Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Daily Digest
HIGHLIGHTS
Senate passed H.R. 2997, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and
Drug Administration Appropriations Act.
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8709-S8783
Measures Introduced: Seven bills and four resolutions were introduced,
as follows: S. 1570-1576, and S. Res. 237-240.
Page S8765
Measures Reported:
S. 212, to expand the boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones
National Marine Sanctuary and the Cordell Bank National Marine
Sanctuary, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 111-64)
S. 380, to expand the boundaries of the Thunder Bay National Marine
Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 111-
65)
H.R. 3293, making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 2010, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute. (S. Rept. No. 111-66)
H.R. 1275, to direct the exchange of certain land in Grand, San Juan,
and Uintah Counties, Utah. (S. Rept. No. 111-67)
H.R. 2938, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of
a hydroelectric project. (S. Rept. No. 111-68)
Page S8759
Measures Passed:
Cesar E. Chavez Post Office: Senate passed S. 748, to redesignate the
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2777 Logan
Avenue in San Diego, California, as the ``Cesar E. Chavez Post
Office''.
Pages S8714-15
Jack F. Kemp Post Office Building: Senate passed S. 1211, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
60 School Street, Orchard Park, New York, as the ``Jack F. Kemp Post
Office Building''.
Pages S8714-15
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Post Office: Senate passed S. 1314, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
630 Northeast Killingsworth Avenue in Portland, Oregon, as the ``Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Post Office''.
Pages S8714-15
Geraldine Ferraro Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 774, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
46-02 21st Street in Long Island City, New York, as the ``Geraldine
Ferraro Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the President.
Pages S8714-15
John Scott Challis, Jr. Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 987, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
601 8th Street in Freedom, Pennsylvania, as the ``John Scott Challis,
Jr. Post Office'', clearing the measure for the President.
Pages S8714-15
Elijah Pat Larkins Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 1271, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
2351 West Atlantic Boulevard in Pompano Beach, Florida, as the ``Elijah
Pat Larkins Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the
President.
Pages S8714-15
Caroline O'Day Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 1397, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
41 Purdy Avenue in Rye, New York, as the ``Caroline O'Day Post Office
Building'', clearing the measure for the President.
Pages S8714-15
Frederic Remington Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 2090, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
431 State Street in Ogdensburg, New York, as the ``Frederic Remington
Post Office Building'', clearing the measure for the President.
Pages S8714-15
Herbert A Littleton Postal Station: Senate passed H.R. 2162, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
123 11th Avenue South in Nampa, Idaho, as the ``Herbert A Littleton
Postal Station'', clearing the measure for the President.
Pages S8714-15
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Laredo Veterans Post Office: Senate passed H.R. 2325, to designate
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1300
Matamoros Street in Laredo, Texas, as the ``Laredo Veterans Post
Office'', clearing the measure for the President.
Pages S8714-15
Kile G. West Post Office Building: Senate passed H.R. 2422, to
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at
2300 Scenic Drive in Georgetown, Texas, as the ``Kile G. West Post
Office Building'', clearing the measure for the President.
Pages S8714-15
Lieutenant Commander Roy H. Boehm Post Office Building: Senate passed
H.R. 2470, to designate the facility of the United States Postal
Service located at 19190 Cochran Boulevard FRNT in Port Charlotte,
Florida, as the ``Lieutenant Commander Roy H. Boehm Post Office
Building'', clearing the measure for the President.
Pages S8714-15
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food And Drug Administration
Appropriations Act: By 80 yeas to 17 nays (Vote No. 261), Senate passed
H.R. 2997, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development,
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, as amended, after taking action
on the following amendments proposed thereto:
Pages S8711-14, S8715-16, S8716-30
Adopted:
Kohl (for Dodd) Amendment No. 2284 (to Amendment No. 1908), to
require the Secretary of Agriculture to fund certain projects in
communities and municipal districts in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island.
Page S8722
Johanns/Nelson (NE) Amendment No. 2241 (to Amendment No. 1908), to
provide funding for the tuberculosis program of the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
Pages S8711, S8722-23
Kohl Modified Amendment No. 2280 (to Amendment No. 1908), of a
perfecting nature.
Pages S8722-23, S8725-26
Sanders Modified Amendment No. 2271 (to Amendment No. 1908), to
provide funds for the school community garden pilot program, with an
offset.
Page S8711, S8722-23
Kohl (for Cardin) Modified Amendment No. 2282 (to Amendment No.
