[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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