[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 163 (Wednesday, November 4, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1283-D1284]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OCEAN GOVERNANCE AND POLICY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to 
examine the future of ocean governance, focusing on building national 
ocean policy, after receiving testimony from Nancy H. Sutley, Chair, 
White House Council on Environmental Quality; Jane Lubchenco, Under 
Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration; Admiral Thad W. Allen, Commandant, U.S. 
Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security; Laura Davis, Associate 
Deputy Secretary of the Interior; Billy Frank, Jr., Northwest Indian 
Fisheries Commission, Olympia, Washington; and Dennis Takahashi-Kelso, 
Ocean Conservancy, Matthew Paxton, Ball Janik, on behalf of the Coastal 
Conservation Association, and Carolyn Elefant, Ocean Renewable Energy 
Coalition, all of Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL PARKS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 1369, to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla River in the 
State of Oregon, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
System, S. 1405, to redesignate the Longfellow National Historic Site, 
Massachusetts, as the ``Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters 
National Historic Site'', S. 1413, to amend the Adams National 
Historical Park Act of 1998 to include the Quincy Homestead within the 
boundary of the Adams National Historical Park, S. 1767 and H.R. 1121, 
bills to authorize a land exchange to acquire land for the Blue Ridge 
Parkway from the Town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, S. Res. 275, 
honoring the Minute Man National Historical Park on the occasion of its 
50th anniversary, H.R. 2802, to provide for an extension of the 
legislative authority of the Adams Memorial Foundation to establish a 
commemorative work in honor of former President John Adams and his 
legacy, H.R. 3113, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate 
a segment of the Elk River in the State of West Virginia for study for 
potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and 
H.R. 1287, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a 
partnership with the Porter County Convention, Recreation and Visitor 
Commission regarding the use of the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor 
Center as a visitor center for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Kirk; and Katherine H. 
Stevenson, Assistant Director, Business Services, National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee continued 
consideration of S. 1733, to create clean energy jobs, promote energy 
independence, reduce global warming pollution, and transition to a 
clean energy economy, but did not complete action thereon, and will 
meet again on Thursday, November 5.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Michael W. Punke, of Montana, to be a Deputy United 
States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, Department of 
State, who was introduced by Senator Enzi, Islam A. Siddiqui, of 
Virginia, to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the United 
States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, and Michael 
F. Mundaca, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 
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 Daniel W. Yohannes, of Colorado, to be Chief 
Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation, who was introduced 
by Senator Bennet, and Jide J. Zeitlin, of New York, to be Alternate 
Representative to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United 
Nations during his tenure of service as Representative to the United 
Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, and to be Representative to the 
United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of 
Ambassador, Frederick D. Barton, of Maine, to be Representative of the 
United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the 
United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and Carmen Lomellin, of 
Virginia, to be Permanent Representative to the Organization of 
American States, with the rank of Ambassador, all of the Department of 
State, and Gustavo Arnavat, of New York, to be United States Executive 
Director of the Inter-American Development Bank, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 1649, to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, 
to prepare for attacks using

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weapons of mass destruction, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1862, to provide that certain Secret Service employees may elect 
to transition to coverage under the District of Columbia Police and 
Fire Fighter Retirement and Disability System;
  H.R. 553, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a 
strategy to prevent the over-classification of homeland security and 
other information and to promote the sharing of unclassified homeland 
security and other information, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1755, to direct the Department of Homeland Security to undertake a 
study on emergency communications;
  H.R. 730, to strengthen efforts in the Department of Homeland 
Security to develop nuclear forensics capabilities to permit 
attribution of the source of nuclear material, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1825, to extend the authority for relocation expenses test 
programs for Federal employees;
  S. 1860, to permit each current member of the Board of Directors of 
the Office of Compliance to serve for 3 terms;
  H.R. 955, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 10355 Northeast Valley Road in Rollingbay, 
Washington, as the ``John `Bud' Hawk Post Office'';
  H.R. 1516, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 37926 Church Street in Dade City, Florida, as the 
``Sergeant Marcus Mathes Post Office'';
  H.R. 1713, to name the South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory 
of the Department of Agriculture in Lane, Oklahoma, and the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 310 North Perry Street in 
Bennington, Oklahoma, in honor of former Congressman Wesley ``Wes'' 
Watkins;
  H.R. 2004, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 4282 Beach Street in Akron, Michigan, as the ``Akron 
Veterans Memorial Post Office'';
  H.R. 2760, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1615 North Wilcox Avenue in Los Angeles, California, 
as the ``Johnny Grant Hollywood Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2972, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 115 West Edward Street in Erath, Louisiana, as the 
``Conrad DeRouen, Jr. Post Office'';
  H.R. 3119, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 867 Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, as 
the ``Lim Poon Lee Post Office'';
  H.R. 3386, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1165 2nd Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa, as the ``Iraq 
and Afghanistan Veterans Memorial Post Office'';
  H.R. 3547, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 936 South 250 East in Provo, Utah, as the ``Rex E. 
Lee Post Office Building''; and
  H.R. 2215, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 140 Merriman Road in Garden City, Michigan, as the 
``John J. Shivnen Post Office Building''.
FEDERAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PROCESS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the Federal acknowledgment process, after receiving 
testimony from George T. Skibine, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Indian Affairs, and R. Lee Fleming, Director, Office of 
Federal Acknowledgement, both of the Department of the Interior; Frank 
Ettawageshik, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; 
John Sinclair, Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana, 
Havre; Ann Tucker, Muscogee Nation of Florida, Bruce; and Patty 
Ferguson-Bohnee, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College 
of Law Indian Legal Clinic, Tempe.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Thomas I. Vanaskie, of Pennsylvania, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senator Casey, Christina Reiss, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Vermont, Louis B. Butler, Jr., to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, Abdul K. Kallon, 
to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Alabama, and Victoria Angelica Espinel, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Executive Office of 
the President, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.