[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 13, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D241-D242]
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 THE FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
U.S. Southern Command and U.S. Northern Command in review of the 
Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future Years 
Defense Program, after receiving testimony from General Douglas M. 
Fraser, United States Air Force, Commander, United States Southern 
Command, and General Charles H. Jacoby, Jr., United States Army, 
Commander, United States Northern Command, and North American Aerospace 
Defense Command, both of the Department of Defense.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY LOAN AND LOAN GUARANTEE PORTFOLIO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the report of the Independent Consultant's Review 
with Respect to the Department of Energy Loan and Loan Guarantee 
Portfolio, after receiving testimony from Steven Chu, Secretary of 
Energy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Frederick D. Barton, of Maine, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of State (Conflict and Stabilization Operations), 
and to be Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, and William 
E. Todd, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, both 
of the Department of State, and Sara Margalit Aviel, of California, to 
be United States Alternate Executive Director of

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the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Freedom of Information Act, focusing on safeguarding critical 
infrastructure information and the public's right to know, after 
receiving testimony from Melanie Ann Pustay, Director, Office of 
Information Policy, Department of Justice; Miriam Nisbet, Director, 
Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and 
Records Administration; Kenneth F. Bunting, National Freedom of 
Information Coalition, Columbia, Missouri; Paul Rosenzweig, George 
Washington University, Washington, D.C.; and J. M. Ensminger, 
Elizabethtown, North Carolina.