[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 14, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future 
Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Leon E. Panetta, 
Secretary, General Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of 
Staff, and Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary, Comptroller and Chief 
Financial Officer, all of the Department of Defense.
BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2013, after 
receiving testimony from Jeff Zients, Acting Director and Deputy 
Director of Management, Office of Management and Budget.
BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2013, after 
receiving testimony from Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the 
Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 1023, to authorize the President to provide assistance to the 
Government of Haiti to end within 5 years the deforestation in Haiti 
and restore within 30 years the extent of tropical forest cover in 
existence in Haiti in 1990;
  S. 414, to protect girls in developing countries through the 
prevention of child marriage;
  S. Res. 372, recognizing the importance of the United States-Egypt 
relationship, and urging the Government of Egypt to protect civil 
liberties and cease intimidation and prosecution of civil society 
workers and democracy activities;
  S. Res. 342, honoring the life and legacy of Laura Pollan; and
  The nominations of Tara D. Sonenshine, of Maryland, to be Under 
Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Anne Claire Richard, of New York, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration, Robert E. 
Whitehead, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Togolese Republic, Nancy 
J. Powell, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to India, 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 Republic of Nicaragua, and Jonathan Don 
Farrar, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, all 
of the Department of State, and Earl W. Gast, of California, to be an 
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, and lists in the Foreign Service.
PAIN AND CHALLENGES TO RELIEF
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine pain in America, focusing on exploring 
challenges to relief, after receiving testimony from Lawrence A. Tabak, 
Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Philip A. Pizzo, Stanford University School 
of Medicine, Stanford, California; John E. Sarno, New York University 
School of Medicine, New York; William Maixner, University of North 
Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Christin Veasley, National Vulvodynia 
Association, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, on behalf of the Chronic 
Pain Research Alliance.
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.