1908), to seek recommendations from the Commissioner of Food and Drugs
regarding the need to establish labeling standards for personal care
products for which organic claims are made.
Pages S8722-23
Kohl (for Hutchison) Modified Amendment No. 2249 (to Amendment No.
1908), to express the sense of the Senate relating to the provision of
disaster assistance.
Pages S8722-23
Kohl (for Sanders) Modified Amendment No. 2266 (to Amendment No.
1908), to require the Center for Food Safety and applied Nutrition to
use certain funds to conduct a study on obesity.
Pages S8711, S8722-23
Kohl (for Nelson (NE)) Amendment No. 2285 (to Amendment No. 1908), to
express the sense of the Senate regarding the livestock indemnity
program.
Page S8725
Sanders Amendment No. 2276 (to Amendment No. 1908), to modify the
amount made available for the Farm Service Agency.
Pages S8714, S8725, S8726-27
Kohl/Brownback Amendment No. 1908, in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S8711-14, S8715-16, S8716-29
Rejected:
By 27 yeas to 70 nays (Vote No. 257), McCain Amendment No. 1912 (to
Amendment No. 1908), to strike a provision relating to certain
watershed and flood prevention operations.
Pages S8711-12
McCain Amendment No. 2030 (to Amendment No. 1908), to prohibit
funding for an earmark.
Pages S8711, S8712-13
By 37 yeas to 60 nays (Vote 258), Coburn Amendment No. 2244 (to
Amendment No. 1908), to support the proposal of the President to
eliminate funding in the bill for digital conversion efforts of the
Department of Agriculture that are duplicative of existing Federal
efforts.
Pages S8711, S8716-18, S8720, S8726
Coburn Amendment No. 2245 (to Amendment No. 1908), to strike a
provision providing $3,000,000 for specialty cheeses in Vermont and
Wisconsin.
Pages S8711, S8726
By 32 yeas to 65 nays (Vote No. 259), Coburn motion to commit the
bill to the Committee on Appropriations, with instructions.
Pages S8724, S8726
Withdrawn:
Coburn Amendment No. 2243 (to Amendment No. 1908), to eliminate
double-dipped stimulus funds for the Rural Business-Cooperative Service
account.
Pages S8711, S8720
During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the
following action:
Chair sustained a point of order that Kohl (for Murray/Baucus)
Amendment No. 2225 (to Amendment No. 1908), to allow State and local
governments to participate in the conservation reserve program, Kohl
(for Nelson (FL)) Amendment No. 2226 (to Amendment No. 1908), to
prohibit funds made available under this Act from being used to enforce
a travel or conference policy that prohibits an event from being held
in a location based on a perception that the location is a resort or
vacation destination, Coburn Amendment No. 2246 (to Amendment No.
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2226), to provide additional transparency and accountability for
spending on conferences and meetings of the Department of Agriculture,
Coburn Amendment No. 2248 (to Amendment No. 1908), to prohibit no-bid
contracts and grants, and Kohl Amendment No. 2288 (to Amendment No.
2248), to provide requirements regarding the authority of the Secretary
of Agriculture and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to enter into
certain contracts, were not germane, and the amendments thus fell.
Pages S8711, S8716, S8718-19, S8719
Chair sustained a point of order that the following amendment was not
germane post-cloture, and the amendment thus fell: Brownback (for
Barrasso) Amendment No. 2240 (to Amendment No. 1908), to require the
Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a State-by-State analysis of the
impacts on agricultural producers of the American Clean Energy and
Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2452, as passed by the House of
Representatives on June 26, 2009).
Pages S8711, S8723
By 60 yeas to 37 nays (Vote No. 260), three-fifths of those Senators
duly chosen and sworn, having voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed
to the motion, under section 904 of the Congressional Budget act of
1974, to waive provisions of the Act for consideration of Sanders
Amendment No. 2276 (to Amendment No. 1908), to modify the amount made
available for the Farm Service Agency. Subsequently, the point of order
that the amendment would provide spending in excess of the
subcommittee's 302(b) allocation was not sustained, and the point of
order raised was rendered moot.
Pages S8726-27
Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the
House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following
conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Kohl, Harkin, Dorgan,
Feinstein, Durbin, Johnson, Nelson (NE), Reed, Pryor, Specter, Inouye,
Brownback, Bennett, Cochran, Bond, McConnell, Collins, and Shelby.
