[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 88 (Tuesday, June 12, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies approved 
for full committee consideration an original bill making appropriations 
for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
Agencies for fiscal year 2013.
APPROPRIATIONS: FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Service and 
General Government approved for full committee consideration an 
original bill making appropriations for Financial Services and General 
Government for fiscal year 2013.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded open and closed hearings to examine 
proliferation prevention programs at the Department of Energy and at 
the Department of Defense in review of the Defense Authorization 
Request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from Madelyn R. Creedon, Assistant Secretary 
for Global Strategic Affairs, and Kenneth A. Myers III, Director, 
Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and Director, Strategic Command Center 
for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction, both of the Department of 
Defense; and Anne Harrington, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear 
Nonproliferation, Edward F. Watkins, Director, Office of Proliferation 
Detection, Office of Nonproliferation Research and Development, and 
Rhys M. Williams, Assistant Deputy Administrator, Nonproliferation and 
Verification Research and Development, all of the National Nuclear 
Security Administration, Department of Energy.
TAX REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine tax 
reform, focusing on its impact on United States energy policy, after 
receiving testimony from former Senator Don Nickles, The Nickles Group, 
LLC., and Philip R. Sharp, Resources for the Future (RFF), both of 
Washington, D.C.; Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; and Harold Hamm, Continental Resources, Oklahoma City, 
Oklahoma.
EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine equality at work, including S. 811, to 
prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation 
or gender identity, after receiving testimony from M. V. Lee Badgett, 
University of Massachusetts Center for Public Policy and 
Administration, Amherst; Kylar W. Broadus, Trans People of Color 
Coalition, Columbia, Maryland; Samuel R. Bagenstos, University of 
Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor; Kenneth Charles, General Mills, Inc., 
Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Craig L. Parshall, National Religious 
Broadcasters, Manassas, Virginia.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from Eric 
H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General, Department of Justice.