[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 158 (Thursday, October 20, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1128-D1129]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine housing finance reform, focusing on continuation of 
the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, after receiving testimony from Janis 
Bowdler, National Council of La Raza, and Anthony B. Sanders, George 
Mason University, both of Washington, D.C.; John Fenton, Affinity 
Federal Credit Union, Tewksbury Township, New Jersey, on behalf of the 
National Association of Federal Credit Unions; Paul S. Willen, Federal 
Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; and Susan E. Woodward, 
Sand Hill Econometrics, Palo Alto, California.
THE GROUP OF TWENTY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Security and International Trade and Finance concluded a hearing to 
examine the Group of Twenty (G20) and global economic and financial 
risks, after receiving testimony from Lael Brainard, Under Secretary of 
the Treasury for International Affairs; and Uri Dadush, Carnegie 
Endowment for International Peace, John Makin, American Enterprise 
Institute for Public Policy Research, and C. Fred Bergsten, Peterson 
Institute for International Economics, all of Washington, D.C.
OVERSIGHT: SHALE GAS PRODUCTION AND WATER RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded an oversight hearing to examine shale gas production 
and water resources in the Eastern United States, after receiving 
testimony from Cynthia C. Dougherty, Director, Office of Ground Water 
and Drinking Water, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; 
David P. Russ, Regional Executive for the Northeast, United States 
Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; Lori Wrotenbery, 
Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Oklahoma City; Thomas W. Beauduy, 
Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Cal 
Cooper, Apache Corporation, Houston, Texas; and Katy Dunlap, Trout 
Unlimited, Arlington, Virginia.
U.S. MILITARY DEPLOYMENT IN CENTRAL AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
United States military deployment to Central Africa from Donald 
Yamamoto, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; and Alexander 
Vershbow, Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, and 
Vicki Huddleston, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa, both of the 
Department of Defense.
ACCOUNTABILITY AT FEMA
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs 
concluded a hearing to examine accountability at the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency (FEMA), after receiving testimony from Richard 
Serino, Deputy Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and 
Matt Jadacki, Assistant Inspector General, Emergency Management 
Oversight, both of the Department of Homeland Security; Maurice 
McTigue, George Mason University Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia; 
and Craig Killough, Project Management Institute (PMI), Newtown Square, 
Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill to reauthorize the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
1262, to improve Indian education, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
TRIBAL LAND BILLS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 134, to authorize the Mescalero Apache Tribe to lease adjudicated 
water rights, S. 399, to modify the purposes and operation of certain 
facilities of the Bureau of Reclamation to implement the water rights 
compact among the State of Montana, the Blackfeet Tribe of the 
Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, and the United States, S. 
1327, to amend the Act of March 1, 1933, to transfer certain authority 
and resources to the Utah Dineh Corporation, and S. 1345, to provide 
for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the 
Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the production of 
hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Bingaman; Donald Laverdure, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Indian Affairs, and Pam Williams, Solicitor's Office, 
Indian Affairs Division, both of the Department of the Interior; Chris 
D. Tweeten, Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission Chairman, 
Helena; Mark R. Chino, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Mescalero, New Mexico; 
Terry J. Show, Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, Browning, Montana; 
Rex Lee Jim, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Kenneth Maryboy, San 
Juan County Commissioner, Monticello, Utah; and Gregory J.

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Abrahamson, Spokane Tribe of Indians, Wellpinit, Washington.
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.