[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 128 (Thursday, September 20, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D893-D895]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMPUTERIZED TRADING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine 
computerized trading, after receiving testimony from David Lauer, 
Better Markets, Inc., Colingswood, New Jersey; Andrew M. Brooks, T. 
Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland; Chris Concannon, 
Virtu Financial, LLC, Garden City, New Jersey; and Larry Tabb, TABB 
Group, Westborough, Massachusetts.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS MOVING INDUSTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine business practices in the household goods moving 
industry, after receiving testimony from Anne S. Ferro, Administrator, 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and Timothy M. Barry, 
Principal Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, both of the 
Department of Transportation; Linda Bauer Darr, American Moving and 
Storage Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Jason M. Romrell, Budget Van 
Lines Inc., Los Angeles, California; and Reana Kovalcik, New York, New 
York.
WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the ``Water Resources Development Act'', focusing on 
growing the economy and protecting public safety, after receiving 
testimony from Andrew Herrmann, American Society of Civil Engineers, 
Richard R. Calhoun, Cargill, Incorporated, Jeffrey Soth, International 
Union of Operating Engineers, and Janet F. Kavinoky, U.S. Chamber of 
Commerce, all of Washington, D.C.; and Jerry A. Bridges, Virginia Port 
Authority, Norfolk, on behalf of the American Association of Port 
Authorities.

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TAX REFORM AND THE TAX TREATMENT OF CAPITAL GAINS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a joint hearing with the 
House Committee on Ways and Means to examine tax reform and the tax 
treatment of capital gains, after receiving testimony from David H. 
Brockway, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Washington, D.C.; Lawrence B. Lindsey, 
The Lindsey Group, Fairfax, Virginia; Leonard E. Burman, Syracuse 
University Maxwell School, Syracuse, New York; David Verrill, Angel 
Capital Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and William D. Stanfill, 
Montegra Capital Income Fund, Denver, Colorado.
MARITIME TERRITORIAL DISPUTES AND SOVEREIGNTY ISSUES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded a hearing to examine maritime territorial disputes 
and sovereignty issues in Asia, after receiving testimony from Kurt 
Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs.
U.S. TAX CODE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine offshore 
profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, after receiving testimony from 
William J. Wilkins, Chief Counsel, and Michael Danilack, Deputy 
Commissioner (International) of the Large Business and International 
Division, both of the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the 
Treasury; Stephen E. Shay, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan Law School 
International Tax Master of Law Program, Ann Arbor; Jack T. Ciesielski, 
R.G. Associates, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland; William J. Sample, 
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington; Beth Carr, Ernst and Young 
LLP, New York, New York; Lester D. Ezrati, and John N. McMullen, both 
of the Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California; and Susan M. 
Cosper, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Connecticut.
PENSION MODERNIZATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine pension modernization for a 21st century 
workforce, after receiving testimony from Jim Davis, Iowa Title and 
Realty, Charles City; Aliya Wong, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Richard 
Hudson, Cheiron, Karen Friedman, Retirement USA, Andrew G. Biggs, 
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and David 
Madland, Center for American Progress Action Fund, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Susan L. Breen-Held, Principal Financial, Des Moines, Iowa; and 
John Adler, Service Employees International Union, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 65, to reauthorize the programs of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development for housing assistance for Native Hawaiians;
  S. 2024, to make technical amendment to the T'uf Shur Bien 
Preservation Trust Area Act, with an amendment;
  S. 3546, to amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to 
reauthorize a provision to ensure the survival and continuing vitality 
of Native American languages;
  S. 3548, to clarify certain provisions of the Native American 
Veterans' Memorial Establishment Act of 1994;
  H.R. 2467, to take certain Federal lands in Mono County, California, 
into trust for the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colony; and
  The nomination of Kevin K. Washburn, of New Mexico, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
FEDERAL-TRIBAL RELATIONSHIP
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine advancing the Federal-tribal relationship through self-
governance and self-determination, after receiving testimony from 
Lawrence Roberts, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs; Ian Erlich, Maniilaq Association, Kotzebue, Alaska; Charles 
Head, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma; and D. Noelani Kalipi, 
TiLeaf Group, Hilo, Hawaii.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 3486, to implement the provisions of the Hague Agreement and the 
Patent Law Treaty, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1894, to deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3250, to amend the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to 
provide for Debbie Smith grants for auditing sexual assault evidence 
backlogs and to establish a Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry;
  S. 3523, Innovative Design Protection Act; and
  The nomination of William Joseph Baer, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice.

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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.