[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 105 (Thursday, July 14, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D780-D782]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GROWING JOBS IN RURAL AMERICA
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine growing jobs in rural America, after receiving 
testimony from Bruce Graham, Indiana Statewide Association of Rural 
Electric Cooperatives, Inc., Indianapolis; Zac Stewart, Ambient, LLC, 
Ignacio, Colorado; Paul Bony, ClimateMaster, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 
Helen Sanders, SAGE Electrochromics, Faribault, Minnesota; Marc 
Verbruggen, NatureWorks, Wayzata, Minnesota; Oliver P. Peoples, 
Metabolix, Cambridge, Massachusetts; John McIntosh, Signature Crypton 
Carpet, Dalton, Georgia; and Dennis Hall, The Ohio State University 
Bioproducts Innovation Center, Columbus.
LIGHT WATER SMALL MODULAR REACTORS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine the safety and economics of 
light water small modular reactors, after receiving testimony from 
Peter Lyons, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy; William 
D. Magwood, IV, Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Edwin 
Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Ernest J. Moniz, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both of Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; E. James Ferland, Jr., Westinghouse Electric Company 
LLC, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania; Christofer M. Mowry, Babcock and 
Wilcox Nuclear Energy, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina; and Paul 
Lorenzini, NuScale Power, Inc., Corvallis, Oregon.
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress, 
after receiving testimony from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science and Space concluded a hearing to examine the National 
Nanotechnology Investment, focusing on manufacturing, 
commercialization, and job creation, after receiving testimony from 
Charles H. Romine, Acting Associate Director for Laboratory Programs, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce; 
Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University International Institute for 
Nanotechnology, Evanston, Illinois, on behalf of the President's 
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Diandra L. Leslie-
Pelecky, West Virginia University Nano Initiative, Morgantown; Thomas 
O'Neal, University of Central Florida, Orlando; and George McLendon, 
Rice University, Houston, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  An original bill to promote domestic development and deployment of 
clean energy technologies;
  S. 201, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior 
with respect to the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir;
   S. 270, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
Federal land to Deschutes County, Oregon, with an amendment;
  S. 271, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a 
property conveyance with the city of Wallowa, Oregon, with amendments;
  S. 278, to provide for the exchange of certain land located in the 
Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado;
  S. 292, to resolve the claims of the Bering Straits Native 
Corporation and the State of Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon Lake in 
the State of Alaska and to provide for the conveyance to the Bering 
Straits Native Corporation of certain other public land in partial 
satisfaction of the land entitlement of the Corporation under the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, with an amendment;
  S. 333, to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of 
construction of a hydroelectric project involving the Little Wood River 
Ranch;
  S. 334, to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of 
construction of a hydroelectric project involving the American Falls 
Reservoir;
  S. 382, to amend the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to 
clarify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture regarding 
additional recreational uses of National Forest System land that is 
subject to ski area permits, and for other permits;
  S. 404, to modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of the 
Interior;
  S. 512, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the 
Secretary of Energy to carry out programs to develop and demonstrate 2 
small modular nuclear reactor designs, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 519, to further allocate and expand the availability of 
hydroelectric power generated at Hoover Dam, with amendments;

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  S. 535, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain 
lands within Fort Pulaski National Monument;
  S. 683, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to 
the town of Mantua, Utah, with amendments;
  S. 684, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to 
the town of Alta, Utah, with amendments;
  S. 714, to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, 
with an amendment;
  S. 734, to provide for a program of research, development, 
demonstration, and commercial application in vehicle technologies at 
the Department of Education, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 808, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for 
prepayment of repayment contracts between the United States and the 
Uintah Water Conservancy District;
  S. 897, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the 
authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation 
projects and acid mine remediation programs;
  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. 1000, to promote energy savings in residential and commercial 
buildings and industry, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1001, to reduce oil consumption and improve energy security, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1067, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the 
Secretary of Energy to carry out a research and development and 
demonstration program to reduce manufacturing and construction costs 
relating to nuclear reactors, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
SUDAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Sudan, focusing on a roadmap forward, after receiving testimony 
from Princeton Lyman, Special Envoy to Sudan, Department of State.
EMPLOYMENT FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine learning from what works for employment 
for persons with disabilities, after receiving testimony from Kathleen 
Martinez, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment 
Policy; former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, National Organization 
on Disability, Washington, D.C.; Deborah Dagit, Merck, Whitehouse 
Station, New Jersey; and Amelia Wallrich, Frankfort, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Cynthia Chavez Lamar, of New Mexico, Barbara Jeanne 
Ells, of Colorado, and Deborah Downing Goodman, of Oklahoma, all to be 
a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian 
and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development.
NATIVE WOMEN
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine native women, after receiving testimony from Thomas J. 
Perrelli, Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice; Rose 
Weahkee, Director, Division of Behavioral Health, Indian Health 
Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Donald W. Rodgers, 
Cawtawba Indian Nation, Rock Hill, South Carolina, on behalf of the 
United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.; Carmen O'Leary, Native Women's 
Society of the Great Plains, Timber Lake, South Dakota; Sherry Sanchez 
Tibbetts, American Indian Community Housing Organization, Duluth, 
Minnesota; Mickey Peercy, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant; and Sarah 
Deer, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, on behalf 
of the Amnesty International USA's Native American and Alaska Native 
Advisory Council.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Stephen A. Higginson, of Louisiana, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Jane Margaret Triche-Milazzo, to 
be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 
Alison J. Nathan, and Katherine B. Forrest, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Susan Owens 
Hickey, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of 
Arkansas, and David V. Brewer, of Oregon, to be a Member of the Board 
of Directors of the State Justice Institute.
VETERANS' AFFAIRS MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Veterans' Affairs mental health care, focusing on closing the 
gaps, after receiving testimony from William Schoenhard, Deputy Under 
Secretary for Health Operations and Management, George Arana, Assistant 
Deputy Under Secretary for Clinical Operations, Antonette Zeiss, Acting 
Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Mental

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Health, and Mary Schohn, Acting Director, Mental Health Operations, all 
of the Veterans Health Administration, and John D. Daigh, Jr., 
Assistant Inspector General for Health Care Inspections, and Michael 
Shepherd, Senior Physician, both of the Office of Inspector General, 
all of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Dave Underriner, Providence 
Health and Services, Oregon Region, Portland; Daniel Williams, National 
Alliance on Mental Illness, Homewood, Alabama; and Andrea Sawyer, 
Wounded Warrior Project, Colonial Heights, Virginia.
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.