[House Report 112-349]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


112th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    112-349
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                                                 Union Calendar No. 234

                               ACTIVITIES

                                 of the

                      HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT

                         AND GOVERNMENT REFORM

                      ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS

                             FIRST SESSION

                             DECEMBER 2011

                  (Pursuant to House Rule XI, 1(d)(1))

                                     


                                     

         Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.fdsys.gov
                      http://www.house.gov/reform

 December 23, 2011.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 
            the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
              COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM

                 DARRELL E. ISSA, California, Chairman
DAN BURTON, Indiana                  ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland, 
JOHN L. MICA, Florida                    Ranking Minority Member
TODD RUSSELL PLATTS, Pennsylvania    EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York
MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio              CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York
PATRICK T. McHENRY, North Carolina   ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of 
JIM JORDAN, Ohio                         Columbia
JASON CHAFFETZ, Utah                 DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio
CONNIE MACK, Florida                 JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts
TIM WALBERG, Michigan                WM. LACY CLAY, Missouri
JAMES LANKFORD, Oklahoma             STEPHEN F. LYNCH, Massachusetts
JUSTIN AMASH, Michigan               JIM COOPER, Tennessee
ANN MARIE BUERKLE, New York          GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia
PAUL A. GOSAR, Arizona               MIKE QUIGLEY, Illinois
RAUL R. LABRADOR, Idaho              DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois
PATRICK MEEHAN, Pennsylvania         BRUCE L. BRALEY, Iowa
SCOTT DesJARLAIS, Tennessee          PETER WELCH, Vermont
JOE WALSH, Illinois                  JOHN A. YARMUTH, Kentucky
TREY GOWDY, South Carolina           CHRISTOPHER S. MURPHY, Connecticut
DENNIS A. ROSS, Florida              JACKIE SPEIER, California
FRANK C. GUINTA, New Hampshire
BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Texas
MIKE KELLY, Pennsylvania

                   Lawrence J. Brady, Staff Director
                John D. Cuaderes, Deputy Staff Director
                     Robert Borden, General Counsel
                       Linda A. Good, Chief Clerk
                 David Rapallo, Minority Staff Director


                         LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

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                      House of Representatives,    
                                 Committee on Oversight    
                                     and Government Reform,
                                 Washington, DC, December 23, 2011.
Hon. John A. Boehner,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
    Dear Mr. Speaker: Pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 
1(d)(1), I submit the enclosed semiannual activities report of 
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for the 1st 
session of the 112th Congress.
                                           Darrell E. Issa,
                                                          Chairman.



                                     
                            C O N T E N T S

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 I. Legislative Activities............................................2
II. Oversight Activities..............................................6
III.Summary of Committee Oversight Plan..............................41

IV. Summary of Actions Taken and Recommendations Made with Respect to 
    the Oversight Plan...............................................43
 V. Summary of Any Additional Oversight Activities Undertaken, and Any 
    Recommendations Made or Actions Taken Thereon....................54
VI. Delineation of any Hearings Held Pursuant to Clauses 2(n), (o), or 
    (p)..............................................................55
  


                                                 Union Calendar No. 234
112th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    112-349

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  ACTIVITIES OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM

                                _______
                                

 December 23, 2011.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 
            the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

  Mr. Darrell E. Issa, from the Committee on Oversight and Government 
                    Reform, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

 ACTIVITIES OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM, 
               112TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION, DECEMBER 2011


                  SECOND SEMIANNUAL ACTIVITIES REPORT

    The number one priority of this Congress is to foster 
private sector job creation and get Americans back to work.
    The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is 
uniquely positioned to conduct a broad-based, economy-wide 
examination of the barriers that stand in the way of job growth 
and economic recovery. In his State of the Union Address, the 
President called for a government-wide examination of 
regulations, to ``help our companies compete'' and to ``knock 
down barriers that stand in the way of their success.''
    In the first session of the 112th Congress, the Committee 
held numerous hearings, including those at both the full 
committee and the subcommittee levels, to examine how the rules 
proposed and implemented by the Environmental Protection 
Agency, the Department of Interior, the Department of Labor, 
and the General Services Administration, among others, have 
hurt job creation. In addition, the Subcommittee on Technology 
held three legislative hearings considering ways to improve the 
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, which included productive 
discussions of regulatory review with the Director of the White 
House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and 
culminating in reporting H.R. 373, the Unfunded Mandates 
Information and Transparency Act of 2011.
    Private sector economic growth is not only held back by 
regulatory barriers standing in the way of small, medium-sized, 
and large businesses, but also by the uncertainty surrounding 
our nation's skyrocketing debt. The Committee's unique position 
to oversee all federal government agencies and functions, as 
well as our role in crafting federal workforce and government 
management legislation, gives us the opportunity to promote 
private sector economic growth by reducing fraud, abuse, and 
mismanagement in government spending, and improving government 
performance.
    During the first half of the 112th Congress, the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform held 118 oversight hearings 
and reported and discharged 24 bills and resolutions to the 
House for consideration, including the resurrection of the 
successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and bills 
dealing with tax accountability for federal employees and 
contractors.
    To carry out its duties most effectively, the Committee 
established seven standing subcommittees: the Subcommittee on 
Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy; the 
Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency and 
Financial Management; the Subcommittee on Health Care, District 
of Columbia, Census and the National Archives; the Subcommittee 
on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations; 
the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and 
Government Spending; the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs; and the 
Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, 
Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform.

                       I. Legislative Activities


                         BILLS ENACTED INTO LAW

    H.R. 1308, to amend the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission 
Act to extend the termination date for the Commission, and for 
other purposes. Introduced by Rep. Elton Gallegly on April 1, 
2011, passed the House on May 12, 2011, and became Public Law 
112-13.

                       BILLS PASSED BY THE HOUSE

    H.R. 471, Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act. 
Introduced by Rep. John Boehner on January 26, 2011. History: 
Marked up by the Committee on March 10, 2011, and ordered 
favorably reported by a vote of 21 ayes to 14 nays; H. Rept. 
112-36 filed on March 17, 2011; and passed the House on March 
30, 2011, by a vote of 225-195.
    H.R. 1255, Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2011. 
Introduced by Rep. Steve Womack on March 30, 2011, with primary 
referral to the Committee on Appropriations. History: The 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform did not act on 
H.R. 1255; and it was passed by the House on April 1, 2011, by 
a vote of 221-201.
    H.R. 2061, Civilian Service Recognition Act of 2011. 
Introduced by Rep. Richard Hanna on May 31, 2011. History: 
Marked up by the Committee on June 22, 2011, and ordered 
favorably reported by a voice vote; H. Rept. 112-149 filed on 
July 18, 2011; and passed in the House on November 2, 2011, by 
a vote of 425-0.
    H.R. 2297, to promote the development of the Southwest 
waterfront in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 
Introduced by Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton on June 22, 2011. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on November 3, 2011, 
ordered favorably reported to the House by voice vote; and 
passed in the House on December 6, 2011, as amended by voice 
vote.
    H.R. 3237, SOAR Technical Corrections Act. Introduced by 
Rep. Trey Gowdy on October 18, 2011. History: Marked up by the 
Committee on November 3, 2011, ordered reported favorably, as 
amended, by voice vote; H. Rept. 112-315 filed on December 6, 
2011; and passed in the House on December 6, 2011, as amended 
by voice vote.
    H. Res. 391, Expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives regarding the terrorist attacks launched 
against the United States on September 11, 2001, on the 10th 
anniversary of that date. History: H. Res. 391 was introduced 
on September 7, 2011; the Committee on Oversight and Government 
Reform did not act on H. Res. 391; and it was agreed to by the 
House on September 9, 2011, without objection.
    S. 627, Budget Control Act of 2011. Introduced by Senator 
Patrick Leahy on March 17, 2011. History: The Committee on 
Oversight and Government Reform did not act on S. 627; and it 
was agreed to by the House on July 29, 2011, by a vote of 218-
210.

                     BILLS PASSED BY THE COMMITTEE

    H.R. 373, Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency 
Act of 2011. Introduced by Rep. Virginia Foxx on January 20, 
2011. History: Marked up by the Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform on September 21, 2011, and ordered reported favorably to 
the Full Committee, as amended, by a recorded vote of 5 ayes to 
4 nays; marked up by the Committee on November 17, 2011, and 
ordered reported favorably, as amended, by a vote of 22 ayes to 
12 nays.
    H.R. 665, Excess Federal Building and Property Disposal Act 
of 2011. Introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz on February 11, 
2011. History: Marked up by the Committee on November 17, 2011, 
ordered reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
    H.R. 828, Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2011. 
Introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz on February 28, 2011. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on April 13, 2011, and 
ordered reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
    H.R. 829, Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2011. 
Introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz on February 28, 2011. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on April 13, 2011, and 
ordered reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
    H.R. 899, to amend title 41, United States Code, to extend 
the sunset date for certain protests of task and deliver order 
contracts. Introduced by Rep. James Lankford on March 3, 2011. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on March 10, 2011, and 
ordered reported favorably, by voice vote; H. Rept. 112-37 
filed on March 17, 2011.
    H.R. 1470, to amend title 5, U.S.C., to extend the 
probationary period applicable to appointments in the civil 
service, and for other purposes. Introduced by Rep. Dennis Ross 
on April 8, 2011. History: Marked up by the Committee on April 
13, 2011, and ordered reported favorably, as amended, by a vote 
of 15 ayes to 14 nays.
    H.R. 1974, Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act. 
Introduced by Rep. Mike Quigley on May 24, 2011. History: 
Marked up by the Committee on June 22, 2011, ordered reported 
favorably, as amended, by a voice vote.
    H.R. 2146, DATA Act. Introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa on 
June 13, 2011. History: Marked up by the Committee on June 22, 
2011, ordered reported favorably, as amended, by a voice vote. 
H. Rept. 112-260 filed on October 25, 2011.
    H.R. 2309, Postal Reform Act of 2011. Introduced by Rep. 
Darrell Issa on June 23, 2011. History: Marked up by the 
Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and 
Labor Policy on September 21, 2011, and ordered reported 
favorably to the Full Committee, as amended, by a recorded vote 
of 8 ayes to 5 nays. Marked up by the Committee on October 13, 
2011, ordered reported favorably, as amended, by a recorded 
vote of 22 Ayes to 18 Nays.
    H.R. 3029, Reducing the Size of the Federal Government 
Through Attrition Act of 2011. Introduced by Rep. Mick Mulvaney 
on September 22, 2011. History: Marked up by the Committee on 
November 3, 2011, ordered reported favorably, as amended, by a 
recorded vote of 23 Ayes to 14 Nays.
    H.R. 3071, Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011. 
Introduced by Rep. Edolphus Towns on September 29, 2011. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on November 17, 2011, 
ordered reported favorably, as amended, by voice vote.
    H.R. 3124, Federal Advisory Committee Act Amendments of 
2011. Introduced by Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay on October 6, 2011. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on October 13, 2011, 
ordered reported favorably by unanimous consent.
    H.R. 3262, Government Results Transparency Act. Introduced 
by Rep. Frank Guinta on October 26, 2011. History: Marked up by 
the Committee on November 3, 2011, ordered reported favorably 
by voice vote.
    H.R. 3289, Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 
2011. Introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa on November 1, 2011. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on November 3, 2011, 
ordered reported favorably, as amended, by a recorded vote of 
35 Ayes to 0 Nays.
    H.R. 3433, GRANT Act. Introduced by Rep. James Lankford on 
November 16, 2011. History: Marked up by the Committee on 
November 17, 2011, ordered reported favorably, as amended, by 
voice vote.
    S. 300, Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 
2011. Introduced by Sen. Chuck Grassley on February 8, 2011. 
History: Marked up by the Committee on October 13, 2011, 
ordered reported favorably by unanimous consent.

                         POSTAL NAMING MEASURES

Enacted

    H.R. 771, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1081 Elbel Road in Schertz, Texas, as 
the ``Schertz Veterans Post Office''.
    H.R. 793, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 12781 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in 
Inverness, California, as the ``Specialist Jake Robert Velloza 
Post Office.''
    H.R. 1632, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 5014 Gary Avenue in Lubbock, Texas, 
as the ``Sergeant Chris Davis Post Office''.
    H.R. 1843, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 489 Army Drive in Barrigada, Guam, as 
the ``John Pangelinan Gerber Post Office Building''.
    H.R. 1975, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 281 East Colorado Boulevard in 
Pasadena, California, as the ``First Lieutenant Oliver Goodall 
Post Office Building''.
    H.R. 2062, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 45 Meetinghouse Lane in Sagamore 
Beach, Massachusetts, as the ``Matthew A. Pucino Post Office''.
    H.R. 2149, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 4354 Pahoa Avenue in Honolulu, 
Hawaii, as the ``Cecil L. Heftel Post Office Building''.
    S. 349, a bill to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 4865 Tallmadge Road in 
Rootstown, Ohio, as the ``Marine Sgt. Jeremy E. Murray Post 
Office''.
    S. 655, a bill to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 95 Dogwood Street in Cary, 
Mississippi, as the ``Spencer Byrd Powers, Jr. Post Office''.
    S. 1412, a bill to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 462 Washington Street, Woburn, 
Massachusetts, as the ``Officer John Maguire Post Office''.

Passed by the House

    H.R. 298, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 500 East Whitestone Boulevard in 
Cedar Park, Texas, as the ``Army Specialist Matthew Troy Morris 
Post Office Building''.
    H.R. 789, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 20 Main Street in Little Ferry, New 
Jersey, as the ``Sergeant Matthew J. Fenton Post Office''.
    H.R. 1423, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 115 4th Avenue Southwest in Ardmore, 
Oklahoma, as the ``Specialist Micheal E. Phillips Post 
Office.''
    H.R. 2213, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 801 West Eastport Street in Iuka, 
Mississippi, as the ``Sergeant Jason W. Vaughn Post Office''.
    H.R. 2244, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 67 Castle Street in Geneva, New York, 
as the ``Corporal Steven Blaine Riccione Post Office''.
    H.R. 2415, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 11 Dock Street in Pittston, 
Pennsylvania, as the ``Trooper Joshua D. Miller Post Office 
Building''.
    H.R. 2422, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 45 Bay Street, Suite 2, in Staten 
Island, New York, as the ``Sergeant Angel Mendez Post Office''.
    H.R. 2548, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 6310 North University Street in 
Peoria, Illinois, as the ``Charles `Chip' Lawrence Chan Post 
Office Building''.
    H.R. 2660, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 122 North Holderrieth Boulevard in 
Tomball, Texas, as the ``Tomball Veterans Post Office''.
    H.R. 3004, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 260 California Drive in Yountville, 
California, as the ``Private First Class Alejandro R. Ruiz Post 
Office Building''.

Passed by Committee

    H.R. 2079, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 10 Main Street in East Rockaway, New 
York, as the ``John J. Cook Post Office.''
    H.R. 2158, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 14901 Adelfa Drive in La Mirada, 
California, as the ``Wayne Grisham Post Office.''
    H.R. 2767, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 8 West Silver Street in Westfield, 
Massachusetts, as the ``William T. Trant Post Office 
Building''.
    H.R. 3220, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 170 Evergreen Square SW in Pine City, 
Minnesota, as the ``Master Sergeant Daniel L. Fedder Post 
Office.''
    H.R. 3246, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 15455 Manchester Road in Ballwin, 
Missouri, as the ``Specialist Peter J. Navarro Post Office 
Building.''
    H.R. 3247, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1100 Town and Country Commons in 
Chesterfield, Missouri, as the ``Lance Corporal Matthew P. 
Pathenos Post Office Building.''
    H.R. 3248, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 112 South 5th Street in Saint 
Charles, Missouri, as the ``Lance Corporal Drew W. Weaver Post 
Office Building.''

                        II. Oversight Activities


               FULL COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND HEARINGS HELD

    Jan. 25, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Organization 
Meeting.
    Jan. 26, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing on 
``Bailouts and the Foreclosure Crisis: Report of the Special 
Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program 
(`SIGTARP').'' Witnesses: The Honorable Neil Barofsky, Special 
Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program; The 
Honorable Tim Massad, Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial 
Stability and Chief Counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
    Feb. 10, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting 
regarding the Oversight Plan.
    Full Committee Hearing, ``Regulatory Impediments to Job 
Creation.'' Witnesses: Mr. Jay Timmons, CEO, National 
Association of Manufacturers; Mr. Tom Nassif, President and 
CEO, Western Growers Association; Mr. Harry Alford, CEO, Black 
Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Michael J. Fredrich, President, MCM 
Composites, LLC; Mr. Jack Buschur, Buschur Electric; Mr. James 
Gattuso, Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy, The 
Heritage Foundation; Mr. Sidney Shapiro, Center for Progressive 
Reform; Ms. Karen Kerrigan, President and CEO, Small Business 
and Entrepreneurship Council; and Mr. Jerry Ellig, Senior 
Research Fellow, Mercatus Center.
    Feb. 17, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Hearing ``Waste 
and Abuse: The Refuse of the Federal Spending Binge.'' 
Witnesses: Hon. Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senate; Mr. Andrew 
Moylan, Vice President of Government Affairs, National 
Taxpayers Union; Mr. Thomas A. Schatz, President, Citizens 
Against Government Waste; Ms. Debra Cammer, Vice President and 
Partner, IBM; Hon. Gene L. Kodaro, Comptroller General of the 
United States, U.S. Government Accounting Office; Veronique de 
Rugy, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center; Mr. 
Vincent Frakes, Federal Policy Manager, Center for Health 
Transformation; Mr. Gary Kalman, Director, Federal Legislative 
Office, U.S. PIRG.
    Feb. 28, 2011, 10:30 a.m.--Joint Hearing with Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure on ``America's Presidential 
Libraries: Their Mission and Their Future.'' Witnesses: Hon. 
David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, National 
Archives and Records Administration; Mr. Thomas Putman, 
Director, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Mr. 
R. Duke Blackwood, Director, Ronald Reagan Presidential 
Library; Thomas Schwartz, Ph.D., Illinois State Historian, 
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; Ms. Anna 
Eleanor Roosevelt, Chair, Board of Directors, The Roosevelt 
Institute; and Martha Kumar, Ph.D., Professor, Towson 
University.
    Mar. 3, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing, ``The 
Refuse of the Federal Spending Binge II: How U.S. Taxpayers are 
Paying Double for Failing Government Programs.'' Witnesses: 
Hon. Thomas M. Davis, III, Director of Federal Government 
Affairs, Deloitte & Touche LLP; Hon. Gene L. Dodaro, 
Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government 
Accountability Office; and Ms. Ryan Alexander, President, 
Taxpayers for Common Sense.
    Mar. 8, 2011, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee field hearing, 
``The Foreclosure Crisis'' at the University of MD School of 
Law located at 500, W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. 
Witnesses: Hon. Martin O'Malley, Governor of Maryland; Hon. 
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore; Mr. Mark Kaufman, 
Commissioner of Financial Regulation, MD Department of Labor, 
Licensing and Regulation; Mr. Kevin Jerron Matthews, Homeowner; 
Ms. Jane A. Wilson, Chair, Board of Directors, St. Ambrose 
Housing Aid Center, Inc.

