[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 48 (Thursday, March 22, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D291-D293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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 Commerce, 
after receiving testimony from John Bryson, Secretary of Commerce.
APPROPRIATIONS: SECRETARY OF THE SENATE, THE SERGEANT AT ARMS AND THE 
U.S. CAPITOL POLICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2013 for the Secretary of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms and the 
United States Capitol Police, after receiving testimony from Nancy 
Erickson, Secretary of the Senate; Terrance W. Gainer, Sergeant at Arms 
and Doorkeeper of the Senate; and Phillip D. Morse, Sr., United States 
Capitol Police Chief.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 246 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the situation in Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from James N. 
Miller, Jr., Acting Under Secretary for Policy, and General John R. 
Allen, USMC, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, and 
Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, both of the Department of 
Defense.
WALL STREET REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine international harmonization of Wall Street reform, 
focusing on orderly liquidation, derivatives, and the Volcker Rule, 
after receiving testimony from Lael Brainard, Under Secretary for 
International Affairs, and John Walsh, Acting Comptroller of the 
Currency, both of the Department of the Treasury; Daniel K. Tarullo, 
Governor, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Elisse B. 
Walter, Commissioner, United States Securities and Exchange Commission; 
Martin J. Gruenberg, Acting Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation; and Jacqueline H. Mesa, Director, Office of International 
Affairs, Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 303, to amend the Omnibus 
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land 
Management to provide a claimant of a small miner waiver from claim 
maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after written receipt of 1 or 
more defects is provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 
1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, S. 1129, to amend 
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve the 
management of grazing leases and permits, S. 1473, to amend Public Law 
99-548 to provide for the implementation of the multispecies habitat 
conservation plan for the Virgin River, Nevada, and to extend the 
authority to purchase certain parcels of public land, S. 1492, to 
provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in Clark County, 
Nevada, for the environmental remediation and reclamation of the Three 
Kids Mine Project Site, S. 1559, to establish the San Juan Islands 
National Conservation Area in the San Juan Islands, Washington, S. 
1635, to designate certain lands in San Miguel, Ouray, and San Juan 
Counties, Colorado, as wilderness, S. 1687, to adjust the boundary of 
Carson National Forest, New Mexico, S. 1774, to establish the Rocky 
Mountain Front Conservation Management Area, to designate certain 
Federal land as wilderness, and to improve the management of noxious 
weeds in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, S. 1788, to designate the 
Pine Forest Range Wilderness area in Humboldt County, Nevada, S. 1906, 
to modify the Forest Service Recreation Residence Program as the 
program applies to units of the National Forest System derived from the 
public domain by implementing a simple, equitable, and predictable 
procedure for determining cabin user fees, S. 2001, to expand the Wild 
Rogue Wilderness Area in the State of Oregon, to make additional wild 
and scenic river designations in the Rogue River area, to provide 
additional protections for Rogue River tributaries, S. 2015, to require 
the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to the 
Powell Recreation District in the State of Wyoming, and S. 2056, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain interests in 
Federal land acquired for the Scofield Project in Carbon County, Utah, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Baucus; Mike Pool, Deputy 
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Leslie 
A. C. Weldon, Deputy Chief National Forest System, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; James H. Magagna, Wyoming Stock Growers 
Association, Cheyenne; Andy Kerr, WildEarth Guardians, Washington, 
D.C.; Doug Gann, National Forest Homeowners, Kirkland,

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Washington, on behalf of the C2 Coalition; Dave Strahan, Grants Pass, 
Oregon; and Dusty Crary, Choteau, Montana.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2013 for the Environmental Protection Agency, after receiving 
testimony from Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator, Environmental Protection 
Agency.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health Care concluded a hearing 
to examine prescription drug abuse, focusing on how Medicare and 
Medicaid are adapting to the challenge, after receiving testimony from 
Billy Millwee, Texas Health and Human Services Commission State 
Medicaid Director, Austin; Jeffrey Coben, West Virginia University 
Injury Control Research Center, Morgantown; Timothy Schwab, SCAN Health 
Plan, Long Beach, California; and Alex Cahana, University of 
Washington, Seattle.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Scott H. DeLisi, of Minnesota, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda, Michael A. Raynor, of Maryland, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, and Makila James, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Swaziland, all 
of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
ARMY MILITARY PAY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a joint hearing with the 
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on 
Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management to 
examine problems in Army military pay, focusing on challenges the Army 
faces in achieving audit readiness for its military pay, after 
receiving testimony from Lieutenant Colonel Kirk Zecchini, U.S. Army 
Reserve Control Group (Reinforcement), James J. Watkins, Director of 
Accountability and Audit Readiness, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
of the Army, Financial Management and Comptroller, Jeanne M. Brooks, 
Director of Technology and Business Architecture Integration, Deputy 
Chief of Staff, G-1, and Aaron P. Gillison, Acting Director, Defense 
Finance and Accounting Service-Indianapolis, all of the Department of 
Defense; and Asif A. Khan, Director, Financial Management and 
Assurance, Government Accountability Office.
