[Daily Digest]
[Page D1274]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee began markup of S. 
1733, to create clean energy jobs, promote energy independence, reduce 
global warming pollution, and transition to a clean energy economy, but 
did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, 
November 4.
INCREASING HEALTH COSTS FACING SMALL BUSINESSES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine increasing health costs facing small 
businesses, after receiving testimony from Sandy Praeger, Kansas 
Insurance Commissioner, Topeka, on behalf of the National Association 
of Insurance Commissioners; Art Cullen, The Storm Lake Times, Storm 
Lake, Iowa; Walter Rowen, Susquehanna Glass, Columbia, Pennsylvania; 
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, DHE Consulting, LLC, Arlington, Virginia; Karen 
Bender, Oliver Wyman Actuarial Consulting, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 
and Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
INTELLIGENCE
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.