[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 151 (Thursday, November 18, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1108-D1110]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of General Claude R. Kehler, USAF, for reappointment to 
the grade of general and to be Commander, United States Strategic 
Command, and General Carter F. Ham, USA, for reappointment to the grade 
of general and to be Commander, United States Africa Command, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and 
Global Competitiveness concluded a hearing to examine international 
trade in the digital economy, after receiving testimony from Catherine 
L. Mann, Brandeis University International Business School, Concord, 
Massachusetts; Edward J. Black, The Computer and Communications 
Industry Association (CCIA), Washington, D.C.; Daniel Burton, 
Salesforce.com, Chevy Chase, Maryland; Mike Sax, Sax Software, Eugene, 
Oregon; and Greg S. Slater, Intel Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona.
IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
and Central Asian Affairs concluded a hearing to examine jamming the 
improvised explosive device (IED) assembly line, focusing on impeding 
the flow of ammonium nitrate in South and Central Asia, after receiving 
testimony from Mary Beth Goodman, Senior Economic Adviser to the 
Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Department of 
State; John P. Woods, Deputy Assistant Director, Homeland Security 
Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of 
Homeland Security; and David S. Sedney, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia, and Brigadier General Michael 
H. Shields, Deputy Director, Operations and Requirements, Joint 
Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, both of the Department 
of Defense.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Eugene Louis Dodaro, 
of Virginia, to be Comptroller General of the United States, Government 
Accountability Office, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
RECONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS IN AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc 
Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine 
the need for effective oversight of reconstruction contracts in 
Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from Jon T. Rymer, Inspector 
General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Richard W. Moore, 
Inspector General, Tennessee Valley Authority, both of the Office of 
the Inspector General; Arnold Fields, Special Inspector General for 
Afghanistan Reconstruction; Gordon S. Heddell, Inspector General, 
Department of Defense; Harold W. Geisel, Deputy Inspector General, 
Department of State, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors; Michael 
Carroll, Deputy Inspector General, United States Agency for 
International Development; and Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Inspector General, 
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
STATE OF AMERICAN CHILDREN
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 securing our children's future after 
receiving testimony from Jennifer Garner, Save the Children, Los 
Angeles, California; David Satcher, Morehouse School of Medicine 
Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Center of Excellence on Health 
Disparities, Atlanta, Georgia; and Helen Blank, National Women's Law 
Center, Peter Edelman, Georgetown Law Center, Michael Casserly, Council 
on Great City Schools, and Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense 
Fund, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 3648, to establish a commission to conduct a study and provide 
recommendations on a comprehensive resolution of impacts caused to 
certain Indian tribes by the Pick-Sloan Program, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3903, to authorize leases of up to 99 years for lands held in 
trust for Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, with an amendment;
  H.R. 4445, to amend Public Law 95-232 to repeal a restriction on 
treating as Indian country certain lands held in trust for Indian 
pueblos in New Mexico;
  H.R. 5811, to amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and 
Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta 
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Tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for membership in that 
tribe;
  S. 2956, to authorize the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians 
Water Rights Settlement, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1264, to require the Secretary of the Interior to assess the 
irrigation infrastructure of the Pine River Indian Irrigation Project 
in the State of Colorado and provide grants to, and enter into 
cooperative agreements with, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe to assess, 
repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct existing infrastructure; and
  S. 980, to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish a 
demonstration program to adapt the lessons of providing foreign aid to 
underdeveloped economies to the provision of Federal economic 
development assistance to certain similarly situated individuals, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
H.R. 4347, to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act to provide further self-governance by Indian tribes, 
after receiving testimony from George Skibine, Acting Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Sharee Freeman, Director, Office 
of Self-Governance, W. Ron Allen, Chairman, Self-Governance Advisory 
Committee, all of the Department of the Interior; Geoffrey Strommer, 
Hobbs, Strauss, Dean and Walker, Portland, Oregon; and Will Micklin, 
Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
   S. 3804, to combat online infringement, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Frank Leon-Guerrero, to be United States Marshal 
for the District of Guam and concurrently United States Marshall for 
the District of the Northern Mariana Islands, Kenneth F. Bohac, to be 
United States Marshal for the Central District of Illinois for term of 
four years, William Conner Eldridge, to be United States Attorney for 
the Western District of Arkansas, Charles Thomas Weeks II, to be United 
States Marshal for the Western District of Oklahoma, Ripley Rand, to be 
United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, and 
Charles M. Oberly III, to be United States Attorney for the District of 
Delaware, all of the Department of Justice, and Wilfredo Martinez, of 
Florida, Chase Theodora Rogers, of Connecticut, and Isabel Framer, of 
Ohio, all to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the State Justice 
Institute.
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law 
concluded a hearing to examine women's rights, focusing on United 
States ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms 
of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), after receiving testimony from 
Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large, Office of Global Women's Issues, 
Department of State; Samuel R. Bagenstos, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice; Geena 
Davis, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Marina Del Ray, 
California; Wazhma Frogh, Afghan Women's Network, Kabul, Afghanistan; 
and Marcia D. Greenberger, National Women's Law Center, and Steven 
Groves, Heritage Foundation Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, both 
of Washington, D.C.
AMERICA'S SMALL BUSINESSES
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine assessing the regulatory and administrative burdens 
on America's small businesses, including tax compliance benefits and 
opportunities to mitigate costs on third parties of miscellaneous 
income reporting requirements, after receiving testimony from Winslow 
Sargeant, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Office of Advocacy, Small 
Business Administration; James R. White, Director, Strategic Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; Larry Nannis, Levine, Katz, Nannis 
and Solomon, PC, Needham, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National 
Small Business Association (NSBA); Roger Harris, Padgett Business 
Services, Athens, Georgia; and Andrew Langer, Institute of Liberty, and 
James Gattuso, The Heritage Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.
DISABILITY EVALUATION SYSTEM
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Veterans' Affairs and Department of Defense's integrated 
disability evaluation system, after receiving testimony from John R. 
Campbell, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Wounded Warrior Care 
and Transition Policy; Daniel Bertoni, Director of Education, 
Workforce, and Income Security Issues, Government Accountability 
Office; and John Medve, Executive Director of Veterans Affairs/
Department of Defense Collaboration Service, Office of Policy and 
Planning, Department of Veterans Affairs.

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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.