[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 181 (Tuesday, November 29, 2011)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1278-D1279]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Res. 227, calling for the protection of the Mekong River Basin and 
increased United States support for delaying the construction of 
mainstream dams along the Mekong River, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. Res. 316, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding Tunisia's 
peaceful Jasmine Revolution, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  The nominations of Michael Anthony McFaul, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Roberta S. Jacobson, of Maryland, 
to be Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Mari Carmen 
Aponte, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of El Salvador, Adam E. Namm, of New York, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Ecuador, and Elizabeth M. Cousens, of Washington, to be 
Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and 
Social Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and 
to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to 
the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during her 
tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America on 
the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, all of the 
Department of State, and promotion lists in the Foreign Service.

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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.