[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 154 (Thursday, October 22, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1214-D1215]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Christine H. Fox, of Virginia, to be Director of 
Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Frank Kendall III, of Virginia, 
to be Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition and Technology, who was 
introduced by Senator Reed, Gladys Commons, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Terry A. Yonkers, of Maryland, to 
be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, all of the Department of 
Defense, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on AirLand: Senators Lieberman (Chair), Bayh, Webb, 
McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Burris, Thune, Inhofe, Sessions, Chambliss, 
and Burr.
  Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Senators Nelson 
(FL) (Chair), Byrd, Reed, Nelson (NE), Bayh, Udall (CO), Kirk, LeMieux, 
Graham, Wicker, Burr, and Collins.
  Subcommittee on Personnel: Senators Webb (Chair), Lieberman, Akaka, 
Nelson (NE), McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Burris, Kirk, Graham, Chambliss, 
Thune, Wicker, LeMieux, Vitter, and Collins.
  Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support: Senators Bayh 
(Chair), Byrd, Akaka, McCaskill, Udall (CO), Burris, Burr, Inhofe, 
Chambliss, and Thune.
  Subcommittee on Seapower: Senators Reed (Chair), Lieberman, Akaka, 
Nelson (FL), Webb, Hagan, Kirk, Wicker, Sessions, LeMieux, Vitter, and 
Collins.
  Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Senators Nelson (NE) (Chair), Byrd, 
Reed, Nelson (FL), Udall (CO), Begich, Vitter, Sessions, Inhofe, and 
Graham.
  Senators Levin and McCain are ex-officio members of the 
subcommittees.
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), focusing on a 
strategic concept for transatlantic security, after receiving testimony 
from Madeleine K. Albright, former Secretary of State, Kurt Volker, 
former United States Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic 
Council, and Charles A. Kupchan, Georgetown University, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and General John Craddock, USA (Ret.), former Supreme 
Allied Commander-Europe, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on Iran from William J. Burns, Under Secretary of 
State for Political Affairs; and national security briefers.
POLICY CZARS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the past, present, and future of policy 
czars, after receiving testimony from Thomas J. Ridge, former Secretary 
of the Department of Homeland Security; Lee A. Casey, former Attorney-
Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; Harold 
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Relyea, former Specialist, American National Government, Congressional 
Research Service, Library of Congress; and James P. Pfiffner, George 
Mason University School of Public Policy, Fairfax, Virginia.
FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine keeping America's families safe, 
focusing on reforming the food safety system, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Durbin; Margaret A. Hamburg, Commissioner of Food and 
Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Caroline Smith DeWaal, Center for Science in the Public 
Interest, and Thomas Stenzel, United Fresh Produce Association, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Michael Roberson, Food Marketing Institute, 
Arlington, Virginia; and Daniel L. Ragan, Director, North Carolina 
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service Food and Drug Protection 
Division, Raleigh.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1178, to extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian 
Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the Upper 
Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian 
Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe, with an amendment; and
  S. 1735, to provide for the recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North 
Carolina, with an amendment.
ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Indian energy and energy efficiency, after receiving 
testimony from Marcus Levings, Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort 
Berthold Revervation, New Town, North Dakota, on behalf of the Council 
of Energy Resource Tribes; James Roan Grey, Indian Country Renewable 
Energy Consortium, Pawhuska, Oklahoma; Steve Herrera, Southern Ute 
Indian Tribe, Ignacio, Colorado; and Ralph Sampson, Yakama Nation, 
Toppenish, Washington.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1340, to establish a minimum funding level for programs under the 
Victims of Crime Act of 1984 for fiscal years 2010 to 2014 that ensures 
a reasonable growth in victim programs without jeopardizing the long-
term sustainability of the Crime Victims Fund; and
  The nominations of Laurie O. Robinson, of the District of Columbia, 
to be an Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin B. Wagner, to be 
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, both of 
the Department of Justice.
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.