[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 178 (Thursday, December 3, 2009)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1396-D1398]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, to 
be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Mark R. Rosekind, of California, 
to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, Scott Boyer 
Quehl, of Pennsylvania, to be Chief Financial Officer and Assistant 
Secretary, and Suresh Kumar, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary 
and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial 
Service, both of the Department of Commerce, Philip E. Coyle III, of 
California, to be an Associate Director of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, and Anthony R. Coscia, of New Jersey, and Albert 
DiClemente, of Delaware, both to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of 
Directors for the remainder of the term expiring July 26, 2011.
AMERICAN MEDICAL ISOTOPES PRODUCTION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine H.R. 3276, to promote the production of molybdenum-
99 in the United States for medical isotope production, and to 
condition and phase out the export of highly enriched uranium for the 
production of medical isotopes, after receiving testimony from Parrish 
Staples, Director, Office of European and African Threat Reduction, 
Global Threat Reduction Initiative, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy; Kevin D. Crowley, Nation Research 
Council of the National Academies, Washington, D.C.; and Roy Brown, 
Council on Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals (CORAR), St. Louis, 
Missouri.
NATIONAL PARKS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 760, to designate the Liberty 
Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, 
as the ``National World War I Memorial'', S. 1838, to establish a 
commission to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the American Civil 
War, S. 2097, to authorize the rededication of the District of Columbia 
War Memorial as a National and District of Columbia World War I 
Memorial to honor the sacrifices made by American veterans of World War 
I, S. 2722, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of 
adding the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, in the State of Wyoming, 
as a unit of the National Park System, S. 2726, to modify the boundary 
of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in the State of South 
Dakota, S. 2738, to authorize National Mall Liberty Fund D.C. to 
establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to 
honor free persons and slaves who fought for independence, liberty, and 
justice for all during the American Revolution, H.R. 1849, to designate 
the Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, 
Missouri, as the National World War I Memorial, to establish the World 
War I centennial commission to ensure a suitable observance of the 
centennial of World War I, and H.R. 3689, to provide for an extension 
of the legislative authority of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, 
Inc. to establish a Vietnam Veterans Memorial visitor center, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Rockefeller, Thune, and Webb; 
Representative Cleaver; Katherine H. Stevenson, Assistant Director, 
Business Services, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; 
Harry G. Robinson III, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Edwin L. 
Fountain, World War I Memorial Foundation, and Maurice A. Barboza, 
Liberty Fund D.C., all of Washington, D.C.; David Madden, Louisiana 
State University United States Civil War Center, Black Mountain, North 
Carolina; and Brian Alexander, National World War I Museum at Liberty 
Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri.
WATER AND WILDLIFE BILLS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water and 
Wildlife concluded a hearing to examine S. 373, to amend title 18, 
United States Code, to include constrictor snakes of the species Python 
genera as an injurious animal, S. 1519, to provide for the eradication 
and control of nutria in Maryland, Louisiana, and other coastal States, 
S. 1421, to amend section 42 of title 18, United States Code, to 
prohibit the importation and shipment of certain species of carp, S. 
1965, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial 
assistance to the State of Louisiana for a pilot program to develop 
measures to eradicate or control feral swine and to assess and restore 
wetlands damaged by feral swine, H.R. 2188, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior, through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
to conduct a Joint Venture Program to protect, restore, enhance, and 
manage migratory bird populations, their habitats, and the ecosystems 
they rely on, through voluntary actions on public and private lands, S. 
1214, to conserve fish and aquatic communities in the United States 
through partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation, to improve 
the quality of life for the people of the United States, H.R. 3537, to 
amend and reauthorize the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design 
Program Act of 1994, H.R. 3433, to amend the North American Wetlands 
Conservation Act to establish requirements regarding payment of the 
non-Federal share of the costs of wetlands conservation projects in 
Canada that are funded under that Act, and H.R.

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509, to reauthorize the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Levin; Dan Ashe, Deputy Director, U.S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; Edmond Mouton, 
Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries, New Iberia; Eric C. 
Schwaab, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Annapolis, on behalf 
of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies; Robert L. Bendick, 
The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia; and Gordon Roberston, 
American Sportfishing Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Afghanistan, focusing on assessing the road ahead, after 
receiving testimony from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State; 
and Robert M. Gates, Secretary, and Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN, 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of the Department of 
Defense.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Caryn A. Wagner, of 
Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence 
and Analysis, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1790, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise 
and extend that Act, with amendments;
  S. 1635, to establish an Indian Youth telemental health demonstration 
project, to enhance the provision of mental health care services to 
Indian youth, to encourage Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and 
other mental health care providers serving residents of Indian country 
to obtain the services of predoctoral psychology and psychiatry 
interns, with amendments; and
  S. 633, to establish a program for tribal colleges and universities 
within the Department of Health and Human Services and to amend the 
Native American Programs Act of 1974 to authorize the provision of 
grants and cooperative agreements to tribal colleges and universities, 
with an amendment.
INDIAN HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT REAUTHORIZATION AND EXTENSION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine S. 1790, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to 
revise and extend that Act, after receiving testimony from Ronald L. 
Tankersley, American Dental Association, Newport News, Virginia; 
Evangelyn Dotomain, Alaska Native Health Board, Anchorage; and Patricia 
Tarren, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
CONTRACT HEALTH SERVICES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Contract Health Services, after receiving testimony from 
Yvette Roubideaux, Director, Indian Health Service, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Connie Whidden, Seminole Tribe of Florida, 
Hollywood; and Mickey Peercy, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1353, to amend title 1 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1986 to include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air 
ambulance crew members and first responders for certain benefits, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Thomas I. Vanaskie, of Pennsylvania, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, and Louis B. Butler, Jr., 
to be United States District Judge for the Western District of 
Wisconsin, and Susan B. Carbon, of New Hampshire, to be Director of the 
Violence Against Women Office, John H. Laub, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Director of the National Institute of Justice, Sharon 
Jeanette Lubinski, to be United States Marshal for the District of 
Minnesota, Mary Elizabeth Phillips, to be United States Attorney for 
the Western District of Missouri, Sanford C. Coats, to be United States 
Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Stephen James Smith, 
to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Georgia, all 
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.