[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 7, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D89-D90]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
UNITED STATES MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
outlook for United States monetary and fiscal policy, after receiving 
testimony from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
bill entitled, ``The Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic 
Growth Act of 2012''.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Larry Leon Palmer, of Georgia, to be 
Ambassador to Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint 
Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Phyllis Marie Powers, of Virginia, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, Jonathan Don Farrar, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, and Julissa 
Reynoso, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of 
Uruguay, who was introduced by Senator Gillibrand, all of the 
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answer questions 
in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Nancy J. Powell, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to 
India, Department of State, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in her own behalf.
ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine accessible technology, focusing on 
challenges and opportunities, after receiving testimony from Eve Hill, 
Senior Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, 
Department of Justice; Mark A. Riccobono, National Federation of the 
Blind Jernigan Institute, Baltimore, Maryland; John Quick, Bartholomew 
Consolidated School Corporation, Columbus, Indiana; and Mark Turner, 
California State University Center for Accessible Media, Long Beach.
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.