[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 22, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D652-D654]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nomination of Richard A. Raymond, of Nebraska, 
to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Hagel, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
USDA LIVESTOCK REPORTING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999, 
focusing on the reporting program that requires large packers and 
importers to report to USDA the details of their transactions involving 
purchases of livestock, as well as sales of boxed beef, boxed lamb, 
lamb carcasses, and imported lamb cuts, after receiving testimony from 
Kenneth C. Clayton, Acting Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 
Service, Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Department of Agriculture; 
Harold Hommes, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, 
Windsor Heights; Jon Caspers, Pleasant Valley Pork Corporation, 
Swaledale, Iowa, on behalf of the National Pork Producers Council; J. 
Patrick Boyle, American Meat Institute, Washington, D.C.; and James G. 
Robb, Livestock Marketing Information Center, Lakewood, Colorado.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Ronald E. Neumann, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Gregory L. Schulte, of Virginia, 
to be U.S. Representative to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, 
with the rank of Ambassador, and to be U.S. Representative to the 
International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador, 
Michael E. Hess, of New York, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development in the Bureau of 
Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, Dina Habib Powell, of 
Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, Larry Miles Dinger, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to

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the Republic of the Fiji Islands, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru, the 
Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Republic of Kiribati, Joseph A. 
Mussomeli, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, 
and Emil A. Skodon, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 662, to reform the postal laws of the United States, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 457, to require the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget to issue guidance for, and provide oversight of, the management 
of micropurchases made with Governmentwide commercial purchase cards, 
with amendments;
  S. 611, to establish a Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency 
Medical Services and a Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency 
Medical Services Advisory Council;
  S. 37, to extend the special postage stamp for breast cancer research 
for 2 years;
  H.R. 1460, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 6200 Rolling Road in Springfield, Virginia, as the 
``Captain Mark Stubenhofer Post Office Building'';
  S. 590 and H.R. 1236, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 750 4th Street in Sparks, Nevada, as 
the ``Mayor Tony Armstrong Memorial Post Office'';
  S. 571, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1915 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York, as the 
``Congresswoman Shirley A. Chisholm Post Office Building'';
  S. 892 and H.R. 324, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 321 Montgomery Road in Altamonte 
Springs, Florida, as the ``Arthur Stacey Mastrapa Post Office 
Building'';
  S. 867 and H.R. 289, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 8200 South Vermont Avenue in Los 
Angeles, California, as the ``Sergeant First Class John Marshall Post 
Office Building'';
  S. 1207 and H.R. 120, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 30777 Rancho California Road in 
Temecula, California, as the ``Dalip Singh Saund Post Office 
Building'';
  S. 775, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 123 W. 7th Street in Holdenville, Oklahoma, as the ``Boone 
Pickens Post Office'';
  S. 1206 and H.R. 504, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 4960 West Washington Boulevard in Los 
Angeles, California, as the ``Ray Charles Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1001, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 301 South Heatherwilde Boulevard in Pflugerville, 
Texas, as the ``Sergeant Byron W. Norwood Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1072, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 151 West End Street in Goliad, Texas, as the ``Judge 
Emilio Vargas Post Office Building'';
  S. 904, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1560 Union Valley Road in West Milford, New Jersey, as the 
``Brian P. Parrello Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1542, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 695 Pleasant Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 
as the ``Honorable Judge George N. Leighton Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1082, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 120 East Illinois Avenue in Vinita, Oklahoma, as the 
``Francis C. Goodpaster Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1524, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 12433 Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kansas, as the 
``Ed Eilert Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 627, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 40 Putnam Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut, as the 
``Linda White-Epps Post Office'';
  H.R. 2326, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 614 West Old County Road in Belhaven, North 
Carolina, as the ``Floyd Lupton Post Office''; and
  The nominations of Linda Morrison Combs, of North Carolina, to be 
Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, Office of 
Management and Budget, Linda M. Springer, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Laura A. Cordero, to be 
an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 
and A. Noel Anketell Kramer, to be an Associate Judge of the District 
of Columbia Court of Appeals.
TRIBAL LOBBYING MATTERS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held an oversight hearing to 
examine the In Re Tribal Lobbying Matters, et al, receiving testimony 
from Charlie Ben, Donald Kilgore, and Nell Rogers, all of the 
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Choctaw; Amy Moritz Ridenour, 
National Center for Public Policy

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Research, Washington, D.C.; and certain protected witnesses.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.