[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 81 (Tuesday, June 7, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D607-D608]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NUCLEAR ENERGY BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 512, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to 
require the Secretary of Energy to carry out programs to develop and 
demonstrate 2 small modular nuclear reactor designs, S. 937, to repeal 
certain barriers to domestic

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fuel production, and S. 1067, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to 
require the Secretary of Energy to carry out a research and development 
and demonstration program to reduce manufacturing and construction 
costs relating to nuclear reactors, after receiving testimony from John 
E. Kelly, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reactor Technologies, Office 
of Nuclear Energy, and Steven G. Chalk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Renewable Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 
both of the Department of Energy; Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned 
Scientists, James T. Bartis, RAND Corporation, and Brian Siu, Natural 
Resources Defense Council, all of Washington, D.C.; and Joe Colvin, 
American Nuclear Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Geeta Pasi, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Djibouti, Donald W. Koran, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, Lewis Alan Lukens, of Virginia, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, and to serve concurrently 
and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Guinea-Bissau, and Jeanine E. Jackson, of Wyoming, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Malawi, who was introduced by Senators Enzi and 
Barrasso, all of the Department of State, and Ariel Pablos-Mendez, of 
New York, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND TAX TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of 
America and the Swiss Confederation for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on 
October 2, 1996, signed on September 23, 2009, at Washington, as 
corrected by an exchange of notes effected November 16, 2010 and a 
related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on September 23, 
2009 (Treaty Doc. 112-01), Protocol Amending the Convention between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the 
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and 
Capital, signed on May 20, 2009, at Luxembourg (the ``proposed 
Protocol'') and a related agreement effected by the exchange of notes 
also signed on May 20, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 111-08), Convention between 
the Government of the United States of America and the Government of 
the Republic of Hungary for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on 
February 4, 2010, at Budapest (the ``proposed Convention'') and a 
related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on February 4, 2010 
(Treaty Doc. 111-07), 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), and Treaty 
between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of Bermuda relating to Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal 
Matters, signed at Hamilton on January 12, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 111-06), 
after receiving testimony from Manal Corwin, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of the Treasury for International Tax Affairs; Thomas A. Barthold, 
Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation; Bruce Swartz, Deputy 
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; and Clifton M. 
Johnson, Assistant Legal Adviser, and Deborah A. McCarthy, Principal 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs, 
both of the Department of State.


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  On page D608, June 7, 2011, the Record reads as follows: 
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Protocol Amending the Convention between the United States 
of America and the Swiss Confederation for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on 
October 2, 1996 . . .
  
  The online Record has been corrected to read: Committee on 
Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of 
America and the Swiss Confederation for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on 
October 2, 1996, signed on September 23, 2009, at Washington, as 
corrected by an exchange of notes effected November 16, 2010 and a 
related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on September 
23, 2009 . . .


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FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine financial outcomes of students at for-
profit colleges, after receiving testimony from Martha Kanter, Under 
Secretary of Education; Sandy Baum, George Washington University School 
of Education and Human Development, Chicago, Illinois; Wade Henderson, 
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Washington, D.C.; 
Pauline Abernathy, Institute for College Access and Success, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Eric Schmitt, Hampton, Iowa.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.