[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 125 (Thursday, September 16, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D961-D962]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EMBRYONIC STEM CELL
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine the promise of human embryonic stem cell research, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Wicker; Francis S. Collins, Director, 
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; 
George Q. Daley, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; 
Sean J. Morrison, University of Michigan Center for Stem Cell Biology, 
Ann Arbor, on behalf of the American Society for Cell Biology; Jean 
Peduzzi Nelson, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, 
Michigan; and Cody Unser, First Step Foundation, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense 
for fiscal year ending September 30, 2011; and
  An original bill making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2011.

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KOREAN PENINSULA SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the current security situation on the Korean Peninsula, after receiving 
testimony from Wallace C. Gregson, Assistant Secretary, Asian and 
Pacific Security Affairs, and General Walter L. Sharp, USA, Commander, 
United Nations Command, Commander, Republic of Korea--United States 
Combined Forces Command, and Commander, United States Forces Korea, 
both of the Department of Defense; and Kurt M. Campbell, Assistant 
Secretary of State, East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND EXCHANGE RATE POLICIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Treasury Department's report on international 
economic and exchange rate policies, after receiving testimony from 
Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury; C. Fred Bergsten, The 
Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Charles W. Freeman 
III, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Lynn Brown, Hydro Aluminum North America, 
Baltimore, Maryland.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of Jacob J. Lew, of New York, to be Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS AUTHORITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, 
Reagan Washington National Airport and the Perimeter Rule, after 
receiving testimony from Susan L. Kurland, Assistant Secretary for 
Aviation and International Affairs, and Michael J. Sammartino, Director 
of System Operations, AJR-1, Federal Aviation Administration, both of 
the Department of Transportation; Lee R. Kair, Assistant Administrator 
for Security Operations, Transportation Security Administration, 
Department of Homeland Security; and Charles Darwin Snelling, and Lynn 
Hampton, both of the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
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), with amendments.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Jacob J. Lew, of New 
York, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Schumer, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 3717, to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment 
Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to provide 
for certain disclosures under section 552 of title 5, United States 
Code, (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act); and
  The nominations of Michael J. Moore, to be United States Attorney for 
the Middle District of Georgia, Michael Robert Bladel, to be United 
States Marshal for the Southern District of Iowa, Kenneth James Runde, 
to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Iowa, James 
Edward Clark, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of 
Kentucky, Joseph H. Hogsett, to be United States Attorney for the 
Southern District of Indiana, and Beverly Joyce Harvard, to be United 
States Marshal for the Northern District of Georgia, all of the 
Department of Justice.
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: PORTEOUS
Impeachment Trial Committee (Porteous): Committee continued hearings to 
examine the Articles Against Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., after 
receiving testimony from Rafael Pardo, University of Washington School 
of Law, Seattle; Dane S. Ciolino, Loyola Law School, and Donald C. 
Gardner, both of New Orleans, Louisiana; and S.J. Beaulieu, Metairie, 
Louisiana.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, September 21.
THE DEEPWATER DRILLING MORATORIUM
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Deepwater drilling moratorium, focusing on a 
review of the Obama Administration's economic impact analysis on United 
States small businesses, after receiving testimony from Rebecca M. 
Blank, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, and John Fernandez, 
Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, both of the Department of 
Commerce.