[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 25, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D547-D549]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PROTECTING AMERICAN JOBS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Homeland 
Security concluded a hearing to examine protecting American jobs, 
focusing on strengthening trade enforcement including anti-dumping and 
maritime laws, and past initiatives to improve anti-dumping and 
countervailing duty collection and additional options for improving 
anti-dumping and countervailing duty collection, after receiving 
testimony from Allen Gina, Assistant Commissioner, Office of 
International Trade, U.S. Customs and Border Protection; J. Scott 
Ballman, Jr., Deputy Assistant Director, Homeland Security 
Investigations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of 
Homeland Security; Ronald K. Lorentzen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Import Administration; Loren Yager, Director, 
International Affairs and Trade, Government Accountability Office; 
Edward T. Hayes, Leake and Andersson LLP, and Kristen M. Baumer, Paul 
Piazza and Sons, Inc., both of New Orleans, Louisiana; Jim Adams, 
Offshore Marine Service Association, Harahan, Louisiana; and Keith E. 
Busse, Steel Dynamics, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana.
CREATING JOBS AND TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Service and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine creating jobs and 
transforming communities, focusing on funding for the Small Business 
Administration and the Community Development Financial Institutions 
Fund, after receiving testimony from Karen G. Mills, Administrator, 
U.S. Small Business Administration; Donna J. Gambrell, Director, 
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, Department of the 
Treasury; Warner Cruz, J.C. Restoration, Inc., Rolling Meadows, 
Illinois; Calvin L. Holmes, Chicago Community Loan Fund (CCFL), 
Chicago, Illinois; and Ray Moncrief, Kentucky Highlands Investments 
Corporation, London.
APPROPRIATIONS: MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2012 for the Missile Defense Agency, after receiving testimony 
from Lieutenant General Patrick J. O'Reilly, USA, Director, Missile 
Defense Agency, Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded a 
hearing to examine Navy shipbuilding programs in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2012 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Sean J. Stackley, Assistant 
Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, Vice 
Admiral Kevin M. McCoy, Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, and 
Captain William J. Galinis, Supervisor of Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP), Gulf 
Coast, all of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Michael E. Guest, of South Carolina, Ana Margarita 
Guzman, of Texas, and Christopher B. Howard, of Virginia, all to be a 
Member of the National Security Education Board, and 3,463 nominations 
in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

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DERIVATIVES CLEARINGHOUSES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine 
derivatives clearinghouses, focusing on opportunities and challenges, 
after receiving testimony from Christopher Edmonds, ICE Trust, and 
Terrence A. Duffy, CME Group Inc., both of Chicago, Illinois; Benn 
Steil, Council on Foreign Relations, Don Thompson, JPMorgan Chase and 
Co., and James Cawley, Javelin Capital Markets, all of New York, New 
York; Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of 
Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Clifford Lewis, State Street 
Global Markets, Singer Island, Florida.
PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 233, to withdraw certain 
Federal land and interests in that land from location, entry, and 
patent under the mining laws and disposition under the mineral and 
geothermal leasing laws, S. 268, to sustain the economic development 
and recreational use of National Forest System land and other public 
land in the State of Montana, to add certain land to the National 
Wilderness Preservation System, to release certain wilderness study 
areas, to designate new areas for recreation, S. 375, to authorize the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter 
into cooperative agreements with State foresters authorizing State 
foresters to provide certain forest, rangeland, and watershed 
restoration and protection services, S. 714, to reauthorize the Federal 
Land Transaction Facilitation Act, and S. 730, to provide for the 
settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
Act, after receiving testimony from Senators Baucus, Tester, and 
Begich; Harris Sherman, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural 
Resources and Environment; Marcilynn A. Burke, Deputy Director, Bureau 
of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Byron Mallott, and 
Jaleen Araujo, both of the Sealaska Corporation, Juneau, Alaska; 
Sherman Anderson, Sun Mountain Lumber, Deer Lodge, Montana; Walter E. 
