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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D999-D1000 on Sept. 21, 2011.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012;
An original bill making appropriations for the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012; and
An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Ashton B. Carter, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, and 2,210 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks concluded a hearing to examine a recently released report by the National Park Service, A Call to Action: Preparing for a Second Century of Stewardship and Engagement, after receiving testimony from Jonathan B. Jarvis, Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Neil J. Mulholland, National Park Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and Jason Morris, NatureBridge, San Francisco, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 97, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a grant program to support the restoration of San Francisco Bay, with an amendment;
S. 893, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the State of Louisiana for a pilot program to develop measures to eradicate or control feral swine and to assess and restore wetlands damaged by feral swine;
S. 1400, to restore the natural resources, ecosystems, fisheries, marine and wildlife habitats, beaches, and coastal wetlands of Gulf Coast States, to create jobs and revive the economic health of communities adversely affected by the explosion on, and sinking of, the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
A proposed resolution regarding the Federal Communications Commission, a proposed resolution regarding the Food and Drug Administration, and a proposed resolution regarding the National Institutes of Health; and
The nomination of Kenneth J. Kopocis, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
DUALLY-ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARIES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine dually-
eligible beneficiaries, focusing on improving care while lowering costs, after receiving testimony from Melanie Bella, Director, Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Robert A. Mandell, of Florida, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, who was introduced by Senator Nelson (FL), Thomas Charles Krajeski, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Dan W. Mozena, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of Bangladesh, and Michael A. Hammer, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1546, to authorize certain programs of the Department of Homeland Security, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
TRANSFORMING WARTIME CONTRACTING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine transforming wartime contracting, focusing on recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Contracting, after receiving testimony from Senators McCaskill and Webb; former Representative Christopher Shays, Co-Chair, and Clark Kent Ervin, Robert J. Henke, Katherine Schinasi, Charles Tiefer, and Dov S. Zakheim, each a Commissioner, all of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan; Patrick F. Kennedy, Under Secretary of State for Management; and Richard T. Ginman, Director, Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, Department of Defense.
COUNTERING TERRORIST FINANCING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism concluded a hearing to examine countering terrorist financing, focusing on progress and priorities, after receiving testimony from Lisa O. Monaco, Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, and Ralph S. Boelter, Acting Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; and Daniel L. Glaser, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing.
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine Google, focusing on consumers and competition, after receiving testimony from Eric Schmidt, Google Inc., Mountain View, California; Jeffrey Katz, Nextag, Inc., San Mateo, California; Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp! Inc., San Francisco, California; and Thomas O. Barnett, Covington and Burling LLP, and Susan A. Creighton, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, P.C., both of Washington, D.C.
THE AMERICAN LEGION LEGISLATIVE PRESENTATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a joint hearing with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative presentation of The American Legion, after receiving testimony from Fang A. Wong, Daniel M. Dellinger, Tim Tetz, Michael D. Helm, and Verna Jones, all of the American Legion, Washington, D.C.
