[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 27, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D309-D311]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2013 for the Department of 
Defense and the Department of the Army, after receiving testimony from 
Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary (Comptroller), Dorothy Robyn, Deputy 
Under Secretary for Installations and Environment, Peter R. Lavoy, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asian and Pacific Security 
Affairs, Katherine G. Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Installations, Energy, and Environment, Lieutenant General Michael 
Ferriter, Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, Major 
General Timothy J. Kadavy, Deputy Director of the Army National Guard, 
and Addison D. Davis IV, Chief Executive Officer, Army Reserve Command, 
all of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
United States Strategic Command and United States Cyber Command in 
review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and 
the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from 
General C. Robert Kehler, USAF, Commander, United States Strategic 
Command, and General Keith B. Alexander, USA, Commander, United States 
Cyber Command, Director, National Security Agency, and Chief, Central 
Security Service, both of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Defense's 
role in implementation of the National Strategy for Counterterrorism 
and the National Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime in 
review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and 
the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from 
Michael A. Sheehan, Assistant Secretary for Special Operations, Low-
Intensity Conflict, Garry Reid, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special 
Operations and Combating Terrorism, and William

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F. Wechsler, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counternarcotics and Global 
Threats, all of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a 
hearing to examine Army modernization in review of the Defense 
Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Lieutenant General Robert P. 
Lennox, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, G-8, Lieutenant General 
William N. Phillips, Principal Military Deputy to the Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology and 
Director, Acquisition Career Management, Lieutenant General John F. 
Campbell, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, G-3/5/7, and Lieutenant 
General Keith C. Walker, Deputy Commanding General, Futures, Director, 
ARCIC, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, all of the 
Department of Defense.
CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine the choice neighborhoods initiative, focusing on a new 
community development model, after receiving testimony from Sandra 
Henriquez, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for 
Public and Indian Housing; Maria Maio, Jersey City Housing Authority, 
Jersey City, New Jersey; Susan J. Popkin, Urban Institute, Washington, 
D.C., Paul N. Weech, Housing Partnership Network, Boston, 
Massachusetts; Anthony B. Sanders, George Mason University, Fairfax, 
Virginia; and Egbert L. J. Perry, Integral Group LLC, Atlanta, Georgia.
REDUCING POLLUTION AND IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Green Jobs 
and the New Economy with the Subcommittee on Oversight concluded a 
joint oversight hearing to examine the Environmental Protection 
Agency's (EPA) work with other Federal entities to reduce pollution and 
improve environmental performance, after receiving testimony from 
Leslie Gillespie-Marthaler, Senior Advisor, Office of Research and 
Development, Environmental Protection Agency; and Richard G. Kidd, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and 
Environment, Energy and Sustainability, Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Navy for Energy, and Kevin Geiss, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, all of the Department of 
Defense.
RENEWABLE ENERGY TAX INCENTIVES
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and 
Infrastructure concluded a hearing to examine renewable energy tax 
incentives, focusing on how the recent and pending expirations of key 
incentives have affected the renewable energy industry in the United 
States, after receiving testimony from Ethan Zindler, Bloomberg New 
Energy Finance, and Benjamin Zycher, American Enterprise Institute for 
Public Policy Research, both of Washington, D.C.; John Purcell, Leeco 
Steel, Lisle, Illinois; and John P. Ragan, TPI Composites, Inc., 
Scottsdale, Arizona.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Res. 356, expressing support for the people of Tibet, with an 
amendment;
  S. Res. 395, expressing the sense of the Senate in support of the 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the NATO summit to be held in 
Chicago, Illinois from May 20 through 21, 2012, with an amendment;
  S. Res. 397, promoting peace and stability in Sudan, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 80, condemning the Government of Iran for its state-sponsored 
persecution of its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the 
International Covenants on Human Rights;
  S. Res. 391, condemning violence by the Government of Syria against 
journalists, and expressing the sense of the Senate on freedom of the 
press in Syria, with an amendment;
  S. Res. 344, supporting the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan 
people and calling attention to the deterioration of constitutional 
order in Nicaragua, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 
and
  The nominations of Julissa Reynoso, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Gina K. Abercrombie-Winstanley, of 
Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malta, Frederick D. Barton, 
of Maine, to be Assistant Secretary for Conflict and Stabilization 
Operations, and to be Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, 
William E. Todd, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of 
Cambodia, Pamela A. White, of Maine, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Haiti, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, of Louisiana, to be Director General 
of the Foreign Service, Carlos Pascual, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources, John Christopher Stevens, 
of California, to be Ambassador to Libya, Jacob Walles, of Delaware, to 
be Ambassador to the

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Tunisian Republic, Tracey Ann Jacobson, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo, Mark A. Pekala, of Maryland, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, Richard B. Norland, of 
Iowa, to be Ambassador to Georgia, Kenneth Merten, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia, and Jeffrey D. Levine, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia, all of the 
Department of State, and Sara Margalit Aviel, of California, to be 
United States Alternate Executive Director of the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development, and lists in the Foreign Service.
PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and 
Border Security concluded a hearing to examine the economic imperative 
for promoting international travel to the United States, including S. 
2233, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to stimulate 
international tourism to the United States, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Mikulski; Rebecca Gambler, Acting Director, Homeland 
Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office; and Thomas J. 
Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Roger Dow, U.S. Travel 
Association, both of Washington, D.C.
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.