[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 104 (Wednesday, July 13, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D772-D773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND THE FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded a 
hearing to examine the required force level of strategic airlift 
aircraft mandated by title 10, United States Code, and the 
administration's request to eliminate that requirement in review of the 
Defense Authorization Request and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from Christine H. Fox, Director of Cost 
Assessment and Program Evaluation, General Duncan J. McNabb, USAF, 
Commander, United States Transportation Command, and General Raymond E. 
Johns, Jr., USAF, Commander, Air Mobility Command, all of the 
Department of Defense.
UNAUTHORIZED CHARGES ON TELEPHONE BILLS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine unauthorized charges on telephone bills, focusing 
on why crammers win and consumers lose, after receiving testimony from 
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Chicago; Elliot Burg, Vermont 
Attorney General's Office, Montpelier; David Spofford, Xigo, LLC, 
Manassas, Virginia; Walter B. McCormick, Jr., United States Telecom 
Association, Washington, D.C.; and Susan Eppley, Decatur, Georgia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 538, to amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to 
reauthorize the Act, with an amendment;
  S. 899, to provide for the eradication and control of nutria, with an 
amendment;
  S. 846, to designate the United States courthouse located at 80 
Lafayette Street in Jefferson City, Missouri, as the Christopher S. 
Bond United States Courthouse;
  S. 1302, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey 
a parcel of real property in Tracy, California, to the City of Tracy;
  S. 1313, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 
reauthorize the National Estuary Program, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
  Also, committee approved a proposed resolution relating to the Corps 
Study, and proposed resolutions relating to the General Services 
Administration.
TAX REFORM AND THE TAX TREATMENT OF DEBT AND EQUITY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a joint hearing with the 
House Committee on Ways and Means to examine tax reform and the tax 
treatment of debt and equity, after receiving testimony from Thomas 
Barthold, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation; Pamela F. Olson, 
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Victor 
Fleischer, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder; Mihir A. Desai, 
Harvard University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Simon 
Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of 
Management, Cambridge.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Paul D. Wohlers, of Washington, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia, William H. Moser, of North 
Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, John A. Heffern, 
of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, Thomas M. 
Countryman, of Washington, to be Assistant Secretary for International 
Security and Non-Proliferation, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, of New York, to be 
Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United 
Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate 
Representative to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United 
Nations, during his tenure of service as Alternate Representative for 
Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, all of the Department 
of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
PREVENTING TERRORIST TRAVEL
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine ten years after 9/11, focusing on 
preventing terrorist travel, after receiving testimony from Rand Beers, 
Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate, and 
Coordinator for Counterterrorism, and David Heyman, Assistant Secretary 
for Policy, both of the Department of Homeland Security; and Janice L. 
Jacobs, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the ``Violence Against Women Act,'' focusing on building on seventeen 
years of accomplishments, and what national data collection efforts are 
underway to address some information gaps, after receiving testimony 
from Eileen R. Larence, Director, Homeland Security and Justice, 
Government Accountability Office; Michael Shaw, Waypoint

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Services, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Jane A. Van Buren, Women Helping Battered 
Women, Inc., Burlington, Vermont; Phillip C. McGraw, Los Angeles, 
California; and Julie Poner, Indianapolis, Indiana.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Morgan Christen, of Alaska, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, and Sharon L. Gleason, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, who were both 
introduced by Senators Begich and Murkowski, Scott Wesley Skavdahl, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Wyoming, who was 
introduced by Senators Enzi and Barrasso, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, 
and Richard G. Andrews, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Delaware, who was introduced by Senator Carper, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.