[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 74 (Thursday, May 26, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D563-D564]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AMERICAN AGRICULTURE AND THE NEXT FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the role, risks, and challenges for American 
agriculture and the next farm bill in meeting the demands of a growing 
world, after receiving testimony from Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of 
Agriculture; Dan Glickman, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs' 
Global Agricultural Development Initiative, Washington, D.C.; Barry A. 
Mumby, Wakeshma Farms LLC, Colon, Michigan; Andrew A. Rosenberg, 
Conservation International, Alexandria, Virginia; Doug DeVries, Deere 
and Company, Moline, Illinois; and Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, New York.
APPROPRIATIONS: UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND AND UNITED STATES AFRICA 
COMMAND
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense met 
in closed session to receive a briefing on proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2012 for United States Central Command and United 
States Africa Command from James N. Mattis, USMC, Commander, U.S. 
Central Command, and Carter F. Ham, USA, Commander, U.S. Africa 
Command, both of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Timothy G. Massad, of Connecticut, 
to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
HOUSING FINANCE SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine public proposals for the future of the housing 
finance system, after receiving testimony from Terri Ludwig, Enterprise 
Community Partners, New York, New York; Ron Phipps, National 
Association of Realtors, Warwick, Rhode Island; Mark J. Parrell, 
National Multi Housing Council and the National Apartment Association, 
and Greg Heerde, Aon Benfield, both of Chicago, Illinois; Martin S. 
Hughes, Redwood Trust, Inc., San Rafael, California; and Barry 
Rutenberg, National Association of Home Builders, Gainesville, Florida.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 630, to promote marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy research 
and development, with amendments;
  An original bill to provide for the conduct of an analysis of the 
impact of energy development and production on the water resources of 
the United States, and for other purposes;
  An original bill to amend the Federal Power Act to protect the bulk-
power system and electric infrastructure critical to the defense of the 
United States against cybersecurity and other threats and 
vulnerabilities;
  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, with amendments; and

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  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, 
with amendments.
UNITED STATES-KOREA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, after receiving testimony 
from Demetrios Marantis, Deputy United States Trade Representative; 
Errol Rice, Montana Stockgrowers Association Inc., Helena; Thea Mei 
Lee, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial 
Organizations, Washington, D.C.; and Timothy E. Guertin, Varian Medical 
Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, California.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Gary Locke, of Washington, to be Ambassador 
to the People's Republic of China, Department of State, after the 
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported S. 792, to authorize the waiver of certain 
debts relating to assistance provided to individuals and households 
since 2005, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NATIVE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE-BASED EDUCATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine expanding the success of native language and culture-based 
education, after receiving testimony from Namaka Rawlins, 'Aha Punana 
Leo, Inc. and Hawaiian Language College, Hilo, Hawaii; Larry C. Lasley 
Sr., Meskwaki Settlement School Board, Tama, Iowa; Alvin N. Parker, Ka 
Waihona o ka Na'auao Public Charter School, Waianae, Hawaii; Kevin 
Shendo, Pueblo of Jemez Department of Education, Jemez Pueblo, New 
Mexico; Jana Harcharek, North Slope Borough School District, Barrow, 
Alaska; David Beaulieu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Electa 
Quinney Institute for American Indian Education; and Shawn Kanaiaupuni, 
Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, Hawaii.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 968, to prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of 
intellectual property, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 
and
  The nominations of John Andrew Ross, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, Timothy M. Cain, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, 
Nannette Jolivette Brown, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Louisiana, Nancy Torresen, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Maine, and William Francis Kuntz, 
II, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New 
York.
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.
OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
meals, rides, and caregivers, focusing on the ``Older Americans Act'', 
after receiving testimony from Kathy Greenlee, Assistant Secretary of 
Health and Human Services for Aging; Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, 
Georgia Southwestern State University Rosalynn Carter Institute for 
Caregiving, Americus; Heather A. Bruemmer, State of Wisconsin Board on 
Aging and Long Term Care, Madison; Max Richtman, Leadership Council of 
Aging Organizations (LCAO), Washington, D.C.; Timothy A. Howell, Senior 
Citizens Home Assistance Service, Inc., Knoxville, Tennessee; and 
Elizabeth N. Marshall, York, Pennsylvania.