[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 63 (Tuesday, May 10, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D471-D473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: COAST GUARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Homeland 
Security concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2012 for the Coast Guard, focusing on an examination of 
operational and recapitalization requirements, after receiving 
testimony from Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., Commandant, United States 
Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded open and closed hearings to examine 
proliferation prevention programs at the Department of Energy and the 
Department of Defense in review of the Defense Authorization Request 
for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program, after 
receiving testimony from Joseph R. DeTrani, Director, National

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Counterproliferation Center, Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence; Edward B. Held, Director, Office of Intelligence and 
Counterintelligence, Michael McKeon, Chief Scientist, Anne M. 
Herrington, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, 
National Nuclear Security Administration, and John Gerrard, Assistant 
Deputy Administrator, International Material Protection and 
Cooperation, all of the Department of Energy; and Brian Keith 
Lessenberry, Acting National Intelligence Officer for Weapons of Mass 
Destruction, Kenneth A. Meyers III, Director, Defense Threat Reduction 
Agency, Kenneth B. Handelman, Acting Assistant Secretary for Global 
Strategic Affairs, and Jed Royal, Director, Cooperative Threat 
Reduction Policy, all of the Department of Defense.
FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION'S FINAL REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's final 
report, after receiving testimony from Phil Angelides, Chairman, 
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
TRANSPORTATION WORKER IDENTIFICATION CREDENTIAL PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the Transportation Worker Identification 
Credential Program, focusing on if internal control weaknesses need to 
be corrected to help achieve security objectives, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Mica; John Pistole, Administrator, 
Transportation Security Administration, and Rear Admiral Kevin S. Cook, 
Director, Prevention Policy, United States Coast Guard, both of the 
Department of Homeland Security; and Stephen M. Lord, Director, 
Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government Accountability Office.
UPSTREAM OIL AND GAS TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine new developments in upstream oil and gas 
technologies, after receiving testimony from Kevin R. Banks, Alaska 
Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas Director, and 
Lois N. Epstein, Wilderness Society, both of Anchorage; Thomas Davis, 
Colorado School of Mines, Golden; Andy Hendricks, Schlumberger, 
Sugarland, Texas; and L. Stephen Melzer, Melzer Consulting, Midland, 
Texas.
DEFICIT REDUCTION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
perspectives on deficit reduction, focusing on Social Security, after 
receiving testimony from James Roosevelt, Jr., Tufts Associated Health 
Plans, Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts; and Charles P. Blahous, Hoover 
Institution, Nancy J. Altman, Social Security Works, and Alex M. Brill, 
American Enterprise Institute (AEI), all of Washington, D.C.
SUCCESSFUL 2014 AFGHANISTAN TRANSITION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine steps needed for a successful 2014 transition in Afghanistan, 
after receiving testimony from David J. Kilcullen, Caerus Associates, 
Seth G. Jones, RAND Corporation, and Stephen Biddle, Council on Foreign 
Relations, all of Washington, D.C.
GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AND RESULTS MODERNIZATION ACT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia with the Subcommittee on Federal Financial 
Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International 
Security concluded a joint hearing to examine a roadmap for a more 
efficient and accountable Federal government, focusing on implementing 
the Government Performance and Results (GPRA) Modernization Act, after 
receiving testimony from Jeffrey D. Zients, Administrator, Federal 
Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Gene L. Dodaro, 
Comptroller General of the United States, Government Accountability 
Office; Robert Shea, Grant Thornton LLP, Alexandria, Virginia; Paul L. 
Posner, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; and Jonathan D. 
Breul, IBM Center for The Business of Government, Washington, D.C.
PROTECTING MOBILE PRIVACY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the 
Law concluded a hearing to examine protecting mobile privacy, focusing 
on smartphones, tablets, cell phones and privacy, after receiving 
testimony from Jessica Rich, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer 
Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant 
Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Justin 
Brookman, Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), Alan Davidson, 
Google Inc., Jonathan Zuck, The Association for Competitive Technology, 
and Ashkan Soltani, all of Washington, D.C.; and Guy Tribble, Apple 
Inc., Cupertino, California.

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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.