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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D780-D782 on July 14, 2011.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GROWING JOBS IN RURAL AMERICA
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine growing jobs in rural America, after receiving testimony from Bruce Graham, Indiana Statewide Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives, Inc., Indianapolis; Zac Stewart, Ambient, LLC, Ignacio, Colorado; Paul Bony, ClimateMaster, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Helen Sanders, SAGE Electrochromics, Faribault, Minnesota; Marc Verbruggen, NatureWorks, Wayzata, Minnesota; Oliver P. Peoples, Metabolix, Cambridge, Massachusetts; John McIntosh, Signature Crypton Carpet, Dalton, Georgia; and Dennis Hall, The Ohio State University Bioproducts Innovation Center, Columbus.
LIGHT WATER SMALL MODULAR REACTORS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development concluded a hearing to examine the safety and economics of light water small modular reactors, after receiving testimony from Peter Lyons, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy; William D. Magwood, IV, Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Ernest J. Moniz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; E. James Ferland, Jr., Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania; Christofer M. Mowry, Babcock and Wilcox Nuclear Energy, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina; and Paul Lorenzini, NuScale Power, Inc., Corvallis, Oregon.
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science and Space concluded a hearing to examine the National Nanotechnology Investment, focusing on manufacturing, commercialization, and job creation, after receiving testimony from Charles H. Romine, Acting Associate Director for Laboratory Programs, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce; Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University International Institute for Nanotechnology, Evanston, Illinois, on behalf of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Diandra L. Leslie-
Pelecky, West Virginia University Nano Initiative, Morgantown; Thomas O'Neal, University of Central Florida, Orlando; and George McLendon, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
An original bill to promote domestic development and deployment of clean energy technologies;
S. 201, to clarify the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir;
S. 270, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to Deschutes County, Oregon, with an amendment;
S. 271, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a property conveyance with the city of Wallowa, Oregon, with amendments;
S. 278, to provide for the exchange of certain land located in the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado;
S. 292, to resolve the claims of the Bering Straits Native Corporation and the State of Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon Lake in the State of Alaska and to provide for the conveyance to the Bering Straits Native Corporation of certain other public land in partial satisfaction of the land entitlement of the Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, with an amendment;
S. 333, to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving the Little Wood River Ranch;
S. 334, to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving the American Falls Reservoir;
S. 382, to amend the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional recreational uses of National Forest System land that is subject to ski area permits, and for other permits;
S. 404, to modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior;
S. 512, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to carry out programs to develop and demonstrate 2 small modular nuclear reactor designs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 519, to further allocate and expand the availability of hydroelectric power generated at Hoover Dam, with amendments;
S. 535, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands within Fort Pulaski National Monument;
S. 683, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Mantua, Utah, with amendments;
S. 684, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, Utah, with amendments;
S. 714, to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, with an amendment;
S. 734, to provide for a program of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application in vehicle technologies at the Department of Education, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 808, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment contracts between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District;
S. 897, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects and acid mine remediation programs;
S. 997, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to extend a water contract between the United States and the East Bench Irrigation District;
S. 1000, to promote energy savings in residential and commercial buildings and industry, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1001, to reduce oil consumption and improve energy security, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 1067, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to carry out a research and development and demonstration program to reduce manufacturing and construction costs relating to nuclear reactors, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
SUDAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Sudan, focusing on a roadmap forward, after receiving testimony from Princeton Lyman, Special Envoy to Sudan, Department of State.
EMPLOYMENT FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine learning from what works for employment for persons with disabilities, after receiving testimony from Kathleen Martinez, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy; former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, National Organization on Disability, Washington, D.C.; Deborah Dagit, Merck, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey; and Amelia Wallrich, Frankfort, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Cynthia Chavez Lamar, of New Mexico, Barbara Jeanne Ells, of Colorado, and Deborah Downing Goodman, of Oklahoma, all to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development.
NATIVE WOMEN
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine native women, after receiving testimony from Thomas J. Perrelli, Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice; Rose Weahkee, Director, Division of Behavioral Health, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Donald W. Rodgers, Cawtawba Indian Nation, Rock Hill, South Carolina, on behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.; Carmen O'Leary, Native Women's Society of the Great Plains, Timber Lake, South Dakota; Sherry Sanchez Tibbetts, American Indian Community Housing Organization, Duluth, Minnesota; Mickey Peercy, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant; and Sarah Deer, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, on behalf of the Amnesty International USA's Native American and Alaska Native Advisory Council.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Stephen A. Higginson, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Jane Margaret Triche-Milazzo, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Alison J. Nathan, and Katherine B. Forrest, both to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Susan Owens Hickey, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, and David V. Brewer, of Oregon, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the State Justice Institute.
VETERANS' AFFAIRS MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Veterans' Affairs mental health care, focusing on closing the gaps, after receiving testimony from William Schoenhard, Deputy Under Secretary for Health Operations and Management, George Arana, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Clinical Operations, Antonette Zeiss, Acting Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer for Mental Health, and Mary Schohn, Acting Director, Mental Health Operations, all of the Veterans Health Administration, and John D. Daigh, Jr., Assistant Inspector General for Health Care Inspections, and Michael Shepherd, Senior Physician, both of the Office of Inspector General, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Dave Underriner, Providence Health and Services, Oregon Region, Portland; Daniel Williams, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Homewood, Alabama; and Andrea Sawyer, Wounded Warrior Project, Colonial Heights, Virginia.
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.
