[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 27, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D851-D853]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government approved for full committee consideration of an 
original bill making appropriations for Financial Services and General 
Government for fiscal year 2011.
APPROPRIATIONS: LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND 
RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies approved for full committee 
consideration of an original bill making appropriations for Labor, 
Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies for fiscal 
year 2011.
NEW START TREATY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
independent analyses of the New START 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 Steven Pifer, Center on the United States

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and Europe; Keith B. Payne, Missouri State University Graduate 
Department of Defense and Strategic Studies; Franklin C. Miller; and 
John S. Foster, Jr.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of James N. Mattis, USMC, for reappointment to the grade 
of general and to be Commander, United States Central Command, after 
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
CONSUMER ONLINE PRIVACY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine consumer online privacy, after receiving testimony 
from Jonathan D. Leibowitz, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Julius 
Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Guy Tribble, 
Apple Inc., Bret Taylor, Facebook, Alma Whitten, Google, Inc., Jim 
Harper, Cato Institute, and Dorothy Attwood, AT&T, Inc., all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Joseph Turow, University of Pennsylvania 
Annenberg School for Communication, Philadelphia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 3597, to improve the ability of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Coast Guard, and coastal 
States to sustain healthy ocean and coastal ecosystems by maintaining 
and sustaining their capabilities relating to oil spill preparedness, 
prevention, response, restoration, and research, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute.
BP DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water and 
Wildlife concluded a hearing to examine assessing natural resource 
damages resulting from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, after 
receiving testimony from Cynthia Dohner, Regional Director, Southeast 
Region, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; Tony 
Penn, Deputy Chief, Assessment and Restoration Division, Office of 
Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Eva J. Pell, Under 
Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution; Robert B. Spies, Exxon 
Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, Livermore, California; Stanley 
Senner, Ocean Conservancy, Washington, D.C.; Erik Rifkin, National 
Aquarium Conservation Center, Baltimore, Maryland; and John F. Young, 
Jr., Jefferson Parish Council, Jefferson, Louisiana.
RECONCILIATION OPTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine perspectives on reconciliation options in Afghanistan, after 
receiving testimony from Ryan C. Crocker, former U.S. Ambassador to 
Iraq, Texas A&M University George Bush School of Government and Public 
Service, College Station; and Zainab Salbi, Women for Women 
International, and David J. Kilcullen, Center for a New American 
Security, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Alejandro Daniel Wolff, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, Larry Leon Palmer, of Georgia, to 
be Ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Pamela E. 
Bridgewater Awkard, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Jamaica, and 
Phyllis Marie Powers, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Panama, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
HIGH-RISK LOGISTICS PLANNING
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 high-risk logistics 
planning, focusing on progress on improving Department of Defense 
supply chain management and challenges in strategic spending, after 
receiving testimony from Alan F. Estevez, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Material Readiness; and Jack E. 
Edwards, Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, Government 
Accountability Office.
PROTECTING VICTIMS OF MAJOR OIL SPILLS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Exxon Valdez to Deepwater Horizon, focusing on protecting victims of 
major oil spills, after receiving testimony from Senator Begich; 
Lieutenant General Thomas G. McInerney, USAF (Ret.), Clifton, Virginia; 
Brian B. O'Neill, Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and 
Joseph W. Banta, Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory 
Council, Anchorage, Alaska.
DEEPWATER DRILLING MORATORIUM
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the deepwater drilling moratorium, after receiving 
testimony from Charlotte Randolph, President, Lafourche Parish, 
Lafourche Parish, Louisiana; Ethane Treese, Dun

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& Bradstreet, Washington, D.C.; Joseph R. Mason, Louisiana State 
University, and Don Briggs, Louisiana Oil & Gas Association, both of 
Baton Rouge; Leslie Bertucci, R and D Enterprises of LA, LLC, New 
Orleans, Louisiana; Kimberly Nastasi, Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of 
Commerce, Biloxi; and Troy Lillie, Maurice, Louisiana.
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.