[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D926-D927]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies approved for full committee 
consideration an original bill making appropriations for the Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
2010.
FINANCIAL REGULATORY MODERNIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine regulatory modernization, focusing on insurance, after 
receiving testimony from Baird Webel, Specialist in Financial Economics, 
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Travis B. Plunkett, 
Consumer Federation of America, Washington, D.C.; Hal S. Scott, Harvard Law 
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Committee on Capital 
Markets Regulation; and Martin F. Grace, Georgia State University Center for 
Risk Management and Insurance Research, Atlanta.
NATIONAL HURRICANE INITIATIVE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1485, to improve hurricane preparedness by 
establishing the National Hurricane Research Initiative, and S. 601, to 
establish the Weather Mitigation Research Office, after receiving testimony 
from Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Member, National Science Board, National Science 
Foundation; Richard W. Spinrad, Assistant Administrator, Office of Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
Department of Commerce; Gordon L. Wells, University of Texas Center for 
Space Research, Austin; Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Federal Alliance for Safe 
Homes, Tallahassee, Florida; and Franklin W. Nutter, Reinsurance Association 
of America, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Anthony Marion Babauta, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary, who was introduced by Representative Bordallo, and 
Jonathan B. Jarvis, of California, to be Director, National Park Service, 
who was introduced by Senator Cantwell, both of the Department of the 
Interior, James J. Markowsky, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Fossil Energy, and Warren F. Miller, Jr., of New Mexico, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Nuclear Energy, and to be Director of the Office of the 
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, both of the Department of Energy, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Michael H. Posner, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, who was introduced by Representative 
McGovern, Kerri-Ann Jones, of Maine, to be Assistant Secretary for Oceans 
and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Ertharin Cousin, of 
Illinois, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as a 
Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, who 
was introduced by Senator Durbin, David Killion, of the District of 
Columbia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as the 
Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and 
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Organization, who was introduced by Representatives Berman and Ros-Lehtinen, 
Karen Kornbluh, of New York, to be Representative to the Organization for 
Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador, and Glyn 
T. Davies, of the District of Columbia, to be Representative to the Vienna 
Office of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be 
Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of 
Ambassador, all of the Department of State, after nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Arturo A. Valenzuela, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Thomas Alfred Shannon, 
Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, 
Patricia A. Butenis, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Democratic 
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives, Charles 
Aaron Ray, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe, 
Gayleatha Beatrice Brown, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to Burkina Faso, 
Earl Michael Irving, of California, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of 
Swaziland, Pamela Jo Howell Slutz, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Burundi, Patricia Newton Moller, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Guinea, Jerry P. Lanier, of North Carolina, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda, Alfonso E. Lenhardt, of New York, to 
be Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania, Samuel Louis Kaplan, of 
Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, James B. Smith, of 
New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Miguel 
Humberto Diaz, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Holy See, Fay Hartog-
Levin, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 
Stephen J. Rapp, of Iowa, to be Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, 
and Donald Henry Gips, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
South Africa, all of the Department of State.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of William Carlton Eacho III, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Austria, who was introduced by Senator Warner, Matthew 
Winthrop Barzun, of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to Sweden, who was introduced 
by Senator Kerry, Bruce J. Oreck, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Finland, who was introduced by Senator Udall (CO), James B. 
Foley, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia, Philip D. 
Murphy, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, 
who was introduced by former Senator Tom Daschle, Judith Gail Garber, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, Douglas W. Kmiec, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malta, and John R. Bass, of 
New York, to be Ambassador to Georgia, all of the Department of State, 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 Alexander G. Garza, of Missouri, to 
be Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, 
Department of Homeland Security, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senator McCaskill, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Sonia Sotomayor, of New York, to be an Associate Justice of 
the Supreme Court of the United States, A. Thomas McLellan, of Pennsylvania, 
to be Deputy Director, National Drug Control Policy, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, 
of California, to be Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration 
Services, Department of Homeland Security, and Christopher H. Schroeder, of 
North Carolina, to be Assistant Attorney General, and Cranston J. Mitchell, 
of Virginia, to be a Commissioner, United States Parole Commission, both of 
the Department of Justice.
CLOSING GUANTANAMO BAY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine closing Guantanamo Bay, after receiving 
testimony from David Kris, Assistant Attorney General, National Security 
Division, Department of Justice; Jeh Charles Johnson, General Counsel, 
Department of Defense; David H. Laufman, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, and 
Michael J. Edney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Deborah N. Pearlstein, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public 
and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence 
community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.