[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 90 (Wednesday, June 22, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D674-D675]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
received testimony from sundry public witnesses requesting funding for 
programs in the Department of Defense appropriations bill for fiscal 
year 2012.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SYSTEM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
preventing overpayments and eliminating fraud in the unemployment 
insurance system, after receiving testimony from Jane Oates, Assistant 
Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training; Kristen Cox, Utah 
Department of Workforce Services Executive Director, Salt Lake City; 
Paul Trause, Washington State Employment Security Commissioner, 
Olympia; and Michael Cullen, On Point Technology, Inc., Oak Brook, 
Illinois.
SECURING RAIL AND TRANSIT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the next steps for securing rail and 
transit, after receiving testimony from John S. Pistole, Administrator, 
Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland 
Security; Peter Boynton, Connecticut Department of Emergency Management 
and Homeland Security Commissioner, Hartford; and Stephen E. Flynn, 
Center for National Policy, Washington, D.C.
DIABETES RESEARCH
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine transforming lives through diabetes 
research, after receiving testimony from Griffin Rodgers, Director, 
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and

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Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and Charles Zimliki, 
Chair, Artificial Pancreas Critical Path Initiative, Center for Devices 
and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, both of the 
Department of Health and Human Services; Kevin Kline, New York, New 
York, Caroline Jacobs, Shapleigh, Maine, Jack Schmittlein, Avon, 
Connecticut, Kerry Morgan, Glen Allen, Virginia, and Jonathan Platt, 
Tarzana, California, all of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 
(JDRF) Children's Congress.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine intellectual property law enforcement efforts, including S. 
968, to prevent online threats to economic creativity and theft of 
intellectual property, S. 978, to amend the criminal penalty provision 
for criminal infringement of a copyright, S. 678, to increase the 
penalties for economic espionage, and S. 1228, to prohibit trafficking 
in counterfeit military goods or services, after receiving testimony 
Victoria A. Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, 
Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President; 
Jason M. Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal 
Division, and Gordon M. Snow, Assistant Director, Cyber Division, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; and 
Allen Gina, Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Trade, U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection, and Erik Barnett, Assistant Deputy 
Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, both of the 
Department of Homeland Security.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Christopher Droney, of Connecticut, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senator Lieberman, Robert David Mariani, to be United States District 
Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Cathy Bissoon, and Mark 
Raymond Hornak, both to be a United States District Judge for the 
Western District of Pennsylvania, who were all introduced by Senators 
Casey and Toomey, and Robert N. Scola, Jr., to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, who was introduced 
by Senators Nelson (FL) and Rubio, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.