[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 9, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1204]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATION'S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine securing our nation's transportation system, 
focusing on oversight of Transportation Security Administration's 
current efforts, after receiving testimony from John Pistole, 
Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, Department of 
Homeland Security.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported S. 1813, to reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety 
construction programs, with amendments.
UNITED STATES POLICY IN SYRIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
and Central Asian Affairs concluded a hearing to examine United States 
policy in Syria, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey D. Feltman, 
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; and Luke A. 
Bronin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist 
Financing and Financial Crimes.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1789, to improve, sustain, and transform the United States Postal 
Service, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 296, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Combined 
Federal Campaign; and
  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.
HEALTH AND PRIVACY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the 
Law concluded a hearing to examine health and privacy, focusing on 
protecting health information in a digital world, after receiving 
testimony from Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney, Eastern 
District of New York, Department of Justice; Leon Rodriguez, Director, 
Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services; Deven 
McGraw, Center for Democracy and Technology, Washington, D.C.; and Kari 
L.S. Myrold, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.