[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 144 (Monday, December 1, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1057-D1058]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IMPROVING FINANCIAL INSTITUTION SUPERVISION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, November 
21, 2014, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer 
Protection concluded a hearing to examine improving financial 
institution supervision, focusing on addressing regulatory capture, 
after receiving testimony from William C. Dudley, Federal Reserve Bank 
of New York, and David O. Beim, Columbia Business School, both of New 
York, New York; Robert C. Hockett, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New 
York, and Norbert J. Michel, Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC.
WALL STREET INVOLVEMENT WITH PHYSICAL COMMODITIES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: On Friday, 
November 21, 2014, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a 
hearing to examine Wall Street bank involvement with physical 
commodities, focusing on the extent to which

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banks and their holding companies own physical commodities like oil, 
natural gas, aluminum and other industrial metals, as well as own or 
control businesses like power plants, oil and gas pipelines, and 
commodity warehouses, after receiving testimony from Larry D. 
Gasteiger, Acting Director, Office of Enforcement, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission; Saule Omarova, Cornell University, Ithaca, New 
York; and Chiara Trabucchi, Industrial Economics, Incorporated, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Nicholas J. Rasmussen, of Virginia, to be Director of 
the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence.