[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 51 (Tuesday, April 13, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D369-D370]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: U.S. COAST GUARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2011 for the United States Coast Guard, after receiving testimony 
from Admiral Thad W. Allen, Commandant, United States Coast Guard.
AIR FORCE AND NAVY TACTICAL AIRCRAFT PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a 
hearing to examine Department of the Air Force and Department of the 
Navy tactical aircraft programs in review of the Defense Authorization 
request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from Vice Admiral David Architzel, USN, 
Principal Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
Research, Development, and Acquisition, Lieutenant General Mark D. 
Shackelford, USAF, Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
of the Air Force for Acquistion, Major General Johnny A. Weida, USAF, 
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans and Requirements, 
Department of the Air Force, Lieutenant General George J. Trautman III, 
USMC, Deputy Commanant for Aviation, United States Marine Corps, and 
Rear Admiral David L. Philman, USN, Director, Air Warfare, Office of 
the Chief of Naval Operations, all of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 1382, to improve and expand the Peace Corps for the 21st century, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2839, to amend the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize 
appropriations to provide assistance for domestic and foreign programs 
and centers for treatment of victims of torture, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 624, to provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe 
drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by 
improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully 
implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 409, calling on members of the Parliament in Uganda to reject 
the proposed ``Anti-Homosexuality Bill'';
  S. Res. 446, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Treaty on the 
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  Convention Between the Government of the United States of America and 
the Government of Malta for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on 
August 8, 2008, at Valletta (Treaty Doc. 111-01), Protocol Amending the 
Convention between the United States of America and New Zealand for the 
Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion With 
Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on December 1, 2008, at Washington 
(Treaty Doc. 111-03); and
  The nominations of Elizabeth L. Littlefield, of the District of 
Columbia, to be President of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation, Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, Raul Yzaguirre, of Maryland, to 
be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Theodore Sedgwick, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, Bisa Williams, of 
New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, and Robert 
Stephen Ford, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Syrian Arab 
Republic, all of the Department of State, Lana Pollack, of Michigan, to 
be a Commissioner on the part of the United States on the International 
Joint Commission, United States and Canada, and Walter Isaacson, of 
Louisiana, to be Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and 
Dennis Mulhaupt, of California, Victor H. Ashe, of Tennessee, Michael 
Lynton, of California, S. Enders Wimbush, of Virginia, and Susan McCue, 
of Virginia, all to be a Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, 
and a routine list in the Foreign Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: On March 10, 
2010, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Levin (Chair), 
Carper, Pryor, McCaskill, Tester, Kaufman, Coburn, Collins, McCain, and 
Ensign.
  Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal 
Workforce, and the District of Columbia: Senators Akaka (Chair), Levin, 
Landrieu, Burris, Kaufman, Voinovich, Brown (MA), and Graham.
  Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, 
Federal Services, and International Security: Senators Carper (Chair), 
Levin, Akaka, Pryor, McCaskill, Burris, McCain, Coburn, Voinovich, and 
Ensign.
   Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness 
and Integration: Senators Pryor (Chair),

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Akaka, Landrieu, Tester, Ensign, Voinovich, and Graham.
   Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery: Senators Landrieu (Chair), 
McCaskill, Burris, Graham, and Brown (MA).
   Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight: Senators McCaskill 
(Chair), Levin, Carper, Pryor, Tester, Kaufman, Brown (MA), Collins, 
Coburn, McCain, and Graham.
  Senators Lieberman and Collins are ex-officio members of the 
subcommittees.
WALL STREET AND FINANCIAL CRISIS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine Wall 
Street and the financial crisis, focusing on high-risk home loans, 
after receiving testimony from James G. Vanasek, Scottsdale, Arizona, 
Ronald J. Cathcart, and Kerry K. Killinger, both of Seattle, 
Washington, Randy Melby, Miami, Florida, David Schneider, Princeton, 
New Jersey, David Beck, New Canaan, Connecticut, and Stephen J. 
Rotella, New York, New York, all former employees of Washington Mutual 
Bank.
GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
making the government more transparent and accountable, after receiving 
testimony from John Wonderlich, Sunlight Foundation, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania; Stephen W. T. O'Keeffe, MeriTalk, London, England; and 
Thomas Blanton, George Washington University National Security Archive, 
Bogalusa, Louisiana.
ESEA REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
(ESEA) reauthorization, focusing on school turnaround, after receiving 
testimony from Robert Balfanz, Center for Social Organization of 
Schools, Baltimore, Maryland; Beverly Donohue, New Visions for Public 
Schools, and Joel Klein, New York City Public Schools, both of New 
York, New York; Timothy Mitchell, Chamberlain School District 7-1, 
Chamberlain, South Dakota; and Marco Petruzzi, Green Dot Public 
Schools, Los Angeles, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Impeachment Trial Committee (Porteous): Committee held an 
organizational meeting to examine the articles of impeachment against 
Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr.
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.
PRESCRIPTION PSEUDOEPHEDRINE IN OREGON
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine the status of making pseudoephedrine 
prescription only, focusing on Oregon, after receiving testimony from 
R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; 
Charles J. Ganley, Director, Office of Drug Evaluation IV, Center for 
Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Department 
of Health and Human Services; John R. Kroger, Oregon Attorney General, 
Salem; Kent Shaw, California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, 
Sacramento; Gary W. Kendell, Iowa Governor's Office of Drug Control 
Policy, Des Moines; Keith Cain, Davies County Police Department, Davies 
County, Kentucky; and Linda Suydam, Consumer Healthcare Products 
Association, Washington, D.C.
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