[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 121 (Friday, August 5, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D897-D898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HOUSING FINANCE SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, August 
3, 2011, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded 
a hearing to examine the housing finance system, focusing on the to-be-
announced market, after receiving testimony from Thomas Hamilton, 
Barclays Capital, on behalf of the Securities Industry and Financial 
Markets Association, Paul T. Van Valkenburg, Mortgage Industry Advisory 
Corporation, and Andrew Davidson, Andrew Davidson and Co., Inc., all of 
New York, New York.
DEBT FINANCING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, August 
3, 2011, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection 
concluded a hearing to examine debt financing in the domestic financial 
sector, after receiving testimony from Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia 
University Business School, New York, New York; Edward J. Kane, Boston 
College, Tucson, Arizona; Eugene A. Ludwig, Promontory Financial Group, 
Washington, D.C.; and Paul Pfleiderer, Stanford University Graduate 
School of Business, Palo Alto, California.
PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Wednesday, August 3, 
2011, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests concluded a hearing to 
examine S. 1024, to designate the Organ Mountains and other public land 
as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System and the 
National Landscape Conservation System in the State of New Mexico, S. 
1090, to designate as wilderness certain public land in the Cherokee 
National Forest in the State of Tennessee, S. 1144, to amend the Soda 
Ash Royalty Reduction Act of 2006 to extend the reduced royalty rate 
for soda ash, S. 1149, to expand geothermal production, and S. 1344, to 
direct the Secretary of Agriculture to take immediate action to recover 
ecologically and economically from a catastrophic wildfire in the State 
of Arizona, after receiving testimony from Senator Kyl; Robert Abbey, 
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Tom 
Tidwell, Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Edward T. 
Flynn, FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Scott H. 
Nichols, U.S. Geothermal Inc., Boise, Idaho.


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  On page D897, August 5, 2011 the following language appears: 
PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS BILLS Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources: . . . S. 144 . . . Boise, Idaho.
  
  The online Record has been corrected to read: PUBLIC LANDS AND 
FORESTS BILLS Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: . . . S. 
1144 . . . Boise, Idaho.


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DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 
Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded a hearing to examine 
responding to drought and famine in the horn of Africa, after receiving 
testimony from Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau of 
Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency 
for International Development; Donald Yamamoto, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, and Reuben Brigety, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and 
Migration, both of the Department of State; Jeremy Konyndyk, Mercy 
Corps, and J. Peter Pham, Atlantic Council Michael S. Ansari Africa 
Center, both of Washington, D.C.; and Wouter Schaap, CARE International 
Somalia, Nairobi, Kenya.
FEDERAL LEASED PROPERTY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: On Thursday, 
August 4, 2011, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, 
Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security 
concluded a hearing to examine Federal leased property, focusing on if 
Federal agencies are getting

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a bad deal, and the overreliance on leasing contributed to high-risk 
designation, after receiving testimony from David Foley, Deputy 
Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, General Services 
Administration; James Sullivan, Director, Office of Asset Enterprise 
Management, Department of Veterans Affairs; H. David Kotz, Inspector 
General, and Jeff Heslop, Chief Operating Officer, both of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission; and David J. Wise, Director, 
Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability Office.
THE AMERICAN INDIAN PROBATE REFORM ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: On Thursday, August 4, 2011, Committee 
concluded an oversight hearing to examine ``The American Indian Probate 
Reform Act'', focusing on empowering Indian land owners, after 
receiving testimony from John Berrey, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, duapaw; 
David Gipp, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; 
Douglas Nash, Seattle University School of Law Institute for Indian 
Estate Planning and Probate, Seattle, Washington; Majel Russell, Elk 
River Law Office, P.L.L.P., Billings, Montana, on behalf of the 
Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT); and Sharon Redthunder, Indian Land 
Working Group, Elmer City, Washington.
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
employment situation for July 2011, after receiving testimony from 
Keith Hall, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of 
Labor.