[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 103 (Tuesday, July 13, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D777-D778]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Christopher W. Murray, of New York, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo, Mark Charles Storella, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, James Frederick 
Entwistle, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of 
the Congo, Eric D. Benjaminson, of Oregon, to be Ambassador to the 
Gabonese Republic, and to serve concurrently and without additional 
compensation as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and 
Principe, Phillip Carter III, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, J. Thomas Dougherty, of Wyoming, to be 
Ambassador to Burkina Faso, who was introduced by Senators Enzi and 
Barrasso, Michael S. Owen, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Sierra

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Leone, and Laurence D. Wohlers, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the 
Central African Republic, all of the Department of State, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
WEAPON SYSTEMS PROCUREMENT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine the 
cost effectiveness of procuring weapon systems in excess of 
requirements, focusing on being able to afford more C-17s, after 
receiving testimony from Mike McCord, Principal Deputy Under Secretary 
(Comptroller), Alan F. Estevez, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary 
for Logistics and Materiel Readiness, and Major General Susan Y. 
Desjardins, Director, Strategic Plans, Requirements and Programs, Air 
Mobility Command, Air Force, all of the Department of Defense; Jeremiah 
Gertler, Specialist in Military Aviation, Congressional Research 
Service, Library of Congress; and William L. Greer, Institute for 
Defense Analyses, Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  H.R. 1933, to direct the Attorney General to make an annual grant to 
the A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center to assist law 
enforcement agencies in the rapid recovery of missing children; and,
  H.R. 2765, to amend title 28, United States Code, to prohibit 
recognition and enforcement of foreign defamation judgments and certain 
foreign judgments against the providers of interactive computer 
services, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
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.