[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 113 (Thursday, July 29, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D876-D877]
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 Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill making appropriations for State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs for fiscal year ending September 30, 2011;
  An original bill making appropriations for Department of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies for 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2011; and
  An original bill making appropriations for Financial Services and 
General Government for fiscal year ending September 30, 2011.
NEW START TREATY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing 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), after receiving testimony from Rose Gottmoeller, 
Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and 
Implementation; and Edward L. Warner III, Secretary of Defense 
Representative to the New START Negotiations.
NEW START TREATY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
Department of Defense strategic force structure options under the New 
START from Edward L. Warner III, Secretary Representative to Post-START 
Negotiations, and Michael S. Elliott, Deputy Director, Plans and 
Policy, United States Strategic Command, both of the Department of 
Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Michael C. Camunez, of California, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce, and Charles P. Blahous III, of Maryland, who was 
introduced by Senator Gregg, and Robert D. Reischauer, of Maryland, who 
was introduced by Senator Conrad, both to be a Member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, a Member of the 
Board of Trustees of the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust 
Fund, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance 
Trust Fund.
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY MISMANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine 
mismanagement of contracts at Arlington National Cemetery, after 
receiving testimony from Edward M. Harrington, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Procurement, Office of the Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, 
Claudia L. Tornblom, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Management and Budget, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army 
for Civil Works, and Kathryn A. Condon, Executive Director, Army 
National Cemeteries Program, all of the Department of Defense; John C. 
Metzler, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Thurman Higginbotham, 
District Heights, Maryland.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOREIGN LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES
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 closing the 
language gap, focusing on improving the Federal government's foreign 
language capabilities, after receiving testimony from David C. Maurer, 
Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government 
Accountability Office; Jeffrey R. Neal, Chief Human Capital Officer, 
Department of Homeland Security; Nancy E. Weaver, Director, Defense 
Language Office, Office of the Under Secretary for Personnel and 
Readiness, Department of Defense; David S. C. Chu, Institute for 
Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia; Richard D. Brecht, University 
of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language, College Park; and 
Dan E. Davidson, American Councils for International Education: ACTR/
ACCELS, Washington, D.C.
STATE OF THE AMERICAN CHILD
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded a hearing to examine the state of the 
American child, focusing on the impact of Federal policies on children, 
after receiving testimony from Cecilia Elena Rouse, Member, Council of 
Economic Advisers; Seth D. Harris, Deputy Secretary of Labor; David A. 
Hansell, Acting Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, and 
Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, both of the Department 
of Health and Human Services; and Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, 
Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary 
Education.

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INDIAN GAMING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Indian gaming, after receiving testimony from Tracie 
Stevens, Chairwoman, National Indian Gaming Commission; Mark Brnovich, 
Arizona Department of Gaming, Phoenix; Philip N. Hogen, Jacobson, 
Buffalo, Magnuson, Anderson & Hogen, P.C., St. Paul, Minnesota; and 
Ernest Stevens, Jr., National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington, 
D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 3397, to amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for take-
back disposal of controlled substances in certain instances, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of John F. Walsh, to be United States Attorney for 
the District of Colorado, John William Vaudreuil, to be United States 
Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, William J. Ihlenfeld 
II, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of West 
Virginia, Mark Lloyd Ericks, to be United States Marshal for the 
Western District of Washington, Joseph Patrick Faughnan, Sr., to be 
United States Marshal for the District of Connecticut, Harold Michael 
Oglesby, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of 
Arkansas, and Conrad Ernest Candelaria, to be United States Marshal for 
the District of New Mexico, all of the Department of Justice.
PASSPORT ISSUANCE PROCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland 
Security concluded a hearing to examine the passport issuance process, 
focusing on closing the door to fraud, after receiving testimony from 
Gregory Kutz, Managing Director, Forensic Audits and Special 
Investigations, Government Accountability Office; and Brenda S. 
Sprague, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of James R. Clapper, of Virginia, to be Director of 
National Intelligence.