[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 152 (Tuesday, October 29, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1022-D1023]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine housing finance reform, focusing on the essentials 
of a functioning housing finance system for consumers, including S. 
1217, to provide secondary mortgage market reform, after receiving 
testimony from Eric Stein, Center for Responsible Lending, Chapel Hill, 
North Carolina; Rohit Gupta, Genworth Financial, Valley, North 
Carolina; Gary Thomas, National Association of Realtors, Mission Viejo, 
California; Laurence E. Platt, K&L Gates LLP, and Lautaro Lot

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Diaz, National Council of La Raza, both of Washington, DC; and Alys 
Cohen, National Consumer Law Center, Takoma Park, Maryland.
BROADBAND ADOPTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, and the Internet concluded a hearing to 
examine broadband adoption, after receiving testimony from former 
Senator John E. Sununu, Broadband for America, and Aaron Smith, Pew 
Research Center's Internet Project, both of Washington, DC; David L. 
Cohen, Comcast Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bernadine 
Joselyn, Blandin Foundation, Grand Rapids, Minnesota; and Sunne Wright 
McPeak, California Emerging Technology Fund, San Francisco.
STAND YOUR GROUND LAWS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Human Rights concluded a hearing to examine ``Stand Your 
Ground'' laws, focusing on civil rights and public safety implications 
of the expanded use of deadly force, after receiving testimony from 
Representatives Fudge, Gutierrez, and Gohmert; David LaBahn, 
Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, and Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute, 
both of Washington, DC; Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard Law School, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; John R. Lott, Jr., Crime Prevention Research 
Center, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Sybrina Fulton, Miami, Florida; and 
Lucia Holman McBath, Atlanta, Georgia.
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.