette, Colorado Public Employees' 
Retirement Association, Denver.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 99, to promote the production of molybdenum-99 in the United 
States for medical isotope production, and to condition and phase out 
the export of highly enriched uranium for the production of medical 
isotopes, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 398, to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to improve 
energy efficiency of certain appliances and equipment, with an 
amendment;
  S. 629, to improve hydropower, with an amendment; and
  The nomination of Peter Bruce Lyons, of New Mexico, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy.
NATURAL GAS DRILLING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a joint 
hearing with the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife to examine natural 
gas drilling, focusing on public health and environmental impacts 
including S. 587, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to repeal a 
certain exemption for hydraulic fracturing, after receiving testimony 
from Bob Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Robert M. Summers, Maryland Department of the Environment 
Acting Secretary, Baltimore; Jeff Cloud, Oklahoma Corporation 
Commission Vice Chairman, Oklahoma City; David Neslin, Colorado Oil and 
Gas Conservation Commission Director, Denver; and Conrad Daniel Volz, 
University of Pittsburgh Center for Healthy Environments and 
Communities, and John W. Ubinger, Jr., Pennsylvania Environmental 
Council, both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
NUCLEAR EMERGENCY IN JAPAN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a joint 
hearing with the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety to 
examine a review of the nuclear emergency in Japan and implications for 
the United States, after receiving testimony from Representatives Capps 
and Bilbray; Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Gregory B. Jaczko, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; 
California State Senator Sam Blakeslee, and James D. Boyd, California 
Energy Commission Vice Chairman, both of Sacramento; Lewis D. Schiliro, 
Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security Secretary, Dover; 
Curtis Sommerhoff, Miami-Dade Department of Emergency Management, 
Miami, Florida; Charles Pardee, Exelon Generation Company, Chicago, 
Illinois; and Thomas B. Cochran, Natural Resources Defense Council, 
Inc., Washington, D.C.
TAX ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the best 
practices in tax administration, focusing on a look across the globe 
and preliminary information on selected foreign practices that may 
provide useful insights, after receiving testimony from Michael 
Brostek, Director, Strategic Issues Team, Government Accountability 
Office; Brian Erard, B.E. and Associates, Reston, Virginia; and Michael 
Gaffney, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Res. 109, honoring and supporting women in North Africa and the 
Middle East whose bravery, compassion, and commitment to putting the 
wellbeing of others before their own have proven that courage can be 
contagious; and
  The nominations of Nils Maarten Parin Daulaire, of Virginia, to be 
Representative of the United States on the Executive Board of the World 
Health Organization, Joseph M. Torsella, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations 
for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be 
Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the 
Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during his 
tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America to 
the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, Suzan D. Johnson 
Cook, of New York, to be Ambassador at Large for International 
Religious Freedom, Robert Patterson, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
Turkmenistan, Jonathan Scott Gration, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Kenya, Michelle D. Gavin, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana, David Bruce 
Shear, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of 
Vietnam, and Kurt Walter

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Tong, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of 
service as United States Senior Official for the Asia-Pacific Economic 
Cooperation (APEC) Forum, all of the Department of State, and Ben S. 
Bernanke, of New Jersey, to be United States Alternate Governor of the 
International Monetary Fund.
ELIMINATING WASTEFUL SPENDING IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's plan for eliminating wasteful spending in information 
technology, and how continued improvements in investment oversight and 
management can yield billions in savings, after receiving testimony 
from Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer, and 
Administrator, E-Government and Information Technology, Office of 
Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President; David 
McClure, Associate Administrator, Office of Citizen Services and 
Innovative Technologies, General Services Administration; David A. 
Powner, Director, Information Technology Management Issues, Government 
Accountability Office; Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe, MeriTalk, London, 
England; Rishi Sood, Gartner, Chicago, Illinois; and Alfred Grasso, The 
MITRE Corporation, Amherst, Massachusetts.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
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 financial literacy, 
focusing on the Federal government's role in empowering Americans to 
make informed financial decisions, after receiving testimony from Gene 
L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, Government 
Accountability Office; Brenda Dann-Messier, Assistant Secretary of 
Education for Vocational and Adult Education; Lori J. Schock, Director, 
Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission; and Joshua Wright, Acting Director, Office of Financial 
Education and Financial Access, and Hollister K. Petraeus, Director, 
Office of Servicemember Affairs, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 
both of the Department of the Treasury.
FAIR ELECTIONS NOW ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Human Rights concluded a hearing to examine a comprehensive 
response to Citizens United, including S. 750, to reform the financing 
of Senate elections, and S. 749, to establish a revenue source for fair 
elections financing of Senate campaigns by providing an excise tax on 
amounts paid pursuant to contracts with the United States Government, 
after receiving testimony from former Senator Alan K. Simpson, 
Americans for Campaign Reform, Cody, Wyoming; Monica Youn, New York 
University School of Law Brennan Center for Justice, New York, New 
York; and Cleta Mitchell, Republican National Lawyers Association, 
Washington, D.C.
CYBER SECURITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism 
concluded a hearing to examine cyber security, focusing on responding 
to the threat of cyber crime and terrorism, after receiving testimony 
from Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal 
Division, and Gordon M. Snow, Assistant Director, Cyber Division, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; 
Pablo A. Martinez, Deputy Special Agent in Charge, Criminal 
Investigative Division, U.S. Secret Service, Department of Homeland 
Security; Phyllis Schneck, McAfee, Inc., Reston, Virginia; John E. 
Savage, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Stewart A. Baker, 
Steptoe and Johnson LLP, Washington, D.C.