[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 149 (Thursday, October 6, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1057-D1058]
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 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Richard Cordray, of Ohio, to be 
Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, Alan B. Krueger, of 
New Jersey, to be a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 
Executive Office of the President, David A. Montoya, of Texas, to be 
Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban

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Development, Cyrus Amir-Mokri, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary 
of the Treasury, and Patricia M. Loui, of Hawaii, and Larry W. Walther, 
of Arkansas, both to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Export-Import Bank of the United States.
FINANCIAL STABILITY OVERSIGHT COUNCIL REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council annual 
report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Timothy F. Geithner, 
Secretary of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of John Edgar Bryson, of California, 
to be Secretary of Commerce, and promotion lists in the U.S. Coast 
Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
Commissioned Corps.
LEGACY URANIUM MINING AND MILLING OPERATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Children's 
Health and Environmental Responsibility concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Federal actions to clean up contamination from legacy 
uranium mining and milling operations, after receiving testimony from 
James Woolford, Director, Office of Superfund Remediation and 
Technology Innovation, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 
Environmental Protection Agency; David Geiser, Director, Office of 
Legacy Management, Department of Energy; and Michael Weber, Deputy 
Executive Director for Materials, Waste, Research, State, Tribal and 
Compliance Programs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
TAX REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine tax 
reform options, focusing on incentives for homeownership, after 
receiving testimony from former Senator John Breaux; Karl Case, Harvard 
University Joint Center for Housing Studies, Wellesley, Massachusetts; 
Robert Dietz, National Association of Home Builders, Washington, D.C.; 
Richard K. Green, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and 
Gregory M. Nelson, PulteGroup, Inc., Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
PEACE CORPS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps and Global Narcotics Affairs concluded a hearing to examine 
the Peace Corps, focusing on the next fifty years, after receiving 
testimony from former Senators Christopher Dodd and Harris Wofford; 
Aaron S. Williams, Director, and Kathy A. Buller, Peace Corps Inspector 
General, both of the Peace Corps; and Kevin F. F. Quigley, National 
Peace Corps Association, and Liz Odongo, DC Coalition Against Domestic 
Violence, both of Washington, D.C.
INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
internet infrastructure in native communities, focusing on equal access 
to e-commerce, jobs and the global marketplace, after receiving 
testimony from Geoffrey C. Blackwell, Chief, Office of Native Affairs 
and Policy, Federal Communications Commission; Howard Hays, Acting 
Chief Information Officer, Indian Health Service, Department of Health 
and Human Services; Lance Morgan, Ho-Chunk, Inc., Winnebago, Nebraska; 
Margo Gray Proctor, National Center for American Indian Enterprise 
Development, Mesa, Arizona; Michael Pollock, Spectrum Gaming Group LLC, 
Linwood, New Jersey; Robert Odawi Porter, Seneca Nation of Indians, 
Irving, New York; Carl Marrs, Old Harbor Native Corporation and the 
Kodiak-Kenai Cable Company, Anchorage, Alaska; and Robin Puanani 
Danner, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, Honolulu, Hawaii.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Evan Jonathan Wallach, of New York, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, Dana L. Christensen, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Montana, Cathy Ann 
Bencivengo, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of California, Gina Marie Groh, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, and Margo Kitsy 
Brodie, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
New York, all of the Department of Justice.
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.