[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 58 (Tuesday, May 3, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D438-D439]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine the health and status of 
the defense industrial base and its science and technology-related 
elements, after receiving testimony from Frank Kendall, Principal 
Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, 
Zachary J. Lemnios, Assistant Secretary for Research and Engineering, 
and Brett B. Lambert, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing and 
Industrial Base Policy, all of the Department of Defense; Norman R. 
Augustine, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland; Jacques S. 
Gansler, University of Maryland School of Public Policy Center for 
Public Policy and Private Enterprise, College Park; and Philip A. 
Odeen, Defense Business Board, North Palm Beach, Florida.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of David S. Cohen, of Maryland, to 
be Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, Daniel L. 
Glaser, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Terrorist Financing, and Timothy G. Massad, of Connecticut, to be an 
Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of the Treasury, and Wanda 
Felton, of New York, to be First Vice President, and Sean Robert 
Mulvaney, of Illinois, to be a Member, both of the Board of Directors 
of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.

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AMERICA'S NATURAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine America's natural disaster preparedness, focusing 
on if Federal investments are paying off, after receiving testimony 
from William H. Hooke, American Meteorological Society, and Anne S. 
Kiremidjian, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), both of 
Washington, D.C.; Robert Ryan, ABC7/WJLA-TV, Arlington, Virginia; and 
Clint Dawson, The University of Texas at Austin Institute for 
Computational Engineering and Sciences Department of Aerospace 
Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Austin.
AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY LEADERSHIP ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the proposal for a Clean Energy Deployment 
Administration as contained in Title I, Subtitle A of the American 
Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009, after receiving testimony from 
Jonathan Silver, Executive Director, Loan Programs Office, Department 
of Energy; Dan W. Reicher, Stanford University Steyer-Taylor Center for 
Energy Policy and Finance, Palo Alto, California; Kassia Yanosek, Tana 
Energy Capital LLC, New York, New York; and Christopher Guith, U.S. 
Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy, Washington, D.C.
TAX BURDENS AND TAX BENEFITS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine if the 
distribution of tax burdens and tax benefits is equitable, after 
receiving testimony from Daniel N. Shaviro, New York University Law 
School, New York, New York; Scott A. Hodge, Tax Foundation, and Alan 
Reynolds, The Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Aviva Aron-
Dine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Afghanistan, focusing on what is an acceptable end-state, and 
how to get there, after receiving testimony from Ronald E. Neumann, 
American Academy of Diplomacy, Washington, D.C.; Anne-Marie Slaughter, 
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and Richard N. Haass, 
Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York.