[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 15, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D120]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Michael T. Scuse, of Delaware, to 
be Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, and to 
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit 
Corporation, Department of Agriculture, and Chester John Culver, of 
Iowa, and Bruce J. Sherrick, of Illinois, both to be a Member of the 
Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, 
Farm Credit Administration.
ENERGY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH FOR RURAL AMERICA
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine energy and economic growth for rural America, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of 
Agriculture; Mathias J. McCauley, Northwest Michigan Council of 
Governments, Traverse City, on behalf of the National Association of 
Development Organizations (NADO) and the National Association of 
Counties (NACo); Florine Raitano, Rural Community Assistance 
Corporation (the Western RCAP), Dillon, Colorado; Mark Rembert, 
Energize Clinton County, Wilmington, Ohio; Charles W. Fluharty, Rural 
Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), Columbia, Missouri; Steve Flick, 
National Farmers Union (NFU), Centerview, Missouri; Lee Edwards, 
Virent, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin; Bennie Hutchins, Ag Energy Resources, 
LLC, Brookhaven, Mississippi; and Bill Greving, Greving Farms Inc., 
Prairie View, Kansas.
INCENTIVE COMPENSATION AT LARGE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection concluded a hearing to 
examine pay for performance, focusing on incentive compensation at 
large financial institutions, after receiving testimony from Kurt Hyde, 
Deputy Special Inspector General, Audit and Evaluation, Office of the 
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program; Lucian 
A. Bebchuk, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert J. 
Jackson, Jr., Columbia Law School, New York, New York; and Michael S. 
Melbinger, Winston and Strawn LLP, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the 
Financial Services Roundtable on Executive Compensation.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2013 for the 
Department of Transportation, after receiving testimony from Ray 
LaHood, Secretary of Transportation.
BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2013, after 
receiving testimony from Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and 
Human Services.
BULLETPROOF VEST PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program, focusing on protecting 
those who protect us, including law enforcement body armor, how the 
Department of Justice supports its use and enhancements, and the need 
to strengthen management of its related grant programs, after receiving 
testimony from David C. Maurer, Director, Homeland Security and 
Justice, Government Accountability Office; Michael E. Schirling, 
Burlington Police Department Chief of Police, Burlington, Vermont; and 
Chuck Canterbury, Fraternal Order of Police, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Patty Shwartz, of New Jersey, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, who was introduced by Senators 
Lautenberg and Menendez, Jeffrey J. Helmick, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, who was introduced by 
Senator Brown (OH), Mary Geiger Lewis, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of South Carolina, who was introduced by Senator 
Graham and Representative Clyburn, and Timothy S. Hillman, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, who was 
introduced by Senators Kerry and Brown (MA), after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.