[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 97 (Monday, July 18, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D768-D769]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ENGINE COOLANT AND ANTIFREEZE BITTERING AGENT ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Affairs, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing to 
examine S. 1110, to amend the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to 
require engine coolant and antifreeze to contain a bittering agent in 
order to render the coolant or antifreeze unpalatable, after receiving 
testimony from Jacqueline Elder, Assistant Executive Director, Hazard 
and Reduction, Consumer Product Safety Commission; New Mexico State 
Representative Kathy A. McCoy, Cedar Crest; Jeffrey Bye, Prestone, 
Honeywell International, Inc., Danbury, Connecticut; and Sara Amundson, 
Doris Day Animal League, Washington, D.C.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine certain efforts to secure Iraq, focusing on the current 
counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq, protecting Iraq's borders and 
preventing foreign infiltration, the training schedule of Iraqi forces 
and supporting more training in other countries, and the force 
structure of the United States' presence in Iraq, after receiving 
testimony from Kenneth M. Pollack, The Brookings Institution Saban 
Center for Middle East Policy, and Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for 
Strategic and International Studies, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
General Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (Ret.), BR McCaffrey Associates, LLC, 
Arlington, Virginia.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Gillian Arlette Milovanovic, of Pennsylvania, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia, and James Cain, of North 
Carolina, to be Ambassador to Denmark, who was introduced by Senator 
Burr, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Richard L. Skinner, 
of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security, 
who was introduced by Senator Warner, and Brian David Miller, of 
Virginia, to be Inspector General, General Services Administration, who 
was introduced by Senators Warner and Allen, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Edmund S. Hawley, of 
California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, after 
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.