[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 18, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D17]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
IMPACT OF THE VOLCKER RULE
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Capital Markets and 
Government Sponsored Enterprises; and Subcommittee on Financial 
Institutions and Consumer Credit held a joint hearing entitled 
``Examining the Impact of the Volcker Rule on Markets, Businesses, 
Investors and Job Creation.'' Testimony was heard from Daniel K. 
Tarullo, Governor, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; 
Mary Schapiro, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Gary 
Gensler, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Martin J. 
Gruenberg, Acting Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; John 
Walsh, Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Office of the Comptroller of 
the Currency; and public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Ways and Means: Full Committee held a markup of H.R. 1173, 
the ``Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act of 2011''. The 
bill was ordered reported without amendment.
ROLE OF DHS IN THE IC: A REPORT BY THE ASPEN INSTITUTE
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on 
Terrorism, HUMINT, Analysis, and Counterintelligence held a hearing 
entitled ``The Role of DHS in the IC: A Report by the Aspen 
Institute.'' Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Joint Meetings
WESTERN BALKANS AND THE 2012 NATO SUMMIT
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission concluded 
a hearing to examine the Western Balkans and the 2012 NATO Summit, 
after receiving testimony from Nida Gelazis, Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars, Daniel Serwer, Johns Hopkins 
University School of Advanced International Studies, and Ivan Vejvoda, 
German Marshall Fund of the United States, all of Washington, D.C.