[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 147 (Tuesday, October 4, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1041-D1042]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CONSUMER PROTECTION AND MIDDLE CLASS WEALTH BUILDING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection concluded a hearing to 
examine consumer protection and middle class wealth building in an age 
of growing household debt, after receiving testimony from Ray Boshara, 
Senior Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Atif Mian, 
University of California, Berkeley; Katherine Porter, University of 
California Irvine School of Law; Robert M. Lawless, University of 
Illinois College of Law, Urbana; G. Michael Flores, Bretton Woods, 
Inc., Saint Simons Island, Georgia; Doug Fecher, Wright-Patt Credit 
Union, Fairborn, Ohio; and Ida Rademacher, Corporation for Enterprise 
Development, and Susan K. Weinstock, Pew Charitable Trusts, both of 
Washington, D.C.
IMPROVING THE BUDGET PROCESS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
improving the budget process, focusing on strategies for more effective 
congressional budgeting, after receiving testimony from Maya 
MacGuineas, The New America Foundation Committee for a Responsible 
Federal Budget, David B. Kendall, Third Way, G. William Hoagland, 
former Staff Director, Senate Budget Committee, Martin Paone, former 
Senate Democratic Secretary, and Eric Ueland, former Chief of Staff for 
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, all of Washington, D.C.; and Donald 
F. Kettl, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, College Park.
SHALE GAS PRODUCTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board's Shale Gas 
Production Subcommittee's 90-day report, after receiving testimony from 
Stephen A. Holditch, Texas A&M University, College Station, on behalf 
of the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board Shale Gas Subcommittee; 
Daniel Yergin, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Washington, 
D.C.; Mark D. Zoback, Stanford University Department of Geophysics, 
Palo Alto, California; and Kathleen A. McGinty, Weston Solutions, Inc., 
West Chester, Pennsylvania.
NUTRIENT POLLUTION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water and 
Wildlife concluded a hearing to examine nutrient pollution, focusing on 
an overview of nutrient reduction approaches, after receiving testimony 
from Nancy K. Stoner, Acting Assistant Administrator for Water, 
Environmental Protection Agency; William H. Werkheiser, Associate 
Director for Water, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; 
Dave White, Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department 
of Agriculture; Shellie Chard-McClary, Oklahoma Department of 
Environmental Quality Water Quality Division Director, Oklahoma City; 
Richard J. Budell, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer 
Services Office of Agricultural Water Policy Director, Tallahassee; 
George S. Hawkins, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority 
General Manager; Nick Maravell, Nick's Organic Farm, Potomac, Maryland; 
and Andy Buchsbaum, National Wildlife Federation, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
MEDICARE PART D
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
costs of prescription drug abuse in the Medicare Part D program, 
including instances of questionable access to prescription drugs, after 
receiving testimony from Gregory D. Kutz, Director, Forensic Audits and 
Special Investigations, Government Accountability Office; Jonathan 
Blum, Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicare, Centers 
for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human 
Services; and Louis Saccoccio, National Health Care Anti-Fraud 
Association, Arlington, Virginia.
AGRICULTURAL LABOR
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and 
Border Security concluded a hearing to examine America's agricultural 
labor crisis, focusing on enacting a practical solution, after 
receiving testimony from Gary W. Black, Georgia Department of 
Agriculture Commissioner, Atlanta; Tom Nassif, Western Growers, 
Salinas, California; Robert A. Smith, Farm Credit East, Cobleskill, New 
York; Ronald D. Knutson, Texas A&M University, College Station; Arturo 
S. Rodriguez, United Farm Workers of America, Keene, California; Connie 
Horner, Horner Farms, Inc., Homerville, Georgia; and Eric A. Ruark, 
Federation for American Immigration Reform, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Stephanie Dawn Thacker, of West Virginia, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, who was introduced 
by Senators Rockefeller and Manchin,

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Michael Walter Fitzgerald, to be United States District Judge for the 
Central District of California, who was introduced by Senator Boxer, 
Ronnie Abrams, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of New York, who was introduced by Senators Gillibrand and 
Coons, Rudolph Contreras, of Virginia, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Columbia, who was introduced by 
Representative Norton, and Miranda Du, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Nevada, who was introduced by Senators Reid 
and Heller, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Irvin Charles McCullough III, of Maryland, to be 
Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Office of the Director 
of National Intelligence.