[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 93 (Tuesday, June 19, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D619-D620]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the potential for induced seismicity from energy 
technologies, including carbon capture and storage, enhance geothermal 
systems, production from gas shales, and enhanced oil recovery, after 
receiving testimony from William Leith, Senior Science Advisor for 
Earthquake and Geologic Hazards, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of 
the Interior; Murray W. Hitzman, Colorado School of Mines Department of 
Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden; Susan Petty, AltaRock 
Energy, Inc., Seattle, Washington; and Mark D. Zoback, Stanford 
University Department of Geophysics, Stanford, California.
EPA AIR STANDARDS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine a review of recent 
Environmental Protection Agency's air standards for hydraulically 
fractured natural gas wells and oil and natural gas storage, after 
receiving testimony from Regina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, 
Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; John V. 
Corra, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Director, Cheyenne; 
William C. Allison, Colorado Department of Public Health and the 
Environment Air Pollution Control Division Director, and Tisha 
Schuller, Colorado Oil and Gas Association, both of Denver; Fred Krupp, 
Environmental Defense Fund, New York, New York; and Darren Smith, Devon 
Energy Corporation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
FISCAL CRISIS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
confronting the looming fiscal crisis, after receiving testimony from 
former Senator Pete V. Domenici, and Alice Rivlin, both a Co-Chair, 
Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Reduction Task Force, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 641, to provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe 
drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis within six years 
by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully 
implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005;
  S. 2165, to enhance strategic cooperation between the United States 
and Israel, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 4240, to reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004;
  S. Res. 402, condemning Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army 
for committing crimes against humanity and mass atrocities, and 
supporting ongoing efforts by the United States Government and 
governments in central Africa to remove Joseph Kony and Lord's 
Resistance Army commanders from the battlefield, with amendments;
  S. Res. 429, supporting the goals and ideals of World Malaria Day;

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  S. Res. 473, commending Rotary International and others for their 
efforts to prevent and eradicate polio;
  S. Res. 385, condemning the Government of Iran for its continued 
persecution, imprisonment, and sentencing of Youcef Nadarkhani on the 
charge of apostasy, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 
and
  The nominations of Piper Anne Wind Campbell, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to Mongolia, Peter William Bodde, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, 
Dorothea-Maria Rosen, of California, to be Ambassador to the Federated 
States of Micronesia, Edward M. Alford, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of The Gambia, Mark L. Asquino, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, 
Douglas M. Griffiths, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Mozambique, Michele Jeanne Sison, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the 
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently 
and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Maldives, Susan Marsh Elliott, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Tajikistan, Richard L. Morningstar, of Massachusetts, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Timothy M. Broas, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Jay 
Nicholas Anania, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Suriname, all of the Department of State, and lists in the Foreign 
Service.
TITLE IX
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine Title IX, focusing on forty years and 
counting, after receiving testimony from Rear Admiral Sandra L. Stosz, 
Superintendant, Coast Guard Academy, United States Coast Guard, 
Department of Homeland Security; Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Florida Coastal 
School of Law, Jacksonville; Mae C. Jemison, Houston, Texas; and Billie 
Jean King, New York, New York.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Human Rights concluded a hearing to examine reassessing 
solitary confinement, focusing on the human rights, fiscal and public 
safety consequences, after receiving testimony from Charles E. Samuels, 
Jr., Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice; 
Christopher Epps, Mississippi Commissioner of Corrections, Jackson; 
Stuart M. Andrews, Jr., Protection and Advocacy for People with 
Disabilities, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina; Anthony C. Graves, 
Anthony Believes, Houston, Texas; and Craig Haney, University of 
California, Santa Cruz.
TREATING SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDER
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
received a briefing on treating substance abuse disorder and expanding 
access to and resources for community-based treatment providers in the 
United States, after receiving testimony from Benjamin B. Tucker, 
Deputy Director of State, Local and Tribal Affairs, Office of National 
Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President; Gary Tennis, 
Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs Incoming-
Secretary, Harrisburg: Kathryn Icenhower, SHIELDS for Families, Inc., 
Los Angeles, California; and Sushma Taylor, Treatment Communities of 
America, San Rafael, California.