[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 85 (Thursday, June 7, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D574-D575]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION ON AMERICA'S NUCLEAR FUTURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine recommendations from 
the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future for a consent-
based approach to siting nuclear waste storage and management 
facilities, after receiving testimony from S. Andrew Orrell, Director, 
Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Programs, Sandia National Laboratories, 
Department of Energy; David A. Wright, South Carolina Public Service 
Commissioner, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory 
Utility Commissioners, and Geoffrey H. Fettus, Natural Resources 
Defense Council, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; General Brent 
Scowcroft, Scowcroft Group, Washington, D.C., and Per Peterson, 
University of California, Berkley, both of the Blue Ribbon Commission 
on America's Nuclear Future; Eric Howes, Maine Yankee, Wiscasset; and 
Daniel S. Metlay, U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, Arlington, 
Virginia.
CIVIL SOCIETY IN CUBA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps and Global Narcotics Affairs concluded a hearing to examine 
countering repression and strengthening civil society in Cuba, after 
receiving testimony from Roberta S. Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of 
State for Western Hemisphere Affairs; and Normando Hernandez Gonzalez, 
National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C.
UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND REFORM
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Universal Service Fund Reform, focusing on ensuring a sustainable and 
connected future for native communities, after receiving testimony from 
Mignon L. Clyburn, Federal Communications Commission; Jonathan 
Adelstein, Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Alfred LaPaz, Mescalero Apache Tribal Council, and Godfrey 
Enjady, Mascalero Apache Telecom, Inc., both of Mescalero, New Mexico; 
Stephen Merriam, Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative, Inc., 
Anchorage, Alaska; Albert S. N. Hee, Sandwich Isles Communications, 
Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii; and Shirley Bloomfield, National 
Telecommunications Cooperative Association, Arlington, Virginia.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Robert E. Bacharach, of Oklahoma, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Paul William Grimm, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Maryland, John E. Dowdell, to 
be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma, 
and Mark E. Walker, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Florida.
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.