[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 90 (Thursday, June 14, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D600-D601]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill (S. 3295) making appropriations for Labor, Health 
and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2013; and
  An original bill (S. 3301) making appropriations for Financial 
Services and General Government for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2013.
CLEAN ENERGY IN UNITED STATES AND CHINA
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine competitiveness and collaboration between the United 
States and China on clean energy, after receiving testimony from Justin 
Wu, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Hong Kong, People's Republic of 
China; Alan Wm. Wolff, McKenna Long and Aldridge, Clyde Prestowitz, 
Economic Strategy Institute, and Derek Scissors, The Heritage 
Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.; and Dan W. Holladay, SEMATECH, 
Albany, New York.
MEDICARE PHYSICIAN PAYMENT POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Medicare 
physician payment policy, focusing on lessons from the private sector, 
after receiving testimony from Dana Gelb Safran, Blue Cross Blue Shield 
of Massachusetts, Boston; Peter Edwards, Humana Inc., Louisville, 
Kentucky; Lonny Reisman, Aetna Inc., Hartford, Connecticut; Chester 
Burrell, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Washington, D.C.; and Darryl 
Cardoza, Hill Physicians Medical Group, San Francisco, California.
LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Law of the Sea Convention (Treaty Doc. 103-39), focusing on 
perspectives from the United States military, after receiving testimony 
from Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, General 
William M. Fraser III, USAF, Commander, United States Transportation 
Command, General Charles H. Jacoby, Jr., USA, Commander, United States 
Northern Command, and North American Aerospace Defense Command, and 
Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, USN, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, 
all of the Department of Defense; and Admiral Robert Papp, Commandant, 
U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security.
LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Law of the Sea Convention (Treaty Doc. 103-39), after 
receiving testimony from Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, 
The Rumsfeld Foundation, John B. Bellinger III, Arnold and Porter LLP, 
Steven Groves, The Heritage Foundation, and John Negroponte, former 
Deputy Secretary of State, all of Washington, D.C.
MEDICAID WASTE AND FRAUD
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
saving taxpayer dollars by curbing waste and fraud in Medicaid, after 
receiving testimony from Peter Budetti, Deputy Administrator and 
Director, Center for Program Integrity, Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, and Ann Maxwell, Regional Inspector General, Office 
of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector General, both of the 
Department of Health and Human Services; Carolyn L. Yocom, Director, 
Health Care, Government Accountability Office; Douglas Wilson, Texas 
Health and Human Services Commission Inspector General, San Antonio; 
and Douglas Porter, Washington State Health Care Authority Director, 
Seattle.
TAXES ON TRIBAL SELF-DETERMINATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine new taxes on tribal self-determination, after receiving 
testimony from Aaron Klein, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of 
Economic Policy, and Christie J. Jacobs, Director, Office of Indian 
Tribal Governments, Internal Revenue Service, both of the Department of 
the Treasury; John Yellow Bird Steele, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge, 
South Dakota; Athena Sanchey Yallup, Confederated Tribes and Bands of 
the Yakama Nation, Toppenish, Washington; Lynn Malerba, United South 
and Eastern Tribes, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee; and William Lomax, 
Native American Finance Officers Association, Washington, D.C.

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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.