Congdon, Montana Cattlemen's Association, Dell; and Myla Poelstra, Edna 
Bay, Alaska.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of William Charles Ostendorff, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who was 
introduced by Senator Webb, Richard C. Howorth, of Mississippi, to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, who 
was introduced by Senators Cochran and Wicker, and Lieutenant General 
Thomas P. Bostick, to be Chief of Engineers, and Commanding General, 
United States Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
UNITED STATES-PANAMA TRADE PROMOTION AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement, after receiving 
testimony from Miriam Sapiro, Deputy United States Trade 
Representative; Jason Speer, Quality Float Works, Inc., Schaumburg, 
Illinois; and Garry Niemeyer, National Corn Growers Association, 
Auburn, Illinois.
SPREAD OF TAX FRAUD BY IDENTITY THEFT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and 
Economic Growth concluded a hearing to examine the spread of tax fraud 
by identity theft, focusing on a threat to taxpayers, a drain on the 
public treasury, and the status of Internal Revenue Service initiatives 
to help victimized taxpayers, after receiving testimony from Nina E. 
Olson, National Taxpayer Advocate, and Beth Tucker, Deputy 
Commissioner, Operations Support, both of the Internal Revenue Service, 
Department of the Treasury; James R. White, Director, Strategic Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; Sharon Hawa, Bronx, New York; and 
Terry D. McClung, Jr., Finksburg, Maryland.
DUPLICATION IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine how to save taxpayer dollars, focusing 
on case studies of duplication in the Federal government, after 
receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the 
United States, Government Accountability Office; and Daniel I. Gordon, 
Administrator, Federal Procurement Policy, and Vivek Kundra, Federal 
Chief Information Officer, Administrator, 
E-Government and Information Technology, both of the Office of 
Management and Budget.
EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE IMPROPER PAYMENTS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
assessing efforts to eliminate improper payments, after receiving 
testimony from Daniel I. Werfel, Controller, Officer of Management and 
Budget; Richard L. Gregg, Fiscal Assistant Secretary

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of the Treasury; Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary of Defense 
(Comptroller); Calvin L. Scovell III, Vice Chairman, Recovery 
Accountability and Transparency Board; and Kelly Croft, Deputy 
Commissioner for Systems, Social Security Administration.
HOLDING CRIMINALS ACCOUNTABLE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
holding criminals accountable, focusing on extending criminal 
jurisdiction to government contractors and employees abroad, after 
receiving testimony from Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General, 
Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Tara Lee, DLA Piper LLP (US), 
and Michael J. Edney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Geoffrey S. Corn, South Texas College of Law, Houston.
VETERANS TRANSITION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine a seamless transition, focusing on meeting the needs of service 
members and veterans, after receiving testimony from Antonette Zeiss, 
Acting Deputy Chief Officer, Mental Health Services, and Deborah Amdur, 
Chief Consultant Care Management and Social Work, both of the Office of 
Patient Care Services, Shane McNamee, Chief of Physical Medicine and 
Rehabilitation, Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 
and Janet E. Kemp, National Suicide Prevention Coordinator, all of the 
Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; George 
Taylor, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Force Health Protection and 
Readiness, and Philip Burdette, Principal Director, Wounded Warrior 
Care and Transition, Policy Office, both of the Department of Defense; 
Steven A. Bohn, Wounded Warrior Project, Salem, Massachusetts; James R. 
Lorraine, Wounded Warrior Care Project, Augusta, Georgia; and Lance 
Corporal Tim Horton (Ret.), San Antonio, Texas.
DRUG VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AMERICA
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine combating drug violence in Central 
America, focusing on United States efforts to enhance security 
throughout Central America, after receiving testimony from Thomas M. 
Harrigan, Assistant Administrator and Chief of Operations, Drug 
Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; Roberta Jacobson, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Western 
Hemisphere Affairs; and Cynthia J. Arnson, Woodrow Wilson International 
Center for Scholars, Kevin Casas-Zamora, Brookings Institution, and Ray 
Walser, Heritage Foundation Center for Foreign Policy Studies, all of 
Washington, D.C.