[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 135 (Tuesday, September 13, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D957-D958]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
     (Committees not listed did not meet)
                                           APPROPRIATIONS: DEFENSE
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
   approved for full committee consideration an original bill making 
            appropriations for Defense for fiscal year 2012.
                                                        NOMINATION
 Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
  the nomination of Ashton B. Carter, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Defense, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator 
     Lieberman, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
                                            HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine housing finance reform, focusing on if there should 
 be a government guarantee, after receiving testimony from Richard K. 
    Green, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Peter J. 
     Wallison, American Enterprise Institute, and Adam J. Levitin, 
Georgetown University Law Center, both of Washington, D.C.; and Dwight 
 M. Jaffee, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business.
                                                        TAX REFORM
    Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and 
Economic Growth concluded a hearing to examine whether there is a role 
  for tax reform in comprehensive deficit reduction and United States 
fiscal policy, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Greenspan 
   Associates LLC, and John M. Engler, Business Roundtable, both of 
   Washington, D.C.; John B. Taylor, Stanford University, Stanford, 
     California; Martin Feldstein, Harvard University, Cambridge, 
    Massachusetts; and Edward D. Kleinbard, University of Southern 
              California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
 Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
    the nominations of Wendy Ruth Sherman, of Maryland, to be Under 
 Secretary for Political Affairs, John A. Heffern, of Missouri, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, Francis Joseph Ricciardone, Jr., 
 of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, Robert 
Stephen Ford, of Vermont, to be Ambassador to the Syrian Arab Republic, 
 and Norman L. Eisen, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to 
          the Czech Republic, all of the Department of State.
                             AMERICA'S SAFETY TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine ten years after 9/11, focusing on if we 
 are safer, after receiving testimony from Janet Napolitano, Secretary 
 of Homeland Security; Robert S. Mueller III, Director, Federal Bureau 
    of Investigation, Department of Justice; and Matthew G. Olsen, 
 Director, National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of 
                         National Intelligence.
             THREATS AGAINST AMERICA'S AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEM
 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
 on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
   District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine agro-defense, 
  focusing on responding to threats against America's agriculture and 
 food system, including challenges for the food and agriculture sector 
  in responding to potential terrorist attacks and natural disasters, 
after receiving testimony from Lisa Shames, Director, Natural Resources 
and Environment, Government Accountability Office; Doug Meckes, Branch 
  Chief, Food, Agriculture, and Veterinary Defense Branch, Office of 
Health Affairs, Department of Homeland Security; Ted Elkin, Center for 
   Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, 
    Department of Health and Human Services; Sheryl Maddux, Deputy 
 Director, Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Coordination, and 
 John R. Clifford, Deputy Administrator and Chief Veterinary Officer, 
 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, both of the Department of 
    Agriculture; Colonel John T. Hoffman, USA (Ret.), University of 
 Minnesota National Center for Food Protection and Defense, St. Paul; 
  and Paul Williams, Georgia Emergency Management Agency Division of 
 Homeland Security Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Programs Director, 
                                Atlanta.
                                                           POVERTY
 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine poverty, after 
   receiving testimony from Garrett Adams, Beersheba Springs Medical 
  Center, Beersheba Springs, Tennessee; Sarah Kemble, Desmond Callan 
  Community Health Center, Northfield, Massachusetts; Paula Braveman, 
University of California San Francisco Center on Social Disparities in 
   Health; Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.; Tim 
Hulsey, Bowling Green, Kentucky; and Phyllis Zolotorow, Ellicott City, 
                               Maryland.

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                                   CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
   examine the Civil Rights Division, after receiving testimony from 
  Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, 
                         Department of Justice.
                                   ANNIVERSARY OF THE 9/11 ATTACKS
 Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a joint hearing 
 with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to examine 
  the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, after receiving testimony from 
  James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, Office of the 
  Director of National Intelligence; and David P. Petraeus, Director, 
Central Intelligence Agency.

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