[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 69 (Tuesday, May 15, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D467]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED 
AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies approved for full committee 
consideration an original bill making appropriations for Military 
Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies for fiscal year 
2013.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Homeland 
Security approved for full committee consideration an original bill 
making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for 
fiscal year 2013.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Frank Kendall III, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary 
for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, James N. Miller, Jr., of 
Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Policy, Erin C. Conaton, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary for Personnel and 
Readiness, Kathleen H. Hicks, of Virginia, to be Principal Deputy Under 
Secretary for Policy, Jessica Lynn Wright, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs, Derek H. Chollet, of Nebraska, 
to be Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, and Heidi 
Shyu, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, all of the Department of 
Defense.
TAX REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine tax 
reform, focusing on what it could mean for tribes and territories, 
after receiving testimony from Sarah H. Ingram, Commissioner, Tax 
Exempt and Government Entities, Internal Revenue Service, Department of 
the Treasury; Steven Maguire, Specialist in Public Finance, Government 
and Finance Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; Robert Odawi Porter, Seneca Nation of Indians, Salamanca, New 
York; and Lindsay G. Robertson, University of Oklahoma College of Law, 
Norman.
HIV/AIDS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine the cost of 
HIV/AIDS drugs and the Prize Fund alternative, including S. 1137, to 
provide incentives for investment in research and development for new 
medicines, to enhance access to new medicines, and S. 1138, to de-link 
research and development incentives from drug prices for new medicines 
to treat HIV/AIDS and to stimulate greater sharing of scientific 
knowledge, after receiving testimony from Mohammad N. Akhter, District 
of Columbia Department of Health Director, Frank Oldham, Jr., National 
Association of People with AIDS, and James Packard Love, Knowledge 
Ecology International, all of Washington, D.C.; Suerie Moon, Harvard 
Global Health Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health, and 
Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; 
and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, New York, New York.
LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
solving the long-term unemployment crisis for older workers, after 
receiving testimony from Charles A. Jeszeck, Director, Education, 
Workforce, and Income Security, Government Accountability Office; 
Joseph M. Carbone, The WorkPlace, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Diana 
Furchtgott-Roth, Manhattan Institute, New York, New York; Christine L. 
Owens, National Employment Law Project, Washington, D.C.; and Sheila 
Whitelaw, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.