[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 104 (Thursday, July 12, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D713-D714]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MEDICATION AND PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS IN HORSE RACING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine medication and performance enhancing drugs in 
horse racing, after receiving testimony from Barry Irwin, Team Valor 
International, Versailles, Kentucky; Kent H. Stirling, National 
Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, and Edward J. Martin, 
Association of Racing Commissioners International, both of Lexington, 
Kentucky; Jeffrey Gural, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, and James 
Gagliano, The Jockey Club, both of New York, New York; Matthew Witman, 
American Quarter Horse Association, Guthrie, Oklahoma; Marc S. Paulhus, 
Humane Society of the United States, Hendersonville, North Carolina; 
and Sheila Lyons, American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and 
Rehabilitation, Brockton, Massachusetts.
NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE--ALASKA
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine remediation of Federal legacy wells in the 
National Petroleum Reserve--Alaska, after receiving testimony from Bud 
Cribley, State Director, Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, Department 
of the Interior; and Alaska State Representative Charisse Millett, and 
Cathy Foerster, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, both of 
Anchorage.
LEAD'S IMPACTS ON CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the latest science on lead's impacts on children's 
development and public health, after receiving testimony from 
Christopher Portier, Director, National Center for Environmental 
Health, Centers for Disease Control

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and Prevention and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 
Department of Health and Human Services; and John Vandenberg, National 
Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and 
Development, Environmental Protection Agency.
CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 
(Treaty Doc. 112-7), after receiving testimony from Senators McCain and 
Harkin; Judith Heumann, Special Adviser for International Disability 
Rights, Department of State; Eve Hill, Senior Counselor to the 
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, and John L. Wodatch, 
former Chief, Disability Rights Section, Civil Rights Division, and 
Dick Thornburgh, former Attorney General of the United States, both of 
Washington, D.C., all of the Department of Justice; Steven Groves, 
Heritage Foundation Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, and John 
Lancaster, National Council on Independent Living, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Michael Farris, Patrick Henry College, Purcellville, 
Virginia.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the future of Homeland Security, 
focusing on the evolution of the Homeland Security Department's roles 
and missions, after receiving testimony from former Representative Jane 
Harman, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, 
D.C.; and Thad W. Allen, Admiral, United States Coast Guard (Ret.), 
McLean, Virginia, and Richard L. Skinner, former Inspector General, 
Alexandria, Virginia, both of the Department of Homeland Security.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Stephen Crawford, of 
Maryland, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, after 
the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Cardin, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
POSITIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine creating positive learning environments 
for all students, after receiving testimony from Daniel Crimmins, 
Georgia State University Institute of Public Health Center for 
Leadership in Disability, Atlanta, Georgia; Cyndi Pitonyak, Montgomery 
County Public Schools, Christiansburg, Virginia; Michael George, 
Centennial School of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and 
Debbie Jackson, Easton, Pennsylvania.
FEDERAL RECOGNITION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Federal recognition, focusing on political and legal 
relationship between governments, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Jim Webb; Bryan Newland, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; 
Stephen R. Adkins, Chickahominy Indian Tribe, Charles City, Virginia; 
Paul Brooks, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Pembroke; Jon Norwood, 
Task Force on Federal Acknowledgment of the National Congress of 
American Indians, and Michael J. Anderson, Anderson Indian Law, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and K. Jerome Gottschalk, Native American Rights 
Fund, Boulder, Colorado, on behalf of the Little Shell Tribe of 
Chippewa Indians of Montana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1744, to provide funding for State courts to assess and improve 
the handling of proceedings relating to adult guardianship and 
conservatorship, to authorize the Attorney General to carry out a pilot 
program for the conduct of background checks on individuals to be 
appointed as guardians or conservators, and to promote the widespread 
adoption of information technology to better monitor, report, and audit 
conservatorships of protected persons, with amendments; and
  The nominations of Terrence G. Berg, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Jesus G. Bernal, to be 
United States District Judge for the Central District of California, 
Lorna G. Schofield, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of New York, and Danny Chappelle Williams, Sr., to be United 
States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Department of 
Justice.
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.