[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 109 (Thursday, July 19, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D746]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF for reappointment to 
the grade of general and to be Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, 
Lieutenant General John F. Kelly, USMC to be general and Commander, 
United States Southern Command, and Lieutenant General Frank J. Grass, 
ARNG to be general and Chief, National Guard Bureau, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine making college affordability a priority, 
focusing on promising practices and strategies, after receiving 
testimony from Donald E. Heller, Michigan State University, East 
Lansing; Steven Leath, Iowa State University, Ames; Jim Murdaugh, 
Tallahassee Community College, Tallahassee, Florida; Thomas J. Snyder, 
Ivy Tech Community College, Bloomington, Indiana, on behalf of 
Rebuilding America's Middle Class; and Carol A. Twigg, The National 
Center for Academic Transformation, Saratoga Springs, New York.
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the impacts of environmental changes on treaty rights, 
traditional lifestyles, and tribal homelands, after receiving testimony 
from JoAnn Chase, Director, American Indian Environmental Office, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Margaret A. Davidson, Acting Director, 
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Mike Williams, 
Yupiit Nation, Akiak, Alaska; Tex G. Hall, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara 
Nation of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota; Thomas 
Dardar, Jr., United Houma Nation, Golden Meadow, Louisiana; Billy 
Frank, Jr., Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Olympia, Washington; 
and Malia Akutagawa, University of Hawai'i William S. Richardson School 
of Law Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law and the 
Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, Honolulu.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 285, for the relief of Sopuruchi Chukwueke, with an amendment;
  S. 3276, to extend certain amendments made by the FISA Amendments Act 
of 2008, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of New York, Fernando M. 
Olguin, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of 
California, Malachy Edward Mannion, and Matthew W. Brann, both to be a 
United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 
and Charles R. Breyer, of California, to be a Member of the United 
States Sentencing Commission.
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.