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Innovators’’. Testimony was heard from public witnesses. 

GAO REPORT: THE OBAMA 

ADMINISTRATION’S $8 BILLION 

EXTRALEGAL HEALTHCARE SPENDING 

PROJECT 

Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Full 

Committee held a hearing entitled ‘‘GAO Report: 

The Obama Administration’s $8 Billion Extralegal 

Healthcare Spending Project’’. Testimony was heard 

from Jonathan Blum, Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicare; James C. Cosgrove, Director, Health Care, Government Accountability Office; Edda Emmanuelli-Perez, Managing Associate 

General Counsel, Government Accountability Office. 

REGULATORY FREEZE FOR JOBS ACT OF 

2012 

Committee on Rules: Full Committee held a hearing on 

H.R. 4078, the ‘‘Regulatory Freeze for Jobs Act of 

2012’’. The Committee granted, by a record vote, a 

resolution providing that the amendment to H.R. 

4078 printed in section 2 of the resolution shall be 

considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole. 

DROUGHT FORECASTING, MONITORING 

AND DECISION-MAKING: A REVIEW OF 

THE NATIONAL INTEGRATED DROUGHT 

INFORMATION SYSTEM 

Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Full Committee held a hearing entitled ‘‘Drought Forecasting, 

Monitoring and Decision-making: A Review of the 

National Integrated Drought Information System’’. 

Testimony was heard from Roger S. Pulwarty, Program Director, National Integrated Drought Information Systems, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, Department of Commerce; Gregory 

A. Ballard, Mayor, City of Indianapolis; and public 

witnesses. 

TALES OF RESILIENCE: SMALL BUSINESS 

SURVIVAL IN THE RECESSION 

Committee on Small Business: Full Committee held a 

hearing entitled ‘‘Tales of Resilience: Small Business 

Survival in the Recession’’. Testimony was heard 

from public witnesses. 

OPPORTUNITY FOR EPA TO PROVIDE 

COMMUNITIES WITH FLEXIBILITY TO 

MAKE SMART INVESTMENTS IN WATER 

QUALITY 

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment 

held a hearing entitled ‘‘Integrated Planning and 

Permitting, Part 2: An Opportunity for EPA To 

Provide Communities With Flexibility To Make 

Smart Investments in Water Quality’’. Testimony 

was heard from Ted Portune, Commissioner, Hamilton County, Ohio Board of Commissioners; Carter 

H. Strickland, Jr., Commissioner, New York City 

Department of Environmental Protection; Nancy 

Stoner, Acting Assistant Administrator for Water, 

Environment Protection Agency; and Cynthia Giles, 

Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Environmental 

Protection Agency. 

PUBLIC CHARITY ORGANIZATIONAL 

ISSUES, UNRELATED BUSINESS INCOME 

TAX, AND THE REVISED FORM 990 

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on 

Oversight held a hearing on Public Charity Organizational Issues, Unrelated Business Income Tax, and 

the Revised Form 990. Testimony was heard from 

Steven T. Miller, Deputy Commissioner for Services 

and Enforcement, Internal Revenue Service; and public witnesses. 

USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE 

ADMINISTRATION OF SSI’S FINANCIAL 

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS 

Committee on Ways and Means: Full Committee held 

a hearing on the Use of Technology To Improve the 

Administration of SSI’s Financial Eligibility Requirements. Testimony was heard from Carolyn Colvin, 

Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration; Patrick P. O’Carroll, Jr., Inspector General, Social Security Administration; and public witnesses. 

Joint Meetings No joint committee meetings were held. 

