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“PERSONAL EXPLANATION” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1724 on Sept. 26, 2011.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
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HON. CHARLES A. GONZALEZ
of texas
in the house of representatives
Monday, September 26, 2011
Mr. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, I would like the Record to reflect that, had I been present for the vote, I should have voted ``nay'' on the Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment to the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (H.R. 2608) as I had voted against it on Wednesday, September 21, 2010.
SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place, and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or changes in the meetings as they occur.
As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, September 27, 2011 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
OCTOBER 49:30 a.m.
Budget
To hold hearings to examine improving the budget process, focusing on strategies for more effective congressional budgeting.
SD-60810 a.m.
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine the economic outlook.
SH-21610:30 a.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Federal Financial Management, Government Information,
Federal Services, and International Security
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine costs of prescription drug abuse in the Medicare Part D program.
SD-3422:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219
OCTOBER 510 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of 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.
SD-419
OCTOBER 62:15 p.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine internet infrastructure in native communities, focusing on equal access to e-commerce, jobs and the global marketplace.
SD-6282:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219
OCTOBER 132:15 p.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Carcieri crisis, focusing on the ripple effect on jobs, economic development and public safety in native communities.
SD-628
OCTOBER 202:15 p.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine S. 134, to authorize the
Mescalero Apache Tribe to lease adjudicated water rights, S. 399, to modify the purposes and operation of certain facilities of the Bureau of Reclamation to implement the water rights compact among the State of
Montana, the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian
Reservation of Montana, and the United States, S. 1298, to provide for the conveyance of certain property located in Anchorage, Alaska, from the United States to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, S. 1327, to amend the Act of March 1, 1933, to transfer certain authority and resources to the Utah Dineh Corporation, and S. 1345, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam.
SD-628
