[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 8, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D99-D100]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on 
Military Health Systems Governance--Army, Navy and Air Force Surgeons 
General. Testimony was heard from Lieutenant General Charles B. Green, 
Surgeon General of the Air Force; Lieutenant General Patricia D. 
Horoho, Surgeon General of the Army; and Vice Admiral Mathew L. Nathan, 
Surgeon General of the Navy.
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held a 
hearing on the U.S. Capitol Police FY 2013 budget request. Testimony 
was heard from Philip D. Morse, Chief of Police, U.S. Capitol Police.
CYBERSECURITY
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Communications and 
Technology held a hearing entitled ``Cybersecurity: Threats to 
Communications Networks and Private-Sector Responses''. Testimony was 
heard from public witnesses.
LEGISLATIVE MEASURES
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy and Power held 
a hearing on ``The American Energy Initiative: What EPA's Utility MACT 
Rule Will Cost U.S. Consumers''. Testimony was heard from Gina 
McCarthy, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, Environmental 
Protection Agency; and public witnesses.
CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Financial Institutions 
and Consumer Credit held a hearing entitled ``Legislative Proposals to 
Promote Accountability and Transparency at the Consumer Financial 
Protection Bureau''. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
TITLE VII OF THE DODD-FRANK ACT
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Capital Markets and 
Government Sponsored Enterprises held a hearing entitled ``Limiting the 
Extraterritorial Impact of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act''. Testimony 
was heard from public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, 
and Human Rights held a markup of the following: H.R. 1410, the 
``Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2011'' and H. Res. 361, concerning 
efforts to provide humanitarian relief to mitigate the effects of 
drought and avert famine in the Horn of Africa, particularly Somalia, 
Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya. The following were forwarded, as 
amended: H.R. 1410 and H. Res. 361.
BALUCHISTAN
Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations held a hearing on Baluchistan. Testimony was heard from 
public witnesses.
COMBATING TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and 
Homeland Security held a hearing entitled ``Combating Transnational 
Organized Crime: International Money Laundering as a Threat to our 
Financial Systems''. Testimony was heard from Jennifer Shasky, Chief, 
Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Criminal Division, 
Department of Justice; Luke A. Bronin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, 
Strategic Policy Office of Terrorist, Financing and Financial Crimes, 
Department of the Treasury; and public witness.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on the Judiciary: Full Committee continued markup of H.R. 
3541, the ``Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal 
Nondiscrimination Act of 2011''.
PROTECTING UNION WORKERS FROM FORCED POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Full Committee held a 
hearing entitled ``The Right to

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Choose: Protecting Union Workers from Forced Political Contributions''. 
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
AMERICA'S NUCLEAR FUTURE
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Full Committee held a 
hearing entitled ``Assessing America's Nuclear Future--A Review of the 
Blue Ribbon Commission's Report to the Secretary of Energy''. Testimony 
was heard from Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.), Co-Chairman, Blue 
Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future; Richard Meserve, 
Commissioner, Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future; and 
Pete Lyons, Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy, Department of 
Energy.
HOW THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MISMANAGES THE MODERNIZATION OF 
ITS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Small Business: Full Committee held a hearing entitled 
``Placing Federal Tax Dollars at Risk: How the Small Business 
Administration Mismanages the Modernization of its Information 
Technology''. Testimony was heard from Marie Johns, Deputy 
Administrator, United States Small Business Administration; and David 
Powner, Director, Information Technology Management Issues, Government 
Accountability Office.
NATION'S AVIATION SATELLITE-BASED GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM 
INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on 
Aviation held a hearing entitled ``A Review of Issues Associated with 
Protecting and Improving our Nation's Aviation Satellite-based Global 
Positioning System Infrastructure''. Testimony was heard from John 
Porcari, Deputy Secretary, Department of Transportation; Vincent 
Galotti, Deputy Director, Air Navigation Bureau, International Civil 
Aviation Organization (ICAO) of the United Nations; and public 
witnesses.
INTERACTION OF TAX POLICY AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING RULES
Committee on Ways and Means: Full Committee held a hearing on the 
interaction of tax policy and financial accounting rules (such as 
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or ``GAAP''), and how this 
interaction affects how publicly-traded companies respond to tax 
policy. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Joint Meetings
IRELAND AND OSCE
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission concluded 
a hearing to examine Ireland's leadership of the Organization for 
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), focusing on its future year-
long leadership of the 56-nation OSCE, based in Vienna, Austria, and 
its work in promoting democracy, human rights and the rule of law, 
after receiving testimony from Eamon Gilmore, Deputy Prime Minister and 
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland, and Chair-in-Office, 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.