[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 99 (Tuesday, June 29, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D745-D746]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee announced Senator Lautenberg as 
interim Chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of General David H. Petraeus, USA for reappointment to 
the grade of general and to be Commander, International Security 
Assistance Force and Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, after 
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of David H. Petraeus, USA for reappointment to the grade of 
general and to be Commander, International Security Assistance Force 
and Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, and 3,839 nominations 
in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``Public Transportation 
Safety Act of 2010''.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Rose M. Likins, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, and Peter Michael McKinley, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, both of the 
Department of State, Mark Feierstein, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, and Mimi E. Alemayehou, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation, after

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the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the continuing needs of workers and 
communities affected by 9/11, including S. 1334, to amend the Public 
Health Service Act to extend and improve protections and services to 
individuals directly impacted by the terrorist attack in New York City 
on September 11, 2001, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Gillibrand; John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational 
Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
Department of Health and Human Services; James Melius, New York State 
Laborers' Health and Safety Trust Fund, Albany; and David Prezant, and 
Martin Fullam, both of the New York City Fire Department, and Margrily 
Garcia, all of New York, New York.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings to examine the 
nomination of Elena Kagan, of Massachusetts, to be an Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court of the United States, after the nominee testified 
and answered questions in her own behalf.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call and will meet again on 
Wednesday, June 30, 2010.
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.