[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 91 (Thursday, June 23, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D684-D686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM BILL ACCOUNTABILITY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine farm bill accountability, focusing on the 
importance of measuring performance, while eliminating duplication and 
waste, after receiving testimony from Dallas Tonsager, Under Secretary 
for Rural Development, Michael T. Scuse, Acting Under Secretary for 
Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, Harris Sherman, Under Secretary 
for Natural Resources and Environment, Kevin W. Concannon, Under 
Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, Joe Leonard, Jr., 
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, and Phyllis K. Fong, Inspector 
General, Office of Inspector General, all of the Department of 
Agriculture;

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Masouda Omar, Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Denver; and Brett 
Blankenship, Washtucna, Washington.
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 Orice Williams Brown, Managing 
Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, Government 
Accountability Office; Chad Berginnis, Association of State Floodplain 
Managers, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin; Adam Kolton, National Wildlife 
Federation, on behalf of the Smarter Safer Coalition, and Travis 
Plunkett, Consumer Federation of America, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Barry Rutenberg, National Association of Home Builders, Gainesville, 
Florida; and Scott Richardson, Heartland Institute, Columbia, South 
Carolina.
U.S. COAST GUARD BUDGET AND OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to 
examine U.S. Coast Guard budget and oversight, after receiving 
testimony from Robert J. Papp, Jr., Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, 
Department of Homeland Security.
WATER AND POWER BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 500, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to convey certain Federal features of the electric 
distribution system to the South Utah Valley Electric Service District, 
S. 715, to reinstate and transfer certain hydroelectric licenses and 
extend the deadline for commencement of construction of certain 
hydroelectric projects, S. 802, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to allow the storage and conveyance of nonproject water at the 
Norman project in Oklahoma, S. 997, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to extend a water contract between the United States and the 
East Bench Irrigation District, S. 1033, to amend the Reclamation 
Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to participate in the City of Hermiston, 
Oregon, water recycling and reuse project, S. 1047, to amend the 
Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment of 1992 to require 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of 
Reclamation, to take actions to improve environmental conditions in the 
vicinity of the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel in Lake County, 
Colorado, S. 1224, to amend Public Law 106-392 to maintain annual base 
funding for the Upper Colorado and San Juan fish recovery program 
through fiscal year 2023, and S. 1225, to transfer certain facilities, 
easements, and rights-of-way to Fort Sumner Irrigation District, New 
Mexico, after receiving testimony from Senator Blumenthal; Grayford F. 
Payne, Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Administration and Budget, 
Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; John Katz, Deputy 
Associate General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and 
Richard J. Barlow, Town of Canton First Selectman, Collinsville, 
Connecticut.
HEALTH CARE ENTITLEMENTS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine health 
care entitlements, focusing on the road forward, after receiving 
testimony from Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick, Boston; former 
Kentucky Governor Ernest Lee Fletcher, Alton Healthcare, Lexington, 
Kentucky; Bruce C. Vladeck, Nexera, New York, New York; and Douglas 
Holtz-Eakin, former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of William J. Burns, of Maryland, to be Deputy 
Secretary, Gary Locke, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the People's 
Republic of China, and Ryan C. Crocker, of Washington, to be Ambassador 
to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, all of the Department of State.
PROGRESS IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine evaluating goals and progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 
after receiving testimony from Hillary R. Clinton, Secretary of State.
REBUILDING HAITI IN THE MARTELLY ERA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps and Global Narcotics Affairs with the Subcommittee on 
International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and 
International Environmental Protection concluded a joint hearing to 
examine rebuilding Haiti in the Martelly era, after receiving testimony 
from Major Joseph M. Bernadel, U.S. Army (Ret.), Interim Haiti 
Reconstruction Commission (IHRC), Boynton Beach, Florida; Regine 
Barjon, BioTek Solutions/BioTek Haiti SA, Tampa, Florida; and Georges 
Barau Sassine, Association Des Industries D'Haiti (ADIH), and Gary 
Shaye, Save the Children, both of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

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FEDERAL REGULATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine Federal regulation, focusing on S. 128, 
to amend title 44 of the United States Code, to provide for the 
suspension of fines under certain circumstances for first-time 
paperwork violations by small business concerns, S. 299, to amend 
chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that major rules 
of the executive branch shall have no force or effect unless a joint 
resolution of approval is enacted into law, S. 358, to codify and 
modify regulatory requirements of Federal agencies, S. 602, to require 
regulatory reform, S. 1030, to reform the regulatory process to ensure 
that small businesses are free to compete and to create jobs, and S. 
1189, to amend the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1501 
et seq.) to provide for regulatory impact analyses for certain rules, 
consideration of the least burdensome regulatory alternative, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Snowe, Roberts, Vitter, and Warner; 
and Cass R. Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget.
MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine middle class families, after receiving 
testimony from Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 
Washington, D.C.; Amanda Greubel, Central Community Schools Family 
Resource Center, DeWitt, Iowa; Thomas Clements, Oilfield CNC Machining 
LLC, Broussard, Louisiana; and Susan M. Sipprelle, Englewood, New 
Jersey.
INDIAN REORGANIZATION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the ``Indian Reorganization Act'' 75 years later, focusing 
on restoring tribal homelands and promote self-determination, after 
receiving testimony from Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois, 
Champaign; G. William Rice, University of Tulsa College of Law Native 
American Law Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Carole Goldberg, University of 
California Los Angeles School of Law; Steven J.W. Heeley, Akin, Gump, 
Strauss, Hauer and Feld LLP, and Jefferson Keel, National Congress of 
American Indians, both of Washington, D.C.; Richard Monette, University 
of Wisconsin Law School, Madison; John Echohawk, Native American Rights 
Fund, Boulder, Colorado; and Michael Finley, Confederated Tribes of the 
Colville Reservation, Nespelem, Washington.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S.1145, to amend title 18, United States Code, to clarify and expand 
Federal criminal jurisdiction over Federal contractors and employees 
outside the United States, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  The nominations of Major General Marilyn A. Quagliotti, USAF (Ret.), 
of Virginia, to be Deputy Director for Supply Reduction, Office of 
National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, and 
Alfred Cooper Lomax, to be United States Marshal for the Western 
District of Missouri, and David L. McNulty, to be United States Marshal 
for the Northern District of New York, both of the Department of 
Justice.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of David H. Petraeus, of New Hampshire, to be 
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Lieberman, testified and answered questions in 
his own behalf.