[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 55 (Thursday, April 14, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D416-D417]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the Department of Commerce, 
after receiving testimony from Gary Locke, Secretary of Commerce.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF ARMY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AIR FORCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the Department of 
Army and the Department of Air Force, after receiving testimony from 
Katherine G. Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Installations, Energy, and Environment, Major General James C. Boozer, 
Director, Operations Directorate, Office to the Assistant Chief of 
Staff for Installation Management, Major General Raymond W. Carpenter, 
Acting Director, Army National Guard, James Snyder, Assistant Chief, 
U.S. Army Reserve, Terry A. Yonkers, Assistant Secretary of the Air 
Force for Installations, Environment, and Logistics, Major General 
Timothy A. Byers, The Air Force Civil Engineer, Major General William 
H. Etter, Deputy Director, Air National Guard, and Major General James 
Jackson, Deputy Chief, Air Force Reserve, all of the Department of 
Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 421 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Katharine G. Abraham, of Iowa, 
and Carl Shapiro, of California, both to be a Member of the Council of 
Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President, and Eric L. 
Hirschhorn, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export 
Administration.
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine issues for surface transportation authorization, 
after receiving testimony from Brian Searles, Vermont Agency of 
Transportation Secretary, Montpelier; Michael P. Lewis, Rhode Island 
Department of Transportation Director, Providence; Gary Ridley, 
Oklahoma Secretary of Transportation, Oklahoma City; John Cox, Wyoming 
Department of Transportation Director, Cheyenne, on behalf of the Idaho 
Department of Transportation, Montana Department of Transportation, 
North Dakota Department of Transportation, and South Dakota Department 
of Transportation; John R. Cooper, Alabama Department of Transportation 
Director, Montgomery; Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corporation, 
Washington, D.C.; and Sharon Thomas, City of Las Cruces Councilwoman, 
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 782, to amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 
1965 to reauthorize that Act, with an amendment;
  S. 680, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey 
a parcel of real property in the District of Columbia to provide for 
the establishment of a National Women's History Museum, with an 
amendment; and
  S. 710, to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to direct the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a 
hazardous waste electronic manifest system.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Jenni Rane LeCompte, of the District of Columbia, to be 
an Assistant Secretary, and David S. Cohen, of Maryland, to be Under 
Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, both of the Department of 
the Treasury.
AFRICA BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded a hearing to examine assessing the fiscal year 2012 budget 
for Africa, after receiving testimony from Johnnie Carson, Assistant 
Secretary for African Affairs, and Eric Goosby, United States Global 
AIDS Coordinator, both of the Department of State; Raja Jandhyala, 
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa, United States Agency for 
International Development; and Patrick C. Fine, Millennium Challenge 
Corporation, Washington, D.C.
FEDERAL REGULATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine Federal regulation, focusing on how to 
best advance

[[Page D417]]

the public interest, after receiving testimony from Cass R. Sunstein, 
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 636, to provide the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood 
Protection, S. 703, to amend the Long-Term Leasing Act, and S. 546, to 
extend the Federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa 
Indians of Montana, after receiving testimony from Donald Laverdure, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, and George T. 
Skibine, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management, Indian Affairs, 
both of the Department of the Interior; John Sinclair, Havre, Montana, 
and K. Jerome Gottschalk, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, 
Colorado, both on behalf of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians 
of Montana; Bonita Cleveland, Quileute Tribe, La Push, Washington; and 
Robert Tippeconnie, National Congress of American Indians, and Cheryl 
A. Causley, National American Indian Housing Council, both of 
Washington, D.C.
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.