[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 107 (Tuesday, July 20, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D812]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development approved for full committee consideration an original bill 
making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for fiscal year 
2011.
NEW START TREATY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
implementation of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), 
after receiving testimony from James N. Miller, Principal Deputy Under 
Secretary for Policy, and General Kevin P. Chilton, Commander, United 
States Strategic Command, both of the Department of Defense; and Thomas 
P. D'Agostino, Administrator, U.S. National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy.
FINANCIAL REGULATION MODERNIZATION OVERSIGHT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Security and International Trade and Finance concluded a hearing to 
examine continuing oversight on international cooperation to modernize 
financial regulation, after receiving testimony from Lael Brainard, 
Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; Kathleen L. 
Casey, Commissioner, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and 
Daniel K. Tarullo, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of James Franklin Jeffrey, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, Maura Connelly, of New Jersey, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, Gerald M. Feierstein, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen, and Francis 
Joseph Ricciardone, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Turkey, all of the Department of State, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Elena Kagan, of Massachusetts, to be an Associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, James Michael Cole, 
of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Attorney General, Timothy Q. 
Purdon, to be United States Attorney for the District of North Dakota, 
Willie Ransome Stafford III, to be United States Marshal for the Middle 
District of North Carolina, and Arthur Darrow Baylor, to be United 
States Marshal for the Middle District of Alabama, all of the 
Department of Justice, and J. Patricia Wilson Smoot, of Maryland, to be 
a Commissioner of the United States Parole Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of William J. Boarman, of Maryland, to be 
Public Printer, Government Printing Office.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of James R. Clapper, of Virginia, to be Director 
of National Intelligence, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senator Mikulski, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.