    Mar. 10, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting. 
Summary:

H.R. 899 (Lankford)--To amend title 41, United States Code, to extend 
        the sunset date for certain protests of task and deliver order 
        contracts

     H.R. 899 was ordered reported favorably by voice 
vote, a quorum being present.

H.R. 793 (Woolsey)--To designate the facility of the United States 
        Postal Service located at 12781 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in 
        Inverness, California, as the ``Specialist Jake Robert Velloza 
        Post Office''

     H.R. 793 was ordered reported favorably by 
unanimous consent, a quorum being present.

H.R. 471 (Boehner)--``Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act,'' 
        or ``SOAR Act''

    1.  Issa amendment in the nature of a substitute--agreed to 
by voice vote, a quorum being present.
    2.  Norton amendment in the nature of a substitute (to the 
Issa amendment)--defeated by a record vote of 12 ayes to 21 
noes.

        Voting aye: Platts, Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, 
        Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Connolly, Braley, Welch, and 
        Murphy.

        Voting no: Issa, Burton, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, 
        Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Buerkle, 
        Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Walsh, Gowdy, 
        Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

     H.R. 471 was ordered favorably reported, as 
amended, a quorum being present, by a vote of 21 ayes to 14 
nays.

        Voting aye: Issa, Burton, Turner, McHenry, Jordan, 
        Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Buerkle, 
        Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Walsh, Gowdy, 
        Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

        Voting no: Platts, Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, 
        Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Connolly, Quigley, Braley, 
        Welch, Murphy, and Speier.

    Mar. 17, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The Freedom of Information Act: Crowd-Sourcing Government 
Oversight.'' Witnesses: Ms. Miriam Nisbet, Director, Office of 
Government Information, National Archives and Records 
Administration; Mr. Daniel Metcalfe, Executive Director, 
Collaboration on Government Secrecy; Mr. Rick Blum, 
Coordinator, Sunshine in Government; Mr. Tom Fitton, President, 
Judicial Watch; Ms. Angela Canterbury, Director of Public 
Policy, Project on Open Government.
    Mar. 31, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Why Isn't the Department of Homeland Security Meeting the 
President's Standard on FOIA?'' Witnesses: Ms. Mary Ellen 
Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer, The Privacy Office, U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Charles K. Edwards, Acting 
Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Ivan Fong, General 
Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of 
Homeland Security; Mr. John Verdi, Senior Counsel, Director of 
Open Government Project, Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    Apr. 5, 2011, 9:45 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Are Postal Workforce Costs Sustainable?'' Witnesses: Hon. 
Louis J. Giuliano, Chairman, U.S. Postal Service Board of 
Governors; Hon. James C. Miller, III, Governor, U.S. Postal 
Service Board of Governors; Hon. Patrick R. Donahoe, Postmaster 
General and CEO, United States Postal Service; and Mr. Cliff 
Guffey, President, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO.

    Apr. 13, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting. 
Summary:

H.R. 829 (Chaffetz)--the Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2011

    1.  Chaffetz amendment in the nature of a substitute--
agreed to by voice vote, as amended.
    2.  Connolly amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--defeated 
by voice vote.
    3.  Speier amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--agreed to 
by voice vote.
    4.  Quigley amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--ruled 
out-of-order (non-germane)
    5.  Tierney amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--ruled 
out-of-order (non-germane)
     H.R. 829 was ordered reported favorably by voice 
vote, as amended, a quorum being present.

H.R. 828 (Chaffetz)--the Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 
        2011

    1.  Chaffetz amendment in the nature of a substitute--
agreed to by voice vote, as amended.
    2.  Lynch amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--agreed to 
by voice vote, as amended.
        -- Issa asked unanimous consent to change ``90'' to 
        ``60'' on page 2, line 10 of the amendment. There was 
        no objection.
    3.  Davis amendment to the Chaffetz substitute--defeated by 
voice vote.
     H.R. 828 was ordered reported favorably, as 
amended, by voice vote, a quorum being present.

H.R. 1470 (Ross-FL)--To amend title 5, U.S.C., to extend the 
        probationary period applicable to appointments in the civil 
        service, and for other purposes

    1.  Ross amendment in the nature of a substitute--agreed to 
by voice vote.
    2.  Connolly amendment to the Ross substitute--ruled out-
of-order (non-germane)
    3.  Cummings amendment to the Ross substitute--defeated by 
a vote of 13 ayes to 14 noes.

        Voting aye: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich, 
        Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Connolly, Davis, Braley, Murphy 
        and Speier.

        Voting no: Issa, Burton, Platts, Chaffetz, Walberg, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Gowdy, Ross and Farenthold.

     H.R. 1470 was ordered favorably reported, as 
amended, a quorum being present, by a vote of 15 ayes to 14 
nays.

        Voting aye: Issa, Burton, McHenry, Chaffetz, Walberg, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta and Farenthold.

        Voting no: Platts, Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, 
        Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Connolly, Davis, 
        Braley, Murphy, and Speier.

    **Note: Had they been present at the vote, Mr. Turner and 
Mr. Walsh both would have been recorded as voting ``aye.'' By 
unanimous consent, this was approved for the record.

H.R. 1423 (Cole)--To designate the facility of the United States Postal 
        Service located at 115 4th Avenue Southwest in Ardmore, 
        Oklahoma, as the ``Specialist Micheal E. Phillips Post Office''

     H.R. 1423 was ordered favorably reported by 
unanimous consent, a quorum being present.
    Apr. 14, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``State and Municipal Debt: Tough Choices Ahead.'' Witnesses: 
Hon. Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin; Hon. Peter Shumlin, 
Governor of Vermont; Andrew Biggs, Ph.D., Resident Scholar, 
American Enterprise Institute; Mr. Mark Mix, President, 
National Right to Work Committee; Robert Novy-Marx, Ph.D., 
Professor of Finance, University of Rochester Simon Graduate 
School of Business; and Desmond Lachman, Ph.D., Resident 
Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.
    Apr. 18, 2011, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Policies Affecting High Tech Growth and Federal Adoption of 
Industry Best Practices'' located at the Council Chambers of 
the San Jose City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose, 
CA. Witnesses: Mr. Milo Medin, Vice President for Access 
Services, Google; Mr. Stuart McKee, National Technology 
Officer, U.S. Public Sector, Microsoft; and Mr. Patrick 
Quinlan, President, Rivet Software.
    Apr. 19, 2011, 8:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation: Assessing the 
Cumulative Impact of EPA Regulation on America's Farmers'' 
located at Salinas City Council Chambers, 200 Lincoln Avenue, 
Salinas, California. Witnesses: Mr. Tom Nassif, President and 
CEO, Western Growers Association; Mr. Jim Bogart, President, 
Gowers/Shippers Association of Central California; Mr. Richard 
R. Smith, Owner, Paraiso Vineyards; Mr. Norm Groot, Executive 
Director, Monterey County Farm Bureau; Mr. Mike Jarrard, Mann 
Packing Co., Inc.; Mr. Mark Murai.
    Apr. 21, 2011, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Federal Policies Affecting Innovation and Job Growth in the 
Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industries'' located at Atkinson 
Hall, the University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman 
Drive, La Jolla, CA. Witnesses: David Gollaher, M.D., President 
and CEO, California Healthcare Institute; Mr. Duane J. Roth, 
CEO, Connect; Mr. Joseph D. Panetta, President and CEO, BIOCOM; 
Mr. Alexis Lukianov, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive 
Officer, NuVasive, Inc.; Ms. Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor, 
University of California, San Diego.
    May 3, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Presidential Records in the New Millennium: Updating the 
Presidential Records Act and Other Federal Recordkeeping 
Statutes to Improve Electronic Records Preservation.'' 
Witnesses: Hon. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United 
States, National Archives and Records Administration; Mr. Brook 
Colangelo, Chief Information Officer, Office of Administration, 
Executive Office of the President.
    May 6, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee field hearing 
entitled, ``Pathways To Energy Independence: Hydraulic 
Fracturing And Other New Technologies,'' held at the Kern 
County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 1115 Truxtun Avenue, 
Bakersfield, California. Witnesses: Assemblywoman Shannon 
Grove, 32nd District of California; Mr. Rock Zierman, CEO, 
California Independent Petroleum Association; William F. 
Whitsitt, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Devon Energy; Mr. 
Steve Layton, President, E&B Natural Resources Management 
Corporation; and Mr. Tupper Hull, Vice President Western States 
Petroleum Association.
    May 10, 2011, 12:30 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The Future of Capital Formation.'' Witnesses: Hon. Mary 
Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; 
Ms. Meredith Cross, Director of the Division of Corporation 
Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Mr. Barry E. 
Silbert, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Second Market, 
Inc.; Mr. Eric Koester, Chief Operation Officer and Founder, 
Zaarly, Inc.; Richard W. Rahn, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Cato 
Institute; Mr. Jon Macey, Sam Harris Professor of Corporate 
Law, Securities Law and Corporate Finance, Yale Law School; 
Hon. Roel Campos, Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP.
    May 12, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Politicizing Procurement: Will President Obama's Proposal 
Curb Free Speech & Hurt Small Business?'' Witnesses: The 
Honorable Daniel Gordon, Administrator for Office of Federal 
Procurement Policy, OMB; Mr. Alan Chvotkin, Senior Vice 
President, Professional Services Counsel; Mr. Mark Renaud, 
Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP; Ms. M.L. Mackey, CEO, Beacon 
Interactive Systems; Ms. Lawrie Hollingsworth, President, Asset 
Recovery Technologies, Inc.; Mrs. Marion Blakey, President and 
CEO, Aerospace Industries Association; Mr. Brad Smith, 
Professor, Capital University Law School.
    May 24, 2011, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Pain at the Pump: Policies that Suppress Domestic Production 
of Oil and Gas.'' Witnesses: Hon. Lisa P. Jackson, 
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and Hon. David 
J. Hayes, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior.
    June 2, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Making the Gulf Coast Whole Again: Assessing the Recovery 
Efforts of BP and the Obama Administration After the Oil 
Spill.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Haley Barbour, Governor, 
State of Mississippi; Mr. Craig Taffaro, President, St. 
Bernard's Parish, LA; Mr. Bill Williams, Commissioner, Gulf 
County, FL; Mr. Cory Kief, President, Offshore Towing, Inc.; 
Mr. Frank Rusco, Director, Energy and Science Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; Mr. Michael Bromwich, 
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and 
Enforcement, U.S. Department of Interior.
    June 13, 2011, 1:00 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Obstruction of Justice: Does the Justice Department Have to 
Respond to a Lawfully Issued and Valid Congressional 
Subpoena?'' Witnesses: Mr. Morton Rosenberg, Former Specialist 
in American Public Law, American Law Division, Congressional 
Research Service, Library of Congress; Mr. Todd Tatelman, 
Legislative Attorney, Congressional Research Service's American 
Law Division; Mr. Louis Fisher, Scholar in Residence, The 
Constitution Project; Professor Charles Tiefer, Commissioner, 
Commission on Wartime Contracting.
    June 14, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Achieving Transparency and Accountability in Federal 
Spending.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Earl Devaney, Chairman, 
Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board; Ms. Ellen 
Miller, Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation; Mr. Patrick 
Quinlan, Chief Executive Officer, Rivet Software; Ms. Kim 
Wallin, Controller, State of Nevada; Mr. Craig Jennings, 
Director of Federal Fiscal Policy, OMB Watch.
    June 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Operation Fast and Furious: Reckless Decisions, Tragic 
Outcomes.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Charles E. Grassley, 
Ranking Member, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary; Ms. 
Josephine Terry, Mother of Late Border Agent Brian Terry; Ms. 
Michelle Terry Balogh, Sister of Late Border Agent Brian Terry; 
Mr. Robert Heyer, Cousin of Late Border Agent Brian Terry; 
Special Agent John Dodson, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms, and Explosives, Phoenix Field Division; Special Agent 
Olindo ``Lee'' Casa, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and 
Explosives, Phoenix Field Division; Special Agent Peter 
Forcelli, Group Supervisor, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms, and Explosives, Phoenix Field Division; The Honorable 
Ronald Weich, Assistant Attorney General. U.S. Department of 
Justice
    June 17, 2011, 12:30 p.m.--Full Committee Field hearing 
entitled, ``Unionization Through Regulation: The NLRB's Holding 
Pattern on Free Enterprise'' located at the Charleston County 
Council Chambers, The Lonnie Hamilton Building, 4045 Bridge 
View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina. Witnesses: Mr. 
Philip Miscimarra, Labor Attorney, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; 
Mr. Neil Whitman, President, Dunhill Staffing Systems; 
Professor Julius G. Getman, Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair, 
University of Texas at Austin School of Law; Ms. Cynthia 
Ramaker, Employee, The Boeing Company (Testifying on Her Own 
Behalf); Mr. Lafe Solomon, Acting General Counsel, National 
Labor Relations Board; The Honorable Nikki Haley, Governor of 
the State of South Carolina; The Honorable Alan Wilson, 
Attorney General of the State of South Carolina.
    June 21, 2011, 1:00 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The Hatch Act: The Challenges of Separating Politics from 
Policy.'' Witnesses: Mr. Richard W. Painter, Professor of 
Corporate Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Former 
Associate White House Counsel to President George W. Bush 2005-
2007; Mr. Scott A. Coffina, Partner, Montgomery, McCracken, 
Walker & Rhoads, LLP, Former Associate White House Counsel to 
President George W. Bush 2007-2009; Ms. Ana Galindo-Marrone, 
Hatch Act Unit Chief, U.S. Office of Special Counsel.

    June 22, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting. 
Summary:

H.R. 2146 (Issa), the DATA Act

    1.  Issa offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
    2.  Speier offered an amendment to the substitute 
amendment--adding language on page 28, regarding the review of 
Federal funds rewarded. The amendment was agreed to by voice 
vote.
    3.  Connolly offered an amendment to the substitute. He 
then withdrew his amendment.
    4.  Quigley offered an amendment to the substitute 
amendment regarding a tax expenditures report.
        -- Issa asked unanimous consent to amend the Quigley 
        amendment by adding language after line 10. There was 
        no objection.
        -- The Quigley amendment, as amended, was agreed to by 
        voice vote.
    5.  Welch offered an amendment to the substitute amendment 
which inserted language regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices 
Act of 1977, and also added language regarding Federal funds.
        -- Issa asked unanimous consent to add the words ``to 
        the extent practicable'' to coordinate the amendment 
        with the earlier Speier amendment language pertaining 
        to page 28, line 22 of the substitute. There was no 
        objection.
        -- The Welch amendment, as amended, was agreed to by 
        voice vote.
    6.  Cummings offered an amendment en bloc. He then withdrew 
his amendment.
     The amendment in the nature of a substitute, as 
amended, was agreed to by voice vote. H.R. 2146 was ordered 
reported favorably by voice vote, as amended, a quorum being 
present.

H.R. 1974 (Quigley), the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act

    1.  Quigley offered an amendment adding language regarding 
technical changes to reports. The amendment was agreed to by 
voice vote.
     H.R. 1974 was ordered reported favorably by voice 
vote, as amended, a quorum being present.

H.R. 2061 (Hanna), the Civilian Service Recognition Act of 2011

    1.  Issa offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. The amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
     H.R. 2061 was ordered reported favorably by voice 
vote, as amended, a quorum being present.

Activity Report of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

     The Activity Report was ordered reported favorably 
by voice vote, a quorum being present.

The following postal naming bills were considered en bloc:

    H.R. 789 (Rothman), a bill to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 20 Main Street in 
Little Ferry, New Jersey, as the ``Sergeant Matthew J. Fenton 
Post Office'';
    H.R. 1843 (Bordallo), a bill to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 489 Army Drive in 
Barrigada, Guam, as the ``John Pangelinan Gerber Post Office 
Building'';
    H.R. 1975 (Schiff), a bill to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 281 East Colorado 
Boulevard in Pasadena, California, as the ``First Lieutenant 
Oliver Goodall Post Office Building'';
    H.R. 2062 (Keating), a bill to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 45 Meetinghouse 
Lane in Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, as the ``Matthew A. 
Pucino Post Office'';
    H.R. 2149 (Hanabusa), a bill to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 4354 Pahoa Avenue 
in Honolulu, Hawaii, as the ``Cecil L. Heftel Post Office 
Building'';
    H.R. 2213 (Nunnelee), a bill to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 801 West Eastport 
Street in Iuka, Mississippi, as the ``Sergeant Jason W. Vaughn 
Post Office'' and H.R. 2244 (Hanna), a bill to designate the 
facility at the United States Postal Service located at 67 
Castle Street in Geneva, New York, as the ``Corporal Steven 
Blaine Riccione Post Office.''
     The Chairman asked Unanimous Consent to favorably 
report the bills. There was no objection.
    July 7, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Cybersecurity: Assessing the Nation's Ability to Address the 
Growing Cyber Threat.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Greg Shaffer, 
Acting Deputy Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs 
Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Mr. James A. 
Baker, Associate Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of 
Justice; Mr. Robert J. Butler, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Cyber Policy, U.S. Department of Defense; Mr. Ari Schwartz, 
Senior Internet Policy Advisor, National Institute of Standards 
and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce.
    July 14, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Consumer Financial Protection Efforts: Answers Needed.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Elizabeth Warren, Assistant to the 
President and Special Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury, 
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
    July 26, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Operation Fast and Furious: The Other Side of the Border.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Darren Gil, Former ATF Attache to Mexico; Mr. 
Lorren Leadmon, ATF Intelligence Operations Specialist; Special 
Agent Jose Wall, ATF Senior Special Agent, Tijuana, Mexico; 
Special Agent William Newell, Former ATF Special Agent in 
Charge, Phoenix Field Division; Special Agent Carlos Canino, 
ATF Acting Attache to Mexico; Special Agent William McMahon, 
ATF Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations (West, 
including Phoenix and Mexico).
    July 27, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Disposal of Federal Real Property: Legislative Proposals.'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Jason Chaffetz, Member of Congress; 
The Honorable Mike Quigley, Member of Congress; The Honorable 
Jeff Denham, Member of Congress; The Honorable Daniel Werfel, 
Controller, Office of Management and Budget; Mr. David Foley, 
Deputy Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General 
Services Administration; Ms. Theresa Gullo, Deputy Assistant 
Director, Budget Analysis Division, Congressional Budget 
Office; Mr. Joseph Moravec, Former Commissioner, Public 
Buildings Administration, U.S. General Services Administration; 
Ms. Maria Foscarinis, Executive Director, National Center on 
Homelessness & Poverty.
    Sept. 14, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``How A Broken Process Leads to Flawed Regulations.'' 
Witnesses: John Graham, PhD, Dean, Indiana University School of 
Public and Environmental Affairs, former OIRA Administrator; 
Mrs. Robbie LeValley, Co-owner, Homestead Meats, Member of the 
Board of Directors, National Cattlemen's Beef Association; Mr. 
David Arkush, Director, Public Citizen's Congress Watch; Mr. 
David Barker, Owner, Vida Preciosa International, Inc.; Mr. 
Mathew Palmer, Flight Attendant, Delta Air Lines (testifying on 
his own behalf); The Honorable Cass Sunstein, Administrator, 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget.
    Sept. 22, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``How Obama's Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs.'' Witnesses: 
The Honorable Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, United States 
Department of Energy; Mr. Daniel Poneman, Deputy Secretary, 
United States Department of Energy; The Honorable Keith Hall, 
Commissioner, Burea of Labor Statistics, United States 
Department of Labor.
    Oct. 4, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Where is the Peace Dividend? Examining the Final Report to 
Congress of the Commission on Wartime Contracting.'' Witnesses: 
Commissioner Clark Kent Ervin, Commission on Wartime 
Contracting; Commissioner Katherine Schinasi, Commission on 
Wartime Contracting; Commissioner Michael J. Thibault, Co-
Chair, Commission on Wartime Contracting; Commissioner Robert 
J. Henke, Commission on Wartime Contracting; Commissioner 
Christopher Shays, Co-Chair, Commission on Wartime Contracting; 
Commissioner Charles Tiefer, Commission on Wartime Contracting; 
Commissioner Dov S. Zakheim, Commission on Wartime Contracting; 
Commissioner Grant S. Green (Invited), Commission on Wartime 
Contracting.

