[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 103 (Wednesday, July 11, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D706]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MEDICARE PHYSICIAN PAYMENTS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Medicare 
physician payments, focusing on perspectives from physicians, after 
receiving testimony from Ardis D. Hoven, American Medical Association, 
Lexington, Kentucky; Glen Stream, American Academy of Family 
Physicians, Spokane, Washington; Frank Opelka, American College of 
Surgeons, New Orleans, Louisiana; W. Douglas Weaver, American College 
of Cardiology, Detroit, Michigan; and Barbara McAneny, New Mexico 
Oncology Hematology Consultants, Albuquerque, on behalf of the American 
Society of Clinical Oncology.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the future of Homeland Security, 
focusing on evolving and emerging threats, after receiving testimony 
from Michael V. Hayden, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency 
and National Security Agency, on behalf of the Chertoff Group, and 
Frank J. Cilluffo, George Washington University Homeland Security 
Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.; Brian Michael Jenkins, RAND 
Corporation, Santa Monica, California; and Stephen E. Flynn, 
Northeastern University George J. Kostas Research Institute for 
Homeland Security, Boston, Massachusetts.
STANDARD ESSENTIAL PATENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the impact on competition of exclusion orders to enforce standard-
essential patents, after receiving testimony from Joseph F. Wayland, 
Acting Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of 
Justice; and Edith Ramirez, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Thomas M. Durkin, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Illinois, who was introduced by Senator 
Coons, and Jon S. Tigar, and William H. Orrick III, of the District of 
Columbia, both to be a United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of California, who were both introduced by Senators Feinstein 
and Boxer, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.