[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 28, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D704-D706]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
THE STATE OF LIVESTOCK IN AMERICA
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the state of livestock in America, after receiving 
testimony from Joe Glauber, Chief Economist, Greg Parham, 
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Alfred V. 
Almanza, Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service, and Dave 
White, Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service, all of the 
Department of Agriculture; Rick Sietsema, Sietsema Farms, Allendale, 
Michigan, on behalf of the National Turkey Federation; Dennis Olson, 
National Farmers Union, Bath, South Dakota; Steven D. Hunt, U.S. 
Premium Beef, LLC, Kansas City, Missouri; Frank Harper, Kansas 
Livestock Association (KLA), Sedgwick; Michael Welch, Harrison Poultry, 
Bethlehem, Georgia, on behalf of National Chicken Council; and Hans C. 
McPherson, McPherson Farm, Stevensville, Montana.
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
concluded a closed hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2012 for national and military intelligence programs, after 
receiving testimony from James R. Clapper, Jr., Director of National 
Intelligence; and Michael G. Vickers, Under Secretary of Defense for 
Intelligence.
APPROPRIATIONS: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED 
AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies approved for full committee 
consideration an original bill making appropriations for Military 
Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies for fiscal year 
2012.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of General James D. Thurman, USA, for reappointment to 
the grade of general and to be Commander, United Nations Command, 
Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea, Vice Admiral 
William H. McRaven, USN, to be admiral and Commander, United States 
Special Operations Command, and Lieutenant General John R. Allen, USMC, 
to be general and Commander, International Security Assistance Force, 
and United States Forces, Afghanistan, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine housing finance reform, focusing on access to the 
secondary market for small financial institutions, after receiving 
testimony from Jack Hartings, Peoples Bank Co., Coldwater, Ohio, on 
behalf of the Independent Community Bankers of America; Edward J. 
Pinto, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.; Christopher 
Dunn, South Shore Savings Bank, South Weymouth, Massachusetts, on 
behalf of the American Bankers Association; Peter Skillern, Community 
Reinvestment Association of North Carolina, Durham; and Rod Staatz, 
SECU of Maryland, Baltimore, on behalf of the Credit Union National 
Association.
DEEPWATER HORIZON NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water and 
Wildlife concluded a hearing to examine the status of the Deepwater 
Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment, including S. 861, to 
restore the natural resources, ecosystems, fisheries, marine habitats, 
and coastal wetland of Gulf Coast States, to create jobs and revive the 
economic health of communities adversely affected by the explosion on, 
and sinking of, the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, 
and S. 662, to provide for payments to certain natural resource 
trustees to assist in restoring natural resources damaged as a result 
of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, after receiving testimony from 
Cynthia Dohner, Regional Director, Southeast Region, Fish and Wildlife 
Service, Department of the Interior; Tony Penn, Deputy Chief, 
Assessment and Restoration Division, Office of Response and 
Restoration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
Department of Commerce; Donald F. Boesch, University of Maryland Center 
for Environmental Science, Cambridge; Margaret S. Leinen, Gulf of 
Mexico Research Initiative Research Board, Fort Pierce, Florida; Erik 
Rifkin, National Aquarium Conservation Center, Baltimore, Maryland; 
Garret Graves, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of 
Louisiana, Baton Rouge; and Cooper Shattuck, NRDA Trustee Council 
Executive Committee, Montgomery, Alabama.
COMPLEXITY AND THE TAX GAP
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
complexity and the tax gap, focusing on making tax compliance easier 
and collecting what's due, after receiving testimony from Michael 
Brostek, Director, Tax Issues, Strategic Issues, Government 
Accountability Office; Nina E. Olson, National Taxpayer Advocate, 
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; David Kirkham, 
Kirkham Motorsports, Provo, Utah; and Kris Carpenter, Sanctuary Spa and 
Salon, Billings, Montana.
LIBYA AND WAR POWERS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Libya and war powers, after receiving testimony from Harold 
Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser, Department of State; Louis Fisher, The 
Constitution Project, Silver Spring, Maryland; and Peter J. Spiro, 
Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S.J. Res. 20, authorizing the limited use of the United States Armed 
Forces in support of the NATO mission in Libya, with amendments; and
  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, Jeanine E. Jackson, of Wyoming, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Malawi, James Harold Thessin, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Paraguay, D. Brent Hardt, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, Lisa J. Kubiske, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, Anne W. 
Patterson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt, 
Michael H. Corbin, of California, to be Ambassador to the United Arab 
Emirates, Matthew H. Tueller, of Utah, to be Ambassador to the State of 
Kuwait, Kenneth J. Fairfax, of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Kazakhstan, and Susan Laila Ziadeh, of Washington, to be 
Ambassador to the State of Qatar, all of the Department of State, Ariel 
Pablos-Mendez, of New York, to be an Assistant Administrator of the

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United States Agency for International Development, Richard M. Moy, of 
Montana, and Dereth Britt Glance, of New York, both to be a 
Commissioner on the part of the United States on the International 
Joint Commission, United States and Canada, and Roberto R. Herencia, of 
Illinois, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas 
Private Investment Corporation, and a routine list in the Foreign 
Service.
DEVELOPMENT, RELIEF, AND EDUCATION FOR ALIEN MINORS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and 
Border Security concluded a hearing to examine the DREAM Act, including 
S. 952, to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of 
status of certain alien students who are long-term United States 
residents and who entered the United States as children, after 
receiving testimony from Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland 
Security; Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education; Clifford L. Stanley, 
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; Lieutenant 
Colonel Margaret D. Stock, Military Police Corps, US Army Reserve 
(Ret.), Lane Powell PC, Anchorage, Alaska; Steven A. Camarota, Center 
for Immigration Studies, Washington, D.C.; and Ola Kaso, Warren, 
Michigan.
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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of David H. Petraeus, of New Hampshire, to be Director 
of the Central Intelligence Agency.