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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D103-D104 on Feb. 9, 2012.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, USN, for reappointment to the grade of admiral and to be Commander, United States Pacific Command, and Lieutenant General Thomas P. Bostick, USA, for reappointment to the grade of lieutenant general and to be Chief of Engineers, and Commanding General, United States Army Corps of Engineers, both of the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
HOUSING MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the state of the housing market, focusing on removing barriers to economic recovery, after receiving testimony from Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics, and Christopher J. Mayer, Columbia Business School, both of New York, New York; and Phillip L. Swagel, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, College Park.
ASSESSING INEQUALITY, MOBILITY, AND OPPORTUNITY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine assessing inequality, mobility, and opportunity, after receiving testimony from Mark J. Warshawsky, Member, Social Security Advisory Board; Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Heather Boushey, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies, and Scott Winship, Brookings Institution Center on Children and Families, all of Washington, DC.
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA LAND EXCHANGE AND CONSERVATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine H.R. 1904, to facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral resources in southeast Arizona by authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-Federal land, and the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2009, after receiving testimony from Senators McCain and Kyl; Mary Wagner, Associate Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Ned Farquhar, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Lands and Minerals Management; Jon Cherry, Resolution Copper Company, Superior, Arizona; and Shan Lewis, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Phoenix.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND INTERNET GAMING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Department of Justice opinion on Internet gaming, focusing on what's at stake for tribes, after receiving testimony from Robert Odawi Porter, Seneca Nation of Indians, Salamanca, New York; Kevin K. Washburn, University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque; I. Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Encino, California; Alex T. Skibine, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City; Patrick Fleming, Washington, DC, on behalf of the Poker Players Alliance; and Glenn M. Feldman, Mariscal, Weeks, McIntyre and Friedlander, P.A., Phoenix, Arizona.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1945, to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.
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.
