[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 152 (Wednesday, October 12, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1083-D1084]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
     (Committees not listed did not meet)
                    FEDERAL ROLE IN DISASTER RECOVERY AND RESPONSE
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Homeland 
 Security concluded a hearing to examine the Federal role in disaster 
  recovery and response, after receiving testimony from Craig Fugate, 
   Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of 
  Homeland Security; Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant of the Army for Civil 
 Works, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense; Bruce Nelson, 
Administrator, Farm Service Agency, and Homer Wilkes, Acting Associate 
 Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service, both of the Department 
 of Agriculture; James Rivera, Associate Administrator, Small Business 
   Administration; Gregory G. Nadeau, Deputy Administrator, Federal 
Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; and Fred Tombar, 
    Senior Advisor for Disaster Programs, Office of the Secretary, 
              Department of Housing and Urban Development.
                                      CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS
   Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
 improving the congressional budget process, after receiving testimony 
 from Louis Fisher, Constitution Project, Washington, D.C.; Philip G. 
 Joyce, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, College Park; 
   and Paul L. Posner, George Mason University Centers on the Public 
                      Service, Fairfax, Virginia.
                                          UNIVERSAL SERVICE REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
  a hearing to examine universal service reform, focusing on bringing 
broadband to all Americans, after receiving testimony from Kathleen Q. 
  Abernathy, Frontier Communications, and Michael K. Powell, National 
  Cable and Telecommunications Association, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Mary N. Dillon, United States Cellular Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; 
      Shirley Bloomfield, National Telecommunications Cooperative 
   Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Philip B. Jones, Washington 
           Utilities and Transportation Commission, Olympia.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
 Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
   the nominations of Joyce A. Barr, of Washington, to be Assistant 
  Secretary for Administration, Robert A. Mandell, of Florida, to be 
 Ambassador to Luxembourg, 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, Michael A. Hammer, 
   of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Public 
   Affairs, Susan Denise Page, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the 
    Republic of South Sudan, Adrienne S. O'Neal, of Michigan, to be 
    Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde, Mary Beth Leonard, of 
   Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, and Mark 
Francis Brzezinski, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Sweden, all of the 
Department of State, Anne Terman Wedner, of Illinois, to be a Member of 
the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Katherine M. 
 Gehl, of Wisconsin, and Terry Lewis, of Michigan, both to be a Member 
     of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation, Russ Carnahan, of Missouri, to be a Representative of the 
  United States of America to the Sixty-sixth Session of the General 
Assembly of the United Nations, and Ann Marie Buerkle, of New York, to 
be a Representative of the United States of America to the Sixty-sixth 
  Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and routine 
                     lists in the Foreign Service.
                                                        NOMINATION
   Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Michael Anthony McFaul, of California, to be 
 Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Department of State, after the 
      nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

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                                              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 a 
 status report on information sharing, after receiving testimony from 
  Cathy L. Lanier, Metropolitan Police Department of the District of 
  Columbia Chief of Police, John McLaughlin, Johns Hopkins University 
   Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Thomas E. 
 McNamara, George Washington University Elliot School of International 
 Affairs, and Jeffrey H. Smith, Markle Task Force on National Security 
in the Information Age, all of Washington, D.C.; and Ronald E. Brooks, 
  Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, San Francisco, on 
           behalf of the National Fusion Center Association.
                                        CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION
    Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the state of chronic disease prevention, 
 after receiving testimony from Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary of 
   Health and Human Services for Health; Nancy Brown, American Heart 
 Association, Dallas, Texas; John R. Seffrin, American Cancer Society, 
    Atlanta, Georgia; John Griffin, American Diabetes Association, 
   Victoria, Texas; and Tevi Troy, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
   favorably reported the nomination of Winslow Lorenzo Sargeant, of 
      Wisconsin, to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business 
                            Administration.
                                            MEDICARE REFORM DEBATE
 Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
   finding consensus in the Medicare reform debate, after receiving 
   testimony from Maya MacGuineas, New America Foundation, Joseph R. 
 Antos, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, John 
  Holahan, Urban Institute, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action 
Forum, all of Washington, D.C.

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