[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 186 (Thursday, December 6, 2007)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1582-D1583]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ARMY CONTRACTING REPORT
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the report of the Commission on 
Army Acquisition and Program Management in Expeditionary Operations 
entitled ``Urgent Reform Required: Army Expeditionary Contracting'', 
after receiving testimony from Jacques S. Gansler, Chairman, Commission 
on Army Acquisition and Program Management in Expeditionary Operations; 
and Claude M. Bolton, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, 
Logistics and Technology, Lieutenant General Ross N. Thompson, III, 
USA, Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, 
Logistics and Technology, and Kathryn A. Condon, Executive Deputy to 
the Commanding General Army Material Command, all of the United States 
Army, Department of Defense.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the foreign assistance of the United States to Pakistan, 
focusing on the effectiveness of financial aid, after receiving 
testimony from Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for 
South and Central Asian Affairs; James R. Kunder, Acting Deputy 
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); and 
Teresita C. Schaffer, Center for Strategic and International Studies 
(CSIS), Lawrence Korb, Center for American

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Progress, and Robert M. Hathaway, Woodrow Wilson International Center 
for Scholars, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following:
  S. 344, to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings; and
  The nominations of Ronald Jay Tenpas, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Attorney General, Gregory A. Brower, to be United States Attorney for 
the District of Nevada, Diane J. Humetewa, to be United States Attorney 
for the District of Arizona, and Edmund A. Booth, Jr., to be United 
States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.