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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1128-D1129 on Oct. 20, 2011.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine housing finance reform, focusing on continuation of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, after receiving testimony from Janis Bowdler, National Council of La Raza, and Anthony B. Sanders, George Mason University, both of Washington, D.C.; John Fenton, Affinity Federal Credit Union, Tewksbury Township, New Jersey, on behalf of the National Association of Federal Credit Unions; Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; and Susan E. Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics, Palo Alto, California.
THE GROUP OF TWENTY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance concluded a hearing to examine the Group of Twenty (G20) and global economic and financial risks, after receiving testimony from Lael Brainard, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; and Uri Dadush, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, John Makin, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and C. Fred Bergsten, Peterson Institute for International Economics, all of Washington, D.C.
OVERSIGHT: SHALE GAS PRODUCTION AND WATER RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded an oversight hearing to examine shale gas production and water resources in the Eastern United States, after receiving testimony from Cynthia C. Dougherty, Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; David P. Russ, Regional Executive for the Northeast, United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; Lori Wrotenbery, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Oklahoma City; Thomas W. Beauduy, Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Cal Cooper, Apache Corporation, Houston, Texas; and Katy Dunlap, Trout Unlimited, Arlington, Virginia.
U.S. MILITARY DEPLOYMENT IN CENTRAL AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on United States military deployment to Central Africa from Donald Yamamoto, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; and Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, and Vicki Huddleston, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa, both of the Department of Defense.
ACCOUNTABILITY AT FEMA
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and Intergovernmental Affairs concluded a hearing to examine accountability at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), after receiving testimony from Richard Serino, Deputy Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Matt Jadacki, Assistant Inspector General, Emergency Management Oversight, both of the Department of Homeland Security; Maurice McTigue, George Mason University Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia; and Craig Killough, Project Management Institute (PMI), Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1262, to improve Indian education, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
TRIBAL LAND BILLS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 134, to authorize the Mescalero Apache Tribe to lease adjudicated water rights, S. 399, to modify the purposes and operation of certain facilities of the Bureau of Reclamation to implement the water rights compact among the State of Montana, the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, and the United States, S. 1327, to amend the Act of March 1, 1933, to transfer certain authority and resources to the Utah Dineh Corporation, and S. 1345, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, after receiving testimony from Senator Bingaman; Donald Laverdure, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, and Pam Williams, Solicitor's Office, Indian Affairs Division, both of the Department of the Interior; Chris D. Tweeten, Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission Chairman, Helena; Mark R. Chino, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Mescalero, New Mexico; Terry J. Show, Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, Browning, Montana; Rex Lee Jim, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Kenneth Maryboy, San Juan County Commissioner, Monticello, Utah; and Gregory J. Abrahamson, Spokane Tribe of Indians, Wellpinit, Washington.
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.
