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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D532-D533 on May 13, 2010.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Housing Administration and its role in the housing market, after receiving testimony from David H. Stevens, Assistant Secretary, and Commissioner, Federal Housing Administration, and Kenneth Donohue, Inspector General, both of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 4899, making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and summer jobs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on operations in Afghanistan from General Stanley A. McChrystal, USA, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, and Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Alan D. Bersin, of California, to be Commissioner of Customs, Department of Homeland Security, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Boxer, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INDIAN SCHOOL SAFETY
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine Indian school safety, after receiving testimony from Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Bart Stevens, Acting Director, Bureau of Indian Education, Jack Rever, Director, Office of Facilities, Environmental and Cultural Resources, and Mary L. Kendall, Acting Inspector General, all of the Department of the Interior; Anthony Fairbanks, Pueblo of Laguna Department of Education Superintendent, Laguna, New Mexico; Quinton Roman Nose, National Indian Education Association (NIEA), Washington, D.C.; and Charles L. Jaynes, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Goodwin Liu, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Raymond Joseph Lohier, Jr., of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Leonard Philip Stark, to be United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, and Kerry Joseph Forestal, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Indiana, John Dale Foster, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia, Gary Michael Gaskins, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of West Virginia, Dallas Stephen Neville, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Wisconsin, and R. Booth Goodwin II, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, all of the Department of Justice.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Scott M. Matheson, Jr., of Utah, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, who was introduced by Senators Hatch and Feingold, John J. McConnell, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of Rhode Island, who was introduced by Senators Reed and Whitehouse, James Kelleher Bredar, and Ellen Lipton Hollander, both to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, who were both introduced by Senators Mikulski and Cardin, and Susan Richard Nelson, to be United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, who was introduced by Senators Klobuchar and Franken, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 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.
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