[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 113 (Thursday, July 26, 2012)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D783-D784]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine S. 3239, to provide for a uniform national 
standard for the housing and treatment of egg-laying hens, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Feinstein; David Lathem, Lathem Farms, 
Pendergrass, Georgia; Eric Benson, JS West, Modesto, California; Greg 
Herbruck, Herbruck's Poultry Ranch, Saranac, Michigan; and Amon Baer, 
Mendelson Egg Company, Lake Park, Minnesota.
FINANCIAL STABILITY OVERSIGHT COUNCIL'S ANNUAL REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council's Annual 
Report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Timothy F. Geithner, 
Secretary of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Adopted by 
the United Nations General Assembly on December 13, 2006, and Signed by 
the United States of America on June 30, 2009 (Treaty Doc 112-7), as 
amended; and
  The nominations of Gene Allan Cretz, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Ghana, Deborah Ruth Malac, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia, David Bruce Wharton, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe, Alexander Mark 
Laskaris, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea, 
Marcie B. Ries, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Bulgaria, John M. Koenig, of Washington, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Cyprus, Michael David Kirby, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia, Thomas Hart Armbruster, of New 
York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Greta 
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Holtz, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, and 
lists in the Foreign Service, all of the Department of State.
CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded a hearing to examine the Child Care and 
Development Block Grant reauthorization, focusing on helping to meet 
the child care needs of American families, after receiving testimony 
from Linda K. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human 
Services and Inter-Departmental Liaison for Early Childhood 
Development, Administration for Children and Families; Rolf 
Grafwallner, Maryland State Department of Education Assistant State 
Superintendent, Baltimore; Janet Singerman, Child Care Resources Inc., 
Charlotte, North Carolina; Phil Acord, Children's Home, Chattanooga, 
Tennessee; and Susana Coro, Falls Church/McLean Children's Center, 
Falls Church, Virginia.
TRIBAL GAMING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the regulation of tribal gaming, focusing on brick and 
mortar to the internet, after receiving testimony from former 
Representative Jon C. Porter, Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of Porter 
Gordon Silver Communications; Tracie Stevens, Chairwoman, National 
Indian Gaming Commission; Bruce Bozsum, The Mohegan Tribe, Uncasville, 
Connecticut; Glen Gobin, The Tulalip Tribes, Tulalip, Washington; Jamie 
Hummingbird, Cherokee Nation Gaming Commission, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on 
behalf of the National Tribal Gaming Commissioners/Regulators 
Association; Elizabeth Lohah Homer, Homer Law, Washington, D.C.; and 
Gene Johnson, Spectrum Gaming Group, Linwood, New Jersey.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of William Joseph Baer, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Attorney General, Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Kohl, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
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.