    Oct. 13, 2011, 10:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting. 
Summary:

H.R. 2309 (Issa), the ``Postal Reform Act of 2011''

    1.  Ross offered an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
(ANS).
    2.  Lankford offered an amendment (#103) to the Ross ANS to 
add a section to the bill, ``Retiree Health Care Benefit 
Payment Deferral.'' The amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    3.  Cummings offered a substitute (#35) to the Ross ANS. 
The amendment was defeated by a recorded vote of 16 Ayes to 17 
Nays.

        Voting Aye: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich, 
        Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Quigley, Davis, 
        Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, and Murphy.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, 
        Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, Ross, Farenthold, and Kelly.

    4.  Ross offered an amendment (#104) to the Ross ANS to 
strike part of Sec. 401 (``Adequacy, Efficiency, and Fairness 
of Postal Rates'') and insert new language. The amendment was 
agreed to by voice vote.
    5.  Lynch offered a substitute (#36) to the Ross ANS. The 
amendment was defeated by a recorded vote of 17 Ayes to 20 
Nays.

        Voting Aye: Platts, Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, 
        Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, 
        Quigley, Davis, Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, and Murphy.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, Turner, McHenry, 
        Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, 
        Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
        Ross, Farenthold, and Kelly.

    6.  Chaffetz offered an amendment (#177) to the Ross ANS to 
strike section 111 (``Frequency of Mail Delivery'') and insert 
new language. The amendment was agreed to by a voice vote.
    7.  Clay offered an amendment (# 21) to the Ross ANS to 
strike part of Sec. 501 (Sec. 702. ``Advocate for 
competition''). The amendment failed by a recorded vote of 16 
Ayes to 22 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich, 
        Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Quigley, Davis, 
        Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, and Murphy.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

    8.  Buerkle offered an amendment (#132) to the Ross ANS to 
add language at the end of Sec. 104 regarding limiting retail 
facilities identified for closure. The amendment was agreed to 
by a recorded vote of 21 Ayes to 17 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, 
        Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Gowdy, 
        Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

        Voting Nay: Amash, Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, 
        Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, 
        Quigley, Davis, Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, and Murphy.

     9.  Norton offered an amendment (#92) to the Ross ANS to 
add Sense of Congress language regarding collective bargaining 
agreements. The amendment was agreed to by U.C.
    10.  Chaffetz offered an amendment (# 131) to the Ross ANS 
adding a paragraph to Sec. 211 regarding economic savings. The 
amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    11.  Norton offered an amendment (#96) to the Ross ANS 
striking subsection (c) of Sec. 112 (``Efficient and Flexible 
Universal Postal Service'') and replacing it with new language. 
The amendment failed by a recorded vote of 16 Ayes to 22 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich, 
        Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Quigley, Davis, 
        Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, and Murphy.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

    12.  Meehan offered an amendment (#8) to the Ross ANS 
regarding Sec. 202(b)(1) (``Commencement of a Control 
Period''). The amendment was agreed to by voice vote, as 
amended by the Platts amendment (#18).
    13.  Platts offered an amendment (#18) to the Meehan 
amendment (#8). The amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    14.  Connolly offered an amendment (#91) to the Ross ANS to 
strike titles I, II, and III of the bill and insert a new title 
I. The amendment was defeated by a recorded vote of 17 Ayes to 
22 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich, 
        Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Quigley, Davis, 
        Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, Murphy, and Speier.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

    15.  Turner offered an amendment en bloc (3 parts--
amendments #59, #60 and #101) to the Ross ANS. There was no 
objection to a unanimous consent request to add, ``as listed in 
the National Register of Historic Places'' after the word 
``district'' in amendment #59 of the en bloc. The amendment was 
agreed to by voice vote.
    16.  Davis offered an amendment (#38) to the Ross ANS to 
strike section 311 (``Postal Service Workers' Compensation 
Reform''). The amendment was withdrawn.
    17.  Davis offered an amendment (#39) to the Ross ANS to 
strike section 403 (``Rate Preferences for Nonprofit 
Advertising''). There was no objection to a unanimous consent 
request to substitute the language from amendment #105 (makes 
three changes to section 403). The amendment was agreed to by 
voice vote.
    18.  Lankford offered an amendment (#133) to the Ross ANS 
to add a section to title I of the bill, ``Applicability of 
Procedures Relating to Closures and Consolidations.'' The 
amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    19.  Towns offered an amendment (#23) to the Ross ANS to 
add a GAO study and report on the effects of proposed closures 
and consolidations on minority communities. The amendment was 
agreed to by voice vote.
    20.  Murphy offered an amendment (#93-Norton) to strike 
subsections (g) and (i) of section 211, and to strike sections 
304 and 305 of the bill. The amendment was defeated by a 
recorded vote of 17 Ayes to 22 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich, 
        Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Quigley, Davis, 
        Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, Murphy, and Speier.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

    21.  Murphy offered an amendment (#52) to the Ross ANS to 
strike section 112 (c) of the bill and insert other language 
(``Reaffirmation of Public Appeal''). The amendment was 
withdrawn.
    22.  Braley offered an amendment (#30) to the Ross ANS to 
strike subtitle A (``Commission on Postal Reorganization'') of 
title I of the bill, and to strike section 112 (``Efficient and 
Flexible Universal Postal Service'') of the bill. The amendment 
was defeated by a recorded vote of 17 Ayes to 22 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich, 
        Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Quigley, Davis, 
        Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, Murphy, and Speier.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

    23.  Braley offered an amendment (#32) to the Ross ANS to 
add a subsection at the end of section 104, ``Annual Plan.'' 
The amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    24.  Yarmuth offered an amendment (#11) to the Ross ANS to 
strike section 409 (``Appropriations Modernization'') of the 
bill. The amendment was defeated by a recorded vote of 17 Ayes 
to 23 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich, 
        Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Quigley, Davis, 
        Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, Murphy, and Speier.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Walsh, Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

    The Ross amendment in the nature of a substitute, as 
amended, was agreed to by voice vote. The bill, H.R. 2309, as 
amended, was favorably reported to the House, a quorum being 
present, by a recorded vote of 22 Ayes to 18 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Issa, Burton, Mica, Turner, McHenry, 
        Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, 
        Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Walsh, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, and Kelly.

        Voting Nay: Platts, Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, 
        Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, 
        Quigley, Davis, Braley, Welch, Yarmuth, Murphy, and 
        Speier.

H.R. 3124 (Clay), the ``Federal Advisory Committee Act Amendments of 
        2011''

S. 300, the ``Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2011''

    There was no objection to the unanimous consent request to 
favorably report H.R. 3124 and S. 300 to the House.
    Nov. 1, 2011, 1:00 p.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Lights Out II: Should EPA Take A Step Back to Fully Consider 
Utility MACT's Impact on Job Creation?'' Witnesses: The 
Honorable Kenneth Cuccinelli, II, Attorney General, 
Commonwealth of Virginia; The Honorable Robert Perciasepe, 
Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 
Josh Bivens, Ph.D., Economist, Economic Policy Institute.

    Nov. 3, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting. 
Summary:

H.R. 3029 (Mulvaney), the ``Reducing the Size of the Federal Government 
        Through Attrition Act of 2011''

    1.  Meehan offered an amendment (#010) exempting law 
enforcement officers from being defined as Federal employees 
(for purposes of sec. 2 of the bill). The amendment was 
withdrawn.
    2.  Cummings offered an amendment (#107) inserting a 
section adding reporting requirements for various government 
agencies. Mr. Issa offered an amendment (2nd degree) to the 
Cummings amendment, which required only the Office of 
Management and Budget to submit a report. The Issa amendment 
was agreed to by voice vote. The Cummings amendment, as amended 
by the Issa 2nd degree amendment, was agreed to by voice vote.
    3.  Cooper offered an amendment (#014) which changed the 
replacement rate ratio from 1-3 to 1-2. The amendment was 
withdrawn.
    4.  Yarmuth offered an amendment (#018) which exempted 
agencies that provide services to veterans. The amendment was 
defeated by a recorded vote of 9 Ayes to 12 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Cummings, Towns, Norton, Tierney, Lynch, 
        Connolly, Davis, Yarmuth, and Speier.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Platts, Jordan, Chaffetz, Lankford, 
        Buerkle, Gosar, Meehan, DesJarlais, Guinta, Farenthold, 
        and Kelly.

    5.  Lynch offered an amendment (#039) in the nature of a 
substitute (ANS). The amendment was defeated by voice vote.
    6.  Lynch offered an amendment (#038) adding a new section, 
``Reduction in Procurement of Service Contracts.'' Mr. Issa 
offered an amendment (2nd degree) to the Lynch amendment, which 
added language regarding waiver authority. The Issa amendment 
was agreed to by voice vote. The Lynch amendment, as amended by 
the Issa 2nd degree amendment, was agreed to by voice vote.
    The bill, H.R. 3029, as amended, was ordered favorably 
reported to the House, a quorum being present, by a recorded 
vote of 23 Ayes to 14 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, McHenry, 
        Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, 
        Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Walsh, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, Kelly and Cooper.

        Voting Nay: Cummings, Towns, Maloney, Norton, Kucinich, 
        Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Connolly, Quigley, Davis, Braley, 
        Yarmuth and Speier.

H.R. 3289 (Issa), the ``Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 
        2011''

    1.  Cummings asked Unanimous Consent to change the title of 
the bill to the ``Platts-Van Hollen Whistleblower Protection 
Enhancement Act of 2011.'' There was no objection.
    2.  Tierney offered an amendment (#001) to Sec. 201, 
``Protection of Intelligence Community Whistleblowers.'' The 
amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    3.  Braley offered an amendment (#035) regarding jury 
trials. The amendment was defeated by a recorded vote of 13 
Ayes to 20 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Platts, Cummings, Maloney, Norton, Tierney, 
        Clay, Lynch, Connolly, Quigley, Davis, Braley, Yarmuth 
        and Speier.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, McHenry, Jordan, 
        Chaffetz, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, 
        Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Walsh, Gowdy, Ross, 
        Guinta, Farenthold and Kelly.

    4.  Speier offered an amendment which added a Government 
Accountability Office study. The amendment was agreed to by 
voice vote.
    The bill, H.R. 3289, as amended, was ordered favorably 
reported to the House, a quorum being present, by a recorded 
vote of 35 Ayes to 0 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, McHenry, 
        Jordan, Chaffetz, Walberg, Lankford, Amash, Buerkle, 
        Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, Walsh, Gowdy, 
        Ross, Guinta, Farenthold, Kelly, Cummings, Maloney, 
        Norton, Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, Cooper, 
        Connolly, Quigley, Davis, Braley, Yarmuth and Speier.

        Voting Nay: none.

H.R. 3262 (Guinta), the ``Government Results Transparency Act''

    The bill, H.R. 3262, was ordered favorably reported to the 
House, a quorum being present, by voice vote.

H.R. 3237 (Gowdy), the ``SOAR Technical Corrections Act''

    1.  Mr. Issa offered an amendment to replace section 3, 
``Nationally Norm-Referenced Standardized Tests.'' The 
amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
    The bill, H.R. 3237, as amended, was ordered favorably 
reported to the House, a quorum being present, by voice vote.

H.R. 2297 (Norton), to promote the development of the Southwest 
        waterfront in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes

    1.  Norton offered an ANS. The amendment was agreed to by 
voice vote.
    The bill, H.R. 2297, as amended, was ordered favorably 
reported to the House, a quorum being present, by voice vote.

The following postal naming bills were reported favorably to the House, 
        by U.C.:

     H.R. 298, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 500 East Whitestone Boulevard 
in Cedar Park, Texas, as the ``Army Specialist Matthew Troy 
Morris Post Office Building.'' Sponsored by Rep. John Carter 
(R-TX).
     H.R. 2079, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 10 Main Street in East 
Rockaway, New York, as the ``John J. Cook Post Office.'' 
Sponsored by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY).
     H.R. 2158, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 14901 Adelfa Drive in La 
Mirada, California, as the ``Wayne Grisham Post Office.'' 
Sponsored by Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA).
     H.R. 2415, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 11 Dock Street in Pittston, 
Pennsylvania, as the ``Trooper Joshua D. Miller Post Office 
Building.'' Sponsored by Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA).
     H.R. 2422, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 45 Bay Street, Suite 2, in 
Staten Island, New York, as the ``Sergeant Angel Mendez Post 
Office.'' Sponsored by Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY).
     H.R. 2660, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 122 North Holderrieth 
Boulevard in Tomball, Texas, as the ``Tomball Veterans Post 
Office.'' Sponsored by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX).
     H.R. 2767, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 8 West Silver Street in 
Westfield, Massachusetts, as the ``William T. Trant Post Office 
Building.'' Sponsored by Rep. John Olver (D-MA).
     H.R. 3004, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 260 California Drive in 
Yountville, California, as the ``Private First Class Alejandro 
R. Ruiz Post Office Building.'' Sponsored by Rep. Mike Thompson 
(D-CA).
     H.R. 3220, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 170 Evergreen Square SW in 
Pine City, Minnesota, as the ``Master Sergeant Daniel L. Fedder 
Post Office.'' Sponsored by Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN).
     H.R. 3246, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 15455 Manchester Road in 
Ballwin, Missouri, as the ``Specialist Peter J. Navarro Post 
Office Building.'' Sponsored by Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO).
     H.R. 3247, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 1100 Town and Country Commons 
in Chesterfield, Missouri, as the ``Lance Corporal Matthew P. 
Pathenos Post Office Building.'' Sponsored by Rep. Todd Akin 
(R-MO).
     H.R. 3248, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 112 South 5th Street in Saint 
Charles, Missouri, as the ``Lance Corporal Drew W. Weaver Post 
Office Building.'' Sponsored by Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO).
     S. 1412, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 462 Washington Street, Woburn, 
Massachusetts, as the ``Officer John Maguire Post Office.'' 
Sponsored by Rep. John Kerry (D-MA).
    Issa asked unanimous consent to allow Members' whose votes 
were not recorded on the Yarmouth amendment to H.R. 3029, the 
Braley amendment to H.R. 3289, and the motion to report H.R. 
3289 to let the record reflect how they would have voted.
          Mr. Burton would have voted Nay on the Yarmouth 
        Amendment to H.R. 3029.
          Mr. Amash would have voted Nay on the Yarmouth 
        Amendment to H.R. 3029.
          Mr. Towns would have voted Aye on the Braley 
        Amendment to H.R. 3289.
    Nov. 14, 2011, 9:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Delhi Pension Fallout: Federal Government Picked Winners and 
Losers, So Who Won and Who Lost?'' Witnesses: Mr. Steve Gebbia; 
Mr. Chuck Cunningham; Mr. Den Black; Mr. Bruce Gump; Ms. Mary 
Miller; Mr. Tom Rose; Ms. Barbara Bovbjerg, Managing Director, 
Education, Workforce and Income Security Issues, Government 
Accountability Office; Mr. Vincent K. Snowbarger, Deputy 
Director for Operations, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
    Nov. 16, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``Pay for Performance: Should Fannie and Freddie Executives Be 
Receiving Millions in Bailouts?'' Witnesses: Mr. Michael J. 
Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer, Fannie Mae; 
Mr. Charles E. ``Ed'' Haldeman, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, 
Freddie Mac; Mr. Edward J. DeMarco, Acting Director, Federal 
Housing Finance Agency.

    Nov. 17, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee Business Meeting. 
Summary:

H.R. 665 (Chaffetz), the ``Excess Federal Building and Property 
        Disposal Act of 2011''

    1.  Quigley offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute (ANS).
    2.  Connolly offered an amendment to the Quigley ANS that 
allows properties appropriate only for park land to be exempt 
from the pilot program. The Connolly amendment was agreed to by 
voice vote.
     The Quigley ANS, as amended, was agreed to by 
voice vote.
    The bill, H.R. 665, as amended, was ordered favorably 
reported to the House, a quorum being present, by voice vote.

H.R. 3071 (Towns), the ``Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011''

    1.  Issa offered an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
(ANS).
    2.  McHenry offered an amendment to the Issa ANS regarding 
prohibition of the use of any non-official electronic mail 
account, program or system.
    3.  Cummings offered an amendment (2nd degree) to the 
McHenry amendment that would create exemptions to the 
prohibition. The Cummings amendment was defeated by voice vote.
     The McHenry amendment was agreed to by voice vote.
     The Issa ANS, as amended, was agreed to by voice 
vote.
    The bill, H.R. 3071, as amended, was ordered favorably 
reported to the House, a quorum being present, by voice vote.

H.R. 3433 (Lankford), the ``Grant Reform and New Transparency Act of 
        2011''

    1.  Connolly offered an amendment to replace the 
requirement that winning grant proposals be posted online with 
a requirement that abstracts of such proposals be posted. The 
amendment was defeated by voice vote.
    2.  Cummings offered an amendment to strike a subsection 
regarding disclosure of peer reviewers.
    3.  Lankford offered an amendment (2nd degree) to the 
Cummings amendment that would allow the actual names of peer 
reviewers to remain private. The Lankford amendment was further 
amended by a Lankford U.C. request to add the language ``and 
title (or a unique identifier)'' after ``name''. There was no 
objection. The Lankford amendment to the Cummings amendment was 
agreed to by voice vote.
     The Cummings amendment, as amended by the Lankford 
amendment, was agreed to by voice vote.
    The bill, H.R. 3433, as amended, was ordered favorably 
reported to the House, a quorum being present, by voice vote.

H.R. 373 (Foxx), the ``Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency 
        Act of 2011''

    1.  Lankford offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute (ANS).
    2.  Connolly offered an amendment to the Lankford ANS 
regarding accounting for benefits in UMRA analyses. The 
Connolly amendment was defeated by voice vote.
    3.  Cummings offered an amendment to the Lankford ANS 
regarding consultation with private parties. The amendment was 
defeated by a recorded vote of 10 Ayes to 22 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Cummings, Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, Lynch, 
        Cooper, Connolly, Welch, Murphy and Speier.

