[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 170 (Tuesday, November 8, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1199-D1200]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COUNTERFEIT ELECTRONIC PARTS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Committee's investigation into counterfeit electronic parts in the 
Department of Defense supply chain, after receiving testimony from 
Richard J. Hillman, Managing Director, Forensic Audits and 
Investigative Service, and Timothy Persons, Chief Scientist, Center for 
Science, Technology, and Engineering, both of the Government 
Accountability Office; Lieutenant General Patrick J. O'Reilly, USA, 
Director, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Defense; Thomas Sharpe, 
SMT Corporation; Brian Toohey, Semiconductor Industry Association; 
Vivek Kamath, Raytheon Company; Ralph L. DeNino, L-3 Communications; 
and Charles Dabundo, Boeing Company.
NATURAL GAS MARKET DEVELOPMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine market developments for United States natural gas, 
including the approval process and potential for liquefied natural

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gas exports, after receiving testimony from Christopher Smith, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Oil and Natural Gas, Office of Fossil Energy, 
and Jeff C. Wright, Director, Office of Energy Projects, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, both of the Department of Energy; Kenneth B. 
Medlock III, Rice University James A. Baker III Institute for Public 
Policy, and Andrew Slaughter, Shell Exploration and Production Company, 
both of Houston, Texas; and Jim Collins, City of Hamilton Underground 
Utilities Director, Hamilton, Ohio, on behalf of the American Public 
Gas Association.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Roberta S. Jacobson, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Western Hemisphere Affairs, Mari Carmen Aponte, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, Adam E. 
Namm, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, and 
Elizabeth M. Cousens, of Washington, to be an Alternate Representative 
of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly 
of the United Nations, during her tenure of service as Representative 
of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of 
the United Nations, and to be Representative of the United States of 
America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with 
the rank of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Nancy Maria Ware, to 
be Director of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for 
the District of Columbia, Michael A. Hughes, to be United States 
Marshal for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Department 
of Justice, and Danya Ariel Dayson, Peter Arno Krauthamer, and John 
Francis McCabe, all to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of 
the District of Columbia, after the nominees, who were all introduced 
by Representative Norton, testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND AND THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 
REAUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine No Child Left Behind, focusing on views 
on the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act, after 
receiving testimony from Katherine Beh Neas, Easter Seals, Wade 
Henderson, Leadership Conference, Fredrick Hess, American Enterprise 
Institute, and John Schnur, New Leaders, all of Washington, D.C.; 
Amanda Danks, Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore, Maryland; Pam 
Geisselhardt, Adair County Schools, Columbia, Kentucky; Terry Grier, 
Houston Independent School District, Houston, Texas; Tom Luna, Idaho 
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Boise; Charles Seaton, Memphis 
City Schools, Memphis, Tennessee; and Elmer Thomas, Madison Central 
High School, Richmond, Kentucky.
OVERSIGHT: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from Eric 
H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General, 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.