[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 167 (Thursday, November 3, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1180]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CONSUMER FINANCIAL MARKETPLACE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine empowering and protecting servicemembers, their 
families and veterans in the consumer financial marketplace, after 
receiving testimony from Hollister K. Petraeus, Assistant Director, 
Office of Servicemember Affairs, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; 
Bonnie Spain, Rushmore Consumer Credit Resource Center, Rapid City, 
South Dakota; Admiral Steve Abbot, USN (Ret.), Navy-Marine Corps Relief 
Society, and Frank Pollack, Pentagon Federal Credit Union, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Kevin Bergner, United Services Automobile 
Association, San Antonio, Texas.
SPECULATION AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE DODD-FRANK ACT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine 
speculation and compliance with the ``Dodd-Frank Act'', after receiving 
testimony from Gary Gensler, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission; and Paul N. Cicio, Industrial Energy Consumers of America 
(IECA), Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen, and Wallace C. Turbeville, Better 
Markets, Inc., all of Washington, DC.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 75, to restore the rule that agreements between manufacturers and 
retailers, distributors, or wholesalers to set the minimum price below 
which the manufacturer's product or service cannot be sold violates the 
Sherman Act; and
  The nominations of Stephanie Dawn Thacker, of West Virginia, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Michael Walter 
Fitzgerald, to be United States District Judge for the Central District 
of California, Ronnie Abrams, to be United States District Judge for 
the Southern District of New York, Rudolph Contreras, of Virginia, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, and 
Miranda Du, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Nevada.