[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 104 (Tuesday, August 1, 2006)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D878-D879]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
JIEDDO
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing from the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat 
Organization (JIEDDO) from General Montgomery C. Meigs, USA (Ret.), 
Director, JIEDDO.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Lieutenant General James T. Conway, USMC to be general 
and Commandant of the Marine Corps, Benedict S. Cohen, of the District 
of Columbia, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Army, Frank 
R. Jimenez, of Florida, to be General Counsel of the Department of the 
Navy, William H. Tobey, of Connecticut, to be Deputy Administrator for 
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Robert L. Wilkie, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, C. Thomas Yarington, Jr., 
of Washington, and Colleen Conway-Welch, of Tennessee, each to be a 
Member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of 
the Health Sciences, and 474 military nominations in the Army, Navy, 
Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BOEING COMPANY GLOBAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Boeing Company Global Settlement Agreement, after receiving 
testimony from Paul J. McNulty, Deputy Attorney General, Department of 
Justice; and W. James McNerney, Jr., Boeing Company, Chicago, Illinois.
RAPANOS/CARABELL DECISION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Water concluded a hearing to examine interpreting the 
effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the joint cases 
of Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers on ``The Waters of the United States'', after receiving 
testimony from Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, 
Environmental Protection Agency; John Paul Woodley, Jr., Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Department of the Army; John C. 
Cruden, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural 
Resources Division, Department of Justice; Jonathan H. Adler, Case 
Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio; William W. 
Buzbee, Emory University Law School, Atlanta, Georgia; Chuck Clayton, 
Izaak Walton League of America, Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Keith 
Kisling, Burlington, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National Association of 
Wheat Growers, and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 3722, to authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain 
foreign recipients,
  Treaty Between the United States and the Oriental Republic Of Uruguay 
Concerning the Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment, 
with Annexes and Protocol, signed at Mar Del Plata, Argentina, on 
November 4, 2005 (Treaty Doc. 109-9);
  United Nations Convention Against Corruption (the ``Corruption 
Convention''), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 
October 31, 2003 (Treaty Doc. 109-6); and
  The nominations of Christina B. Rocca, of Virginia, for the rank of 
Ambassador during her tenure of service as U.S. Representative to the 
Conference on Disarmament, Philip S. Goldberg, of Massachusetts, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia, Richard W. Graber, of Wisconsin, 
to be Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and Karen B. Stewart, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus, Mark R. Dybul, of 
Florida, to be Coordinator of United States Government Activities to 
Combat HIV/AIDS Globally, with the rank of Ambassador, Henry M. 
Paulson, Jr., of New York, to be United States Governor of the 
International Monetary Fund, United States Governor of the 
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development,

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United States Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank, United 
States Governor of the African Development Bank, United States Governor 
of the Asian Development Bank, United States Governor of the African 
Development Fund, United States Governor of the European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development, and certain officer promotion lists in 
the Foreign Service.
TAX HAVEN ABUSES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine the issue 
of tax havens and offshore abuses which are undermining the integrity 
of the Federal tax system, focusing on case histories on the use of 
offshore trusts and corporations to circumvent U.S. tax, securities and 
anti-money laundering laws, after receiving testimony from Mark 
Everson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the 
Treasury; Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan School of Law, 
Ann Arbor; Gary M. Brown, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, and 
Berkowitz, P.C., Nashville, Tennessee; Haim Saban, Saban Capital Group, 
Inc., Los Angeles, California; Michael C. French, formerly with 
Scottish Re Group, Limited, Louis J. Schaufele, III, and Charles W. 
Blau, Meadows, Owens, Collier, Reed, Cousins, and Blau, LLP, all of 
Dallas, Texas; Jeffrey Greenstein, Quellos Group, LLC, Seattle, 
Washington; Michael G. Conn, Bank of America, San Francisco, 
California; George T. Wendler, HSBC Bank USA, Marlboro, New Jersey; 
Michael G. Chatzky, Chatzky and Associates, San Diego, California; John 
P. Barrie, Bryan Cave, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Lewis R. Steinberg, 
formerly with Cravath, Swaine, and Moore, LLP, New York, New York; and 
Robert Wood Johnson, IV, New York, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Andrew von 
Eschenbach, of Texas, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department 
of Health and Human Services, who was introduced by Senator Hutchison, 
and Paul DeCamp, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Wage and Hour 
Division, Department of Labor, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Peter D. Keisler, of Maryland, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, Valerie L. Baker 
and Philip S. Gutierrez, each to be a United States District Judge for 
the Central District of California, who were introduced by Senators 
Feinstein and Boxer, and Francisco Augusto Besosa, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.