Business Meeting

HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Time: 2:15 PM
Place: S-116 The Capitol
Presiding: Senator Lugar
 
 
The Committee will consider and vote on the
following agenda items:
    Treaty:
+Convention on Supplementary Compensation for
   Nuclear Damage
   (Treaty Doc. 107-21)
   Nominations:
+Rajkumar Chellaraj
   To be Assistant Secretary of State for Administration
+Patricia P. Brister
   For the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of
   service as the U.S. Representative on the Commission
   on the Status of Women of the Economic and Social
   Council of the United Nations
+Warren W. Tichenor
   To be the U.S. Representative to the Office of the
   United Nations and Other International Organizations
   in Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador
+Mark C. Minton
   To be Ambassador to Mongolia
+Robert F. Godec
   To be Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia
+Robert S. Ford
   To be Ambassador to the People’s Democratic
   Republic of Algeria
+The Honorable Earl Anthony Wayne
   To be Ambassador to Argentina
+David M. Robinson
   To be Ambassador to the Co-operative Republic of
   Guyana
+Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes
   To be Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname
+Anne E. Derse
   To be Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan
+The Honorable William B. Taylor, Jr.
   To be Ambassador to Ukraine
+Daniel S. Sullivan
   To be Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and
   Business Affairs
+Goli Ameri
   To be U.S. Representative to the Sixtieth Session of
   the General Assembly of the United Nations
+Duane Acklie
   To be Alternate U.S. Representative to the Sixtieth
   Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
+Robert C. O'Brien
   To be Alternate U.S. Representative to the Sixtieth
   Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
+Michael D. Kirby
   To be Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova
+John A. Cloud, Jr.
   To be Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania
+The Honorable April H. Foley
   To be Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary
+The Honorable Tracey Ann Jacobson
   To be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan
+Michael Wood to be Ambassador to Sweden
+Robert Anthony Bradtke
   To be Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia
   FSO Promotions Lists:
+Brent Royal Bohne, et al
   Dated February 17, 2006
+Craig B. Allen, et al
   Dated March 30, 2006
+Anita Katial, et al
   Dated April 24, 2006
   Legislation:
+S.Res.312, A resolution expressing the sense of the
   Senate regarding the need for the United States to
   address global climate change through the negotiation
   of fair and effective international commitments, with
   amendments
+S.Res.359, a resolution concerning the Government of
   Romania's ban on intercountry adoptions and the
   welfare of orphaned or abandoned children in Romania
+S.Res.456, a resolution expressing the sense of the
   Senate on the discussion by the North Atlantic Council
   of secure, sustainable, and reliable sources of energy
+S.Res.469, a resolution condemning the April 25,
   2006, beating and intimidation of Cuban dissident
   Martha Beatriz Roque
+S.559, Protection of Vulnerable Populations During
   Humanitarian Emergencies Act of 2005, to make the
   protection of vulnerable populations, especially women
   and children, who are affected by a humanitarian
   emergency a priority of the United States Government,
   and for other purposes, with amendments
+S.1950, United States-India Energy Security
   Cooperation Act of 2005, to promote global energy
   security through increased cooperation between the
   United States and India in diversifying sources of
   energy, stimulating development of alternative fuels,
   developing and deploying technologies that promote
   the clean and efficient use of coal, and improving    energy efficiency, with amendments
+S.2125, Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief,
   Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2005, to
   promote relief, security, and democracy in the
   Democratic Republic of the Congo
+S.2200, United States-Poland Parliamentary Youth
   Exchange Program Act of 2006, to establish a United
   States-Poland parliamentary youth exchange program,
   and for other purposes, with amendments
+S.2566, Cooperative Proliferation Detection,
   Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat
   Reduction Act of 2006, to provide for coordination of
   proliferation interdiction activities and conventional
   arms disarmament, and for other purposes, with
   technical amendments
+S.2697, United States Ambassador for ASEAN Act,
   to establish the position of the United States
   Ambassador for ASEAN, with technical amendments

 

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