[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 151 (Thursday, November 29, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D980-D981]
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 Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 285 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
SANDY AND ITS IMPACTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Sandy and its impacts, focusing on a local 
perspective, after receiving testimony from Senators Carper, 
Lautenberg, Cardin, Whitehouse, Gillibrand, Reed, Schumer, Menendez, 
Blumenthal; and Representatives Pallone, Engel, Pascrell, Langevin, 
Timothy H. Bishop, Courtney, Cicilline, Grimm, Harris, Holt, and 
Christopher H. Smith.
ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES MISSION IN BENGHAZI
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
received a closed briefing on the attack on the United States mission 
in Benghazi from Patrick Kennedy, Undersecretary for Management, and 
Eric Boswell, Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security, both of the 
Department of State; Michael Sheehan, Assistant Secretary for Special 
Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and Major General Darryl 
Roberson, Vice Director, Operations (J-3), Joint Staff, both of the 
Department of Defense; Nicholas Rasmussen, Principal Deputy Director, 
National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC); Linda Weissgold, Director, 
Office of Terrorism Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency; and Andrew 
McCabe, Assistant Director of Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau 
of Investigation, Department of Justice.
IMAGE AND IDENTITY
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine ``reclaiming our image and identity for the next seven 
generations'', after receiving testimony from Andrew J. Lee, Aetna 
Inc., and Trustee, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian 
Institution; Lynn Valbuena, Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian 
Nations, Patton, California; Mary Kim Titla, San Carlos Unified School 
District, San Carlos, Arizona, on behalf of the National Indian 
Education Association; Sam McCracken, NIKE N7, Beaverton, Oregon; 
Tonantzin Carmelo, Los Angeles, California; and Marjorie Linne 
Tungwenuk Tahbone, Nome, Alaska.

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BUSINESS MEETING
  Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  H.R. 2471, to amend section 2710 of title 18, United States Code, to 
clarify that a video tape service provider may obtain a consumer's 
informed, written consent on an ongoing basis and that consent may be 
obtained through the Internet, with amendments; and
  The nomination of Angela Tammy Dickinson, to be United States 
Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Department of Justice.
CREATING JOBS AND GROWING THE ECONOMY
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine creating jobs and growing the economy, focusing on 
legislative proposals to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem, 
including S. 3442, to provide tax incentives for small businesses, 
improve programs of the Small Business Administration, and S. 3638, to 
establish an Office of Entrepreneurial Support within the Small 
Business Administration, after receiving testimony from Michael Chodos, 
Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development, and Sean 
Greene, Associate Administrator for Investment, and Senior Advisor for 
Innovation Policy, both of the U.S. Small Business Administration; 
David R. Clough, National Federation of Independent Business, Portland, 
Maine; Joshua Etemadi, Construction Bonds, Inc., Herndon, Virginia, on 
behalf of the National Association of Surety Bond Producers; Diana 
Furchtgott-Roth, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Washington, 
D.C.; Scott Gardiner, Granite State Economic Development Corporation, 
Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Fonda Lindfors New, Quaternary Resource 
Investigations, LLC (QRI), Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Julie R. Weeks, 
Womenable, Empire, Michigan.
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.