[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 112 (Wednesday, July 28, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D862-D864]
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 Armed Services: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Airland: Senators Lieberman (Chair), Bayh, Webb, 
McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Burris, Kaufman, Thune, Inhofe, Sessions, 
Chambliss, Brown (MA), and Burr.
  Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Senators Nelson 
(FL) (Chair), Reed, Nelson (NE), Bayh, Udall (CO), Bingaman, Kaufman, 
Goodwin, LeMieux, Graham, Wicker, Brown (MA), Burr, and Collins.
  Subcommittee on Personnel: Senators Webb (Chair), Lieberman, Akaka, 
Nelson (NE), McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Burris, Bingaman, Graham, 
Chambliss, Thune, Wicker, LeMieux, Vitter, and Collins.
  Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support: Senators Bayh 
(Chair), Akaka, McCaskill, Udall (CO), Burris, Goodwin, Burr, Inhofe, 
Chambliss, and Thune.
  Subcommittee on Seapower: Senators Reed (Chair), Lieberman, Akaka, 
Nelson (FL), Webb, Hagan, Kaufman, Wicker, Sessions, LeMieux, Vitter, 
and Collins.
  Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Senators Nelson (NE) (Chair), Reed, 
Nelson (FL), Udall (CO), Begich, Bingaman, Goodwin, Vitter, Sessions, 
Inhofe, Graham, and Brown (MA).
  Senators Levin and McCain are ex-officio members of the 
subcommittees.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Janet L. Yellen, of California, 
to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System, Peter A. Diamond, of Massachusetts, Sarah Bloom Raskin, of 
Maryland, all to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System, Osvaldo Luis Gratacos Munet, of Puerto Rico, to be 
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Bank, and Steve A. Linick, of Virginia, to be Inspector General of the 
Federal Housing Finance Agency.
PROTECTING AMERICA'S WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine protecting America's water treatment facilities, 
after receiving testimony from Cynthia C. Dougherty, Director, Office 
of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Office of Water, Environmental 
Protection Agency; Benjamin H. Grumbles, Arizona Department of 
Environmental Quality, Phoenix; Paul Orum, Blue Green Chemical Security 
Coalition, and Darius D. Sivin, International Union, United Automobile, 
Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Carlos Perea, MIOX Corporation, Albuquerque, New 
Mexico.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Terence Patrick McCulley, of Oregon, to be 
Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Michele Thoren Bond, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho, 
and Robert Porter Jackson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Cameroon, all of the Department of State, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following bills:
  H.R. 2868, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance 
security and protect against acts of terrorism against chemical 
facilities, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to enhance the 
security of public water systems, and to amend the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act to enhance the security of wastewater treatment 
works, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3335, to require Congress to establish a unified and searchable 
database on a public Web site for congressional earmarks as called for 
by the President in his 2010 State of the Union Address to Congress, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2991, to amend title 31, United States Code, to enhance the 
oversight authorities of the Comptroller General, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3243, to require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to administer 
polygraph examinations to all applicants for law enforcement positions 
with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to require U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection to complete all periodic background reinvestigations 
of certain law enforcement personnel, with an amendment;
  S. 2902, to improve the Federal Acquisition Institute, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 3980, to provide for identifying and eliminating redundant 
reporting requirements and developing meaningful performance metrics 
for homeland security preparedness grants, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 1517, to allow certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
employees who serve under an overseas limited appointment for at least 
2 years, and whose service is rated fully successful or higher 
throughout that time, to be converted to a permanent appointment in the 
competitive service, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3650, to amend chapter 21 of title 5, United States Code, to 
provide that fathers of certain permanently disabled or deceased 
veterans shall be included with mothers of such veterans as preference 
eligibles for treatment in the civil service;
  S. 3567, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 100 Broadway in Lynbrook, New York, as the ``Navy 
Corpsman Jeffrey L. Wiener Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 5278, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 405 West Second Street in Dixon, Illinois, as the 
``President Ronald W. Reagan Post Office Building''; and
  H.R. 5395, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 151 North Maitland Avenue in Maitland, Florida, as 
the ``Paula Hawkins Post Office Building''.
FLOOD PREPAREDNESS AND MITIGATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, 
Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration concluded a 
hearing to examine flood preparedness and mitigation, focusing on map 
modernization, levee inspection, and levee repairs, after receiving 
testimony from Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Civil Works, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense; Sandra K. 
Knight, Deputy Administrator, Mitigation at the Federal Insurance and 
Mitigation Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
Department of Homeland Security; Montana House Representative Robert 
Melhoff, Great Falls; David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin 
Center for Research in Water Resources; Sam Riley Medlock, Association 
of State Floodplain Managers, Madison, Wisconsin; Robert G. Rash, St. 
Francis Levee District of Arkansas, West Memphis;

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and Joseph N. Suhayda, Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, 
Baton Rouge.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation, after receiving testimony 
from Robert S. Mueller III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
Department of Justice.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Kathleen M. O'Malley, of Ohio, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, who was introduced by Senator 
Brown (OH), Beryl Alaine Howell, of the District of Columbia, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, who was 
introduced by Senator Leahy and Representative Norton, and Robert Leon 
Wilkins, of the District of Columbia, to be a United States District 
Judge for the District of Columbia, who was introduced by 
Representative Norton, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
FILIBUSTER
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the filibuster, focusing on legislative proposals to change 
Senate procedures, including S. Res. 465, to permit the Senate to avoid 
unnecessary delay and vote on matters for which floor debate has 
ceased, and S. Res. 440, improving the Senate cloture process, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Lautenberg and Bennet; Elizabeth 
Rybicki, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Gregory 
Koger, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; and Barbara 
Sinclair, University of California, Los Angeles.