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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D933-D935 on July 23, 2008.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE CONTRACTING IN IRAQ
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the adequacy of defense contracting oversight for Operation Iraqi Freedom, after receiving testimony from Gordon England, Deputy Secretary, Gordon S. Heddell, Acting Inspector General, and General Benjamin S. Griffin, Commanding Officer, United States Army Materiel Command, all of the Department of Defense.
REDUCING GASOLINE DEMAND
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the status of existing federal programs targeted at reducing gasoline demand, focusing on additional proposals for near-
term gasoline demand reductions, after receiving testimony from Steven G. Chalk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and David L. Greene, Corporate Fellow, Transportation Science and Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, both of the Department of Energy; John A. Laitner, American Council for an Energy-
Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Washington, D.C.; Steve Winkelman, Center for Clean Air Policy, Port Chester, New York; and Edward R. Buiel, Axion Power International, Inc., New Castle, Pennsylvania.
MIDWEST FLOODS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the recent floods in the Midwestern United States, focusing on ways to determine what happened and how to improve managing risk and responses in the future, after receiving testimony from Senators Grassley, Durbin, and McCaskill; and John Paul Woodley, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, and Brigadier General Michael J. Walsh, Division Commander, Mississippi Valley Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, both of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following:
S.J. Res. 41, approving the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of James Christopher Swan, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti, Alan W. Eastham, Jr., of Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo, W. Stuart Symington, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, who was introduced by Senators Klobuchar and McCaskill, and John A. Simon, of Maryland, to be Representative of the United States of America to the African Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Tatiana C. Gfoeller-Volkoff, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, Richard G. Olson, Jr., of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, David D. Pearce, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, and Michele Jeanne Sison, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Democracy and Human Rights concluded a hearing to examine United Nations peacekeeping operations, focusing on opportunities and challenges for the administration of the next president of the United States, after receiving testimony from Brian Hook, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; Brett D. Schaefer, Heritage Foundation Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, and William J. Durch, Henry L. Stimson Center, both of Washington, D.C.; and Nancy Soderberg, University of North Florida, Jacksonville.
INFORMATION SHARING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine information sharing, including the actions that have been taken to guide the design and implementation of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE), and to report its progress, the characteristics of state and local fusion centers and the extent to which federal efforts are helping to address some of the challenges centers reported, and the progress made in developing streamlined policies and procedures for designating, marking, safeguarding, and disseminating sensitive but unclassified information, after receiving testimony from Eileen R. Larence, Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government Accountability Office; Charles E. Allen, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis, and Chief Intelligence Officer; James M. Thomas, Connecticut Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Hartford; and Thomas E. McNamara, Information Sharing Environment, and Jeffrey H. Smith, Arnold and Porter LLP, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Carol A. Dalton, Anthony C. Epstein, and Heidi M. Pasichow, all of the District of Columbia, all to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, who were introduced by Representative Norton, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
CHILDHOOD OBESITY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded hearings to examine childhood obesity, focusing on the declining health of America's next generation (Part II), after receiving testimony from Joseph W. Thompson, Arkansas Surgeon General, Little Rock, on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity; Philip J. Dwyer, Central Connecticut Coast YMCA, New Haven; Susan K. Neely, American Beverage Association, Washington, D.C.; and Jonathan Miller, Ypsilanti, Michigan.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the impact of Supreme Court decisions, focusing on recent decisions on corporate misconduct and laws regulating corporations, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth Bartholet, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Patricia Ann Millett, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, LLP, Washington, D.C.; and Osa Marie Schultz, Cordova, Alaska.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of J. Patrick Rowan, of Maryland, and Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick, of Massachusetts, both to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, and William B. Carr, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES VA OUTREACH
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Department of Veterans Affairs, focusing on responding to the needs of returning United States National Guard and Reserve members, after receiving testimony from Donald Nelson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Bradley G. Mayes, Director, Compensation and Pension Service, Veterans Benefits Administration, and Major General Marianne Mathewson-Chapman, (Ret.) Army National Guard, Coordinator of National Guard, Reserve and Families, VHA OEF/OIF Outreach Office, Veterans Health Administration, both of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Joseph R. Scotti, West Virginia University, Morgantown; Colonel Bradley A. Livingston, Montana National Guard, Fort Harrison; Lieutenant Colonel John Boyd, Vermont Army National Guard, Colchester; Sergeant Roy Meredith, Maryland Army National Guard, Annapolis; and Major Cynthia M. Rasmussen, Combat Stress Officer, Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, 88th Regional Readiness Command, Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
NURSING HOME CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine person-centered health care at nursing homes, focusing on reforming services and improving the quality of care, after receiving testimony from Bill Thomas, University of Maryland Baltimore Erickson School, Ithaca, New York; Robert Jenkens, GREEN HOUSE Project, Arlington, Virginia; Melinda Abrams, Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York; Eric A. Coleman, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center; Edna Hess, Lebanon Valley Brethren Home, Palmyra, Pennsylvania; Diana White, Portland State University Institute on Aging, Portland, Oregon; and Zoe Valentine Holland, Lincoln, Nebraska.
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