[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 157 (Wednesday, October 19, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1118-D1120]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMISSION ON WARTIME CONTRACTING IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the final report of the 
Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, after 
receiving testimony from Frank Kendall, Principal Deputy Under 
Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and Lieutenant 
General Brooks L. Bash, USAF, Director for Logistics, J4, Joint Staff, 
both of the Department of Defense; and Dov S. Zakheim, and Katherine V. 
Schinasi, both former Commissioners, Commission on Wartime Contracting 
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
MARKET MICROSTRUCTURE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine 
market microstructure, focusing on an examination of Exchange-Traded 
Funds (ETFs), after receiving testimony from Eileen Rominger, Director, 
Division of Investment Management, U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission; Eric Noll, NASDAQ OMX, New York, New York; Noel Archard, 
BlackRock, Inc., Jersey City, New Jersey; and Harold Bradley, Kauffman 
Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri.
CONCUSSIONS AND THE MARKETING OF SPORTS EQUIPMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine concussions and the marketing of sports equipment, 
after receiving testimony from Jeffrey S. Kutcher, University of 
Michigan Department of Neurology, Ann Arbor; Ann C. McKee, Boston 
University School of Medicine, Bedford, Massachusetts; Mike Oliver, 
National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment, 
Overland Park, Kansas; Alexis Ball, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Steven 
Threet, Tempe, Arizona.
NATIONAL PARKS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 544, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to conduct a study of alternatives for commemorating 
and interpreting the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in the early years of 
the National Parks, S. 1083, to amend the National Trails System Act to 
designate the route of the Smoky Hill Trail, an overland trail across 
the Great Plains during pioneer days in Kansas and Colorado, for study 
for potential addition to the National Trails System, S. 1084, to amend 
the National Trails System Act to designate the routes of the Shawnee 
Cattle Trail, the oldest of the major Texas Cattle Trails, for study 
for potential addition to the National Trails System, S. 1303, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish Fort Monroe 
National Historical Park in the Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 1325, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
feasibility of designating sites in the Lower Mississippi River Area in 
the State of Louisiana as a unit of the National Park System, S. 1347, 
to establish Coltsville National Historical Park in the State of 
Connecticut, S. 1421, to authorize the Peace Corps Commemorative 
Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of 
Columbia and its environs, S. 1478, to modify the boundary of the 
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in the State of South Dakota, 
and S. 1537, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept from 
the Board of Directors of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum 
at the World Trade Center Foundation,

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Inc., the donation of title to The National September 11 Memorial and 
Museum at the World Trade Center, after receiving testimony from 
William D. Shaddox, Acting Associate Director for Park Planning, 
Facilities, and Lands, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior; and Terrie Suit, Virginia Secretary of Veterans Affairs and 
Homeland Security, Richmond.
OVERSIGHT: BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a joint 
oversight hearing with the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and 
Environmental Health to examine the Brownfields Program, focusing on 
cleaning up and rebuilding communities, after receiving testimony from 
David R. Lloyd, Office Director, Office of Brownfields and Land 
Revitalization, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Mayor Mick Cornett, Oklahoma City, 
Oklahoma; Elizabeth Spinelli, Hudson County Brownfields Program, Jersey 
City, New Jersey; Aaron Scheff, Idaho Brownfields Program, Boise; E. 
Evans Paull, National Brownfields Coalition, Baltimore, Maryland; and 
Marjorie Weidenfeld Buckholtz, Environmental Consulting Solutions, 
Potomac, Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1268, to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the 
Government by providing for greater interagency experience among 
national security and homeland security personnel through the 
development of a national security and homeland security human capital 
strategy and interagency rotational service by employees, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1409, to intensify efforts to identify, prevent, and recover 
payment error, waste, fraud, and abuse within Federal spending, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 743, to amend chapter 23 of title 5, United States Code, to 
clarify the disclosures of information protected from prohibited 
personnel practices, require a statement in nondisclosure policies, 
forms, and agreements that such policies, forms, and agreements conform 
with certain disclosure protections, provide certain authority for the 
Special Counsel, with an amendment;
  S. 237, to amend title 31, United States Code, to enhance the 
oversight authorities of the Comptroller General, with an amendment;
  S. 1379, to amend title 11, District of Columbia Official Code, to 
revise certain administrative authorities of the District of Columbia 
courts, and to authorize the District of Columbia Public Defender 
Service to provide professional liability insurance for officers and 
employees of the Service for claims relating to services furnished 
within the scope of employment with the Service, with an amendment;
  S. 1487, to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
coordination with the Secretary of State, to establish a program to 
issue Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Cards, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 1059, to protect the safety of judges by extending the authority 
of the Judicial Conference to redact sensitive information contained in 
their financial disclosure reports, with an amendment;
  S. 384, to amend title 39, United States Code, to extend the 
authority of the United States Postal Service to issue a semipostal to 
raise funds for breast cancer research;
  H.R. 2062, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 45 Meetinghouse Lane in Sagamore Beach, 
Massachusetts, as the ``Matthew A. Pucino Post Office'';
  H.R. 2149, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 4354 Pahoa Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii, as the 
``Cecil L. Heftel Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1975, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 281 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, 
as the ``First Lieutenant Oliver Goodall Post Office Building'';
  S. 1412, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 462 Washington Street, Woburn Massachusetts, as the 
``Officer John Maguire Post Office'';
  H.R. 1843, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 489 Army Drive in Barrigada, Guam, as the ``John 
Pangelinan Gerber Post Office Building''; and
  The nominations of Ronald David McCray, of Texas, to be a Member of 
the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, Corinne Ann Beckwith, 
and Catharine Friend Easterly, both to be an Associate Judge of the 
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Ernest Mitchell, Jr., of 
California, to be Administrator of the United States Fire 
Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of 
Homeland Security.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Claude M. Steele, of New York, 
and Anneila I. Sargent, of California, both to be a Member of the

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National Science Board, National Science Foundation, and Laura A. 
Cordero, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, October 20, 2011.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony 
from Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Michael E. Horowitz, of Maryland, to be Inspector 
General, Department of Justice, and Susie Morgan, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, who was 
introduced by Senator Landrieu, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
UNITED STATES-ANDEAN SECURITY COOPERATION
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine United States-Andean security 
cooperation, focusing on opportunities for increased United States 
counternarcotics cooperation with Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and 
Venezuela, including S. 1612, to provide the Department of Justice with 
additional tools to target extraterritorial drug trafficking activity, 
after receiving testimony from William R. Brownfield, Assistant 
Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, and 
Kevin Whitaker, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere 
Affairs, both of the Department of State; Rodney G. Benson, Assistant 
Administrator, Chief of Intelligence, Drug Enforcement Administration, 
Department of Justice; and William F. Wechsler, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats.