[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 38 (Thursday, March 8, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D224-D225]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Homeland 
Security concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2013 for the Department of Homeland Security, after 
receiving testimony from Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland 
Security.
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine an overview of the Federal Housing Administration, after 
receiving testimony from Carol Galante, Acting Federal Housing 
Administration Commissioner, and Assistant Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development for Housing.

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APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2013 for the Department of Justice, 
after receiving testimony from Eric Holder, Attorney General, 
Department of Justice.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND THE FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Department of the Army in review of the Defense Authorization 
request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from John M. McHugh, Secretary of the Army, 
and General Raymond T. Odierno, Chief of Staff, United States Army, 
both of the Department of Defense.
HOUSING CRISIS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine addressing the housing crisis in Indian country, 
focusing on leveraging resources and coordinating efforts, after 
receiving testimony from Sandra Henriquez, Assistant Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development; Doug O'Brien, Deputy Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Rural Development; Robert McSwain, Deputy Director, 
Management Operations, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and 
Human Services; and Jodi Gillette, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs.
AMERICA'S GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the key to America's global 
competitiveness, focusing on a quality education, after receiving 
testimony from Jenn Mann, SAS, Cary, North Carolina; Charles Kolb, 
Committee for Economic Development, Washington, D.C.; Richard J. 
Murnane, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; and Eric A. Hanushek, Stanford University, Stanford, 
California.
NATIVE PROGRAMS BUDGET
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2013 for Native 
Programs, after receiving testimony from Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Yvette Roubideaux, 
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Fawn Sharp, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Portland, 
Oregon; Michell Hicks, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Nashville, 
Tennessee, on behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.; and 
Robert Shepherd, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Rapid City, South Dakota, on 
behalf of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1002, to prohibit theft of medical products, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Patty Shwartz, of New Jersey, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Jeffrey J. Helmick, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Mary Geiger 
Lewis, to be United States District Judge for the District of South 
Carolina, Timothy S. Hillman, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Massachusetts, and Thomas M. Harrigan, of New York, to 
be Deputy Administrator of Drug Enforcement, Department of Justice.