[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 165 (Tuesday, December 14, 2010)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1190-D1191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Littoral Combat Ship acquisition in review of the Defense Authorization 
Request for fiscal year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from Raymond E. Mabus, Jr., Secretary, Sean 
J. Stackley, Assistant Secretary for Research, Development and 
Acquisition, Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, 
Rear Admiral Frank C. Pandolfe, USN, Director, Surface Warfare Division 
OPNAV N86, all of the Navy, Department of Defense; Eric J. Labs, Senior 
Analyst for Naval Forces and Weapons, Congressional Budget Office; 
Ronald O'Rourke, Specialist in Naval Affairs, Congressional Research 
Service, Library of Congress; and Paul L. Francis, Managing Director, 
Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Joseph A. Smith, Jr., of North 
Carolina, to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  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, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

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  S. Res. 680, supporting international tiger conservation efforts and 
the upcoming Global Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, with 
amendments;
  S. 2982, to combat international violence against women and girls, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S.J. Res. 37, calling upon the President to issue a proclamation 
recognizing the 35th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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), with one declaration;
  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), with one 
understanding and one declaration; 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, 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 Kevin Glenn 
Nealer, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and a routine list in the 
Foreign Service.