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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D89-D90 on Feb. 7, 2012.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
UNITED STATES MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the outlook for United States monetary and fiscal policy, after receiving testimony from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``The Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012''.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Larry Leon Palmer, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Phyllis Marie Powers, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, Jonathan Don Farrar, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, and Julissa Reynoso, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, who was introduced by Senator Gillibrand, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answer questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Nancy J. Powell, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to India, Department of State, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine accessible technology, focusing on challenges and opportunities, after receiving testimony from Eve Hill, Senior Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Department of Justice; Mark A. Riccobono, National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute, Baltimore, Maryland; John Quick, Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation, Columbus, Indiana; and Mark Turner, California State University Center for Accessible Media, Long Beach.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
