[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 116 (Tuesday, August 3, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D901-D902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
QUADRENNIAL DEFENSE REVIEW INDEPENDENT PANEL
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the report of the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel, after 
receiving testimony from William J. Perry and Stephen J. Hadley, both a 
Co-Chair of the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Jonathan Woodson, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, and Neile L. Miller, of 
Maryland, to be Principal Deputy Administrator, and Anne M. Harrington, 
of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear 
Nonproliferation, both of the National Nuclear Security Administration, 
both of the Department of Energy, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 1619, to establish the Office of Sustainable 
Housing and Communities, to establish the Interagency Council on 
Sustainable Communities, to establish a comprehensive planning grant 
program, to establish a sustainability challenge grant program, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
STATUS REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine a 
status report on the United States economy, after receiving testimony 
from Richard Berner, Morgan Stanley, New York, New York; Simon Johnson, 
MIT Sloan School of Management, Washington, D.C.; and Joel L. Naroff, 
Naroff Economic Advisors, Inc., Holland, Pennsylvania.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FACTORS WITH AUTISM AND NEURODEVELOPMENT DISORDERS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Children's 
Health concluded a hearing to examine the state of research on 
potential environmental health factors with autism and related 
neurodevelopment disorders, after receiving testimony from Paul 
Anastas, Assistant Administrator for Research and Development Science, 
Advisor, Environmental Protection Agency; Linda Birnbaum, Director, 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National 
Institutes of Health, and Director, National Toxicology Program, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Isaac N. Pessah, University of 
California Davis Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease 
Prevention; Bruce Lanphear, Child and Family Research Institute, 
Cincinnati, Ohio; and Mary Moen, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Peter Michael McKinley, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, Rose M. Likins, of Virginia, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, Christopher W. Murray, of New 
York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo, Mark Charles 
Storella, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, 
James Frederick Entwistle, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eric D. Benjaminson, of Oregon, to be 
Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Democratic 
Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Phillip Carter III, of Virginia, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, J. Thomas Dougherty, of 
Wyoming, to be Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Michael S. Owen, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone, Laurence D. 
Wohlers, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Central African 
Republic, Patrick S. Moon, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, Luis E. Arreaga-Rodas, of Virginia, to

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be Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, Daniel Bennett Smith, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to Greece, Scot Alan Marciel, of California, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, Judith R. Fergin, of 
Washington, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, 
Helen Patricia Reed-Rowe, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Palau, Paul W. Jones, of New York, to be Ambassador to Malaysia, 
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, Francis Joseph Ricciardone, Jr., 
of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, Michele 
Thoren Bond, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Lesotho, Robert Porter Jackson, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, Alejandro Daniel Wolff, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, Pamela E. Bridgewater Awkard, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to Jamaica, Phyllis Marie Powers, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, Terence Patrick 
McCulley, of Oregon, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of 
Nigeria, all of the Department of State, Mark Feierstein, of Virginia, 
to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, Mimi E. Alemayehou, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation, Richard M. Lobo, of Florida, to be Director of 
the International Broadcasting Bureau, Broadcasting Board of Governors, 
Nisha Desai Biswal, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, Robert M. Orr, of Florida, to be United States Director of 
the Asian Development Bank, with the rank of Ambassador, and a routine 
list in the foreign service.
TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENT THROUGH INNOVATIVE TOOLS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal 
Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine 
transforming government through innovative tools and technology, after 
receiving testimony from Daniel I. Werfel, Controller, Office of 
Management and Budget; Earl E. Devaney, Chairman, Recovery 
Accountability and Transparency Board; Alexander Karp, Palantir 
Technologies, San Francisco, California; Robert R. McEwen, U.S. Gold 
Corporation, Toronto, Canada; and Riley Crane, Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology Media Laboratory, Boston.
PROTECTING PUBLIC INTEREST
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded a hearing to examine protecting public 
interest, focusing on understanding the threat of agency capture, after 
receiving testimony from Nicholas Bagley, University of Michigan Law 
School, Ann Arbor; Sidney A. Shapiro, Wake Forest School of Law, 
Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Tevi D. Troy, Hudson Institute, 
Silver Spring, Maryland.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.