[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 65 (Thursday, May 12, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D492-D494]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2012 for the Federal 
Aviation Administration, after receiving testimony from J. Randolph 
Babbitt, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, and Calvin L. 
Scovel III, Inspector General, both of the Department of 
Transportation.
APPROPRIATIONS: SECRETARY OF THE SENATE, SERGEANT AT ARMS, AND U.S. 
CAPITOL POLICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2012 for the Secretary of the Senate, the Senate Sergeant at Arms, 
and the United States Capitol Police, after receiving testimony from 
Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate; Terrance W. Gainer, Sergeant 
at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate; and Phillip D. Morse, Sr., Chief 
of Police, United States Capitol Police.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower received a closed 
briefing on threats faced by our naval forces and the capabilities of 
our naval forces to respond to those threats in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Vice Admiral David J. Dorsett, 
USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, and 
Director, Naval Intelligence, and Vice Admiral John T. Blake, USN, 
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Integration of Capabilities and 
Resources.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Peter A. Diamond, of 
Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System, David S. Cohen, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary for 
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and Daniel L. Glaser, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Terrorist Financing, both 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.
DODD-FRANK IMPLEMENTATION OVERSIGHT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the Dodd-Frank implementation, focusing 
on monitoring systemic risk and promoting financial stability, after 
receiving testimony from Neal S. Wolin, Deputy Secretary of the 
Treasury; Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System; Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation; Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission; Gary Gensler, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission; and John Walsh, Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Office 
of the Comptroller of the Currency.
NATIONAL MORTGAGE SERVICING STANDARDS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine the need for national mortgage servicing standards, focusing 
on if documentation problems reveal need for ongoing regulatory 
oversight, after receiving testimony from A. Nicole Clowers, Acting 
Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, Government 
Accountability Office; Diane E. Thompson, National Consumer Law Center, 
Godfrey, Illinois, on behalf of the National Association of Consumer 
Advocates; Laurie Goodman, Amherst Securities Group, New York, New 
York; David H. Stevens, Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), Washington, 
D.C.; Anthony Sanders, George Mason University Mercatus Center, 
Fairfax, Virginia; and Richard A. Harpootlian, Columbia, South 
Carolina.
CARBON CAPTURE AND SEQUESTRATION LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine carbon capture and sequestration legislation, 
including S. 699, to authorize the Secretary of Energy to carry out a 
program to demonstrate the commercial application of integrated systems 
for long-term geological storage of carbon dioxide, and S. 757, to 
provide incentives to encourage the development and implementation of 
technology to capture carbon dioxide from dilute sources on a 
significant scale using direct air capture technologies, after 
receiving testimony from Scott Klara, Deputy Laboratory Director, 
National Energy Technology Laboratory, Department of Energy; Sallie E. 
Greenberg, University of Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign; 
Matt Watson, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.; and Chiara 
Trabucchi, Industrial Economics Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
DIESEL EMISSIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine Federal efforts to 
protect public health by reducing diesel emissions, after receiving 
testimony from Todd T. Parfitt, Wyoming Department of Environmental 
Quality Deputy Director, Cheyenne; Robert O'Keefe, Health Effects 
Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; Bob Lanham, Williams Brothers 
Construction Company, Houston, Texas, on behalf of the Associated 
General Contractors of America; Allen Schaeffer, Diesel Technology 
Forum, Frederick, Maryland; Conrad G. Schneider, Clean Air Task Force, 
Brunswick, Maine.
OIL AND GAS TAX INCENTIVES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine oil and 
gas tax incentives and rising energy prices, after receiving testimony 
from John S. Watson, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, California; Marvin 
E. Odum, Shell Oil Company, Lamar McKay, BP America, and James J. 
Mulva, ConocoPhillips, all of Houston, Texas; and Rex W. Tillerson, 
Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving, Texas.
LIBYA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the situation in Libya, after receiving testimony from James B. 
Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State.
INTELLIGENCE REFORM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine ten years after 9/11, focusing on if 
intelligence reform is working, after receiving testimony from former 
Representative Jane Harman; Michael V. Hayden, former Director, Central 
Intelligence Agency, and former Director, National Security Agency; and 
John C. Gannon, former Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central 
Intelligence Agency.

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MIDDLE CLASS AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the middle class, focusing on if the 
American dream is slipping out of reach for American families, after 
receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor, 
University of California Berkeley; Heather Boushey, Center for American 
Progress Action Fund, Washington, D.C.; J. Michael Luttig, Boeing 
Company, Chicago, Illinois; and Sarah M. Fox, AFL-CIO, Bethesda, 
Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Henry F. Floyd, of South Carolina, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Kathleen M. Williams, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, 
Nelva Gonzales Ramos, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Texas, Richard Brooke Jackson, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Colorado, Sara Lynn Darrow, to be 
United States District Judge for the Central District of Illinois, and 
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be Solicitor 
General of the United States, Department of Justice.
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.