[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 24, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D138-D139]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND FOREIGN OPERATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and 
Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2011for the Department of State and foreign operations, 
after receiving testimony from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State.
APPROPRIATIONS: HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the 
Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony from Janet 
Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
COUNTERINSURGENCY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
contracting in a counterinsurgency, focusing on an examination of 
Blackwater-Paravant contract and the need for oversight, after receiving 
testimony from Steven M. Ograyensek, Contracting Officer, and James T. 
Blake, Program Executive Officer and Head of Contracting Activity, both of 
the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation, 
U.S. Army, and Colonel Bradley V. Wakefield, USA, (Ret.), former Chief of 
Training and Education, Combined Security Transition Command--Afghanistan, 
all of the Department of Defense; John R. Walker, former Program Manager, 
Paravant, Gilbert, Arizona; Brian C. McCracken, Raytheon Technical Services 
Company, Washington, D.C.; and Fred Roitz, Xe Services LLC, Moyack, North 
Carolina.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the Department 
of Transportation, after receiving testimony from Ray LaHood, Secretary of 
Transportation.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science 
and Space concluded a hearing to examine the challenges and opportunities in 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) fiscal year 2011 
budget proposal, after receiving testimony from Charles F. Bolden, Jr., 
Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Miles O'Brien, 
``This Week in Space'', New York, New York; Robert Gibson, Murfreesboro, 
Tennessee; Michael J. Snyder, Friendswood, Texas; and A. Thomas Young, 
Onancock, Virginia.
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the 
Forest Service, after receiving testimony from Tom Tidwell, Chief, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture.
LAKE TAHOE BASIN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee with the Subcommittee 
on Water and Wildlife concluded a joint hearing to examine S. 2724, to 
provide for environmental restoration activities and forest management 
activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin, after receiving testimony from Senators 
Feinstein, Cantwell, Reid and Ensign; Peter Silva, Assistant Administrator, 
Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Harris Sherman, 
Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Patrick 
Wright, California Tahoe Conservancy, South Lake Tahoe; David D. Dicks, 
Puget Sound Partnership, Olympia, Washington; Alexander B. Grannis, New York 
State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner, and John R. 
Tauzel, New York Farm Bureau, both of Albany; Debrah Marriott, Lower 
Columbia River Estuary Partnership, Portland, Oregon; and David Naftzger, 
Council of Great Lakes Governors, and David A. Ullrich, Great Lakes and St. 
Lawrence Cities Initiative, both of Chicago, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. Res. 414, expressing the Sense of the Senate on the recovery, 
rehabilitation, and rebuilding of Haiti following the humanitarian crisis 
caused by the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti;
  S. 2961, to provide debt relief to Haiti;
  S. Res. 400, urging the implementation of a comprehensive strategy to 
address instability in Yemen, with amendments;
  S. Res. 404, supporting full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace 
Agreement and other efforts to promote peace and stability in Sudan; and
  The nominations of Leocadia Irine Zak, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Director of the Trade and Development Agency, Walter Crawford Jones, of 
Maryland, to be United States Director of the African Development Bank, 
Douglas A. Rediker, of Massachusetts, to be United States Alternate 
Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, Ian Hoddy Solomon, of 
Maryland, to be United States Executive Director of the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development, Donald E. Booth, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Beatrice 
Wilkinson Welters, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad 
and Tobago, Scott H. DeLisi, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Federal 
Democratic Republic of Nepal, Harry K. Thomas, Jr., of

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New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines, David 
Adelman, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, Rosemary 
Anne DiCarlo, of the District of Columbia, to be Representative of the 
United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the 
United Nations, during her tenure of service as Deputy Representative of the 
United States of America to the United Nations, and to be the Deputy 
Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with 
the rank and status of Ambassador, and the Deputy Representative of the 
United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations, 
Brooke D. Anderson, of California, to be an Alternate Representative of the 
United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the 
United Nations during her tenure of service as Alternate Representative of 
the United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United 
Nations, and to be Alternate Representative of the United States of America 
for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of 
Ambassador, Allan J. Katz, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Portuguese 
Republic, Ian C. Kelly, of Maryland, to be U.S. Representative to the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, with the rank of 
Ambassador, and Judith Ann Stewart Stock, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, all of the Department of 
State, and a promotion list in the Foreign Service.
FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
foreign policy priorities in the fiscal year 2011 International Affairs 
budget, after receiving testimony from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of 
State.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY BUDGET
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for 
the Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony from Janet 
Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT SYSTEM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine a stronger workforce investment system for a stronger 
economy, after receiving testimony from Anthony P. Carnevale, Georgetown 
University Center on Education and the Workforce, Washington, D.C.; Cheryl 
Feldman, Training and Upgrading Fund, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Paul 
Stalknecht, Air Conditioning Contractors of America, Arlington, Virginia; 
Joseph M. Carbone, The WorkPlace, Inc., Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Robert 
G. Templin, Jr., Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Virginia.
CHILD PROSTITUTION AND SEX TRAFFICKING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law 
concluded a hearing to examine child prostitution and sex trafficking in the 
United States, including S. 2925, to establish a grant program to benefit 
victims of sex trafficking, after receiving testimony from Senator Wyden; 
Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 
In Persons, Department of State; Beth Phillips, United States Attorney, 
Western District of Missouri, Kansas City; Anita Alvarez, Cook County State 
Attorney, Chicago, Illinois; and Rachel Lloyd, Girls Educational and 
Mentoring Services, New York, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Brian Anthony Jackson, to be United States District Judge for 
the Middle District of Louisiana, and Elizabeth Erny Foote, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, who were both 
introduced by Senator Landrieu, Marc T. Treadwell, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, who was introduced by 
Senator Chambliss, Josephine Staton Tucker, to be United States District 
Judge for the Central District of California, and Mark A. Goldsmith, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, who was 
introduced by Senators Levin and Stabenow, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.