[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 95 (Thursday, June 21, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D640-D642]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a 
hearing to examine Department of Defense programs and policies to 
support military families with special needs in review of the Defense 
Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Karen Guice, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs, and Rebecca Posante, Deputy 
Director, Office of Community Support for Military Families with 
Special Needs, both of the Department of Defense; John O'Brien, 
Director of Healthcare and Insurance, U.S. Office of Personnel 
Management; Vera F. Tait, American Academy of Pediatrics, Chicago, 
Illinois; Geraldine Dawson, Autism Speaks, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 
and Jeremy Hilton, Burke, Virginia.
MONEY MARKET MUTUAL FUND REFORMS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine perspectives on money market mutual fund reforms, 
after receiving testimony from Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. 
Securities and Exchange Commission; Nancy Kopp, Maryland State 
Treasurer, Annapolis, on behalf of the National Association of State 
Treasurers; Paul Schott Stevens, Investment Company Institute, 
Washington, D.C.; J. Christopher Donahue, Federated Investors, Inc., 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Bradley Fox, Safeway, Inc., Pleasanton, 
California; and David S. Scharfstein, Harvard Business School, Boston, 
Massachusetts.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nomination of Michael Peter Huerta, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration, Department of Transportation, after the nominee, who 
was introduced by Senator Boxer, testified and answered questions in 
his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported:
  H.R. 1160, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey the 
McKinney Lake National Fish Hatchery to the State of North Carolina;
  S. 1324, to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit the 
importation, exportation, transportation, and sale, receipt, 
acquisition, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, of any live 
animal of any prohibited wildlife species;
  S. 1201, to conserve fish and aquatic communities in the United 
States through partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation, to 
improve the quality of life for the people of the United States;
  S. 2018, to amend and reauthorize certain provisions relating to Long 
Island Sound restoration and stewardship;
  S. 3264, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 
reauthorize the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program;
  S. 2104, to amend the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to 
reauthorize grants for and require applied water supply research 
regarding the water resources research and technology institutes 
established under that Act;
  S. 3304, to redesignate the Environmental Protection Agency 
Headquarters located at 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., in Washington, 
D.C., as the ``William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building'', to 
redesignate the Federal building and United States Courthouse located 
at 200 East Wall Street in Midland, Texas, as the ``George H. W. Bush 
and George W. Bush United States Courthouse and George Mahon Federal 
Building'', and to designate the Federal building housing the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Headquarters located at 99 
New York Avenue NE., Washington D.C., as the ``Eliot Ness ATF 
Building'';
  H.R. 1791, to designate the United States courthouse under 
construction at 101 South United States Route 1 in Fort Pierce, 
Florida, as the ``Alto Lee Adams, Sr., United States Courthouse'';

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  S. 3311, to designate the United States courthouse located at 2601 
2nd Avenue North, Billings, Montana, as the ``James F. Battin United 
States Courthouse'';
  Proposed resolutions relating to the General Services Administration; 
and
  The nominations of Allison M. Macfarlane, of Maryland, and Kristine 
L. Svinicki, of Virginia, both to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission.
RUSSIA'S WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION ACCESSION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Russia's 
World Trade Organization accession, focusing on the Administration's 
views on the implications for the United States, after receiving 
testimony from Ron Kirk, United States Trade Representative; Thomas J. 
Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture; and William J. Burns, Deputy 
Secretary of State.
NEW START TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine implementation of the New Start Treaty, and related matters, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas P. D'Agostino, Undersecretary of 
Energy for Nuclear Security and Administrator, National Nuclear 
Security Administration; Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary of 
State for Arms Control and International Security; and Madelyn Creedon, 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Katherine C. Tobin, 
of New York, who was introduced by Senator Reid, and James C. Miller 
III, of Virginia, both to be a Governor of the United States Postal 
Service, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
SECURITY CLEARANCE REFORM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine security clearance 
reform, focusing on sustaining progress for the future, after receiving 
testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United 
States, Government Accountability Office; Daniel I. Werfel, Controller, 
Office of Management and Budget; Elizabeth A. McGrath, Deputy Chief 
Management Officer, Department of Defense; Mertown W. Miller, Associate 
Director, Office of Personnel Management; and Charles B. Sowell, Deputy 
Assistant Director for Special Security, Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence.
OLMSTEAD ENFORCEMENT UPDATE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine an update on Olmstead enforcement, 
focusing on using the Americans with Disabilities Act to promote 
community integration, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. Perez, 
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of 
Justice; Henry Claypool, Principal Deputy Administrator, Administration 
for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services; Rita M. 
Landgraf, Delaware Department of Health and Social Services Secretary, 
New Castle; Zelia Baugh, Alabama Department of Mental Health 
Commissioner, Montgomery; and Ricardo Thornton, Sr., Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 250, to protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the 
substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and 
convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of 
Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and 
development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training 
programs regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide 
post conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to 
improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases, with 
amendments; and
  The nominations of Brian J. Davis, to be United States District Judge 
for the Middle District of Florida, Grande Lum, of California, to be 
Director, Community Relations Service, and Jamie A. Hainsworth, to be 
United States Marshal for the District of Rhode Island, John S. 
Leonardo, to be United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, and 
Patrick A. Miles, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Western 
District of Michigan, all of the Department of Justice.
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP/EMI MERGER
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine the Universal 
Music Group/EMI merger and the future of online music, after receiving 
testimony from Lucian Grainge, Universal Music Group, Santa Monica, 
California; Roger Faxon, EMI Group, and Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner 
Music Group, both of New York, New York; Irving Azoff, Live Nation 
Entertainment, Inc., Los Angeles, California; Martin Mills, Beggars 
Group,

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London, United Kingdom; and Gigi B. Sohn, Public Knowledge, Washington, 
D.C., on behalf of Consumer Federation of America.
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.