        Voting Nay: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold and Kelly.

     The ANS was agreed to by voice vote.
    The bill, H.R. 373, as amended, was ordered favorably 
reported to the House, a quorum being present, by a recorded 
vote of 22 Ayes to 12 Nays.

        Voting Aye: Issa, Burton, Mica, Platts, Turner, 
        McHenry, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, Walberg, Lankford, 
        Amash, Buerkle, Gosar, Labrador, Meehan, DesJarlais, 
        Gowdy, Ross, Guinta, Farenthold and Kelly.

        Voting Nay: Cummings, Maloney, Kucinich, Tierney, Clay, 
        Lynch, Cooper, Connolly, Davis, Welch, Murphy and 
        Speier.

    Dec. 1, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``HHS and the Catholic Church: Examining the Politicization of 
Grants.'' Witnesses: Mr. George Sheldon, Acting Assistant 
Secretary, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services; Mr. Eskinder Negash, 
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement , Administration for 
Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services.
    Dec. 14, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``The Leadership of the Nuclear Regulatory Committee.'' 
Witnesses (all from Nuclear Regulatory Commission): The 
Honorable Gregory Jaczko, Chairman; The Honorable George E. 
Apostolakis, Commissioner; The Honorable William C. Ostendorff, 
Commissioner; The Honorable Kristine L. Svinicki, Commissioner; 
The Honorable William D. Magwood, IV, Commissioner; Mr. William 
Borchardt, Executive Director for Operations; and Mr. Steven 
Burns, General Counsel.
    Dec. 14, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Full Committee hearing entitled, 
``HHS and the Catholic Church: Examining the Politicization of 
Grants (minority day of hearing).'' Witnesses: Ms. Florrie 
Burke, Consultant, Anti-Human Trafficking/Human Rights/
Collaborations and Chair Emeritus, Freedom Network USA,UNODC 
Global Training Initiative; and Ms. Andrea Powell, Executive 
Director and Co-Founder, FAIR Girls.

                SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS AND HEARINGS HELD

Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor 
        Policy:

    Mar. 2, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing, ``Pushing the 
Envelope: The Looming Crisis at USPS.'' Witnesses: Hon. Patrick 
Donahoe, Postmaster General, USPS; Ms. Ruth Goldway, Chair, 
Postal Regulatory Commission; Mr. Phil Herr, Director, Physical 
Infrastructure Issues, U.S. GAO; Jim Sampey, Executive Vice 
President and Chief Operations Officer, Valpak; Mr. Arthor 
Sackler, Coordinator, Coalition for a 21st Century Postal 
Service; and Mr. Frederic Rolando, Director of Legislative and 
Political Affairs, National Association of Letter Carriers 
(AFL-CIO).
    Mar. 9, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing, ``Are 
Federal Workers Underpaid?'' Witnesses: Hon. John Berry, 
Director, Office of Management and Budget; Mr. Andrew Biggs, 
Ph.D., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Mr. 
James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics, The 
Heritage Foundation; Mr. Max Stier, President, Partnership for 
Public Service; and Ms. Colleen Kelley, National President, 
National Treasury Employees Union.
    Apr. 13, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing 
entitled, ``Federal Employees' Compensation Act: A Fair 
Approach?'' Witnesses: Mr. Gary Steinberg, Acting Director, 
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of 
Labor; Mr. Douglas Fitzgerald, Director, Division of Federal 
Employees' Compensation, U.S. Department of Labor; Mr. Bill 
Siemer, Assistant IG for Investigations, USPS; Ms. Lisa 
McManus, President and CEO, Contract Claim Services, Inc.; Ms. 
Milagros Rodriguez, Occupational Health and Safety Specialist, 
AMGE.
    May 12, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy hearing entitled, ``Where 
Have All the Letters Gone?--The Mailing Industry and Its 
Future.'' Witnesses: Mr. Dave Riebe, President of Logistics and 
Distribution, Quad/Graphics; Mr. Jerry Cerasale, Senior Vice 
President, Government Affairs, Direct Marketing Association; 
Mr. Rob Melton, Vice President of Specialty Paper, Domtar; and 
Mr. Todd Haycock, Director, Postal Services, 3i Infotech, North 
America.
    May 26, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing entitled, 
``Rightsizing the Federal Workforce.'' Witnesses: Hon. Cynthia 
M. Lummis, U.S. House of Representatives; Hon. Thomas Marino, 
U.S. House of Representatives; Mr. Andrew G. Biggs, Resident 
Scholar, AEI; and Mr. William R. Dougan, National President, 
National Federation of Federal Employees.
    June 1, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, 
U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing entitled, 
``Official Time: Good Value for the Taxpayers?'' Witnesses: 
Hon. Phil Gingrey, M.D., U.S. House of Representatives; Mr. 
Timothy Curry, Deputy Associate Director, Partnership and 
Public Relations, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Mr. 
James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics, The 
Heritage Foundation; Mr. F. Vincent Vernuccio, Labor Policy 
Counsel, CEI; Mr. John Gage, National President, American 
Federation of Government Employees.
    June 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing 
entitled, ``Postal Infrastructure: How Much Can We Afford?'' 
Witnesses: Mr. David Williams, Vice President, Network 
Operations Management, United States Postal Service; Mr. Dean 
Granholm, Vice President, Delivery and Post Office Operations, 
United States Postal Service; Mr. Phillip Herr, Director, 
Physical Infrastructure Issues, U.S. Government Accountability 
Office; Mr. Michael Winn, President, Greylock Associates, LLC; 
Mr. Joe Hete, President and CEO, ATSG, Inc.; Mr. Cliff Guffey, 
President, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO.
    July 27, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing 
entitled, ``The Thrift Savings Plan: Helping Federal Employees 
Achieve Retirement Security.'' Witnesses: Mr. Gregory Long, 
Executive Director, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board; 
Mr. Clifford Dailing, Chairman, Employee Thrift Advisory 
Council, Secretary-Treasurer, National Rural Letter Carriers' 
Association; Mr. Joseph Beaudoin, President, National Active 
and Retired Federal Employees Association.

    Sept. 21, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy Business 
Meeting. Summary:

H.R. 2309 (Issa), the Postal Reform Act of 2011

    Mr. Lynch made a point of order on the jurisdiction 
regarding Sec. 311 of the bill. The Chair ruled against the 
point of order. Mr. Connolly made a point of order to appeal 
the ruling of the Chair. A motion was made to table the appeal 
of the ruling. The motion was agreed to by a vote of 6 ayes to 
4 nays.

        Voting Aye: Ross, Amash, Jordan, Chaffetz, Walberg and 
        Issa.

        Voting Nay: Lynch, Connolly, Davis and Cummings.

    1.  Ross offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
    2.  Connolly offered an amendment (#92) to the ANS to 
strike section 111 of the bill. The amendment was defeated by a 
roll call vote of 7 nays to 4 ayes.

        Voting Nay: Ross, Amash, Jordan, Mack, Walberg, Gowdy 
        and Issa.

        Voting Aye: Lynch, Connolly, Davis and Cummings.

    3.  Lynch offered an amendment (#28) to the ANS to strike 
titles I, II, and III and insert the text of his postal bill, 
H.R. 1351. The amendment was defeated by a roll call vote of 8 
nays to 4 ayes.

        Voting Nay: Ross, Amash, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, 
        Walberg, Gowdy and Issa.

        Voting Aye: Lynch, Connolly, Davis and Cummings.

    4.  Chaffetz offered an amendment (#174) to the ANS to cut 
the number of days the post office delivers mail. The amendment 
was withdrawn.
    5.  Davis offered an amendment (#31) to the ANS to strike 
section 311 of the bill. The amendment was defeated by a roll 
call vote of 8 nays to 4 ayes.

        Voting Nay: Ross, Amash, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, 
        Walberg, Gowdy and Issa.

        Voting Aye: Lynch, Connolly, Davis and Cummings.

    6.  Davis offered an amendment (#32) to the ANS to strike 
section 403 of the bill. The amendment was defeated by a roll 
call vote of 8 nays to 4 ayes.

        Voting Nay: Ross, Amash, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, 
        Walberg, Gowdy and Issa.

        Voting Aye: Lynch, Connolly, Davis and Cummings.

    7.  Lynch offered an amendment (#29) to the ANS to add a 
Title--OVERPAYMENT OF FERS OBLIGATION. The amendment was 
defeated by a roll call vote of 8 nays to 5 ayes.

        Voting Nay: Ross, Amash, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, 
        Walberg, Gowdy and Issa.

        Voting Aye: Lynch, Norton, Connolly, Davis and 
        Cummings.

    8.  Connolly offered an amendment (#96) to the ANS to add a 
section regarding alternate Postal Service programs. The 
amendment was defeated by a roll call vote of 8 nays to 5 ayes.

        Voting Nay: Ross, Amash, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, 
        Walberg, Gowdy and Issa.

        Voting Aye: Lynch, Norton, Connolly, Davis and 
        Cummings.

    9.  Lynch offered an amendment (#26) to the ANS to strike 
section 113 of the bill. The amendment was defeated by a roll 
call vote of 8 nays to 5 ayes.

        Voting Nay: Ross, Amash, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, 
        Walberg, Gowdy and Issa.

        Voting Aye: Lynch, Norton, Connolly, Davis and 
        Cummings.

     The amendment in the nature of a substitute was 
agreed to by voice vote. H.R. 2309, as amended, was ordered 
reported favorably to the full committee by a recorded vote of 
8 ayes to 5 nays.

        Voting Aye: Ross, Amash, Jordan, Chaffetz, Mack, 
        Walberg, Gowdy and Issa.

        Voting Nay: Lynch, Norton, Connolly, Davis and 
        Cummings.

    Nov. 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Federal 
Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy hearing 
entitled, ``Back to the Basics: Is OPM Meeting its Mission?'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable John Berry, Director, U.S. Office of 
Personnel Management; Mr. Matthew Perry, Chief Information 
Officer, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; The Honorable 
Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General, U.S. Office of 
Personnel Management; Mr. Jeffrey E. Cole, Deputy Assistant 
Inspector General for Audits, U.S. Office of Personnel 
Management; Mr. Pasquale ``Pat'' M. Tamburrino, Jr., Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy, 
U.S. Department of Defense; Ms. Valerie C. Melvin, Director, 
Information Management and Human Capital Issues, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office; Mr. Patrick W. Manzo, 
Executive Vice President, Global Customer Service and Chief 
Privacy Officer, Monster Worldwide, Inc.; Mr. Mark Conway, 
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Monster 
Worldwide, Inc.

Subcommittee on Government Organization Efficiency and Financial 
        Management:

    Feb. 16, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing, 
``Making Sense of the Numbers: Improving the Federal Financial 
Reporting Model.'' Witnesses: Mr. Thomas Allen, Chairman, The 
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board; Mr. Jonathan D. 
Breul, Executive Director, IBM Center for the Business of 
Government; Mr. Michael J. Hettinger, Executive Director, Grant 
Thornton LLP.
    Mar. 9, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing, ``A 
Look at the FY10 Consolidated Financial Report of the U.S. 
Government.'' Witnesses: Hon. Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller 
General of the United States, U.S. GAO; Hon. Daniel I. Werfel, 
Controller, Office of Management and Budget; and Hon. Richard 
L. Gregg, Fiscal Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of the 
Treasury.
    Mar. 10, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Joint hearing of the Subcommittee 
on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private 
Programs and the Subcommittee on Government Organization, 
Efficiency and Financial Management entitled, ``Financial 
Management, Work Force, and Operations at the SEC: Who's 
Watching Wall Street's Watchdog?'' Witnesses: Hon. Mary 
Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; 
Mr. Jeffrey Risinger, Director, Office of Human Resources, SEC; 
Mr. Jonathan Katz, Former Secretary, SEC; Mr. Stephen J. 
Crimmins, K & L Gates, LLP; Ms. Helen Chairman, Attorney at 
Law, Baker and Poliakoff, LLP.
    Mar. 11, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing 
entitled, ``Red to Black: Improving Collection of Delinquent 
Debt Owed to the Government.'' Witness: David Lebryk, 
Commissioner, Financial Management Service, Department of the 
Treasury.
    Apr. 15, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing 
entitled, ``Improper Payments: Finding Solutions.'' Witnesses: 
Hon. Daniel Werfel, Controller, OMB; and Ms. Kay L. Daly, 
Director, Financial Management and Assurance, U.S. GAO.
    May 13, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management hearing 
entitled, ``Financial Management at the Department of Homeland 
Security.'' Witnesses: Ms. Peggy Sherry, Deputy Chief Financial 
Officer and Acting CFO, DHS.
    June 2, 2011, 12:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management hearing 
entitled, ``IRS E-file and Identity Theft.'' Witnesses: Mr. Jim 
White, Director of Strategic Issues, Government Accountability 
Office; Ms. Sharon Hawa, Identity Theft Victim; Ms. Lori 
Petraco, Identity Theft Victim; Ms. LaVonda Thompson, Identity 
Theft Victim; The Honorable Douglas H. Shulman, Commissioner, 
Internal Revenue Service.
    July 28, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing 
entitled, ``Improper Medicare Payments: $48 Billion in Waste?'' 
Witnesses: The Honorable Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General, 
Office of the Inspector General, Health & Human Services; Ms. 
Michelle Snyder, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Centers for 
Medicare & Medicaid Services; Ms. Kay Daly, Director of 
Financial Management and Assurance, Government Accountability 
Office; Ms. Kathleen King, Director of Health Care, Government 
Accountability Office.
    Sept. 23, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing 
entitled, ``The Department of Defense: Challenges in Financial 
Management.'' Witnesses: Mr. Mark Easton, Deputy Chief 
Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Defense; Mr. Daniel 
Blair, Deputy Inspector General for Auditing, Office of 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense; Mr. Asif Khan, 
Director of Financial Management and Assurance, Government 
Accountability Office.
    Oct. 27, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing 
entitled, ``Internal Control Weaknesses at the Department of 
Homeland Security.'' Witnesses: Ms. Peggy Sherry, Deputy Chief 
Financial Officer, Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Robert 
West, Chief Information Security Officer, Department of 
Homeland Security; Mr. John McCoy, Deputy Assistant Inspector 
General for Audits, Office of the Inspector General, Department 
of Homeland Security.
    Nov. 4, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management hearing 
entitled, ``Identity Theft and Tax Fraud: Growing Problems for 
the Internal Revenue Service.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
Richard Nugent (FL-05), U.S. House of Representatives; The 
Honorable J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax 
Administration; Mr. Steven T. Miller, Deputy Commissioner for 
Services & Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service; Mr. Ronald A. 
Cimino, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Matters, 
Tax Division, United States Department of Justice.
    Dec. 7, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management and 
Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and 
the National Archives joint hearing entitled, ``A Medicaid 
Fraud Victim Speaks Out: What's Going Wrong and Why?'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Richard West, Victim of Medicaid Fraud; Ms. 
Robin Page West, Attorney, Cohan, West & Karpook, P.C.; Ms. 
Angela Brice-Smith, Director, Medicaid Integrity Group, Centers 
for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Mr. Gary Cantrell, Assistant 
Inspector General for Investigations, Office of the Inspector 
General, Health & Human Services; Ms. Carolyn Yocom, Director, 
Health Care, Government Accountability Office; Ms. Valerie 
Melvin, Director, Information Management and Human Capital 
Issues, Government Accountability Office.

Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the 
        National Archives:

    Mar. 1, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program: Keeping 
the Door Open.'' Witnesses: Mr. Ronald Holassie, Senior, Bishop 
Carroll High School; Ms. Lesly Alvarez, 8th Grader, Sacred 
Heart School; Ms. Sheila Jackson, Mother of DC OSP Student; Ms. 
Latasha Bennett, Mother of DC OSP Student; Mr. Kevin Chavous, 
Chairman, Black Alliance for Education Options; Patrick Wolf, 
Ph.D., University of Arkansas; Ms. Betty North, Principal and 
CEO, Preparatory School of D.C.; and Ramona Edelin, Executive 
Director, D.C. Association of Public Charter Schools.
    Mar. 15, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``Obamacare: Why the Need for Waivers?'' Witnesses: 
Mr. Steven B. Larsen, J.D., Deputy Administrator and Director, 
Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, 
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Mr. Edmund F. 
Haislmaier, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Health Policy 
Studies, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. Scoot Wold, Esq., 
Shareholder, Hitesman & Wold, P.A.; and Ms. Judy Feder, Ph.D., 
Professor, Georgetown University.
    Apr. 5, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia., Census and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``Waste, Abuse and Mismanagement in Government Health 
Care.'' Witnesses: Ms. Deborah Taylor, CFO, Centers for 
Medicare & Medicaid Services; Peter Budetti, M.D., Deputy 
Administrator for Program Integrity, Centers for Medicare & 
Medicaid Services; Mr. Gerald T. Roy, Deputy Inspector General 
for Investigations, Office of Inspector General, U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services; Hon. Loretta Lynch, 
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Mr. David 
Botsko, Inspector General, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment 
System; Ms. Jean MacQuarrie, Vice President for Client 
Services, Thomson Reuters; Mr. Michael Cannon, Director of 
Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Ms. Rachel Klein, 
Deputy Director for Health Policy, Families USA.
    May 12, 2011, 8:45 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census, and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``The District of Columbia's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget: 
Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability.'' Witnesses: Hon. Vincent Gray, 
Mayor, District of Columbia; Hon. Kwame Brown, Chairman, D.C. 
City Council; Natwar Gandhi, Ph.D., Chief Financial Officer, 
District of Columbia; Mr. Matt Fabian, Managing Director, 
Municipal Market Advisors; and Alice Rivlin, Ph.D., Brookings 
Institution.
    June 2, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``FDA Medical Device Approval: Is There a Better 
Way?'' Witnesses: Congressman Erik Paulsen, Member of Congress, 
R-Minnesota, 3rd District; Dr. Jeffrey (Jeff) Shuren, Director, 
Centers for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug 
Administration; Mr. Jack W. Lasersohn, General Partner, The 
Vertical Group; David L. Gollaher, PhD, President and CEO, 
California Healthcare Institute (CHI); Dr. Rita Redberg, 
Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 
Editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
    June 24, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census and National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: Is 
There a Security Gap?'' Witnesses: Mr. Richard Sarles, General 
Manager and Chief Executive Officer, Washington Metropolitan 
Area Transit Authority; Chief Michael Taborn, Metro Transit 
Police Division; Chief Cathy Lanier, Metropolitan Police 
Department; Mr. Anthony Griffin, County Executive, Fairfax 
County Government.
    July 12, 2011, 1:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``Fulfilling a Legal Duty: Triggering a Medicare Plan 
from the Administration.'' Witnesses: Mr. Jonathan Blum, Deputy 
Administrator and Director, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services; Dr. Charles P. Blahous III, Public Trustee of Social 
Security and Medicare; Dr. Joseph Antos, Wilson H. Taylor 
Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American 
Enterprise Institute; Mr. James C. Capretta, Fellow, Ethics and 
Public Policy Center; Dr. Paul N. Van de Water, Senior Fellow, 
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
    July 28, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census, and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``Impact of Obamacare on Job Creators and Their 
Decision to Offer Health Insurance.'' Witnesses: Mr. Andrew 
Puzder, CEO, CKE Restaurants; Mr. Grady Payne, Connor 
Industries, Inc.; Mr. Will Morey, President and CEO, Morey's 
Pier; Ms. Victoria J. Braden, President and CEO, Braden Benefit 
Strategies, Inc.; Mr. Michael J. Brewer, President, Lockton 
Benefit Group; Mr. Terry Gardiner, Vice President, Small 
Business Majority.
    Sept. 21, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``Examining Abuses of Medicaid Eligibility Rules.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Stephen Moses, President, Center for Long-Term 
Care Reform; Mr. David Dorfman, Attorney, Law Offices of David 
A. Dorfman; Ms. Janice Eulau, Assistant Administrator, Medicaid 
Services Division, Suffolk County Department of Social 
Services; The Honorable Julie Hamon, Director, Illinois 
Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
    Oct. 6, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``Obamacare's Employer Penalty and its Impact on 
Temporary Workers.'' Witnesses: Mr. Ed Lenz, Senior Vice 
President, American Staffing Association; Mr. John Uprichard, 
President/CEO, Find Great People International; Mr. Tav Gauss, 
President/CEO, The Action Group--Human Resources Solution; Mr. 
Topher Spiro, Managing Director, Health Policy, The Center for 
American Progress Action Fund.
    Oct. 27, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``Examining Obamacare's Hidden Marriage Penalty and 
Its Impact on the Deficit.'' Witnesses: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, 
Ph.D., President, American Action Forum, Former CBO Director; 
Ms. Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute 
for Policy Research; Richard Burkhauser, Ph.D., Professor of 
Economics, Cornell University; Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Vice 
President, Affordable Health Insurance, The Commonwealth Fund.
    Nov. 30, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Health Care, 
District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives hearing 
entitled, ``Drug Shortage Crisis: Lives are in the Balance.'' 
Witnesses: Michelle Hudspeth, M.D., Division Director of 
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Medical University of South 
Carolina; Mr. Walter Kalmans, President, Lontra Ventures; Mr. 
Ted Okon, Executive Director, Community Oncology Alliance; 
Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise 
Institute; Kasey K. Thompson, Pharm.D., Vice President, Office 
of Policy, Planning and Communications, American Society of 
Health-System Pharmacists.
    Dec. 7, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management and 
Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and 
the National Archives joint hearing entitled, ``A Medicaid 
Fraud Victim Speaks Out: What's Going Wrong and Why?'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Richard West, Victim of Medicaid Fraud; Ms. 
Robin Page West, Attorney, Cohan, West & Karpook, P.C.; Ms. 
Angela Brice-Smith, Director, Medicaid Integrity Group, Centers 
for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Mr. Gary Cantrell, Assistant 
Inspector General for Investigations, Office of the Inspector 
General, Health & Human Services; Ms. Carolyn Yocom, Director, 
Health Care, Government Accountability Office; Ms. Valerie 
Melvin, Director, Information Management and Human Capital 
Issues, Government Accountability Office.

Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign 
        Operations:

    Mar. 2, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on National Security, 
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing, ``U.S. 
Military Leaving Iraq: Is the State Department Ready?'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Grant S. Green, Commissioner, Commission on 
Wartime Contracting; Mr. Michael Thibault, Co-Chair, Commission 
on Wartime Contracting; Mr. Stuart Bowen, Jr., Special 
Inspector General, Office of the Special Inspector General for 
Iraq Reconstruction; Ambassador Patrick Kennedy, Under 
Secretary for Management, U.S. Department of State; Ambassador 
Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary for International 
Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense; Mr. Frank 
Kendall, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition, 
Technology and Logistics, U.S. Department of Defense.
    Mar. 16, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing, 
``TSA Oversight Part 1: Whole Body Imaging.'' Witnesses: Hon. 
Sharon Cissna, Representative, Alaska State House of 
Representatives; Mr. Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, 
Electronic Privacy Information Center; Mr. Fred H. Cate, Senior 
Policy Advisor, Centre for Information Policy Leadership, 
Hunton & Williams; David J. Brenner, Ph.D., Center for 
Radiological Research, Columbia University; Mr. Stewart A. 
Baker, Partner, Steptoe and Johnson, LLP; Mr. Lee Kair, 
Assistant Administrator for Security Operations, TSA; and Mr. 
Robin E. Kane, Assistant Administrator for Security Technology, 
TSA.
    Apr. 14, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing 
entitled, ``Tsunami Warning, Preparedness, and Interagency 
Cooperation: Lessons Learned.'' Witnesses: William Leith, 
Ph.D., Acting Associate Director for National Hazards, U.S. 
Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior; Mr. Kenneth 
D. Murphy, Regional Administrator--Region X, FEMA; Ms. Mary 
Glackin, Dep. Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, U.S. 
Department of Commerce; Mr. John W. Madden, Director, Division 
of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, State of Alaska; 
and Ms. Nancy Ward, Regional Adminstrator, FEMA.
    Apr. 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations and Natural 
Resources Committee's Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests 
and Public Lands joint hearing entitled, ``The Border: Are 
Environmental Laws and Regulations Impeding Security and 
Harming the Environment?'' Witnesses: Hon. Silvestre Reyes, 
Member of Congress; Mr. Ronald Vitiello, Deputy Chief, U.S. 
Customs and Border Patrol, U.S. Department of Homeland 
Security; Ms. Kim Thorsen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Law 
Enforcement, Security and Emergency Management, U.S. Department 
of the Interior; Mr. Jay Jensen, Deputy Under Secretary for 
Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture; Mr. George Zachary Taylor, National Association of 
Former Border Patrol Officers; Mr. Gene Wood, National 
Association of Former Border Patrol Officers; Mr. Jim Chilton, 
Chilton Ranch; and Ms. Anu Mittal, Director, Natural Resources 
and Environment, U.S. GAO.
    May 4, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on National Security, 
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing entitled, ``Is 
This Any Way to Treat Our Troops? Part III: Transition 
Delays.'' Witnesses: Mr. John Medve, Executive Director, VA/DOD 
Collaboration Service, U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs; 
Mr. Dan Bertoni, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income 
Security, U.S. GAO; Ms. Lynn Simpson, Acting Principal Deputy 
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, U.S. 
Department of Defense; Mr. Mark Bird, IT Team Assistant 
Director, U.S. GAO; and Mr. Randall B. Williamson, Health Care 
Team Director, U.S. GAO.
    May 11, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on National Security, 
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing entitled, 
``USAID: Following the Money.'' Witnesses: Hon. Rajiv Shah, 
Administrator, U.S. AID; and Hon. Donald Gambatesa, IG, U.S. 
AID.
    May 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on National Security, 
Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing entitled, 
``Cybersecurity: Assessing the Immediate Threat to the United 
States.'' Witnesses: Rear Admiral Michael A. Brown, Director, 
Cybersecurity Coordination, U.S. Department of Homeland 
Security; Mr. James A. Lewis, Director of Technology and Public 
Policy Program, CSIS; Mr. Sean McGurk, Director, National 
Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Dean Turner, Director, 
Global Intelligence Network Symantec Security Response; Mr. 
Phillip Bond, President, TechAmerica.
    June 24, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Joint hearing of the Subcommittee 
on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations 
with the Committee on Foreign Affairs' Subcommittees on the 
Western Hemisphere and the Middle East and South Asia entitled, 
``Venezuela's Sanctionable Activity.'' Witnesses: The Honorable 
Daniel Benjamin, Ambassador-at-Large, Coordinator for 
Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Kevin Whitaker, 
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere 
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Thomas Delare, Director 
for Terrorism Finance and Economic Sanctions Policy, U.S 
Department of State; Mr. Adam J. Szubin, Director, Office of 
Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
    July 13, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing 
entitled, ``TSA Oversight Part 2: Airport Perimeter Security.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. John Sammon, Assistant Administrator, U.S. 
Transportation Security Administration; Mr. Rafi Ron, 
President, New Age Security Solutions, Former Directory of 
Security Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion International Airport; Mr. Stephen 
M. Lord, Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office; Mr. William Parker, 
Inspector, K-9 Unit, Amtrak Police Department; Mr. TJ ``Jerry'' 
Orr, Airport Director and Operator, Charlotte International 
Airport
    Sept. 15, 2011, 10:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing 
entitled, ``Defense Department Contracting in Afghanistan: Are 
We Doing Enough to Combat Corruption?'' Witnesses: Mr. Gary J. 
Motsek, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program 
Support, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense 
(Logistics & Material Readiness), Office of the Under Secretary 
of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics), U.S. 
Department of Defense; Mr. Kim Denver, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Procurement, U.S. Department of 
Defense; Brigadier General Stephen Townsend, USA, Director, 
Joint Staff Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell, U.S. 
Department of Defense.
    Oct. 12, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing 
entitled, ``Status Report on the Transition to a Civilian-Led 
Mission in Iraq.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Patrick F. Kennedy, 
Under Secretary for Management, United States Department of 
State; The Honorable Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary 
for International Security Affairs, United States Department of 
Defense; The Honorable Alan F. Estevez, Assistant Secretary for 
Logistics and Materiel Readiness, United States Department of 
Defense.
    Nov. 15, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing 
entitled, ``Progress of the Obama Administration's Policy 
Towards Iran.'' Witnesses: Mr. Mark Dubowitz, Executive 
Director, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Kenneth M. 
Pollack, Ph.D., Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, 
Brookings Institution; Suzanne Maloney, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, 
Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings 
Institution; Mr. Adam J. Szubin, Director, Office of Foreign 
Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Mr. Henry T. 
Wooster, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near 
Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Colin H. Kahl, 
Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle 
East, U.S. Department of Defense.
    Dec. 7, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations hearing 
entitled, ``Oversight in Iraq and Afghanistan: Challenges and 
Solutions.'' Witnessses: The Honorable Gordon S. Heddell, 
Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense; The Honorable 
Harold W. Geisel, Deputy Inspector General, U.S. Department of 
State; Mr. Michael G. Carroll, Acting Inspector General, U.S. 
Agency for International Development; Mr. Stuart W. Bowen, 
Inspector General, Special Inspector General for Iraq 
Reconstruction; Mr. Steven J. Trent, Acting Inspector General, 
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government 
        Spending:

    Feb. 16, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing, 
``The Stimulus: Two Years Later.'' Witnesses: John Taylor, 
Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Russell 
Roberts, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Mercatus Center, George 
Mason University; Christina Romer, Ph.D., Professor of 
Economics, University of California at Berkeley; Jared 
Bernstein, Ph.D., Office of the Vice President, The White 
House; J.D. Foster, Ph.D., Norman B. Ture Senior Fellow in the 
Economic of Fiscal Policy, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. Alex 
Brill, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Mr. 
Andrew Busch, Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist, BMO 
Capital Markets Investment Banking Division; Mr. Chris Edwards, 
Director of Tax Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Josh Bivens, 
Ph.D., Economic Policy Institute.
    Mar. 9, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight And Government Spending hearing, 
``Assessing the Cumulative Impact of Regulation on U.S. 
Manufacturers.'' Witnesses: Mr. Aris Papadopolous, CEO and 
Chairman, Portland Cement Association; Ms. Donna Harman, CEO, 
American Forest and Paper Association; Mr. Michael P. Walls, 
Vice President, Regulatory and Technical Affairs, American 
Chemistry Council; Mr. Michael Kamnikar, Senior Vice President, 
Forging Industry Association, Ellwood Group; Mr. Bernard 
Schimmel, Vice President, Technical Services, Boral Bricks, 
Inc.; and Mr. David C. Foerter, Executive Director, Institute 
of Clean Air Companies (ICAC).
    Mar. 16, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing, 
``Project Labor Agreements and the Cost of Doing Business in 
the Construction Industry.'' Witnesses: Mr. John Ennis, CEO, 
Ennis Electric, Inc.; Ms. Linda Figg, FIGG Engineering Group; 
Dale Belman, Ph.D., MSU School of Industrial and Labor 
Relations; Mr. John Biagas, Bay Electric Inc.; Mr. Maurice 
Baskin, American Builders and Contractors, Inc.; Mr. Daniel 
Gordon, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, 
Executive Office of the President; Mr. Robert Peck, 
Commissioner of Public Buildings, GSA; and David Michaels, 
Ph.D., Assistant Secretary for Occupational Health and Safety, 
U.S. Department of Labor.
    Apr. 6, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government hearing entitled, 
``Assessing the Impact of Greenhouse Gas Regulations on Small 
Business.'' Witnesses: Mr. Joe Rajkovacz, Director of 
Regulatory Affairs, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers 
Association; David Kreutzer, Ph.D., Research Fellow in Energy 
Economics and Climate Change, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. 
David D. Doniger, Policy Director, Climate Center, Natural 
Resources Defense Council; Mr. Keith Holman, Deputy Executive 
Director, National Lime Association; Ms. Gina McCarthy, 
Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, 
U.S. EPA; and Ms. Claudia Rodgers, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office 
of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration.
    Apr. 20, 2011, 9:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation in the 
Northeast Part I'' located at Irondequoit Town Hall, 1280 Titus 
Avenue, Irondequoit, NY. Witnesses: Mr. Mike Medina, President, 
Optimax; Ms. Rebecca A. Meinking, Executive Vice President, 
Radec Corporation; Mr. Bill Pollock, CEO, Optimation; Mrs. 
Cathy Martin, President, Monroe County Farm Bureau; Mr. 
Jonathan L. Taylor, Oakridge Dairy; Mr. John Teeple, Teeple 
Farms, Inc.; Ms. Jolene Bender, Supervisor, Town of Marion; Ms. 
Maggie Brooks, Monroe County Executive; and Sheriff Barry 
Virts, Wayne County.
    Apr. 20, 2011, 3:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation in the 
Northeast Part II'' located at South Side Innovation Center, 
2610 S. Salina Street, Syracuse, NY. Witnesses: Mr. Jud Gostin, 
President, Sensis Corporation; Mr. Steve Lefebvre, President, 
Empire ABC; Mr. Andrew Reeves, Owner, Reeves Farms; Mrs. Nancy 
Hourigan, Owner, Hourigan's Dairy Farm; Mr. Tom DeMarree, 
Owner, Demree Orchards; Mr. Orrin MacMurray, Chairman, C & S 
Companies; Mr. Travis Glazier, Director of Intergovernmental 
Relations, Onondaga County Executive; and Mr. Thomas Squires, 
Cayuga County Administrator.
    May 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``How Federal Reserve Policies Add to Hard Times at 
the Pump.'' Witnesses: Mr. Vincent R. Reinhart, Resident 
Scholar, AEI; Robert Murphy, Ph.D., Economist, Institute for 
Energy Research; Dean Baker, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for 
Economic Policy Research; Mr. Greg Wannemacher, President, 
Wannemacher Total Logistics; and Ms. Karen Kerrigan, President 
and CEO, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council.
    June 1, 2011, 2:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``Duplication, Overlap, and Inefficiencies in Federal 
Welfare Programs.'' Witnesses: Ms. Patricia Dalton, Chief 
Operating Officer, Government Accountability Office; Mr. Robert 
Rector, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. 
John Mashburn, Executive Director, The Carleson Center for 
Public Policy; Ms. Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, Executive Director, Ohio 
Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks.
    June 22, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending ``Lasting 
Implications of the General Motors Bailout.'' Witnesses: Mr. 
Ron Bloom, Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Mr. Vince 
Snowbarger, Deputy Director, Pension Benefits Guaranty 
Corporation; Mr. Dan Ikenson, Associate Director, Herbert A. 
Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute; 
Mr. Bruce Gump, Vice Chairman, Delphi Salaried Retiree 
Association; Dr. Thomas Kochan, Professor, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology; Ms. Shikha Dalmia, Senior Analyst, 
Reason Foundation.
    July 8, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Joint Hearing of the Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government 
Spending and the Committee on Education and the Workforce's 
Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training 
entitled, ``The Gainful Employment Regulation: Limiting Job 
Growth and Student Choice.'' Witnesses: Dr. Dario A. Cortes, 
President, Berkeley College; Ms. Karla Carpenter, Graduate of 
Herzing University; Dr. Anthony Carnevale, Director, Center on 
Education and Workforce, Georgetown University; Mr. Harry C. 
Alford, President and CEO, National Black Chamber of Commerce.
    July 14, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``EPA's Appalachian Energy Permitorium: Job Killer or 
Job Creator?'' Witnesses: The Honorable Shelley Moore Capito 
(R, WV-2), U.S. House of Representatives; Mr. Tom Mackall, 
President, Sterling Mining; Mr. Chris Hamilton, Senior Vice 
President, West Virginia Coal Association; Mr. Joe Lovett, 
Executive Director, Appalachian Center for Economy and the 
Environment; Mr. Roger Horton, Chairman, Safety Committee Local 
5958, Co-Chair, Mountain Top Mining Coalition; Mr. John 
Stilley, President, Amerikohl Mining Inc.; Ms. Nancy Stoner, 
Acting Assistant Administrator for Water, United States 
Environmental Protection Agency; Ms. Margaret E. Gaffney-Smith, 
Chief, Regulatory Community of Practice, Army Corps of 
Engineers.
    July 26, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``Lights Out: How EPA Regulations Threaten Affordable 
Power and Job Creation.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Robert 
Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Ms. Janet Henry, Deputy General Counsel, American 
Electric Power; Mr. Mike Carey, President, Ohio Coal 
Association; Dr. Joel Schwartz, Professor of Environmental 
Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health.
    Sept. 13, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``Take Two: The President's Proposal to Stimulate the 
Economy and Create Jobs.'' Witnesses: Professor John Taylor, 
Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford 
University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics 
at the Hoover Institution; Ms. Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Senior 
Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Dr. Heather Boushey, Senior 
Economist, Center for American Progress; Mr. Peter Schiff, CEO, 
Euro Pacific Capital Inc.; Mr. Brink Lindsey, Senior Scholar, 
Kauffman Foundation.
    Oct. 12, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``Running on Empty: How the Obama Administration's 
Green Energy Gamble Will Impact Small Business and Consumers.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Jeremy Anwyl, CEO, Edmunds.com; Marlo Lewis, 
Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; Mr. 
Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, Natural 
Resources Defense Council; Mr. Scott Grenerth, Independent 
Trucker, Owner-Operator Independent Driver's Association; The 
Honorable David Strickland, Administrator, National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration; The Honorable Gina McCarthy, 
Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Ms. Margo Oge, Director of the 
Office of Transportation and Air Quality, Environmental 
Protection Agency.
    Nov. 2, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``The Green Energy Debacle: Where Has All the 
Taxpayer Money Gone?'' Witnesses: The Honorable Gregory H. 
Friedman, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Energy; Mr. 
Elliot Lewis, Assistant Inspector General, U.S. Department of 
Energy; W. David Montgomery, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, 
National Economic Research Associates, Inc.; Mr. Greg Kats, 
President, Capital-E; Mr. Brett McMahon, Vice President of 
Business Development, Miller & Long Concrete Construction.
    Nov. 30, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending hearing 
entitled, ``The Price of Uncertainty: How Much Could DOT's 
Proposed Billion Dollar Service Rule Cost Customers this 
Holiday Season?'' Witnesses: Mr. Ed Nagle III, President and 
CEO, Nagle Companies; Mr. Glen Keysaw, Executive Director of 
Transportation/Logistics, Associated Food Stores, Inc.; Mr. 
Robb MacKie, President and CEO, American Bakers Association; 
Mr. Frank Miller, Director of Logistics, Badcock & More; Mr. 
Henry Jasny, Vice President & General Counsel, Advocates for 
Highway and Auto Safety; Jesse David, Ph.D., Senior Vice 
President, Edgeworth Economics; The Honorable Anne S. Ferro, 
Administrator, Department of Transportation Federal Motor 
Carrier Safety Administration.

Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and 
        Private Programs:

    Feb. 9, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing, 
``State and Municipal Debt: The Coming Crisis?'' Witnesses: Ms. 
Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute; Mr. David Skeel, S. Samuel 
Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania 
Law School; Ms. Eileen Norcross, Mercatus Center, George Mason 
University; Ms. Iris J. Lav, Senior Advisor, Center on Budget 
and Policy Priorities.
    Mar. 10, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Joint hearing of the Subcommittee 
on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private 
Programs and the Subcommittee on Government Organization, 
Efficiency and Financial Management entitled, ``Financial 
Management, Work Force, and Operations at the SEC: Who's 
Watching Wall Street's Watchdog?'' Witnesses: Hon. Mary 
Schapiro, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; 
Mr. Jeffrey Risinger, Director, Office of Human Resources, SEC; 
Mr. Jonathan Katz, Former Secretary, SEC; Mr. Stephen J. 
Crimmins, K & L Gates, LLP; Ms. Helen Chairman, Attorney at 
Law, Baker and Poliakoff, LLP.
    Mar. 15, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing 
entitled, ``State and Municipal Debt: The Coming Crisis? Part 
II.'' Witnesses: Hon. Daniel Liljenquist, Utah State Senator; 
Ms. Robin Prunty, Managing Director, Standard & Poor's; Dean 
Baker, Ph.D., Center for Economic Policy and Research; Mr. 
Robert Kurtter, Moody's Investors' Service; and Andrew Biggs, 
Ph.D., The American Enterprise Institute.
    Mar. 30, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services, and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing, 
``Has Dodd-Frank Ended Too Big to Fail?'' Witnesses: Hon. Neil 
Barofsky, Special IG for TARP; and Hon. Tim Massad, Acting 
Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability and Chief Counsel, 
U.S. Department of the Treasury.
    May 11, 2011, 2:00 p.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing 
entitled, ``Transparency as an Alternative to the Federal 
Government's Regulation of Risk Retention.'' Witnesses: Mr. 
Edward DeMarco, Acting Director, Federal Housing Finance 
Agency; Anthony B. Sanders, Ph.D., Professor, George Mason 
University; Mr. Joshua Rosner, Managing Director, Graham Fisher 
& Co., Inc.; and Ms. Janneke Ratcliffe, Executive Director, 
Center for Community Capital, UNC.
    May 24, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs hearing 
entitled, ``Who's Watching the Watchmen? Oversight of the 
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.'' Witnesses: Hon. 
Elizabeth Warren, Special Advisor to the Secretary of the 
Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Mr. Todd 
Zywicki, Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University; 
David S. Evans, Ph.D., Chairman, Global Economics Group; Mr. 
Adam Levitin, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University 
Law Center; and Mr. Andrew Pincus, Partner, Mayer Brown Rowe & 
Maw, LLP.
    June 22, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services, and the Bailout of Public and Private Programs 
hearing entitled, ``The Changing Role of the FDIC.'' Witnesses: 
The Honorable Sheila Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation.
    Sept. 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services, and the Bailout of Public and Private Programs 
hearing entitled, ``Crowdfunding: Connecting Investors and Job 
Creators.'' Witnesses: Ms. Meredith Cross, Director, Division 
of Corporation Finance, Security Exchange Commission; Ms. Dana 
Mauriello, Founder and President, Profounder; Mr. Jeff Lynn, 
Chief Executive Officer, Seedrs Limited; Mr. Sherwood Neiss, 
Cofounder, FLAVORx; Mr. Micheal Migliozzi, Managing Partner, 
Forza Migliozzi, LLC; Mr. Mercer Bullard, Associate Professor 
of Law, The University of Mississippi.
    Sept. 22, 2011, 2:00 p.m.--Joint Hearing of the 
Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public 
and Private Programs and the Committee on Financial Services 
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations entitled, 
``Potential Conflicts of Interest at the SEC: The Becker 
Case.'' Witnesses: The Honorable Mary Shapiro, Chairman, U.S. 
Securities and Exchange Commission; Mr. H. David Kotz, 
Inspector General, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Mr. 
David M. Becker, Former General Counsel, U.S. Securities and 
Exchange Commission.
    Nov. 2, 2011, 10:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services, and the Bailout of Public and Private Programs 
hearing entitled, ``America's Innovation Challenge: What 
Obstacles do Entreprenuers Face?'' Witnesses: Mr. Eric Koester, 
Co-founder and CEO, Zaarly, Inc.; Ms. Lonna Williams, CEO, 
Ridge Diagnostics; Tsvi Goldenberg, Ph.D., CEO, eemta.
    Nov. 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services, and the Bailout of Public and Private Programs 
hearing entitled, ``How Roadblocks in Public Markets Prevent 
Job Creation on Main Street.'' Witnesses: Mr. Eric Noll, 
Executive Vice President and Co-Head of U.S. Listings and Cash 
Execution, NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.; Mr. Joseph Mecane, Executive 
Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for U.S. 
Markets, NYSE Euronext.

Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental 
        Relations and Procurement Reform:

    Feb. 15, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform hearing, ``Unfunded Mandates and Regulatory Overreach.'' 
Witnesses: Mayor Patrice Douglas, City of Edmond, OK; Ms. Susan 
Dudley, George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center; 
Ms. Denise M. Fantone, Director, Strategic Issues, U.S. GAO; 
Mr. Anthony H. Griffin, County Executive, Fairfax County, VA.
    Mar. 11, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform hearing, ``Transparency Through Technology: Evaluating 
Federal Open-Government Initiatives.'' Witnesses: Ms. Ellen 
Miller, Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation; Danny Harris, 
Ph.D., Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Education; 
Mr. Christopher L. Smith, Chief Information Officer, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture; Mr. Jerry Brito, Senior Research 
Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; and Hon. 
Danny Werfel, Controller, Office of Federal Financial 
Management, OMB.
    Mar. 30, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
hearing, ``Unfunded Mandates and Regulatory Overreach Part 
II.'' Witnesses: Hon. Joni Cutler, South Dakota State Senator; 
Mr. Raymond J. Keating, Chief Economist, Small Business & 
Entrepreneurship Council; and Mr. John C. Arensmeyer, Founder 
and CEO, Small Business Majority.
    Apr. 7, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform hearing entitled, ``Regulatory Barriers to American 
Indian Job Creation.'' Witnesses: Ms. Mary L. Kendall, Acting 
Inspector General, Department of the Interior; Ms. Anu K. 
Mittal, Director, Natural Resources and Environment Team, U.S. 
GAO; Ms. Patricia Douville, Council Member, Rosebud Sioux 
Tribe; and Hon. Ron Allen, Chairman, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe.
    May 25, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform entitled, ``Unfunded Mandates, Regulatory Burdens and 
the Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.'' 
Witness: Hon. Cass Sunstein, Administrator, Office of 
Information Regulatory Affairs, OMB.
    June 3, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform entitled, ``H.R. 735 and Project Labor Agreements: 
Restoring competition and Neutrality to Government Construction 
Projects.'' Witnesses: The Honorable John Sullivan, U.S. House 
of Representatives; Mr. Dan Gordon, Administrator, Federal 
Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Ms. Susan 
Brita, Deputy Administrator, U.S. General Services 
Administration; Mr. Maurice Baskin, Counsel, Associated 
Builders and Contractors, Inc.; Mr. David Tuerk, Professor and 
Chairman, Suffolk University and Beacon Hill Institute; Mr. 
Kirby Wu, President, Wu & Associates; Mr. Mike Kennedy, 
Counsel, The Associated General Contractors of America.
    June 23, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform entitled, ``Improving Oversight and Accountability in 
Federal Grant Programs.'' Witnesses: Ms. Jeanette Franzel, 
Managing Director, Financial Management Assurance Team, 
Government Accountability Office; Ms. Natalie Keegan, Analyst 
in American Federalism & Emergency Management Policy, 
Congressional Research Service; Ms. Cynthia Schnedar, Acting 
Inspector General, Department of Justice; The Honorable Danny 
Werfel, Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, 
Office of Management and Budget; The Honorable Tom Coburn, 
United States Senate.
    July 14, 2011. 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform hearing entitled, ``Transparency and Federal Management 
IT Systems.'' Witnesses: Mr. Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief 
Information Officer, The Office of Management and Budget; The 
Honorable Roger Baker, Assistant Secretary for Information and 
Technology, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Mr. Lawrence 
Gross, Deputy Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of the 
Interior; Mr. Owen Barwell, Acting Chief Financial Officer, 
U.S. Department of Energy; Mr. Joel Willemssen, Managing 
Director of Information Technology Issues, Government 
Accountability Office.

    Sept. 21, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform Business Meeting. Summary:

H.R. 373 (Foxx), the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act 
        of 2011.

    1.  Lankford offered an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
    2.  Connolly offered an amendment to the substitute. He 
then withdrew his amendment.
     The amendment in the nature of a substitute was 
agreed to by voice vote. H.R. 373, as amended, was ordered 
reported favorably by a recorded vote of 5 ayes to 4 noes.

        Voting Aye: Lankford, Kelly, Chaffetz, Labrador, and 
        Meehan.

        Voting No: Connolly, Murphy, Lynch and Cummings.

    Oct. 6, 2011, 9:30 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, and Intergovernmental Relations and 
Procurement Reform hearing entitled, ``Protecting Taxpayer 
Dollars: Are Federal Agencies Making Full Use of Suspension and 
Debarment Sanctions?'' Witnesses: Mr. William T. Woods, 
Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government 
Accountability Office; Mr. Steven Shaw, Deputy General Counsel 
for Contractor Responsibility, Officer of the Air Force General 
Counsel; Mr. Richard A. Pelletier, Suspension and Debarment 
Official, Environmental Protection Agency; Nick Nayak, Ph.D., 
Chief Procurement Officer, Department of Homeland Security; Ms. 
Nancy Gunderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Grants 
and Acquisition Policy and Accountability, U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services.
    Nov. 2, 2011, 10:00 a.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, and Intergovernmental Relations and 
Procurement Reform hearing entitled, ``Are Government 
Contractors Exploiting Worker's Overseas? Examining Enforcement 
of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.'' Witnesses: Ms. 
Liana Wyler, Senior Analyst, Congressional Research Service; 
Mr. David Isenberg, Independent Analyst and Writer; Mr. Nick 
Schwellenbach, Director of Investigations, Project on 
Government Oversight; Mr. Sam W. McCahon, Founder, McCahon Law; 
Ms. Evelyn R. Klemstine, Assistant Inspector General for 
Audits, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Kenneth P. 
Moorefield, Deputy Inspector General for Special Plans & 
Operations, U.S. Department of Defense; Ms. Linda Dixon, 
Combating Trafficking in Persons Program Manager, U.S. 
Department of Defense; Mr. Michael P. Howard, Chief Operating 
Officer, Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES).
    Nov. 16, 2011, 1:30 p.m.--Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, and Intergovernmental Relations and 
Procurement Reform hearing entitled, ``On the Frontlines of 
Acquisition Workforce's Battle Against Taxpayer Waste.'' 
Witnesses: Mr. Daniel Gordon, Administrator, Office of Federal 
Procurement Policy, Executive Office of the President; Mr. John 
Hutton, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office; Mr. Roger Jordan, Vice 
President, Government Relations, Professional Services Council; 
Ms. Donna Jenkins, Director, Federal Acquisition Institute, 
General Services Administration; Ms. Katrina McFarland, 
Director, Defense Acquisition University.

                III. Summary of Committee Oversight Plan

    Pursuant to Rule X, Clause 2(d) of the Rules of the House, 
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for the 112th 
Congress adopted the following plan to guide the work of its 
subcommittees and the full committee. Because of the 
Committee's role as the principal oversight body of the federal 
government and its mandate to investigate ``any matter at any 
time,'' this plan did not preclude oversight and investigation 
of other matters of importance to the American people.

    The Committee's adopted plan indicates oversight in several 
sectors, including:
     Government Spending and Economic Stimulus--
including the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act and other 
economic stimulus programs.
     Financial Sector Regulation--including the 
implementation of Dodd-Frank, reviewing the FCIC, the creation 
of the CFBP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the 
recommendations of the Special Inspector General, including the 
failure of the Home Affordable Mortgage Program, and the 
Federal Housing Finance Agency's oversight of Fannie Mae and 
Freddie Mac.
     Consumer Protection--including abuses by the 
mortgage industry which, coupled with high unemployment and a 
stagnant economy, have contributed to the foreclosure crisis.
     Government Watchdogs--including the effectiveness 
of federal government inspectors general and their freedom from 
political interference, and ensuring the independence and 
integrity of the Government Accountability Office, and the 
federal government's actions on the recommendations in their 
biannual High Risk Series and their new annual list of 
duplicative, overlapping, and fractured federal programs.
     Federal Financial Management--including the record 
$125 billion in improper payments made in 2010, growth in non-
tax debt owed to the Federal Government, the persistent 
inability of many federal agencies to achieve a clean audit, 
and a comprehensive detailed review of financial management 
systems in place in the Federal Government.
     Federal Real Property Disposal--including the 
proposal to use a Base Realignment and Closure style initiative 
to reduce the federal deficit by disposing of excess property.
     Government Contracting--including the transition 
from primarily Department of Defense personnel to Department of 
State support in Iraq, and the inclusion of mandated Project 
Labor Agreements in federal construction contracts.
     Open Government and Transparency--including 
federal spending data accuracy, grant reform, the 
implementation of the Government Performance and Review Act and 
Performance.gov, compliance with the Presidential Records Act 
and the Federal Records Act and the need to update those acts 
to keep up with technology, political travel and the Hatch Act, 
allegations of political interference with the Freedom of 
Information Act, and a government-wide review of FOIA backlogs 
and agency efforts to eliminate them.
     Technology Policy--including the Committee's 
ongoing oversight of the Federal Information Security 
Management Act, and the emergence of a federal cybersecurity 
policy.
     Federal Regulation and the Regulatory Process--
including updating and strengthening the Unfunded Mandates 
Review Act of 1995, reviewing the role of the White House 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in rulemaking, and 
initiating a government-wide and economy-wide review of 
regulatory impediments to job creation, and soliciting input 
from the private sector.
     Domestic Energy Production--including actions 
taken by the Federal Government that have impeded the 
development of domestic energy resources, including actions 
taken to discourage the use of new and newly deployed 
technologies, allegations of mismanagement and abuse at the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the reorganization of the Bureau 
of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement, and the 
Administration's moratorium on issuing oil drilling permits in 
the Gulf.
     EPA Regulatory Actions and Litigation--including 
the adequacy of the economic analysis of proposed rules, 
enforcement and permitting decisions made by the Agency, and 
the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
     Healthcare and Drug Policy--including systemic 
problems with medical device approval, prevalence of fraud and 
abuse in Medicaid and Medicare, impediments faced by the 
biotech industry, food safety, the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy, and the issuance of waivers to companies and 
states struggling to comply with provisions of the Affordable 
Care Act and other implementation issues.
     District of Columbia--including the District's use 
of federal education funds and the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship 
Program, D.C. fiscal management, and general oversight of the 
D.C. government.
     Information Policy--including the Census, the 
National Archives and Records Administration, the Presidential 
Library System, and the future of the Presidential Records Act.
     Federal Workforce Policies--including pay and 
benefits, the use of ``official time'' to conduct union 
activities, and the appropriate size of the workforce.
     United States Postal Service--focusing on policies 
that will address the actual long-term fiscal sustainability of 
USPS and avoid a taxpayer bailout.
     National Security and Foreign Operations--
including the Department of Defense to State transition in 
Iraq, waste and mismanagement at USAID, and the growing delays 
in the transition process from DOD to Veterans Affairs health 
care systems for wounded warriors.
     Homeland Security--including ongoing problems with 
financial management, operations and decision-making at the 
Department of Homeland Security, and policies regarding privacy 
and security at airports and the effectiveness of the 
Transportation Security Administration.

 IV. Summary of Actions Taken and Recommendations Made With Respect to 
                           the Oversight Plan


                NATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN OPERATIONS

    In May, the Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland 
Defense and Foreign Operations continued a series of hearings 
on issues in wounded warrior care that examined the transition 
of members of the military who are wounded in action from the 
Department of Defense to the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
The Subcommittee heard testimony from officials at the 
Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs as well as the GAO 
which had uncovered problems in the transition of members of 
the military between the two departments. In May, the 
Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign 
Operations held a hearing entitled, ``USAID: Following the 
Money'' to examine how efficiently USAID uses federal funds. 
Rajiv Shah, Administrator of USAID, and Donald Gambatesa, 
Inspector General for USAID testified before the Subcommittee.
    In June, the Subcommittee conducted a hearing to examine 
Venezuela's sanctionable activity and what steps the 
Administration is taking to curtail that behavior. Also in 
June, the Subcommittee heard testimony from senior government 
witnesses about the state of our nation's cybersecurity. In 
July, the Subcommittee held its second hearing examining the 
TSA's efforts to secure airports and passengers. Members heard 
testimony from private and public sector witnesses about 
challenges and possible solutions.
    In September, the Subcommittee continued its oversight of 
corruption along the military's supply chain in Afghanistan, 
including whether the Pentagon has taken sufficient steps to 
eliminate possible extortion. In October, the Subcommittee held 
its second hearing on the progress of the Defense and State 
Department transition to a civilian-led mission in Iraq.
    In November, the Subcommittee conducted a hearing to 
examine whether the Obama Administration's diplomatic strategy 
has made any impact on Iran's progress toward obtaining a 
nuclear weapon. It also sought to determine whether the State 
Department will be prepared to defend itself against Iranian 
engagement in Iraq after the December 31, 2011, troop 
withdrawal deadline. In December, the Subcommittee heard 
testimony from the IG community about the challenges and 
solutions for more effective oversight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

                    OPEN GOVERNMENT AND TRANSPARENCY

    In late March, the Full Committee held a hearing entitled, 
``Why Isn't the Department of Homeland Security Meeting the 
President's Standard on FOIA?'' and issued a staff report 
entitled ``A New Era of Openness? How and Why Political Staff 
at DHS Interfered with the FOIA Process'' to determine why DHS 
was not following President Obama's promise of more openness 
and transparency. Chairman Issa began the hearing by outlining 
DHS's FOIA problems, saying ``now two full years into the Obama 
administration, Congressional investigators have uncovered 
evidence that career FOIA professionals at DHS have been 
compromised in their statutory compliance by the intrusion of 
DHS political staff into the department's FOIA procedures.''
    The Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, 
Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform held a 
hearing in March to examine how technology could be used to 
create transparency entitled ``Transparency Through Technology: 
Evaluating Federal Open-Government Initiatives.'' In June, 
based on the Committee's oversight work, Chairman Issa 
introduced the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act 
(DATA), which will make Federal spending data uniformly 
downloadable and machine-readable. The same month, the 
Committee reported the DATA Act to the House, and Sen. Mark 
Warner introduced companion legislation in the Senate.
    In July, the Subcommittee held a hearing to examine the 
failure of Federal agencies' management systems to produce 
useful, accurate information on grants, contracts, and other 
spending. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra testified that open-
government policies can save taxpayers' money by illuminating 
waste, but only if the government ensures the accuracy and 
usefulness of its data. The Committee collected information on 
agency financial management data systems, and released its 
findings publicly online after the hearing. Meanwhile, the 
Committee continued its aggressive oversight of agencies' 
failures to produce auditable financial statements, including 
hearings by the Subcommittee on Government Organization, 
Efficiency and Financial Management on financial control 
weaknesses at the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.

