[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 120 (Thursday, September 12, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D858]
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 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by 
the committee during the 113th Congress.
HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine essential elements of housing finance reform, 
including S. 1217, to provide secondary mortgage market reform, after 
receiving testimony from Julia Gordon, Center for American Progress, 
Washington, D.C.; Jerome Lienhard, SunTrust Mortgage, Richmond, 
Virginia; Richard Johns, Structured Finance Industry Group, New York, 
New York; and Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics, West Chester, 
Pennsylvania.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Nisha Desai Biswal, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, 
after the nominee, who was introduced by Representative Lowey, 
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
DENTAL CRISIS IN AMERICA
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine the dental 
crisis in America, focusing on the need to address cost, after 
receiving testimony from Debony R. Hughes, Prince George's County 
Health Department Dental Health Program, Cheverly, Maryland; Frank 
Catalanotto, University of Florida College of Dentistry Department of 
Community Dentistry, Gainesville; Greg Nycz, Family Health Center of 
Marshfield, Inc., Marshfield, Wisconsin; and Cathi Stallings, Falls 
Church, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 987, to maintain the free flow of information to the public by 
providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of 
information by certain persons connected with the news media, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee for 
the 113th Congress; and
  The nomination of Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr., to be United States 
Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Department of Justice.