[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 22 (Thursday, February 9, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D103-D104]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, USN, for 
reappointment to the grade of admiral and to be Commander, United 
States Pacific Command, and Lieutenant General Thomas P. Bostick, USA, 
for reappointment to the

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grade of lieutenant general and to be Chief of Engineers, and 
Commanding General, United States Army Corps of Engineers, both of the 
Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
HOUSING MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the state of the housing market, focusing on 
removing barriers to economic recovery, after receiving testimony from 
Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics, and Christopher J. Mayer, Columbia 
Business School, both of New York, New York; and Phillip L. Swagel, 
University of Maryland School of Public Policy, College Park.
ASSESSING INEQUALITY, MOBILITY, AND OPPORTUNITY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
assessing inequality, mobility, and opportunity, after receiving 
testimony from Mark J. Warshawsky, Member, Social Security Advisory 
Board; Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Heather 
Boushey, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Sarah Anderson, 
Institute for Policy Studies, and Scott Winship, Brookings Institution 
Center on Children and Families, all of Washington, DC.
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA LAND EXCHANGE AND CONSERVATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine H.R. 1904, to facilitate the efficient extraction of 
mineral resources in southeast Arizona by authorizing and directing an 
exchange of Federal and non-Federal land, and the Southeast Arizona 
Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2009, after receiving testimony 
from Senators McCain and Kyl; Mary Wagner, Associate Chief, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture; Ned Farquhar, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Lands and Minerals Management; Jon 
Cherry, Resolution Copper Company, Superior, Arizona; and Shan Lewis, 
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Phoenix.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND INTERNET GAMING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the Department of Justice opinion on Internet gaming, 
focusing on what's at stake for tribes, after receiving testimony from 
Robert Odawi Porter, Seneca Nation of Indians, Salamanca, New York; 
Kevin K. Washburn, University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque; 
I. Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Encino, California; Alex T. 
Skibine, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake 
City; Patrick Fleming, Washington, DC, on behalf of the Poker Players 
Alliance; and Glenn M. Feldman, Mariscal, Weeks, McIntyre and 
Friedlander, P.A., Phoenix, Arizona.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
1945, to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.
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.