[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 105 (Thursday, July 15, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D794-D796]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DISPERSANTS USED IN OIL SPILL
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine the use of 
dispersants in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, after 
receiving testimony from Larry Robinson, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Lisa Jackson, 
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Anne Rolfes, Louisiana 
Bucket Brigade, New Orleans; and Kenneth A. Cook, Environmental Working 
Group, Washington, D.C.
APPROPRIATIONS: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT 
OF HOMELAND SECURITY, AND AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG 
ADMINISTRATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill making appropriations for the Military Construction 
and Veterans Affairs for fiscal year ending September 30, 2011;
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Homeland 
Security for fiscal year ending September 30, 2011;
  An original bill making appropriations for the Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2011; and
  The fiscal year 2011 302(b) Allocations.
NEW START TREATY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine sustaining nuclear weapons under the New START, 
after receiving testimony from Michael R. Anastasio, Laboratory 
Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, George H. Miller, Director, 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Paul J. Hommert, President 
and Director, Sandia National Laboratories, all of the Department of 
Energy; and Roy Schwitters, University of Texas, Austin.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Janet L. Yellen, of California, 
to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System, who was introduced by Senator Feinstein, Peter A. Diamond, of 
Massachusetts, Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, who was introduced by 
Senator Cardin and former Senator Paul Sarbanes, all to be a Member of 
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Osvaldo Luis 
Gratacos Munet, of Puerto Rico, to be Inspector General, Export-Import 
Bank, and Steve A. Linick, of Virginia, to be Inspector General of the 
Federal Housing Finance Agency, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
RESPONSIBLE CONTRACTING
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing with the Task 
Force on Government Performance to examine responsible contracting, 
focusing on modernizing the business of government, after receiving 
testimony from Daniel I. Gordon, Administrator for Federal Procurement 
Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Shay D. Assad, Director, 
Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy, Acting Assistant Secretary 
of Defense for Acquisition, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense 
for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics; Allison Stanger, Middlebury 
College, Middlebury, Vermont; and James Jay Carafano, The Heritage 
Foundation, Washington, D.C.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 3304, to increase the access of persons with disabilities to 
modern communications, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3566, to authorize certain maritime programs of the Department of 
Transportation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  An original bill entitled the NASA Authorization Act of 2011; and
  A promotion list in the United States Coast Guard.
PROTECTING YOUTHS IN AN ONLINE WORLD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing 
to examine protecting youths in an online world, after receiving 
testimony from Jessica Rich, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer 
Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Hemanshu Nigam, Online Safety 
Technology Working Group, Beverly Hills, California; Jeff McIntyre, 
Children Now, Oakland, California; Michelle Collins, National Center 
for Missing and Exploited Children, Alexandria, Virginia; and K. Dane 
Snowden, CTIA-The Wireless Association, Washington, D.C.
WORKING DURING RETIREMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine choosing 
to work during retirement and the impact on Social Security, after 
receiving testimony from Stephen C. Goss, Chief Actuary, Social 
Security Administration; Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures, San Francisco, 
California; Marcia Brown, National Center for Appropriate Technology, 
Butte, Montana; Nicole Maestas, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, 
California; and Bonnie P. Shelor, Bon Secours Virginia Health System, 
Richmond, Virginia.
NEW START TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings 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), focusing on maintaining a safe, secure and 
effective nuclear arsenal, after receiving testimony from Michael R. 
Anastasio, Laboratory Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, George 
H. Miller, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Paul 
J. Hommert, President and Director, Sandia National Laboratories, all 
of the Department of Energy.
MEDICARE PAYMENT ERRORS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
preventing and recovering Medicare payment errors, after receiving 
testimony from Kathleen M. King, Director, Health Care, Government 
Accountability Office; Deborah Taylor, Chief Financial Officer and 
Director, Office of Financial Management, Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, and Robert Vito, Acting Assistant Inspector General, 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Audits, Office of Inspector General, 
both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Libby Alexander, 
Connolly, Inc., San Francisco, California; Lisa Im, Performant 
Financial Corporation, Newport, California; Andrea Benko, Health Data 
Insights, Las Vegas, Nevada; Robert Rolf, CGI Federal, Inc., Cleveland, 
Ohio; and Romil Bahl, PRGX Global, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
AMERICANS AND INFORMED FINANCIAL DECISIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the 
District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine the Federal 
government's role in empowering Americans to make informed financial 
decisions, after receiving testimony from Michael Barr, Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury; Christine M. Griffin, Deputy Director, 
Office of Personnel Management; Brenda Dann-Messier, Assistant 
Secretary of Education for Vocational and Adult Education; Marianna 
LaCanfora, Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Retirement and Disability 
Policy, Social Security Administration; Sandra L. Thompson, Director, 
Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection, Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation; Lynne Egan, Montana Deputy Securities 
Commissioner, Helena; and Barbara Roper, Consumer Federation of 
America, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Mary Helen Murguia, of Arizona, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, who was introduced by Senator Kyl, 
Edmond E-Min Chang, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Illinois, who was introduced by Senator Durbin, Leslie E. 
Kobayashi, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Hawaii, who was introduced by Senator Inouye, Denise Jefferson Casper, 
to be United

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States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, who was 
introduced by Senators Kerry and Brown (MA), and Carlton W. Reeves, to 
be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Mississippi, who was introduced by Senators Cochran and Wicker, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Senate Impeachment Trial Committee: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  To authorize Senate Legal Counsel to seek two immunity resolutions 
for testimony;
  To adopt a rule delegating authority to the Chair and Vice Chair to 
issue subpoenas; and
  To adopt a rule for a quorum of one for pretrial testimony.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.