[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 87 (Thursday, June 10, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D654-D655]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nomination of John S. Pistole, of Virginia, to 
be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, after the nominee 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
United States-China economic relationship, focusing on a new approach 
for a new China, after receiving testimony from Timothy F. Geithner, 
Secretary of the Treasury.
STRATEGIC ARMS CONTROL AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian 
Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of 
Strategic Offensive Arms, signed in Prague on April 8, 2010, with 
Protocol (Treaty Doc.111-05), after receiving testimony from Lieutenant 
General Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.), Scowcroft Group, and Stephen J. 
Hadley, United States Institute of Peace, both of Washington, D.C.
LOCAL EFFECTS OF OIL SPILL
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and 
Integration concluded a hearing to examine assessing the effects of the 
Deepwater Horizon oil spill on states, localities and the private 
sector, after receiving testimony from Juliette Kayyem, Assistant 
Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, and Rear Admiral Roy A. Nash, 
Deputy Director, National Maritime Intelligence Center, United States 
Coast Guard, both of the Department of Homeland Security; Mark A. 
Cooper, Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency 
Preparedness, New Orleans; Mayor David Camardelle, Grand Isle, 
Louisiana; Billy Nungesser, Plaquemines Parish President, Plaquemines 
Parish, Louisiana; and Ray Dempsey and Darryl Willis, both of BP 
America, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Dennis J. Toner, of 
Delaware, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, after 
the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Kaufman, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
REVIEW OF SAFETY MANAGEMENT IN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine 
production over protections, focusing on a review of process safety 
management in the oil and gas industry, after receiving testimony from 
Jordan Barab, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 
Safety and Health Administration; Kim Nibarger, United Steelworkers 
(USW), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Randall Sawyer, Contra Costa County 
Hazardous Materials Programs, Martinez, California; and Charles Drevna, 
National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2802, to settle land claims within the Fort Hall Reservation, with 
an amendment;

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  S. 2906, to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to modify a provision 
relating to leases involving certain Indian tribes, with an amendment;
  S. 1448, to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to authorize the 
Coquille Indian Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the 
Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw, the Klamath 
Tribes, and the Burns Paiute Tribe to obtain 99-year lease authority 
for trust land; and
  The nominations of Tracie Stevens, of Washington, to be Chairman of 
the National Indian Gaming Commission, and JoAnn Lynn Balzer, of New 
Mexico, and Cynthia Chavez Lamar, of New Mexico, both to be a Member of 
the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska 
Native Culture and Arts Development.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 193, to create and extend certain temporary district court 
judgeships, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Robert Neil Chatigny, of Connecticut, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Scott M. Matheson, Jr., of 
Utah, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, James 
Kelleher Bredar, and Ellen Lipton Hollander, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the District of Maryland, Susan Richard Nelson, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, and 
Thomas Edward Delahanty II, to be United States Attorney for the 
District of Maine, Wendy J. Olson, to be United States Attorney for the 
District of Idaho, Kevin Charles Harrison, and Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr., 
both to be United States Marshal for the Middle District of Louisiana, 
Henry Lee Whitehorn, Sr., to be United States Marshal for the Western 
District of Louisiana, James A. Lewis, to be United States Attorney for 
the Central District of Illinois, and Charles Gillen Dunne, to be 
United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, 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.