[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 103 (Tuesday, July 12, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D762-D763]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INVESTOR PROTECTION AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine enhanced investor protection after the financial 
crisis, after receiving testimony from Lynn E. Turner, former Chief 
Accountant, and Harvey L. Pitt, former Chairman, both of the Securities 
and Exchange Commission; David Massey, North American Securities 
Administration Association, Inc., Wilmington, North Carolina; Lynnette 
Kelly Hotchkiss, Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, Alexandria, 
Virginia; Paul S. Atkins, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, 
D.C.; Barbara Roper, Consumer Federation

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of America, Pueblo, Colorado; and Anne Simpson, California Public 
Employees' Retirement System, Sacramento.
GEOTHERMAL AND SOLAR ENERGY BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1160, to improve the administration of the 
Department of Energy, S. 1108, to provide local communities with tools 
to make solar permitting more efficient, and S. 1142, to promote the 
mapping and development of the United States geothermal resources by 
establishing a direct loan program for high risk geothermal exploration 
wells, to amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to 
improve geothermal energy technology and demonstrate the use of 
geothermal energy in large scale thermal applications, after receiving 
testimony from Steven G. Chalk, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy 
for Renewable Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; 
Douglas A. Dougherty, The Geothermal Exchange Organization, 
Springfield, Illinois; and Holly Gordon, SunRun Inc., San Francisco, 
California.
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT'S UNREGULATED DRINKING WATER CONTAMINANTS 
PROGRAM OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's 
implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act's Unregulated Drinking 
Water Contaminants Program, after receiving testimony from David C. 
Trimble, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government 
Accountability Office; Robert Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, and 
Jeffrey K. Griffiths, Chair, Drinking Water Committee, Science Advisory 
Board, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Lynn Goldman, 
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health 
Services, on behalf of the American Public Health Association, Joseph 
A. Cotruvo, Joseph Cotruvo and Associates, and Steven R. Patierno, 
George Washington University Cancer Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; 
and Anthony Araiza, West Valley Water District, Rialto, California.
NEW TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVATE SECTOR BUSINESS PRACTICES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine if 
new technology and private sector business practices can cut waste and 
fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, focusing on additional actions needed 
to support program integrity efforts at centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid, after receiving testimony from Peter Budetti, Deputy 
Administrator, and Director, Center for Program Integrity, Centers for 
Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel, Office 
of Inspector General, both of the Department of Health and Human 
Services; Joel C. Willemssen, Managing Director, Information 
Technology, Government Accountability Office; and Louis Saccoccio, 
National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA), Boston, 
Massachusetts.


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  On page D763, July 12, 2011 the following language appears: NEW 
TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVATE SECTOR BUSINESS PRACTICES Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: . . . Medicade, . . . 
Boston, Massachusetts.
  
  The online Record has been corrected to read: NEW TECHNOLOGY AND 
PRIVATE SECTOR BUSINESS PRACTICESCommittee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs: . . . Medicaid, . . . Boston, 
Massachusetts.


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                                                          PENSIONS
    Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine pensions, focusing on building a strong 
 middle class and strong economy, after receiving testimony from Diane 
Oakley, National Institute on Retirement Security, and David Marchick, 
   Carlyle Group, both of Washington, D.C.; Christopher T. Stephen, 
 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Arlington, Virginia; 
and Edmond P. Bertheaud, Jr., DuPont Company, Wilmington, Delaware, on 
                behalf of the American Benefits Council.
                                                      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.