[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 83 (Thursday, June 9, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D618-D620]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the nomination of Leon E. Panetta, of California, 
to be Secretary of Defense, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senators Feinstein and Boxer, testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance 
Program, after receiving testimony from Senator Wicker; and Craig 
Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department 
of Homeland Security.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 963, to reduce energy costs, improve energy 
efficiency, and expand the use of renewable energy by Federal agencies, 
S. 1000, to promote energy savings in residential and commercial 
buildings and industry, and S. 1001, to reduce oil consumption and 
improve energy security, after receiving testimony from Kathleen Hogan, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, Office of Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and Jonathan Silver, Executive 
Director of the Loan Programs Office, both of the Department of Energy;

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Frank Rusco, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government 
Accountability Office; Tony Crasi, National Association of Home 
Builders, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Jay Scripter, Owens-Illinois, Inc., 
Perrysburg, Ohio; Kateri Callahan, Alliance to Save Energy, Shane Karr, 
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, and Kevin Book, Clear View Energy 
Partners, LLC, all of Washington, D.C.; and Philip Damiano, Velcro 
Group Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire.
CRITICAL MINERALS AND MATERIALS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
concluded a hearing to examine critical minerals and materials 
legislation, including S. 383, to promote the domestic production of 
critical minerals and materials, S. 421, to amend the Energy 
Independence and Security Act of 2007 to require the Secretary of 
Energy to provide grants for lithium production research and 
development, and S. 1113, to facilitate the reestablishment of 
domestic, critical mineral designation, assessment, production, 
manufacturing, recycling, analysis, forecasting, workforce, education, 
research, and international capabilities in the United States, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Hagan; David Sandalow, Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs; Marcilynn 
Burke, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the 
Interior; Jonathan G. Price, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno; 
Luka Erceg, Simbol Materials, Pleasanton, California; Steven J. Duclos, 
GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York; and Mark Caffarey, Umicore USA 
Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 76, to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency to investigate and address cancer and disease clusters, 
including in infants and children: and
  The nominations of William Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, to be a 
Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Richard C. Howorth, of 
Mississippi, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee 
Valley Authority.
LIBYA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
Libya from National Security Briefers.
BORDER CORRUPTION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs 
concluded a hearing to examine border corruption, focusing on assessing 
customs and border protection and the Department of Homeland Security 
Inspector General's office collaboration in the fight to prevent 
corruption, after receiving testimony from Alan D. Bersin, 
Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Charles K. 
Edwards, Acting Inspector General, both of the Department of Homeland 
Security.
FEDERAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
Federal asset management, focusing on eliminating waste by disposing of 
unneeded Federal real property through a proposed civilian board, after 
receiving testimony from former Senator Alan J. Dixon; Daniel I. 
Werfel, Controller, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office 
of the President; Robert A. Peck, Commissioner, Public Building 
Service, U.S. General Services Administration; James M. Sullivan, 
Director, Asset Enterprise Management, Department of Veterans Affairs; 
David J. Wise, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, and Brian J. 
Lepore, Director, Defense Capabilities and Management Issues, both of 
the Government Accountability Office; David B. Baxa, VISTA Technology 
Services, Inc., Richmond, Virginia; Tim Ford, Association of Defense 
Communities (ADC), Arlington, Virginia; and Maria Foscarinis, National 
Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, New York, New York.
QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded a hearing to examine quality early 
education and care, after receiving testimony from Joan Lombardi, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Inter-
Departmental Liaison for Early Childhood Development, Administration 
for Children and Families; Dennis Hillian, Judy Center, Waldorf, 
Maryland; Linda K. Smith, National Association of Child Care Resources 
and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA), Arlington, Virginia; Arthur J. 
Rolnick, University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public 
Affairs, Minneapolis; Eva Tansky Blum, The PNC Financial Services 
Group, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Charlie Mills III, Salera Capital 
Management, LLC, Potomac Falls, Virginia.

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U.N. DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine domestic policy implications of the U.N. Declaration on the 
Rights of Indigenous Peoples, after receiving testimony from Donald 
Laverdure, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for 
Indian Affairs; Robert T. Coulter, Indian Law Resource Center, Helena, 
Montana; James Anaya, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of 
Law, Tucson, on behalf of the United Nations Human Rights Council; 
Lindsay G. Robertson, University of Oklahoma College of Law American 
Indian Law and Policy Center, Norman; Fawn R. Sharp, Quinault Indian 
Nation, Taholah, Washington; Frank Ettawageshik, United Tribes of 
Michigan, Harbor Springs; Duane H. Yazzie, Navajo Nation Human Rights 
Commission, Window Rock, Arizona; Melanie Knight, Cherokee Nation, 
Tahlequah, Oklahoma; and Thomas Ryan Red Corn, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Felicia C. Adams, to be United States Attorney for the 
Northern District of Mississippi, Ronald W. Sharpe, to be United States 
Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands, and George Lamar Beck, 
Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, 
all of the 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.