[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 21, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D976-D977]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of General James F. Amos, USMC, for reappointment to the 
grade of general and to be Commandant of the Marine Corps, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Hagan, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
INVESTIGATING INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine investigating infrastructure, focusing on creating 
jobs and growing the economy, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Kerry; Roy Kienitz, Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; Alan 
B. Krueger, Chief Economist, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for 
Economic Policy; Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, Harrisburg; 
Robert Wolf, UBS Americas, New York, New York; and Donald Shubert, The 
Connecticut Construction Industries Association, Inc. (CCIA), Hartford.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine welfare 
reform, focusing on women and poverty, including implications of 
caseload and program changes for families and program monitoring, after 
receiving testimony from Kay E. Brown, Director, Education, Workforce, 
and Income Security, Government Accountability Office; Vivyan C. Adair, 
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York; Gordon L. Berlin, MDRC, New York, 
New York; and Wesley W.O. Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two 
Fates, Jersey City, New Jersey.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 1183, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide 
assistance to the Government of Haiti to end within 5 years the 
deforestation in Haiti and restore within 30 years the extent of 
tropical forest cover in existence in Haiti in 1990, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3184, to provide United States assistance for the purpose of 
eradicating severe forms of trafficking in children in eligible 
countries through the implementation of Child Protection Compacts;
  S. 3581, to implement certain defense trade treaties, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3665, to promote the strengthening of the private sector in 
Pakistan;
  S. 3297, to update United States policy and authorities to help 
advance a genuine transition to democracy and to promote recovery in 
Zimbabwe, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 987, to protect girls in developing countries through the 
prevention of child marriage, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. Res. 573, urging the development of a comprehensive strategy to 
ensure stability in Somalia, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  Treaty Between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of Australia Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at 
Sydney, September 5, 2007 (Treaty Doc. 110-10);

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  Treaty Between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 
Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, done at Washington and London on 
June 21 and 26, 2007 (Treaty Doc. 110-07); and
  The nominations of Alexander A. Arvizu, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Albania, Matthew J. Bryza, of Illinois, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Norman L. Eisen, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Joseph A. 
Mussomeli, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia, 
and Duane E. Woerth, of Nebraska, for the rank of Ambassador during his 
tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America on 
the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, all of 
the Department of State, and Edward W. Brehm, of Minnesota, Johnnie 
Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and Mimi E. 
Alemayehou, Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation, all to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
African Development Foundation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the nomination of Jacob J. Lew, of New York, 
to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Maria Elizabeth 
Raffinan, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Representative Norton, testified and answered questions 
in her own behalf.
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: PORTEOUS
Impeachment Trial Committee (Porteous): Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the Articles Against Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., after 
receiving testimony from Henry E. Hildebrand III, Middle District of 
Tennessee Trustee, Nashville; Ronald Barliant, former United States 
Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Illinois, Chicago; G. Calvin 
MacKenzie, Colby College, Waterville, Maine; John Mamoulides, Metairie, 
Louisiana; Darcy Griffin, Gretna, Louisiana; and Robert B. Rees, 
Covington, Louisiana.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of David B. Buckley, of Virginia, to be 
Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency, after the nominee 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.