[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 161 (Wednesday, December 8, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1169-D1170]
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 Armed Services: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on AirLand: Senators Lieberman (Chair), Bayh, Webb, 
McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Coons, Thune, Inhofe, Sessions, Chambliss, 
Brown (MA), and Burr.
  Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Senators Nelson 
(FL) (Chair), Reed, Nelson (NE), Bayh, Udall (CO), Bingaman, Manchin, 
Coons, LeMieux, Graham, Wicker, Brown (MA), Burr, Collins, and Kirk.
  Subcommittee on Personnel: Senators Webb (Chair), Lieberman, Akaka, 
Nelson (NE), McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Bingaman, Graham, Chambliss, 
Thune, Wicker, LeMieux, Vitter, and Collins.
  Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support: Senators Bayh 
(Chair), Akaka, McCaskill, Udall (CO), Manchin, Burr, Inhofe, 
Chambliss, and Thune.
  Subcommittee on Seapower: Senators Reed (Chair), Lieberman, Akaka, 
Nelson (FL), Webb, Hagan, Coons, Wicker, Sessions, LeMieux, Vitter, 
Collins, and Kirk.
  Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Senators Nelson (NE) (Chair), Reed, 
Nelson (FL), Udall (CO), Begich, Bingaman, Manchin, Vitter, Sessions, 
Inhofe, Graham, Brown (MA), and Kirk.
  Senators Levin and McCain serve as ex-officio members of all 
subcommittees.
U.S. CAPITAL MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance and Investment with the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded joint hearings to examine the efficiency, 
stability, and integrity of the United States capital markets, after 
receiving testimony from Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman, United

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States Securities and Exchange Commission; Gary Gensler, Chairman, 
Commodities Futures Trading Commission; James J. Angel, Georgetown 
University McDonough School of Business, Washington, D.C.; Thomas 
Peterffy, Interactive Brokers Groups, Greenwich, Connecticut; Manoj 
Narang, Tradeworx Inc., Red Bank, New Jersey; Kevin Cronin, Invesco 
Ltd., Atlanta, Georgia; and Stephen Luparello, Financial Industry 
Regulator Authority, Alexandria, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Scott C. Doney, of Massachusetts, 
to be Chief Scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, Department of Commerce, Mario Cordero, of California, 
and Rebecca F. Dye, of North Carolina, both to be a Federal Maritime 
Commissioner, and a promotion list in the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration and Coast Guard.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Max Oliver Cogburn, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, Marco A. Hernandez, 
and Michael H. Simon, both to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Oregon, Steve C. Jones, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Georgia, and Patti B. Saris, of 
Massachusetts, to be Chair, and Dabney Langhorne Friedrich, of 
Maryland, both to be a Member of the United States Sentencing 
Commission.