                     FEDERAL REAL PROPERTY DISPOSAL

    In May, Chairman Issa sent a letter to the Congressional 
Budget Office (CBO) asking for an estimate of President Obama's 
``Civilian Property Realignment Act.'' In June, the Committee 
received a response from CBO which stated in part that the 
``Legislation would probably not result in a significant 
increase in proceeds from the sale of federal properties.'' 
Furthermore, CBO estimates that the legislation would increase 
both direct and discretionary federal spending.
    In July, the Committee held a hearing entitled ``Disposal 
of Federal Real Property: Legislative Proposals.'' At the 
hearing, Theresa Gullo, Deputy Assistant Director at CBO's 
Budget Analysis Division, testified on CBO's analysis of the 
President's proposed property disposal legislation. She 
testified that, ``CBO's review of the President's proposal 
concluded that it was not likely to significantly increase 
receipts from sales of federal property in part because there 
is only a limited amount of excess property with significant 
market value and there are numerous legal, practical, and 
political obstacles to the sale of such property.''

                          GOVERNMENT WATCHDOGS

    In mid February the Full Committee held a hearing entitled 
``Waste and Abuse: The Refuse of the Federal Spending Binge'' 
during which the Committee heard from the Comptroller of the 
United States and several private sector witnesses about the 
2011 Government Accountability Office's High Risk List (an 
ongoing series of GAO reports that detail the highest risk and 
most problematic programs in the federal government). In early 
March the Full Committee held another hearing entitled ``The 
Refuse of the Federal Spending Binge II: How U.S. Taxpayers are 
Paying Double for Failing Government Programs'' that examined a 
new report by the GAO focusing on duplicative federal 
government programs.
    In June, the Government Organization, Efficiency and 
Financial Management Subcommittee held a hearing entitled ``IRS 
E-file and Identity Theft,'' which examined the growing problem 
of tax fraud perpetuated by identity theft. Commissioner 
Douglas Shulman testified and personally apologized to victims 
of identity theft and tax fraud. The Subcommittee held a 
follow-up hearing in November to address IRS's inability to 
identify or prevent tax fraud.
    The Subcommittee also addressed waste, fraud and abuse in 
the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which were responsible for 
almost $70 billion in improper payments in FY 2010. In July, 
the Subcommittee addressed waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare 
at a hearing entitled, ``Improper Medicare Payments: $48 
Billion in Waste?,'' and in December the Subcommittee had a 
Joint Hearing with the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of 
Columbia, Census and the National Archives entitled ``A 
Medicaid Fraud Victim Speaks Out: What's Not Working and Why?''

                      FEDERAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

    In March, the Subcommittee on Government Organization, 
Efficiency and Financial Management held a hearing entitled, 
``A Look at the FY2010 Consolidated Financial Statements of the 
U.S. Government'' during which the Comptroller General of the 
United States testified that ``three major impediments 
continued to prevent GAO from rendering an opinion on the 
Federal Government's accrual-based consolidated financial 
statements'' including ``financial management problems at the 
Department of Defense'' and ``the Federal Government's 
ineffective process for preparing the consolidated financial 
statements.'' The Subcommittee held several other hearings on 
federal financial management, including ``Making Sense of the 
Numbers: Improving the Federal Financial Reporting Model,'' ``A 
Look at the FY2010 Consolidated Financial Statements of the 
U.S. Government,'' ``Improper Payments: Finding Solutions,'' 
and ``Financial Management at the Department of Homeland 
Security.''
    The Committee has continued its focus on strong federal 
financial management, and is monitoring the Department of 
Defense in its goal to produce auditable financial statements 
by 2014. In September, the Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management held a 
hearing entitled ``The Department of Defense: Challenges in 
Financial Management'' to address shortcomings in DoD's current 
systems and problems the Department will face in trying to 
become auditable. The Subcommittee also addressed financial 
management concerns at the Department of Homeland Security in 
its October hearing, ``Internal Control Weaknesses at the 
Department of Homeland Security.'' Peggy Sherry, Acting Chief 
Financial Officer of DHS, testified about significant 
weaknesses found in DHS's controls over its financial 
management IT systems. In September, Rep. Todd Platts sent a 
letter to the White House expressing concern over DHS's lack of 
a Senate-confirmed Chief Financial Officer. In November, the 
White House acknowledged Mr. Platts's letter and nominated Ms. 
Sherry as CFO at DHS.

             FEDERAL REGULATION AND THE REGULATORY PROCESS

    From the beginning of the 112th Congress, excessive federal 
regulation and the regulatory process hindering job creation 
has been a priority of the Committee, and the Committee held a 
series of hearings on the subject. In February, the Full 
Committee held a hearing entitled ``Regulatory Impediments to 
Job Creation'' during which the Committee heard from a variety 
of business leaders and policy experts. The Committee also 
released a 97 page staff report entitled ``Assessing Regulatory 
Impediments to Job Creation'' to document specific examples of 
government regulations that businesses say hinder job creation.
    In April, the Committee held a field hearing in San Jose, 
California on ``Policies Affecting High Tech Growth and Federal 
Adoption of Industry Best Practices.'' The Committee heard from 
several leaders in the tech industry about how government 
regulations affect their businesses, including Google and 
Microsoft. The Full Committee held two more field meetings on 
federal regulation in April entitled, ``Regulatory Impediments 
to Job Creation: Assessing The Cumulative Impact of EPA 
Regulation on Farmers'' and ``Federal Policies Affecting 
Innovation and Job Growth In the Biotech and Pharmaceutical 
Industries.''
    The Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight 
and Government Spending also held a series of hearings on the 
topic: ``Assessing the Cumulative Impact of Regulation on U.S. 
Manufacturers,'' ``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation: The 
Cost of Doing Business in the Construction Industry,'' 
``Assessing the Impact of EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations on 
Small Business,'' ``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation in 
the Northeast Part I,'' and ``Regulatory Impediments to Job 
Creation in the Northeast Part II.'' Additionally, the 
Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, 
Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform held several 
hearings on the subject: ``Unfunded Mandates and Regulatory 
Overreach,'' ``Unfunded Mandates and Regulatory Overreach Part 
II,'' and ``Regulatory Barriers to American Indian Job 
Creation.''
    In June, the Full Committee held a field hearing in 
Charleston County, South Carolina entitled, ``Unionization 
Through Regulation: The NLRB's Holding Pattern on Free 
Enterprise'' to examine the National Labor Relations Board's 
(NLRB) decision to sue The Boeing Company for alleged unfair 
labor practices connected to the company's decision to build 
``Dreamliner'' 787s in South Carolina. The hearing exposed how 
the NLRB's action against Boeing would impact the thousands of 
Boeing employees at a non-union worksite in South Carolina.
    In September, the Full Committee held a hearing entitled 
``How a Broken Process Leads to Flawed Regulation.'' The 
hearing focused on the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs' oversight of federal regulatory agencies, the 
regulatory process, and the impact of regulations on the 
economy. The Committee released a 34 page report in conjunction 
with the hearing, which detailed the multiple ways federal 
agencies seek to advance a political agenda, while avoiding the 
transparency and the checks and balances of the congressionally 
designed system. The Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, 
Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending also held a series 
of hearings to better understand the employment impacts of 
various regulations: ``The Gainful Employment Regulation: 
Limiting Job Growth and Student Choice,'' ``Lights Out: How EPA 
Regulations Threaten Affordable Power and Job Creation,'' and 
``The Price of Uncertainty: How Much Could DOT's Proposed 
Billion Dollar Hours of Service Rule Cost Consumers This 
Holiday Season.''

                       DOMESTIC ENERGY PRODUCTION

    In May, the Full Committee held a hearing entitled ``Pain 
at the Pump: Policies that Suppress Domestic Production of Oil 
and Gas'' where EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified. The 
Committee also released a staff report the same day entitled 
``Impact of Statements by President, Energy Secretary about 
Raising Energy Costs on Americans Seen in Administration 
Policies.'' Chairman Darrell Issa introduced the hearing by 
stating that ``the United States has the largest reserves in 
the world--resources that can provide good-paying American jobs 
and fuel our economic expansion. Standing between that energy 
and U.S. consumers is an obstacle course of government red 
tape, regulation, delays and obfuscations.'' In May, the Full 
Committee held a field hearing in Bakersfield, California 
entitled, ``Pathways to Energy Independence: Hydraulic 
Fracturing and Other New Technologies.'' Also in May, the 
Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and 
Government Spending held a hearing on ``How Federal Reserve 
Policies Add to Hard Times at the Pump'' to determine how 
actions of the Federal Reserve increase the price of gas for 
consumers.
    In June 2011 the Full Committee released a 36 page report, 
``The BP Oil Spill Recovery Effort: The Legacy of Choices Made 
by the Obama Administration,'' which documented how the 
decisions made by the Obama Administration delayed relief to 
the citizens of the Gulf Coast, while simultaneously hindering 
development of our natural resources. In conjunction with this 
report, the Full Committee held a hearing, ``Making the Gulf 
Coast Whole Again: Assessing the Recovery Efforts of BP and the 
Obama Administration After the Oil Spill,'' where the Committee 
heard directly from Gulf Coast residents about how the response 
was affecting their daily lives and ability to earn a living.
    In September, the Full Committee held a hearing entitled, 
``How Obama's Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs,'' which 
explored the implications of government programs designed to 
transition the United States from traditional energy sources to 
``green,'' or renewable, energy for purpose of job creation and 
economic growth. At this hearing, the Chairman released a 36 
page report which explained why the Administration's policy to 
favor ``Green Job'' creation over traditional job creation is 
fundamentally flawed and actually detrimental to the economic 
recovery. The Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus 
Oversight and Government Spending also held a series of 
hearings to examine the impact of Administration policies on 
domestic energy production. In July, the Subcommittee heard 
from a diverse panel of Americans negatively affected by EPA's 
policy with respect to the permitting process of coal mining in 
Appalachia at its hearing entitled, ``EPA's Appalachian Energy 
Permitorium: Job Killer or Job Creator?'' Witnesses at the 
hearing included West Virginia Congresswoman Shelley Moore 
Capito, as well as mining executives from Pennsylvania, Ohio, 
West Virginia and a union representative from Local 5958 and 
Co-Chair of the Mountain Top Mining Coalition.

                 EPA REGULATORY ACTIONS AND LITIGATION

    The Full Committee held a field hearing in Salinas, 
California, on ``Regulatory Impediments to Job Creation: 
Assessing The Cumulative Impact of EPA Regulation on Farmers'' 
where the Committee heard from a variety of farmers and small 
business leaders about how EPA rules hinder job creation. 
Richard Smith, the owner of Paraiso Vineyards, told the 
Committee ``legislators presumably intend to codify good ideas. 
Unfortunately, most legislation is followed by regulatory fiats 
by unelected boards and/or staff; these subsequent `rules' 
often complicate and/or compromise the original good 
intentions.'' The Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus 
Oversight and Government Spending held a hearing entitled, 
``Assessing the Impact of EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations on 
Small Businesses.'' During the hearing, Keith Holman, Deputy 
Executive Director of the National Lime Association, 
highlighted the negative effects of EPA regulations on small 
business owners when he stated that ``while the GHG rules took 
effect only three months ago, we already see a chilling effect 
on lime companies' plans to modernize or expand their plants 
because of the great uncertainty surrounding GHG permitting. 
This in turn makes it less likely that lime companies will 
create new jobs.''
    In November, the Full Committee held a hearing entitled: 
''Lights Out II: Should EPA Take A Step Back to Fully Consider 
Utility MACT's Impact on Job Creation.'' This hearing featured 
testimony from Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, II 
and the Deputy Administrator of U.S. EPA, Robert Perciasepe. 
According to General Cuccinelli, ``The MACT rule, while raising 
electricity prices generally, directly increases prices for 
electricity produced by coal. As I noted before, Appalachian 
Power supplies a significant portion of the electricity in 
southwest Virginia, and a majority of its power supply is 
generated from coal. So the poorest citizens of my state will 
face the largest electric price increases because of the MACT 
rule.'' At this hearing, Mr. Perciasepe conceded that EPA's 
jobs analysis failed to look at the impact that higher energy 
prices would have on employment.
    The Committee has also launched an investigation into the 
Administration's fuel economy standards for light and heavy 
duty vehicles jointly issued by EPA, the California Air 
Resources Board (CARB), and the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration (NHTSA). The Committee is concerned that these 
standards were negotiated in secret, outside the scope of law, 
and could generate significant negative impacts for consumers. 
In furtherance of this investigation, the Subcommittee on 
Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending 
also held a hearing on October 2011 entitled ``Running on 
Empty: How the Obama Administration's Green Energy Gamble Will 
Impact Small Business and Consumers.'' At this hearing, Jeremy 
Anwyl, C.E.O. of Edmunds.com testified that auto executives 
felt they had a ```gun to their head,' and by that I think they 
are referring to the threat of a California opt-out, California 
waiver.''

                           TECHNOLOGY POLICY

    In May, the National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign 
Operations Subcommittee held a hearing, ``Cybersecurity: 
Assessing the Immediate Threat to the United States'' to 
examine cybersecurity. Several private sector witnesses 
testified, as well as Sean McGurk from the National Cyber 
Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security, who 
informed the Subcommittee that ``The United States confronts a 
combination of known and unknown vulnerabilities, strong and 
rapidly expanding adversary capabilities, and a lack of 
comprehensive threat and vulnerability awareness.''
    In July, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee held 
a hearing, ``Cybersecurity: Assessing the Nation's Ability to 
Address the Growing Cyber Threat'' to further examine 
cybersecurity. Witnesses from across the Federal Government, to 
include the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of 
Justice, the Department of Defense, and the Department of 
Commerce, discussed the cyber threat as well as the need to 
develop stronger strategic partnerships with the private 
sector. Witnesses responded to questions related to the 
aggressive nature of cyber attacks and the growing need to 
address weaknesses in the nation's information technology 
supply chain. The hearing also included a thorough discussion 
of the Administration's current cybersecurity legislative 
proposal.

                       HEALTHCARE AND DRUG POLICY

    The Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, 
Census and the National Archives held a hearing entitled, 
``Obamacare: Why the Need for Waivers'' in mid March to examine 
the process by which the Administration awards waivers to 
exempt certain companies from the new healthcare law. Chairman 
Trey Gowdy began the hearing by asking in his opening statement 
``in light of over 1000 companies requesting waivers from the 
burdens of this law, what did the President mean when he said, 
`if you like your health insurance, you can keep it' and where 
are the failings of this law that necessitate a waivers 
process?'' The Subcommittee then heard from several experts. In 
April, the Subcommittee held a hearing on government-run 
healthcare programs entitled ``Waste, Abuse and Mismanagement 
in Government Healthcare'' during which the Subcommittee heard 
from a variety of public and private sector experts at the 
federal and state level about government healthcare programs 
such as Medicare and Medicaid.
    In June, the Subcommittee held a hearing titled ``FDA 
Medical Device Approval: Is There a Better Way?'' The Committee 
heard from Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, a top political appointee at 
FDA, as well as a panel of experts on delays in the FDA 
approval process for medical devices. In July, the Subcommittee 
held a hearing titled ``Fulfilling a Legal Duty: Triggering a 
Medicare Plan from the Administration'' in response to the 
Obama Administration's failure to comply with their legal 
requirement to introduce legislation to reduce Medicare's 
reliance on general revenue. At the hearing, Chuck Blahous, one 
of the two public trustees of the Medicare program testified 
that Congress should use the Medicare cuts in the Affordable 
Care Act to extend the solvency of Medicare rather than 
increasing government spending on new health care entitlement 
programs.
    The Subcommittee held two hearings this year focused on 
Obamacare's impact on employers and jobs. The first hearing was 
titled ``Impact of Obamacare on Job Creators and Their Decision 
to Offer Health Insurance'' and consisted of a panel of 
employers testifying about the law's employer mandate to offer 
health insurance as well as several of the law's new 
regulations and taxes. At the hearing, Andrew Puzder, CEO of 
CKE Restaurants testified, ``[T]he ironically named Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act presents all American 
businesses with huge regulatory and economic hurdles that 
inhibit economic growth. . . . Apart from the actual burden of 
this legislation, it has contributed to the sense--which is 
quite common among our franchisees--that their own government 
has no idea how businesses operate and no sensitivity 
whatsoever to the challenges they and their consumers are 
confronting in these difficult times.''
    The second hearing titled ``Obamacare's Employer Penalty 
and Its Impact on Temporary Workers'' focused on the adverse 
impact that President Obama's health care law will have on 
staffing firms and temporary workers. During the question 
period, Mr. Gowdy spoke to witness John Uprichard, President 
and CEO of Find Great People International: ``The thing that I 
was struck by when you and I met and talked is there wasn't a 
partisan comment that came out of your mouth . . . I, to this 
day, do not know your politics, and frankly it's none of my 
business. The entire extent of our conversation was your 
concern for whether or not you were going to have to lay off 
your workers because of this.''
    In September, the Subcommittee held a hearing titled 
``Examining Abuses of Medicaid Eligibility Rules'' with witness 
testimony about how non-indigent people can qualify for 
Medicaid to pay for their long-term care services. Janice 
Eulau, an assistant administrator for Medicaid Services in 
Suffolk County, New York testified, ``We're seeing, you know, 
people often come in and they have total resources of over 
$300,000, $400,000 total. That's beyond their home, beyond pre-
paid burial expenses, beyond those things that they're allowed 
to have. . . . Probably most of the people that do some kind of 
Medicaid planning could at least pay for three to six months of 
care on their own, and many could pay for two years or more.''
    In September, Chairman Issa and Chairman Gowdy became 
Members of the Repeal Community Living Assistance Services and 
Supports Program (CLASS) Working Group with 12 other members of 
the House and Senate. The working group produced a report 
titled ``CLASS' UNTOLD STORY: Taxpayers, Employers, and States 
on the Hook for Flawed Entitlement Program.'' The Committee 
drafted two letters that were sent from the CLASS Working Group 
to Secretary Sebelius with questions about the sustainability 
of the CLASS Program as well as the Administration's plans to 
implement the program. The efforts of the Repeal CLASS Working 
Group were likely influential in the Administration's decision 
to stop implementation of the CLASS Program due to serious 
concerns about the program's sustainability.
    The Committee released a report in October with estimates 
that we requested from the Joint Committee on Taxation on the 
distributional impact of Obamacare's health insurance tax 
subsidies. The report titled ``Uncovering the True Impact of 
the Obamacare Tax Credits: Increases the Deficit, Expands 
Welfare through the Tax Code, and Implements a New Marriage Tax 
Penalty.'' In conjunction with the release of the report, the 
Subcommittee held a hearing titled ``Examining Obamacare's 
Hidden Marriage Penalty and Its Impact on the Deficit''. One of 
the other issues explored at the hearing was the incentive that 
employers will have to drop or reconfigure workplace health 
insurance in order to take advantage of the law's subsidies and 
pass costs to taxpayers.
    In November, the Subcommittee held a hearing titled ``Drug 
Shortage Crisis: Lives are in the Balance,'' which focused on 
government laws and price controls that could be at the root of 
the crisis. Ted Okon, executive director of Community Oncology 
Alliance, testified that ``[f]aced with the prospect of 
diminishing returns from low-priced, discounted, and rebated 
drugs, the incentive to stay in the market is reduced. This has 
led to fewer manufacturers producing these products.''

