[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 187 (Wednesday, December 7, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1324-D1325]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LARGE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION REGULATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection concluded a hearing to 
examine enhanced supervision, focusing on a new regime for regulating 
large, complex financial institutions, after receiving testimony from 
Sheila C. Bair, former Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 
and Pew Charitable Trusts, and Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., George 
Washington University Law School, both of Washington, D.C.; Simon 
Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of 
Management, Boston; and Phillip L. Swagel, former Assistant Secretary 
of the Treasury for Economic Policy,

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and University of Maryland School of Public Policy, College Park.
FORENSIC SCIENCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine turning the investigation on the science of 
forensics, after receiving testimony from John Grisham, Innocence 
Project, Charlottesville, Virginia; Constantine Gatsonis, Brown 
University, Providence, Rhode Island; Geoffrey S. Means, Cleveland 
State University, Cleveland, Ohio; and Terry W. Fenger, Marshall 
University Forensic Science Center, Huntington, West Virginia.
DRUG SHORTAGES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine drug 
shortages, focusing on why they happen and what they mean, after 
receiving testimony from Kasey Thompson, American Society of Health-
System Pharmacists, Bethesda, Maryland; Patrick Cobb, Frontier Cancer 
Center and Blood Institute, Billings, Montana; Scott Gottlieb, American 
Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Rena M. Conti, University 
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
HOMEGROWN TERRORISM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded open and closed joint hearings with the House Committee on 
Homeland Security to examine homegrown terrorism, focusing on the 
threat to military communities inside the United States, after 
receiving testimony from Paul Stockton, Assistant Secretary for 
Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs, and Lieutenant Colonel 
Reid Sawyer, Director, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, United 
States Army, both of the Department of Defense; Jim Stuteville, Senior 
Advisor, Counterintelligence Operations, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, Department of Justice; and Daris Long, Conway, Arkansas.
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia with the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery 
and Intergovernmental Affairs concluded a joint hearing to examine 
earthquakes to terrorist attacks, focusing on if the national capital 
region is prepared for the next disaster, and if the 2010 strategic 
plan is generally consistent with characteristics of effective 
strategies, after receiving testimony from Steward D. Beckham, 
Director, Office of National Capital Region Coordination, Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security; Dean 
Hunter, Deputy Director, Facilities, Security and Contracting, Office 
of Personnel Management; William O. Jenkins, Jr., Director, Homeland 
Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office; Richard Muth, 
Maryland Emergency Management Agency Executive Director, Annapolis; 
Terrie L. Suit, Commonwealth of Virginia Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
and Homeland Security, Richmond; and Paul A. Quander, Jr., District of 
Columbia Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice.
EB-5 REGIONAL CENTER PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
reauthorizing the EB-5 Regional Center Program, focusing on promoting 
job creation and economic development in American communities, 
including S. 642, to permanently reauthorize the EB-5 Regional Center 
Program, after receiving testimony from William J. Stenger, Jay Peak 
Resort, Jay, Vermont; David North, Center for Immigration Studies, 
Washington, D.C.; and Robert C. Divine, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, 
Caldwell, and Berkowitz, P.C., Chattanooga, Tennessee, on behalf of 
Invest in the USA.
EFFORTS TO CURTAIL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine government efforts to curtail marijuana 
cultivation on United States public lands, focusing on exploitation of 
public lands as grow sites for marijuana and discuss barriers to the 
criminal prosecution of drug traffickers, after receiving testimony 
from Representative Mike Thompson; R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director, 
National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President; David 
Ferrell, Director, Law Enforcement and Investigations, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; and Margaret Mims, Fresno County Sheriff, 
Fresno, California.