[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 117 (Thursday, August 2, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D820]
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 (H.R. 5856) making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013; and
  An original bill (H.R. 5882) making appropriations for the 
Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013.
TRI-PARTY REPO MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine the 
tri-party repo market, focusing on the remaining challenges, after 
receiving testimony from Matthew J. Eichner, Deputy Director of the 
Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System; Karen B. Peetz, The Bank of New York Mellon, Brooklyn 
Heights, New York; Steven R. Meier, State Street Global Advisors, 
Sudbury, Massachusetts; and Thomas G. Wipf, Morgan Stanley, Brooklyn, 
New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
bill entitled, ``The Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 
2012''.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 225, to permit the disclosure of certain information for the 
purpose of missing child investigations, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S.J. Res. 44, granting the consent of Congress to the State and 
Province Emergency Management Assistance Memorandum of Understanding; 
and
  The nominations of Thomas M. Durkin, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, 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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Thomas Skerik Sowers II, of Missouri, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs.