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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D897-D898 on Aug. 5, 2011.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HOUSING FINANCE SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, August 3, 2011, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine the housing finance system, focusing on the to-be-
announced market, after receiving testimony from Thomas Hamilton, Barclays Capital, on behalf of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Paul T. Van Valkenburg, Mortgage Industry Advisory Corporation, and Andrew Davidson, Andrew Davidson and Co., Inc., all of New York, New York.
DEBT FINANCING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, August 3, 2011, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection concluded a hearing to examine debt financing in the domestic financial sector, after receiving testimony from Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University Business School, New York, New York; Edward J. Kane, Boston College, Tucson, Arizona; Eugene A. Ludwig, Promontory Financial Group, Washington, D.C.; and Paul Pfleiderer, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto, California.
PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Wednesday, August 3, 2011, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 1024, to designate the Organ Mountains and other public land as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System and the National Landscape Conservation System in the State of New Mexico, S. 1090, to designate as wilderness certain public land in the Cherokee National Forest in the State of Tennessee, S. 1144, to amend the Soda Ash Royalty Reduction Act of 2006 to extend the reduced royalty rate for soda ash, S. 1149, to expand geothermal production, and S. 1344, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to take immediate action to recover ecologically and economically from a catastrophic wildfire in the State of Arizona, after receiving testimony from Senator Kyl; Robert Abbey, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Tom Tidwell, Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Edward T. Flynn, FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Scott H. Nichols, U.S. Geothermal Inc., Boise, Idaho.
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On page D897, August 5, 2011 the following language appears: PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS BILLS Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: . . . S. 144 . . . Boise, Idaho.
The online Record has been corrected to read: PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS BILLS Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: . . . S. 1144 . . . Boise, Idaho.
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DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Wednesday, August 3, 2011, Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded a hearing to examine responding to drought and famine in the horn of Africa, after receiving testimony from Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for International Development; Donald Yamamoto, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, and Reuben Brigety, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, both of the Department of State; Jeremy Konyndyk, Mercy Corps, and J. Peter Pham, Atlantic Council Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, both of Washington, D.C.; and Wouter Schaap, CARE International Somalia, Nairobi, Kenya.
FEDERAL LEASED PROPERTY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: On Thursday, August 4, 2011, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine Federal leased property, focusing on if Federal agencies are getting a bad deal, and the overreliance on leasing contributed to high-risk designation, after receiving testimony from David Foley, Deputy Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration; James Sullivan, Director, Office of Asset Enterprise Management, Department of Veterans Affairs; H. David Kotz, Inspector General, and Jeff Heslop, Chief Operating Officer, both of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and David J. Wise, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability Office.
THE AMERICAN INDIAN PROBATE REFORM ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: On Thursday, August 4, 2011, Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine ``The American Indian Probate Reform Act'', focusing on empowering Indian land owners, after receiving testimony from John Berrey, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, duapaw; David Gipp, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; Douglas Nash, Seattle University School of Law Institute for Indian Estate Planning and Probate, Seattle, Washington; Majel Russell, Elk River Law Office, P.L.L.P., Billings, Montana, on behalf of the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT); and Sharon Redthunder, Indian Land Working Group, Elmer City, Washington.
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the employment situation for July 2011, after receiving testimony from Keith Hall, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
