[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 163 (Friday, December 10, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

             Week of December 13 through December 18, 2010

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at 2 p.m., Senate will resume consideration of the 
amendment of the House of Representatives to the amendment of the 
Senate to H.R. 4853, Airport and Airway Extension Act, and after a 
period of debate, vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Reid motion 
to concur in the amendment of the House to the amendment of the Senate 
to the bill, with Reid/McConnell Amendment No. 4753, at 3 p.m. During 
the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared legislative 
and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: December 14, 
business meeting to consider the nomination of Joseph A. Smith, Jr., 
of North Carolina, to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance 
Agency, Time to be announced, S-216, Capitol.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: December 14, business meeting to 
consider S. 2982, to combat international violence against women and 
girls, S. 3688, to establish an international professional exchange 
program, S. 1633, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
consultation with the Secretary of State, to establish a program to 
issue Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Cards, S. 
3798, to authorize appropriations of United States assistance to 
help eliminate conditions in foreign prisons and other detention 
facilities that do not meet minimum human standards of health, 
sanitation, and safety, S. Con. Res. 71, recognizing the United 
States national interest in helping to prevent and mitigate acts of 
genocide and other mass atrocities against civilians, and supporting 
and encouraging efforts to develop a whole of government approach to 
prevent and mitigate such acts, S. Res. 680, supporting 
international tiger conservation efforts and the upcoming Global 
Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, S.J. Res. 37, calling upon 
the President to issue a proclamation recognizing the 35th 
anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, Treaty between the Government 
of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic 
of Rwanda Concerning the Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of 
Investment, signed at Kigali on February 19, 2008 (Treaty Doc. 110-
23), international Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and 
Agriculture, adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the 
United Nations on November 3, 2001, and signed by the United States 
on November 1, 2002 (the ``Treaty'') (Treaty Doc. 110-19), and the 
nominations of Thomas R. Nides, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, William R. 
Brownfield, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary for International 
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Suzan D. Johnson Cook, of New 
York, to be Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, 
Larry Leon Palmer, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Bolivarian 
Republic of Venezuela, Gregory J. Nickels, of Washington, to be an 
Alternate Representative to the Sixty-fifth Session of the General 
Assembly of the United Nations, Carol Fulp, of Massachusetts, to be 
a Representative to the Sixty-fifth Session of the General Assembly 
of the United Nations, Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire, to be a 
Representative to the Sixty-fifth Session of the General Assembly of 
the United Nations, and Roger F. Wicker, of Mississippi, to be a 
Representative to the Sixty-fifth Session of the General Assembly of 
the United Nations, all of the Department of State, Paige Eve 
Alexander, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development, and Alan J. 
Patricof, of New York, and Mark Green, of Wisconsin, both to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge 
Corporation, and a routine list in the Foreign Service, 2:15 p.m., 
S-116, Capitol.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: December 16, to hold closed 
hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, December 15, Subcommittee on General 
Farm Commodities and Risk Management, hearing to review 
implementation of provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform 
and Consumer Protection Act relating to position limits, 10 a.m., 
1300 Longworth.
  Committee on the Judiciary, December 15, to continue hearings on 
Foreclosed Justice: Causes and Effects of the Foreclosure Crisis--
Part II, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  December 16, hearing on the Espionage Act and the Legal and 
Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks, 9:30 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.