[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 72 (Thursday, May 13, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D532-D533]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine the Federal Housing Administration and its role in 
the housing market, after receiving testimony from David H. Stevens, 
Assistant Secretary, and Commissioner, Federal Housing Administration, 
and Kenneth Donohue, Inspector General, both of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 
4899, making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief 
and summer jobs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
operations in Afghanistan from General Stanley A. McChrystal, USA, 
Commander, International Security Assistance Force, and Commander, 
United States Forces Afghanistan.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of Alan D. Bersin, of California, to be Commissioner of 
Customs, Department of Homeland Security, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Boxer, testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
INDIAN SCHOOL SAFETY
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Indian school safety, after receiving testimony from Larry 
Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Bart Stevens, Acting 
Director, Bureau of Indian Education, Jack Rever, Director, Office of 
Facilities, Environmental and Cultural Resources, and Mary L. Kendall, 
Acting Inspector General, all of the Department of the Interior; 
Anthony Fairbanks, Pueblo of Laguna Department of Education 
Superintendent, Laguna, New Mexico; Quinton Roman Nose, National Indian 
Education Association (NIEA), Washington, D.C.; and Charles L. Jaynes, 
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Goodwin Liu, of California, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Raymond Joseph Lohier, Jr., of New York, 
to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Leonard 
Philip Stark, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Delaware, and Kerry Joseph Forestal, to be United States Marshal for 
the Southern District of Indiana, John Dale Foster, to be United States 
Marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia, Gary Michael 
Gaskins, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of West 
Virginia, Dallas Stephen Neville, to be United States Marshal for the 
Western District of Wisconsin, and R. Booth Goodwin II, to be United 
States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, all of the 
Department of Justice.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Scott M. Matheson, Jr., of Utah, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, who was introduced by Senators 
Hatch and Feingold, John J. McConnell,

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Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of Rhode 
Island, who was introduced by Senators Reed and Whitehouse, James 
Kelleher Bredar, and Ellen Lipton Hollander, both to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Maryland, who were both introduced 
by Senators Mikulski and Cardin, and Susan Richard Nelson, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, who was introduced 
by Senators Klobuchar and Franken, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
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.
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