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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1083-D1084 on Oct. 12, 2011.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL ROLE IN DISASTER RECOVERY AND RESPONSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Homeland
Security concluded a hearing to examine the Federal role in disaster recovery and response, after receiving testimony from Craig Fugate,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of
Homeland Security; Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant of the Army for Civil
Works, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense; Bruce Nelson, Administrator, Farm Service Agency, and Homer Wilkes, Acting Associate
Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service, both of the Department of Agriculture; James Rivera, Associate Administrator, Small Business
Administration; Gregory G. Nadeau, Deputy Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; and Fred Tombar,
Senior Advisor for Disaster Programs, Office of the Secretary,
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine improving the congressional budget process, after receiving testimony from Louis Fisher, Constitution Project, Washington, D.C.; Philip G.
Joyce, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, College Park; and Paul L. Posner, George Mason University Centers on the Public
Service, Fairfax, Virginia.
UNIVERSAL SERVICE REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine universal service reform, focusing on bringing broadband to all Americans, after receiving testimony from Kathleen Q.
Abernathy, Frontier Communications, and Michael K. Powell, National
Cable and Telecommunications Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Mary N. Dillon, United States Cellular Corporation, Chicago, Illinois;
Shirley Bloomfield, National Telecommunications Cooperative
Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Philip B. Jones, Washington
Utilities and Transportation Commission, Olympia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Joyce A. Barr, of Washington, to be Assistant
Secretary for Administration, Robert A. Mandell, of Florida, to be
Ambassador to Luxembourg, Thomas Charles Krajeski, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Dan W. Mozena, of Iowa, to be
Ambassador to the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Michael A. Hammer, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Public
Affairs, Susan Denise Page, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of South Sudan, Adrienne S. O'Neal, of Michigan, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde, Mary Beth Leonard, of
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, and Mark Francis Brzezinski, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Sweden, all of the Department of State, Anne Terman Wedner, of Illinois, to be a Member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, Katherine M.
Gehl, of Wisconsin, and Terry Lewis, of Michigan, both to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Russ Carnahan, of Missouri, to be a Representative of the
United States of America to the Sixty-sixth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and Ann Marie Buerkle, of New York, to be a Representative of the United States of America to the Sixty-sixth
Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and routine lists in the Foreign Service.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Michael Anthony McFaul, of California, to be
Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Department of State, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine ten years after 9/11, focusing on a status report on information sharing, after receiving testimony from
Cathy L. Lanier, Metropolitan Police Department of the District of
Columbia Chief of Police, John McLaughlin, Johns Hopkins University
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Thomas E.
McNamara, George Washington University Elliot School of International
Affairs, and Jeffrey H. Smith, Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, all of Washington, D.C.; and Ronald E. Brooks,
Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, San Francisco, on behalf of the National Fusion Center Association.
CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the state of chronic disease prevention, after receiving testimony from Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary of
Health and Human Services for Health; Nancy Brown, American Heart
Association, Dallas, Texas; John R. Seffrin, American Cancer Society,
Atlanta, Georgia; John Griffin, American Diabetes Association,
Victoria, Texas; and Tevi Troy, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Winslow Lorenzo Sargeant, of
Wisconsin, to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business
Administration.
MEDICARE REFORM DEBATE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine finding consensus in the Medicare reform debate, after receiving testimony from Maya MacGuineas, New America Foundation, Joseph R.
Antos, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, John
Holahan, Urban Institute, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, all of Washington, D.C.
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