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COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, 

JULY 26, 2012 

(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated) 

Senate 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: To hold 

hearings to examine S. 3239, to provide for a uniform national standard for the housing and treatment of egg-laying hens, 9:30 a.m., SR–328A. 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: To 

hold hearings to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s annual report to Congress, 10 a.m., 

SD–538. 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Business meeting to consider The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 13, 2006, and Signed by the United 

States of America on June 30, 2009 (Treaty Doc 112–7), 

S. 3341, to require a quadrennial diplomacy and development review, and the nominations of Gene Allan Cretz, 


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of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 

Ghana, Deborah Ruth Malac, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia, David Bruce Wharton, 

of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 

Zimbabwe, Alexander Mark Laskaris, of Maryland, to be 

Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea, Marcie B. Ries, 

of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria, John M. Koenig, of Washington, to 

be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, Michael David 

Kirby, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 

Serbia, Thomas Hart Armbruster, of New York, to be 

Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and 

Greta Christine Holtz, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 

the Sultanate of Oman, all of the Department of State, 

and lists in the Foreign Service, 9:30 a.m., SD–G50. 

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Children and Families, to hold hearings to 

examine the Child Care and Development Block Grant 

(CCDBG) reauthorization, focusing on helping to meet 

the child care needs of American families, 10 a.m., 

SD–430. 

Committee on Indian Affairs: To hold an oversight hearing to examine the regulation of tribal gaming, focusing 

on brick and mortar to the internet, 2:15 p.m., SD–G50. 

Committee on the Judiciary: Business meeting to consider 

S. 225, to permit the disclosure of certain information for 

the purpose of missing child investigations, 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, 10 a.m., SD–226. 

Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 

nominations of William Joseph Baer, of Maryland, to be 

an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 1 

p.m., SD–226. 

Select Committee on Intelligence: To hold closed hearings 

to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., 

SH–219. 

House 

Committee on Appropriations, Full Committee, hearing on 

the Department of Homeland Security—Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Program, 10:30 

a.m., 2359 Rayburn. 

Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Readiness, hearing on Civilian Workforce Requirements—Now 

and Across the Future Years Defense Program, 11:30 

a.m., 2212 Rayburn. 

Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, markup of S. 710, the 

‘‘Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment 

Act’’, 9 a.m., 2123 Rayburn. 

Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Capital 

Markets, hearing entitled ‘‘The 10th Anniversary of the 

Sarbanes-Oxley Act’’, 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn. 

Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies, hearing entitled ‘‘Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: 

Does DHS Have an Effective and Efficient Nuclear Detection Strategy?’’, 10 a.m., 311 Cannon. 

Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, hearing on the U.S. Department of Justice Civil 

Rights Division, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn. 

Committee on Rules, Full Committee, hearing on H.R. 

6169, the Pathway to Job Creation through a Simpler, 

Fairer Tax Code Act of 2012’’, 9:30 a.m., H–313 Capitol. 

Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee 

on Energy and Environment, hearing entitled ‘‘Review of 

DOE Vehicle Technologies Program Management and 

Activities: Assuring Appropriate and Effective Use of 

Taxpayer Funding’’, 9:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn. 

Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade, hearing entitled ‘‘Market 

Closed: Foreign Trade Barriers Facing Small Agriculture 

Exporters’’, 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn. 

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Full Committee, markup of the following: H.R. 4278, the ‘‘Preserving Rural Resources Act of 2012’’; H.R. 5961, the 

‘‘Farmer’s Privacy Act of 2012’’; H.R. 2541, ‘‘Silviculture 

Regulatory Consistency Act’’; H.R. 3158, the ‘‘Farmers 

Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act’’; H.R. 

5797, the ‘‘Mille Lacs Lake Freedom To Fish Act of 

2012’’; and General Services Administration Capitol Investment and Leasing Program Resolutions, 10 a.m., 

2167 Rayburn. 

Committee on Ways and Means, Full Committee, markup 

of H.R. 6156, ‘‘The Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik 

Repeal Act of 2012’’, 9:45 a.m., 1100 Longworth. 

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Full 

Committee, hearing on ongoing intelligence activities, 9 

a.m., HVC–304. This is a closed hearing. 


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