[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 176 (Tuesday, December 1, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PILOT FATIGUE AND AVIATION SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security concluded a hearing to 
examine aviation safety, focusing on pilot fatigue, after receiving 
testimony from Margaret Gilligan, Associate Administrator for Aviation 
Safety, Federal Aviation Administration; Basil J. Barimo, Air Transport 
Association of America, Inc., and John Prater, Air Line Pilots 
Association, International, both of Washington, D.C.; and William R. 
Voss, Flight Safety Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Rajiv J. Shah, of Washington, to be 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Murray, 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Anne Slaughter Andrew, of Indiana, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica, David Daniel Nelson, of 
Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, who 
was introduced by Senator Klobuchar, Betty E. King, of New York, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the 
United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, with 
the rank of Ambassador, and Laura E. Kennedy, of New York, for the rank 
of Ambassador during her tenure of service as United States 
Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, and Eileen Chamberlain 
Donahoe, of California, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of 
service as the United States Representative to the U.N. Human Rights 
Council, who were both introduced by Senator Gillibrand, all of the 
Department of State, 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 nomination of Alan C. Kessler, of 
Pennsylvania, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of O. Rogeriee Thompson, of Rhode Island, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Reed, testified and answered questions in her own 
behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Philip S. Goldberg, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and 
Research, and Caryn A. Wagner, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of 
Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.