[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 141 (Wednesday, September 21, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D999-D1000]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012;
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of State, 
Foreign Operations, and Related Programs for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2012; and
  An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2012.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Ashton B. Carter, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Defense, and 2,210 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air 
Force, and Marine Corps.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine a recently released report by the 
National Park Service, A Call to Action: Preparing for a Second Century 
of Stewardship and Engagement, after receiving testimony from Jonathan 
B. Jarvis, Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; 
Neil J. Mulholland, National Park Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and 
Jason Morris, NatureBridge, San Francisco, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 97, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish 
a grant program to support the restoration of San Francisco Bay, with 
an amendment;
  S. 893, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide 
financial assistance to the State of Louisiana for a pilot program to 
develop measures to

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eradicate or control feral swine and to assess and restore wetlands 
damaged by feral swine;
  S. 1400, to restore the natural resources, ecosystems, fisheries, 
marine and wildlife habitats, beaches, and coastal wetlands of Gulf 
Coast States, to create jobs and revive the economic health of 
communities adversely affected by the explosion on, and sinking of, the 
mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  A proposed resolution regarding the Federal Communications 
Commission, a proposed resolution regarding the Food and Drug 
Administration, and a proposed resolution regarding the National 
Institutes of Health; and
  The nomination of Kenneth J. Kopocis, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
DUALLY-ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine dually-
eligible beneficiaries, focusing on improving care while lowering 
costs, after receiving testimony from Melanie Bella, Director, 
Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office, Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Robert A. Mandell, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to Luxembourg, who was introduced by Senator Nelson (FL), 
Thomas Charles Krajeski, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom 
of Bahrain, Dan W. Mozena, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the People's 
Republic of Bangladesh, and Michael A. Hammer, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, all of the 
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported S. 1546, to authorize certain programs of 
the Department of Homeland Security, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute.
TRANSFORMING WARTIME CONTRACTING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine transforming wartime contracting, 
focusing on recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Contracting, 
after receiving testimony from Senators McCaskill and Webb; former 
Representative Christopher Shays, Co-Chair, and Clark Kent Ervin, 
Robert J. Henke, Katherine Schinasi, Charles Tiefer, and Dov S. 
Zakheim, each a Commissioner, all of the Commission on Wartime 
Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan; Patrick F. Kennedy, Under 
Secretary of State for Management; and Richard T. Ginman, Director, 
Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, Department of Defense.
COUNTERING TERRORIST FINANCING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism 
concluded a hearing to examine countering terrorist financing, focusing 
on progress and priorities, after receiving testimony from Lisa O. 
Monaco, Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, and 
Ralph S. Boelter, Acting Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; and 
Daniel L. Glaser, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist 
Financing.
GOOGLE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine Google, 
focusing on consumers and competition, after receiving testimony from 
Eric Schmidt, Google Inc., Mountain View, California; Jeffrey Katz, 
Nextag, Inc., San Mateo, California; Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp! Inc., San 
Francisco, California; and Thomas O. Barnett, Covington and Burling 
LLP, and Susan A. Creighton, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, P.C., 
both of Washington, D.C.
THE AMERICAN LEGION LEGISLATIVE PRESENTATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a joint hearing 
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the 
legislative presentation of The American Legion, after receiving 
testimony from Fang A. Wong, Daniel M. Dellinger, Tim Tetz, Michael D. 
Helm, and Verna Jones, all of the American Legion, Washington, D.C.