[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 161 (Thursday, December 13, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1032-D1033]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IMPROVING CARE FOR DUALLY-ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
improving care for dually-eligible beneficiaries, focusing on a 
progress update, after receiving testimony from Melanie Bella, 
Director, Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office, Centers for Medicare 
and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas. 
J. Betlach, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Director, 
Phoenix; MaryAnne Lindeblad, Washington State Health Care Authority 
Director, Olympia; and John B. McCarthy, Ohio Medicaid Office of 
Medical Assistance Director, Columbus.
TERRORIST NETWORKS IN PAKISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
and Central Asian Affairs concluded open and closed hearings to examine 
terrorist networks in Pakistan and proliferation of improvised 
explosive devices (IEDs), after receiving testimony from Lieutenant 
General Michael D. Barbero, Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device 
Defeat Organization, Department of Defense; and Jonathan Carpenter, 
Senior Economic Adviser, Office of the Special Representative for 
Afghanistan and Pakistan, Department of State.
ATTACKS IN BENGHAZI
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
attacks in Benghazi from National Security Briefers.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
1223, to address voluntary location

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tracking of electronic communications devices, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
HURRICANE SANDY
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Hurricane Sandy, focusing on assessing the Federal 
response and small business recovery efforts, after receiving testimony 
from Michael Chodos, Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial 
Development, and James Rivera, Associate Administrator for Disaster 
Assistance, both of the Small Business Administration; Mayor Dawn 
Zimmer, Hoboken, New Jersey; James L. King, New York State Small 
Business Development Center, Albany, on behalf of the Association of 
Small Business Development Centers; and Kevin S. Law, Long Island 
Association, Melville, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.