                      FINANCIAL SECTOR REGULATION

    In January, the Full Committee held a hearing entitled 
``Bailouts and the Foreclosure Crisis: Report of the Special 
Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program'' and 
heard testimony from Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General 
for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). In his testimony 
he concluded that ``the Home Affordable Modification Program 
(``HAMP'')--has been beset by problems from the outset and, 
despite frequent retooling, continues to fall dramatically 
short of any meaningful standard of success.'' In late March, 
the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of 
Public and Private Programs held a hearing entitled ``Has Dodd-
Frank Ended Too Big to Fail?'' Mr. Barofsky testified that the 
costs of TARP included ``the increased moral hazard and 
potentially disastrous consequences associated with the 
continued existence of financial institutions that are ``too 
big to fail.'' Additionally in March, the TARP Subcommittee 
held a Joint Hearing with the Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management on the state 
of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), entitled 
``Financial Management, Work Force, and Operations at the SEC: 
Who's Watching Wall Street's Watchdog?'' where the 
Subcommittees heard from SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro, as well 
as other current and former SEC officials. In May, the 
Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public 
and Private Programs held a hearing, entitled ``Who's Watching 
the Watchmen? Oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection 
Bureau.'' The Subcommittee heard testimony from Elizabeth 
Warren, Assistant to the President, and Special Advisor to the 
Secretary of the Treasury, along with several experts from 
universities and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, about the new 
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
    In June, the Subcommittee held a hearing titled, ``The 
Changing Role of the FDIC.'' At the hearing, Chairman Bair 
explained the FDIC's new authority via the Dodd-Frank Act, 
regulations regarding risk retention, new categorizations of 
``systemically important financial institutions,'' and 
suggested items for Congress to examine in years to come.
    In September and October, the Subcommittee held two 
hearings on crowdfunding as a new and necessary means to 
improve small business capital formation.
    Additionally, in September, there was a Joint Hearing by 
the House Oversight TARP Subcommittee and the House Financial 
Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations entitled, 
``Potential Conflicts of Interest at the SEC: The Becker 
Case.'' The witnesses included SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, SEC 
Inspector General H. David Kotz, and former SEC General Counsel 
David Becker. At the hearing, Inspector General Kotz and 
Chairman Schapiro recognized and admitted to poor-decision 
making and structural problems within the Commission's ethics 
office--which signed off on David Becker's involvement with the 
liquidation of Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 
despite a conflict of interest--and announced reforms it would 
institute in the near future.
    In November, the Subcommittee held the hearing ``How 
Roadblocks in Public Markets Prevent Job Creation on Main 
Street,'' that focused on potential solutions to shortages of 
liquidity for smaller and lesser known publicly traded 
companies. The NYSE and the NASDAQ testified in support of the 
Subcommittee's ideas on how to allow for public companies to 
purchase liquidity support from broker-dealers.

                           STIMULUS SPENDING

    The Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight 
and Government Spending held a hearing on the two-year 
anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the 
stimulus bill) to examine the effects of the stimulus on the 
economy after two years. During ``The Stimulus: Two Years 
Later'' hearing, economists and policy experts from a wide 
range of universities and public policy institutes testified 
about the results of the stimulus. Economist Russell Roberts at 
George Mason University summed up the views of the majority of 
the panel when he declared in his testimony that ``the results 
have been deeply disappointing.''
    A follow-up hearing held by the Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending, held on 
September 13th was entitled ``Take Two: The President's 
Proposal to Stimulate the Economy and Create Jobs.'' This 
hearing revisited the failure of the first stimulus to meet its 
goals and discussed how the President's most recent proposal, 
``The American Jobs Act,'' might suffer a similar fate. Experts 
from academia, think tanks, and financial institutions 
testified. On the President's proposal for more stimulus, 
Professor John Taylor of Stanford University stated, ``I think 
that makes it worse. Even the people who use these models to 
say it's going to boost the economy, always emphasize its 
short-term. So it's not a fixing growth.'' In conjunction with 
this hearing, the Full Committee released a report entitled, 
``Doubling down on failure: before asking for a new stimulus 
package, will the Obama administration admit failure?'' which 
compared the actual results of the 2009 stimulus with the 
predicted outcomes to demonstrate that it failed even by its 
self-imposed metrics for success.

                           FEDERAL WORKFORCE

    The Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, 
and Labor Policy held three hearings exploring issues affecting 
the federal workforce. At the March 9, 2011 hearing entitled, 
``Are Federal Workers Overpaid?'' Chairman Dennis Ross made it 
clear that ``the Members of this Subcommittee recognize that 
our talented federal workforce performs critically essential 
missions throughout the government, on behalf of our nation. We 
appreciate their service.'' Ross also noted that despite the 
fact that the President had declared a two-year pay freeze, 
roughly $1 billion worth of pay increases would be handed out 
each year due to the practice of ``step'' or ``time-in-grade'' 
increases awarded purely on tenure. At that hearing, the 
Subcommittee heard testimony from John Berry, director of the 
Office of Personnel Management. Berry argued that those step 
increases were necessary for employee retention, and promised 
to work with subcommittee Chairman Ross and full committee 
Chairman Issa to evaluate that policy. After the hearing, Ross 
and Issa requested that GAO conduct a comprehensive pay and 
benefit survey to answer key questions in dispute about the 
comparability of federal employee and private sector pay.
    An April 13th hearing examined the Federal Employee 
Compensation Act, the ``workers' compensation'' system used by 
federal agencies and the U.S. Postal Service, which has been 
criticized for keeping some workers on its system who are long 
since eligible for retirement. The Subcommittee found broad 
consensus amongst agency IGs for reform of the system. In May, 
the Subcommittee examined several proposals to reduce the size 
of the federal workforce through attrition, bringing Rep. 
Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, and Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania 
before the committee to testify. After examining these and 
other proposals at the hearing, Chairman Issa, Chairman Ross, 
and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, 
introduced H.R. 2114, a bill to reduce the size of the federal 
workforce by 10% by the year 2015 through attrition.
    The Subcommittee continued its oversight of issues 
affecting the federal workforce. At the June 1, 2011 hearing 
entitled, ``Official Time: Good Value for the Taxpayer?'' 
Chairman Ross underscored the need for the federal government 
to release information on official time usage in a timely 
manner. In 2009, the federal government spent nearly three 
million hours of official time on union activities in 2009, at 
a cost of $129 million. Ross also expressed concern that little 
evidence exists that official time is improving government 
productivity.
    On July 27, 2011, Chairman Ross held a hearing to examine 
the administration of the Thrift Savings Plan, including its 
investment options, participation rates, and expenses. Greg 
Long, Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift 
Investment Board, discussed additional legislative changes 
requested by the Board to ensure the plan continues to meet 
participant needs.
    During the November 15, 2011 hearing entitled, ``Back to 
the Basics: Is OPM Meeting Its Mission?'' the Subcommittee 
examined the Office of Personnel Management's efforts to 
modernize the federal government's hiring and retirement claims 
systems. The Subcommittee found OPM had no business plan to 
move from the current antiquated, paper-based process and 
reduce the backlog of 60,000 claims. The Subcommittee also 
examined OPM's failed launch of an in-house jobs board, for 
which OPM Director Berry OPM admitted the agency underestimated 
both the systems and software challenges.

 V. Summary of Any Additional Oversight Activities Undertaken, and Any 
             Recommendations Made or Actions Taken Thereon

    ATF's Operation Fast and Furious--The Committee has 
conducted an investigation over the last several months into 
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives 
(ATF)'s Project Gunrunner, specifically Operation Fast and 
Furious. Operation Fast and Furious allowed guns to be 
purchased along the Mexican border and transported into Mexico 
with ATF's knowledge so that the guns could be tracked in an 
attempt to bring down major players in drug cartels. The 
Operation allowed hundreds of guns to enter Mexico, and many 
have been found at the scenes of cartel shootings, including 
the fatal shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. As part 
of its investigation, the Committee has tried to obtain 
information from ATF and from the Department of Justice (DOJ). 
Because of a lack of cooperation with the investigation, the 
Committee subpoenaed ATF in mid-March and the Justice 
Department in October for documents and information relating to 
the failed Operation. The Committee has held a series of 
ongoing hearings on Operation Fast and Furious and continues 
trying to get ATF and the DOJ to cooperate and provide 
information.
    NRC mismanagement--The Committee is investigating 
allegations that Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory 
Jaczko's leadership and management style is undermining the 
Commission's important safety mission. The Committee's reviews 
of the NRC's response to the crisis at Japan's Fukushima plant 
and its handling of the license application for Yucca Mountain 
gave opportunity for NRC staff to share their concerns about 
the Commission's leadership. The Committee interviewed 
approximately 20 current and former NRC staff and obtained 
thousands of documents, including a letter to the White House 
signed by four Commissioners alleging that the Chairman's 
behavior was no longer tolerable. The Committee held a hearing 
and released a report on the matter during the week of December 
12, 2011.
    DARPA contracting conflicts--The Committee has conducted an 
investigation for approximately nine months into possible 
impropriety related to Defense Advanced Research Projects 
Agency contracting. The contracts in question were awarded over 
the last two years to a company co-owned by DARPA Director 
Regina Dugan. The Committee has reviewed thousands of documents 
produced by the Defense Department and conducted transcribed 
interviews of current and former DARPA officials.
    Manipulation of science by the Department of the Interior--
The Committee is investigating allegations that scientists at 
the Department of the Interior manipulated scientific data for 
the purpose of removing a family-owned oyster farm from a 
national park in Marin County, California. The oyster farm 
employs a number of local residents. Its operation has been 
determined not to have a negative environmental impact--
especially as relating to the local seal population--by 
independent scientists. The Committee has received thousands of 
documents from whistleblowers and other sources that inform the 
investigation. To date, the Department has been slow to respond 
to the Chairman's requests for documents and witness 
interviews.
    Misuse of the SSI label by TSA--The Committee is 
investigating allegations that political appointees at TSA use 
the Sensitive Security Information (SSI) designation to 
withhold embarrassing or damaging information. Alternatively, 
TSA public affairs staff are alleged to have released actual 
SSI to the press for public relations purposes. The Committee 
has obtained documents from whistleblowers and the Department 
of Homeland Security and conducted transcribed interviews of 
current and former TSA employees.

VI. Delineation of Any Hearings Held Pursuant to Clauses 2(n), (o), or 
                                  (p)


                              CLAUSE 2(N)

     March 2, 2011--Pushing the Envelope: The Looming 
Crisis at USPS (Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal 
Service and Labor Policy)
     April 5, 2011--Are Postal Workforce Costs 
Sustainable? (Full Committee)
     May 12, 2011--The District of Columbia's Fiscal 
Year 2012 Budget: Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability (Subcommittee 
on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National 
Archives)
     May 26, 2011--Rightsizing the Federal Workforce 
(Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and 
Labor Policy)
     June 1, 2011--Official Time: Good Value for the 
Taxpayer? (Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal 
Service and Labor Policy)
     June 1, 2011--Duplication, Overlap and 
Inefficiencies in Federal Social Welfare Programs (Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government 
Spending)
     June 14, 2011--Achieving Transparency and 
Accountability in Federal Spending (Full Committee)
     June 23, 2011--Improving Oversight and 
Accountability in Federal Grant Programs (Subcommittee on 
Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and 
Procurement Reform)
     July 14, 2011--Transparency and Federal Management 
IT Systems (Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, 
Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform)
     September 13, 2011--Take Two: The President's 
Proposal to Stimulate the Economy and Create Jobs (Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government 
Spending)
     November 2, 2011--The Green Energy Debacle: Where 
Has All the Taxpayer Money Gone? (Subcommittee on Regulatory 
Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending)
     November 16, 2011--Pay for Performance: Should 
Fannie and Freddie Executives Be Receiving Millions in Bonuses? 
(Full Committee)

                              CLAUSE 2(O)

     January 26, 2011--Bailouts and the Foreclosure 
Crisis: Report of the Special Inspector General for the 
Troubled Asset Relief Program (Full Committee)
     February 16, 2011--Making Sense of the Numbers: 
Improving the Federal Financial Reporting Model (Subcommittee 
on Government Organization, Efficiency and Financial 
Management)
     March 9, 2011--A Look at the FY2010 Consolidated 
Financial Statements of the U.S. Government (Subcommittee on 
Government Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management)
     July 28, 2011--Improper Medicare Payments: $48 
Billion in Waste? (Subcommittee on Government Organization, 
Efficiency and Financial Management)
     September 23, 2011--The Department of Defense: 
Challenges in Financial Management (Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management)

                              CLAUSE 2(P)

     March 10, 2011--Financial Management, Work Force, 
and Operations at the SEC: Who's Watching Wall Street's 
Watchdog? (Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and 
Bailouts of Public and Private Programs)
     March 16, 2011--TSA Oversight Part I: Whole Body 
Imaging (Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense 
and Foreign Operations)
     March 30, 2011--Has Dodd-Frank Ended Too Big to 
Fail? (Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of 
Public and Private Programs)
     March 31, 2011--Why Isn't the Department of 
Homeland Security Meeting the President's Standard on FOIA? 
(Full Committee)
     April 5, 2011--Waste, Abuse and Mismanagement in 
Government Health Care (Subcommittee on Health Care, District 
of Columbia, Census and the National Archives)
     May 10, 2011--Financial Management at the 
Department of Homeland Security (Subcommittee on Government 
Organization, Efficiency and Financial Management)
     May 24, 2011--Who's Watching the Watchmen? 
Oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 
(Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of 
Public and Private Programs)
     May 25, 2011--Cybersecurity: Assessing the 
Immediate Threat to the United States (Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations)
     June 2, 2011--Making the Gulf Coast Whole Again: 
Assessing the Recovery Efforts of BP and the Obama 
Administration After the Oil Spill (Full Committee)
     June 2, 2011--IRS E-File and Identity Theft 
(Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency and 
Financial Management)
     June 2, 2011--FDA Medical Device Approval: Is 
There a Better Way? (Subcommittee on Health Care, District of 
Columbia, Census and the National Archives)
     June 15, 2011--Postal Infrastructure: How Much Can 
We Afford? (Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal 
Service and Labor Policy)
     June 22, 2011--Lasting Implications of the General 
Motors Bailout (Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus 
Oversight and Government Spending)
     June 22, 2011--The Changing Role of the FDIC 
(Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of 
Public and Private Programs)
     June 24, 2011--Washington Metropolitan Area 
Transit Authority: Is There a Security Gap? (Subcommittee on 
Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National 
Archives)
     July 7, 2011--Cybersecurity: Assessing the 
Nation's Ability to Address the Growing Cyber Threat (Full 
Committee)
     July 12, 2011--Fulfilling a Legal Duty: Triggering 
a Medicare Plan from the Administration (Subcommittee on Health 
Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives)
     July 13, 2011--TSA Oversight Part 2: Airport 
Perimeter Security (Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland 
Defense and Foreign Operations)
     July 14, 2011--Consumer Financial Protection 
Efforts: Answers Needed (Full Committee)
     July 27, 2011--Disposal of Federal Real Property: 
Legislative Proposals (Full Committee)
     September 15, 2011--Defense Department Contracting 
in Afghanistan: Are We Doing Enough to Combat Corruption? 
(Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and 
Foreign Operations)
     September 15, 2011--Crowdfunding: Connecting 
Investors and Job Creators (Subcommittee on TARP, Financial 
Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs)
     September 21, 2011--Examining Abuses of Medicaid 
Eligibility Rules (Subcommittee on Health Care, District of 
Columbia, Census and the National Archives)
     September 22, 2011--Potential Conflicts of 
Interest at the SEC: The Becker Case (Subcommittee on TARP, 
Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs)
     October 4, 2011--Where is the Peace Dividend? 
Examining the Final Report to Congress of the Commission on 
Wartime Contracting (Full Committee)
     October 12, 2011--Status Report on the Transition 
to a Civilian-Led Mission in Iraq (Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations)
     November 2, 2011--America's Innovation Challenge: 
What Obstacles Do Entrepreneurs Face? (Subcommittee on TARP, 
Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs)
     November 2, 2011--Are Government Contractors 
Exploiting Workers Overseas? Examining Enforcement of the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Act (Subcommittee on Technology, 
Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement 
Reform)
     November 4, 2011--Identity Theft and Tax Fraud: 
Growing Problems for the Internal Revenue Service (Subcommittee 
on Government Organization, Efficiency and Financial 
Management)
     November 14, 2011--Delphi Pension Fallout: Federal 
Government Picked Winners and Losers, So Who Won and Who Lost? 
(Full Committee)
     November 15, 2011--Back to Basics: Is OPM Meeting 
Its Mission? (Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal 
Service and Labor Policy)
     November 15, 2011--How Roadblocks in Public 
Markets Prevent Job Creation on Main Street (Subcommittee on 
TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private 
Programs)
     November 30, 2011--Drug Shortage Crisis: Lives are 
in the Balance (Subcommittee on Health Care, District of 
Columbia, Census and the National Archives)

                                  
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