[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 186 (Tuesday, December 6, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1317-D1318]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WALL STREET REFORM ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine continued oversight of the implementation of the 
``Wall Street Reform Act'', after receiving testimony from Neal S. 
Wolin, Deputy Secretary, and John Walsh, Acting Comptroller of the 
Currency, both of the Department of the Treasury; Daniel K. Tarullo, 
Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Mary L. 
Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Gary 
Gensler, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and Martin J. 
Gruenberg, Acting Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
CONTAMINATED DRYWALL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing 
to examine contaminated drywall, focusing on examining the current 
health, housing and product safety issues facing homeowners, after 
receiving testimony from Neal S. Cohen, Office of Education, Global 
Outreach, and Small Business Ombudsman, Consumer Product Safety 
Commission; Christopher J. Portier, Director, National Center for 
Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Department of Health 
and Human Services; William C. Shelton, Virginia Department of Housing 
and Community Development Director, Richmond; and Brenda Brincku, Alva, 
Florida.
TAX REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee with the House Committee on Ways and 
Means concluded a joint hearing to examine tax reform and the tax 
treatment of financial products, after receiving testimony from Thomas 
A. Barthold, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation, United States 
Congress; Alex Raskolnikov, Columbia Law School, and David S.

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Miller, Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP, both of New York, New 
York; and Andrea S. Kramer, McDermott Will and Emery LLP, Chicago, 
Illinois.
WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine 
whistleblower protections for government contractors, including S. 241, 
to expand whistleblower protections to non-Federal employees whose 
disclosures involve misuse of Federal funds, after receiving testimony 
from Peggy E. Gustafson, Inspector General, U.S. Small Business 
Administration, and Chair of the Legislation Committee, Council of 
Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency; Marguerite C. Garrison, 
Deputy Inspector General for Administrative Investigations, Department 
of Defense; Angela Canterbury, Project on Government Oversight (POGO), 
Washington, D.C.; and Walter L. Tamosaitis, Richland, Washington.
TELEVISING THE SUPREME COURT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded a hearing to examine access to the court, 
focusing on televising the Supreme Court, including S. 1945, to permit 
the televising of Supreme Court proceedings, and S. 410, to provide for 
media coverage of Federal court proceedings, after receiving testimony 
from former Senator Arlen Specter; Anthony J. Scirica, Circuit Judge, 
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Mark Cady, Chief 
Justice Iowa Supreme Court, Des Moines; and Tom Goldstein, Goldstein 
and Russell, P.C., and Maureen Mahoney, Latham and Watkins LLP, both of 
Washington, D.C.
EXPRESS SCRIPTS/MEDCO MERGER
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine the Express 
Scripts/Medco merger, after receiving testimony from George Paz, 
Express Scripts Inc., St. Louis, Missouri; David B. Snow, Jr., Medco 
Health Solutions, Inc., Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; Scott E. Streator, 
The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus; Sue Sutter, 
National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), Horicon, Wisconsin; 
Michael J. Bettiga, Shopko Stores, Green Bay, Wisconsin, on behalf of 
the National Association of Chain Drug Stores; and David A. Balto, 
Washington, D.C.; on behalf of the Consumers Union, Consumer Federation 
of America, National Consumers League, U.S. Public Interest Research 
Group, and the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug 
Prices.