[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 172 (Thursday, November 10, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1210-D1212]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
     (Committees not listed did not meet)
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 4,022 
             nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
                                CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU
 Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
  whether the Chief, National Guard Bureau should be a member of the 
   Joint Chiefs of Staff, after receiving testimony from Jeh Charles 
Johnson, General Counsel, General Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Chairman, and 
Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., USN, Vice Chairman, both of the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff, General Raymond T. Odierno, USA, Chief of Staff of the 
  Army, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, General 
James F. Amos, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Norton A. 
 Schwartz, USAF, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and General Craig R. 
McKinley, USAF, Chief, National Guard Bureau, all of the Department of 
                                Defense.
                            ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN COUNTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
     hearing to examine opportunities and challenges for economic 
 development in Indian country, after receiving testimony from Mark A. 
Tilsen, Native American Natural Foods, LLC, Kyle, South Dakota; Martin 
  M. Olsson, Eagle Bank, and Dante Desiderio, Native American Finance 
  Officers Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Tanya Fiddler, Four 
Bands Community Fund, Eagle Butte, South Dakota; and Susan M. Woodrow, 
    Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Helena Branch, Minneapolis, 
                               Minnesota.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
                 reported the following business items:
  S. 114, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a 
cooperative agreement for a park headquarters at San Antonio Missions 
National Historical Park, to expand the boundary of the Park, to 
conduct a study of potential land acquisitions, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 140, to designate as wilderness certain land and inland water 
within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of 
Michigan;
  S. 247, to establish the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in 
Auburn, New York, and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National 
Historical Park in Caroline, Dorchester, and Talbot Counties, Maryland, 
with amendments;
  S. 264, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the 
State of Mississippi 2 parcels of surplus land within the boundary of 
the Natchez Trace Parkway, with an amendment;
  S. 302, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue right-of-
way permits for a natural gas transmission pipeline in nonwilderness 
areas within the boundary of Denali National Park;
  S. 322, to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the State of 
Washington, to designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and Pratt 
River as wild and scenic rivers;
  S. 323, to establish the First State National Historical Park in the 
State of Delaware;
  S. 499, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the 
development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the 
Central Utah Project;
  S. 500, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
Federal features of the electric distribution system to the South Utah 
Valley Electric Service District, with amendments;
  S. 526, to provide for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land 
Management land in Mohave County, Arizona, to the Arizona Game and Fish 
Commission, for use as a public shooting range, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 667, to establish the Rio Grande del Norte National Conservation 
Area in the State of New Mexico;
  S. 765, to modify the boundary of the Oregon Caves National Monument;
  S. 766, to provide for the designation of the Devil's Staircase 
Wilderness Area in the State of Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson 
and Franklin Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild rivers;
  S. 779, to authorize the acquisition and protection of nationally 
significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War 
and the War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection Program;
  S. 802, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to allow the 
storage and conveyance of nonproject water at the Norman project in 
Oklahoma;
  S. 883, to authorize National Mall Liberty Fund D.C. to establish a 
memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor free 
persons and slaves who fought for independence, liberty, and justice 
for all during the American Revolution;
  S. 888, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a 
segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component 
of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
  S. 896, to amend the Public Land Corps Act of 1993 to expand the 
authorization of the Secretaries

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of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to provide service 
opportunities for young Americans; help restore the nation's natural, 
cultural, historic, archaeological, recreational and scenic resources; 
train a new generation of public land managers and enthusiasts; and 
promote the value of public service, with amendments;
  S. 970, to designate additional segments and tributaries of White 
Clay Creek, in the States of Delaware and Pennsylvania, as a component 
of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
  S. 1047, to amend the Reclamation Projects Authorization and 
Adjustment of 1992 to require the Secretary of the Interior, acting 
through the Bureau of Reclamation, to take actions to improve 
environmental conditions in the vicinity of the Leadville Mine Drainage 
Tunnel in Lake County, Colorado;
  S. 1090, to designate as wilderness certain public land in the 
Cherokee National Forest in the State of Tennessee;
  S. 1134, to authorize the St. Croix River Crossing Project with 
appropriate mitigation measures to promote river values, with an 
amendment;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1344, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to take immediate 
action to recover ecologically and economically from a catastrophic 
wildfire in the State of Arizona, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  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;
  H.R. 441, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue permits 
for microhydro projects in nonwilderness areas within the boundaries of 
Denali National Park and Preserve, to acquire land for Denali National 
Park and Preserve from Doyon Tourism, Inc; and
  The nominations of Gregory Howard Woods, of New York, to be General 
Counsel, LaDoris Guess Harris, of Georgia, to be Director of the Office 
of Minority Economic Impact, David T. Danielson, of California, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and 
Charles DeWitt McConnell, of Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary for Fossil 
Energy, all of the Department of Energy.
                                            UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
    Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
   unemployment insurance, focusing on the path back to work, after 
receiving testimony from Charles J. Fogarty, Rhode Island Department of 
   Labor and Training Director, Cranston; Stephen A. Wandner, Urban 
Institute, Washington, D.C.; Larry Temple, Texas Workforce Commission, 
  Austin; and Don Peitersen, American Institute for Full Employment, 
                           Aurora, Colorado.
                                HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM
    Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the role of health care delivery system 
    reform, focusing on improving quality and lowering costs, after 
   receiving testimony from Jonathan Blum, Deputy Administrator and 
   Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
   Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Christopher F. 
Koller, Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner, Providence; Gary S. 
    Kaplan, Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle, Washington; Greg 
 Poulsen, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah; and A. Mark 
   Fendrick, University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance 
                           Design, Ann Arbor.
                                              INDIAN AFFAIRS BILLS
 Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
  S. 1192, to supplement State jurisdiction in Alaska Native villages 
  with Federal and tribal resources to improve the quality of life in 
rural Alaska while reducing domestic violence against Native women and 
 children and to reduce alcohol and drug abuse and for other purposes, 
S. 872, to amend the Omnibus Indian Advancement Act to modify the date 
 as of which certain tribal land of the Lytton Rancheria of California 
  is considered to be held in trust and to provide for the conduct of 
certain activities on the land, and S. 1763, to decrease the incidence 
 of violent crimes against Indian women, to strengthen the capacity of 
 Indian tribes to exercise the sovereign authority of Indian tribes to 
respond to violent crimes committed against Indian women, and to ensure 
that perpetrators of violent crimes committed against Indian women are 
held accountable for that criminal behavior, after receiving testimony 
   from Senators Feinstein and Begich; Thomas J. Perrelli, Associate 
    Attorney General, Department of Justice; Joseph Masters, Alaska 
Department of Public Safety Commissioner, Anchorage; Mayor Paul Morris, 
 City of San Pablo, California; Suzanne Koepplinger, Minnesota Indian 
Women's Resource Center, and Thomas B. Heffelfinger, Best and Flanagan 
 LLP, both of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Margie Mejia, Lytton Rancheria, 
                      Santa Rosa, California; and

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       Ralph Andersen, Alaska Federation of Natives, Dillingham.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
 Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
                       following business items:
  S. 598, to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and ensure respect for 
State regulation of marriage; and
  The nominations of Susie Morgan, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and Michael E. Horowitz, of 
Maryland, to be Inspector 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.

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