WORK STRATEGIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine stay-at-work and back-to-work 
strategies, focusing on lessons from the private sector, after 
receiving testimony from Karen Amato, SRA International, Inc., 
Arlington, Virginia, and Christine V. Walters, FiveL Company, 
Westminster, Maryland, both on behalf of the Society for Human Resource 
Management; Kenneth Mitchell, WorkRx Group, Ltd., Worthington, Ohio; 
Thomas R. Watjen, Unum Group, Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Eric 
Buehlmann, Arlington, Virginia.
INDIAN AFFAIRS BILLS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 1898, to provide for the conveyance of certain property from the 
United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska, 
and H.R. 1560, to amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and 
Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta 
del Sur Pueblo Tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for 
membership in that tribe, after receiving testimony from Jodi Gillette, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Robert 
McSwain, Deputy Director for Management Operations, Indian Health 
Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Paul Hansen, Maniilaq 
Health Center, Kotzebue, Alaska; and Carlos Hisa, and Janette 
Hernandez, both of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, El Paso, Texas.
SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine small business investment companies and their role 
in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, after receiving testimony from Harry 
Haskins, Deputy Associate Administrator for Investment, Small Business 
Administration; Barry Wides, Deputy Comptroller, Community Affairs, 
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury; 
Roger Bates, MEP R&H Supply, Inc., Broussard, Louisiana; Vincent D. 
Foster, Main Street Capital Corporation, Houston, Texas; James Goodman, 
Gemini Investors, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Manuel A. Henriquez, 
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Palo Alto, California; Tim 
Rafalovich, Wells Fargo Bank, San Diego, California; Charles Rothstein, 
Michigan Growth Capital Partners, Farmington Hills; Rick Girard, Girard 
Environmental Services, Sanford, Florida; Thies Kolln, AAVIN Private 
Equity, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Carl Kopfinger, TD Bank, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania;

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Dan Penberthy, RAND Capital Corporation, Buffalo, New York; and Don 
Sackett, Olympus Innov-X, Woburn, Massachusetts.
VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS LEGISLATIVE PRESENTATIONS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a joint hearing 
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the 
legislative presentations of the Paralyzed Veterans of America, Air 
Force Sergeants Association, Blinded Veterans Association, American 
Veterans (AMVETS), Gold Star Wives, Fleet Reserve Association, Military 
Officers Association of America, National Guard Association of the 
United States, and the Jewish War Veterans, after receiving testimony 
from Charles Susino, American Ex-Prisoners of War, Arlington, Texas; 
John R. Davis, Fleet Reserve Association, and Robert F. Norton, USA 
(Ret.), Military Officers Association of America, both of Alexandria, 
Virginia; Jamie H. Tomek, Gold Star Wives of America, Inc., Arlington, 
Virginia; Allen E. Falk, Jewish War Veterans of the USA, Bill Lawson, 
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Sam Huhn, Blinded Veterans Association, 
and Gus Hargett, National Guard Association of the United States, all 
of Washington, D.C.; John R. McCauslin, USAF (Ret.), Air Force 
Sergeants Association, Suitland, Maryland; and Gary L. Fry, AMVETS, 
Lanham, Maryland.
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.