[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 120 (Tuesday, August 4, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D975-D977]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of John M. McHugh, of New York, to be Secretary of the 
Army, Joseph W. Westphal, of New York, to be Under Secretary of the 
Army, Juan M. Garcia III, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of the 
Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, and J. Michael Gilmore, of 
Virginia, to be Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, all of the 
Department of Defense.
PRUDENTIAL BANK SUPERVISION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine strengthening and streamlining Prudential Bank 
supervision, after receiving testimony from Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; John C. Dugan, Comptroller of 
the Currency, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; and John E. 
Bowman, Acting Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, both of the 
Department of the Treasury; and Daniel K. Tarullo, Member, Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
RAIL MODERNIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine rail modernization, focusing on transit funding, after 
receiving testimony from Peter M. Rogoff, Administrator, Federal 
Transit Administration, Department of Transportation; Carole L. Brown, 
Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, Illinois; John B. Catoe, Jr., 
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, D.C.; 
Richard Sarles, New Jersey Transit, Trenton, New Jersey; and Beverly A. 
Scott, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, Georgia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  H.R. 1275, to direct the exchange of certain land in Grand, San Juan, 
and Uintah Counties, Utah;
  H.R. 2938, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of 
a hydroelectric project; and
  The nominations of James J. Markowsky, of Massachusetts, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Warren F. Miller, Jr., of New 
Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, and to be 
Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, both 
of the Department of Energy, and Anthony Marion Babauta, of Virginia, 
to be Assistant Secretary, and Jonathan B. Jarvis, of California, to be 
Director of the National Park Service, both of the Department of the 
Interior.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Gary S. Guzy, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Environmental Quality, 
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Menendez and 
Lautenberg, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine climate 
change legislation, focusing on allowance and revenue distribution and 
options for distributing program revenues or the economic value of 
allowances, after receiving testimony from John Stephenson, Director, 
Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; 
Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future, and Alan D.


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Viard, American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Charles 
T. Drevna, National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, New York, New 
York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Matthew Winthrop Barzun, of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to 
Sweden, Bruce J. Oreck, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Finland, 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, Douglas W. Kmiec, of California, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Malta, William Carlton Eacho III, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Austria, Judith Gail Garber, of Virginia, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, John R. Bass, of New York, to be 
Ambassador to Georgia, Kerri-Ann Jones, of Maine, to be Assistant Secretary 
of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 
Ertharin Cousin, of Illinois, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure 
of service as U.S. Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food 
and Agriculture, David Killion, of the District of Columbia, for the rank of 
Ambassador during his tenure of service as the United States Permanent 
Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural 
Organization, Glyn T. Davies, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of 
Ambassador, and to be Representative to the Vienna Office of the United 
Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., of Utah, to be 
Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, John Victor Roos, of 
California, to be Ambassador to Japan, Jonathan S. Addleton, of Georgia, to 
be Ambassador to Mongolia, Teddy Bernard Taylor, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands and Ambassador 
to the Republic of Vanuatu, Martha Larzelere Campbell, of Michigan, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Kenneth E. Gross, Jr., 
of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, Michael Anthony 
Battle, Sr., of Georgia, to be Representative to the African Union, with the 
rank and status of Ambassador, James Knight, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Benin, and Karen Kornbluh, of New York, to be Representative 
to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank 
of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, and Aaron S. Williams, of 
Virginia, to be Director of the Peace Corps.
GEORGIA ONE YEAR AFTER AUGUST WAR
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded a 
hearing to examine Georgia one year after the August war, after receiving 
testimony from Philip H. Gordon, Assistant Secretary of State for European 
and Eurasian Affairs; Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
International Security Affairs; and S. Ken Yamashita, Acting Assistant 
Administrator for the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, United States Agency 
for International Development.
CHILDREN IN DISASTERS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee 
on Disaster Recovery concluded a hearing to examine children in disasters, 
focusing on evacuation planning and mental health recovery, after receiving 
testimony from Craig Fugate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department 
of Homeland Security; Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and 
Response, RADM, United States Public Health Service, Department of Health 
and Human Services; Cynthia A. Bascetta, Director, Health Care, Government 
Accountability Office; Mark K. Shriver, Save the Children, Washington, D.C., 
on behalf of the National Commission on Children and Disasters; Irwin 
Redlener, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health National 
Center for Disaster Preparedness, New York, New York, on behalf of the 
Children's Health Fund; and Teri G. Fontenot, Woman's Hospital, Baton Rouge, 
Louisiana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Francis S. Collins, of Maryland, to be 
Director of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and 
Human Services, Raymond M. Jefferson, of Hawaii, to be Assistant Secretary 
of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training, and Rocco Landesman, of New 
York, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, and James A. 
Leach, of Iowa, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the 
Humanities, both of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.
MEDICAL DEVICE SAFETY ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 540, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 
with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting 
devices, after receiving testimony from William H. Maisel, Harvard Medical 
School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 
Thomas O. McGarity, University of Texas School of Law, Austin; Peter Barton 
Hutt, Covington and Burling, Washington, D.C.; Michael Mulvihill, 
Bettendorf, Iowa; and Michael G. Roman, Kirkwood, Missouri.
PERFORMANCE RIGHTS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
Performance Rights Act and parity among music delivery platforms, after 
receiving testimony from Sheila Escovedo, MusicFIRST

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Coalition, Sherman Oaks, California; Robert Kimball, Real Networks, Inc., 
Seattle, Washington; Marian Leighton-Levy, Rounder Records, Burlington, 
Massachusetts; Steven Newberry, Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation, 
Glasgow, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters; 
Ralph Oman, George Washington University Law School, and James L. Winston, 
National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, Inc., both of Washington, 
D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the 
intelligence community.
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