[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 146 (Thursday, November 15, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D955]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC for 
reappointment to the grade of general and to be Commander, 
International Security Assistance Force, and to be Commander, U.S. 
Forces, Afghanistan, after the nominee testified and answered questions 
in his own behalf.
WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine an original bill entitled, ``Water Resources 
Development Act of 2012'', after receiving testimony from Stephen 
Curtis, American Society of Civil Engineers, Washington, D.C.; Terrence 
Sullivan, The Nature Conservancy, Providence, Rhode Island; Amy W. 
Larson, National Waterways Conference, Inc., Arlington, Virginia; and 
Dusty Williams, National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management 
Agencies (NAFSMA), Riverside, California.
PHARMACY COMPOUNDING AND MENINGITIS OUTBREAK
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine pharmacy compounding, focusing on 
implications of the 2012 meningitis outbreak, after receiving testimony 
from Beth Bell, Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic 
Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Margaret A. 
Hamburg, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, 
both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Lauren Smith, 
Massachusetts Department of Public Health Interim Commissioner, Boston; 
Marion Kainer, Tennessee Department of Health Healthcare Associated 
Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program Director, Nashville; 
David Miller, International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, 
Missouri City, Texas; and Kasey Thompson, American Society of Health-
System Pharmacists, Bethesda, Maryland.
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.
PREVENTING ELDER FINANCIAL ABUSE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
preventing elder financial abuse, including strengthening efforts to 
combat elder financial exploitation, after receiving testimony from Kay 
E. Brown, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, 
Government Accountability Office; Hubert H. Humphrey III, Assistant 
Director, Office for Older Americans, Consumer Financial Protection 
Bureau; Frank W. Abagnale, Frank W. Abagnale and Associates, and Paul 
Smocer, BITS, on behalf of the Financial Services Roundtable, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Paul R. Greenwood, San Diego District Attorney's 
Office Elder Abuse Prosecution Unit, San Diego, California.