[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 19 (Thursday, February 7, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D82-D83]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
     (Committees not listed did not meet)
                                                   BENGHAZI ATTACK
 Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
  the Department of Defense's response to the attack on United States 
facilities in Benghazi, Libya, and the findings of its internal review 
 following the attack, after receiving testimony from Leon E. Panetta, 
 Secretary, and General Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs 
              of Staff, both of the Department of Defense.
                       CORPS OF ENGINEERS WATER RESOURCES POLICIES
   Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine implementation of Corps of Engineers water 
  resources policies, after receiving testimony from Jo-Ellen Darcy, 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Department of Defense; 
Collin O'Mara, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environment 
  Control Secretary, Dover; Richard M. Johnson, Sacramento Area Flood 
  Control Agency, Sacramento, California; Robert A. Turner, Southeast 
  Louisiana Flood Protection Authority--East, New Orleans; and Garret 
  Graves, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana, 
                              Baton Rouge.
                                              NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
    Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine No Child Left Behind, focusing on early 
lessons from state flexibility waivers, after receiving testimony from 
     Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education; Terry Holliday, Kentucky 
 Department of Education Commissioner, Lexington; John King, New York 
  Commissioner of Education, Slingerlands; Andy Smarick, Bellweather 
 Education Partners, Lawrenceville, New Jersey; and Kati Haycock, The 
                   Education Trust, Washington, D.C.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
 Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
 nominations of Robert E. Bacharach, of Oklahoma, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, William J. Kayatta, Jr., of Maine, 
               to be United States Circuit Judge for the

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  First Circuit, and Richard Gary Taranto, of Maryland, to be United 
             States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit.
                                                        NOMINATION
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
    examine the nomination of John Owen Brennan, of Virginia, to be 
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, after the nominee, who was 
 introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.

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