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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1278-D1279 on Nov. 29, 2011.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. Res. 227, calling for the protection of the Mekong River Basin and increased United States support for delaying the construction of mainstream dams along the Mekong River, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. Res. 316, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding Tunisia's peaceful Jasmine Revolution, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Michael Anthony McFaul, of California, to be Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Roberta S. Jacobson, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Mari Carmen Aponte, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, Adam E. Namm, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, and Elizabeth M. Cousens, of Washington, to be Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during her tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, all of the Department of State, and promotion lists in the Foreign Service.
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.
