Aug. 2, 2012: Congressional Record publishes “Senate Committee Meetings”

Aug. 2, 2012: Congressional Record publishes “Senate Committee Meetings”

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Volume 158, No. 117 covering the 2nd Session of the 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) was published by the Congressional Record.

The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.

“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D820 on Aug. 2, 2012.

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 (H.R. 5856) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013; and

An original bill (H.R. 5882) making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013.

TRI-PARTY REPO MARKET

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine the tri-party repo market, focusing on the remaining challenges, after receiving testimony from Matthew J. Eichner, Deputy Director of the Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Karen B. Peetz, The Bank of New York Mellon, Brooklyn Heights, New York; Steven R. Meier, State Street Global Advisors, Sudbury, Massachusetts; and Thomas G. Wipf, Morgan Stanley, Brooklyn, New York.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``The Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012''.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:

S. 225, to permit the disclosure of certain information for the purpose of missing child investigations, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

S.J. Res. 44, granting the consent of Congress to the State and Province Emergency Management Assistance Memorandum of Understanding; and

The nominations of Thomas M. Durkin, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Jon S. Tigar, and William H. Orrick, III, of the District of Columbia, both to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of California.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Thomas Skerik Sowers II, of Missouri, to be Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 158, No. 117

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