[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 164 (Monday, December 13, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1186-D1187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR TUESDAY,

                           DECEMBER 14, 2010

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine Littoral 
Combat Ship acquisition in review of the Defense Authorization 
Request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program; 
with the possibility of a closed

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session in SR-222 following the open session, 2:30 p.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to consider the nomination of Joseph A. Smith, Jr., of North 
Carolina, to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, 2:05 
p.m., S-216, Capitol.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider 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. 2982, to combat 
international violence against women and girls, 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, Roger F. 
Wicker, of Mississippi, to be a Representative to the Sixty-fifth 
Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and James 
Franklin Jeffrey, Nancy J. Powell, and Earl A. Wayne, all for the 
personal rank of Career Ambassador in recognition of especially 
distinguished service over a sustained period, 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, and Kevin Glenn Nealer, of Maryland, to be a Member of the 
Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, 
2:15 p.m., S-116, Capitol.


                                 House

  No Committee meetings are scheduled.