Page S8730
Military Spouses Residency Relief Act: Senate passed S. 475, to amend
the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to guarantee the equity of spouses
of military personnel with regard to matters of residency.
Page S8778
Recognizing Noncommissioned Officers of the United States Army:
Committee on Armed Services was discharged from further consideration
of H.J. Res. 44, recognizing the service, sacrifice, honor, and
professionalism of the Noncommissioned Officers of the United States
Army, and the resolution was then passed, clearing the measure for the
President.
Page S8778
National Purple Heart Recognition Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 239,
supporting the goals and ideals of ``National Purple Heart Recognition
Day''.
Pages S8778-79
National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day: Senate
agreed to S. Res. 240, designating September 9, 2009, as ``National
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day''.
Page S8779
Sotomayor Nomination--Agreement: Senate began consideration of the
nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, of New York, to be an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Pages S8730-55
A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing for further
consideration of the nomination at 10 a.m., on Wednesday, August 5,
2009, with the debate time until 2 p.m. divided in one hour alternating
blocks of time, with the Majority controlling the first hour; provided
further, that the time from 2-3 p.m., be equally divided and controlled
with the Majority controlling the first 30 minutes, and the Republicans
controlling the final 30 minutes; that at 3 p.m., Senate stand in
recess until 5 p.m., and that upon reconvening at 5 p.m., Senate resume
the one hour alternating blocks of time with the Republicans
controlling the first hour.
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Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
Patricia A. Butenis, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Democratic
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently and without
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives.
Alfonso E. Lenhardt, of New York, to be Ambassador to the United
Republic of Tanzania.
Pamela Jo Howell Slutz, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Burundi.
Miguel Humberto Diaz, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Holy See.
Jerry P. Lanier, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Uganda.
James B. Smith, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia.
Samuel Louis Kaplan, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Morocco.
Charles Aaron Ray, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Zimbabwe.
Gayleatha Beatrice Brown, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to Burkina
Faso.
Fay Hartog-Levin, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of the
Netherlands.
Patricia Newton Moller, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Guinea.
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Stephen J. Rapp, of Iowa, to be Ambassador at Large for War Crimes
Issues.
Pages S8777-78, S8783
Nomination Received: Senate received the following nomination:
Marcia K. McNutt, of California, to be Director of the United States
Geological Survey.
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Measures Placed on the Calendar:
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Measures Read the First Time:
Page S8758
Executive Communications:
Pages S8758-59
Executive Reports of Committees:
Pages S8759-65
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S8765-67
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S8767-74
Additional Statements:
Page S8758
Amendments Submitted:
Pages S8774-76
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
Pages S8776-77
Privileges of the Floor:
Page S8777
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--261)
Pages S8712, S8726, S8727, S8729-30
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 9:56 p.m.,
until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 5, 2009. (For Senate's program,
see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page
S8779.)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of John M. McHugh, of New York, to be Secretary of the
Army, Joseph W. Westphal, of New York, to be Under Secretary of the
Army, Juan M. Garcia III, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of the
Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, and J. Michael Gilmore, of
Virginia, to be Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, all of the
Department of Defense.
PRUDENTIAL BANK SUPERVISION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a
hearing to examine strengthening and streamlining Prudential Bank
supervision, after receiving testimony from Sheila C. Bair, Chairman,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; John C. Dugan, Comptroller of
the Currency, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; and John E.
Bowman, Acting Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, both of the
Department of the Treasury; and Daniel K. Tarullo, Member, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
RAIL MODERNIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
Housing, Transportation and Community Development concluded a hearing
to examine rail modernization, focusing on transit funding, after
receiving testimony from Peter M. Rogoff, Administrator, Federal
Transit Administration, Department of Transportation; Carole L. Brown,
Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago, Illinois; John B. Catoe, Jr.,
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, D.C.;
Richard Sarles, New Jersey Transit, Trenton, New Jersey; and Beverly A.
Scott, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Atlanta, Georgia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
H.R. 1275, to direct the exchange of certain land in Grand, San Juan,
and Uintah Counties, Utah;
H.R. 2938, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of
a hydroelectric project; and
The nominations of James J. Markowsky, of Massachusetts, to be
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Warren F. Miller, Jr., of New
Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, and to be
Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, both
of the Department of Energy, and Anthony Marion Babauta, of Virginia,
to be Assistant Secretary, and Jonathan B. Jarvis, of California, to be
Director of the National Park Service, both of the Department of the
Interior.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a
hearing to examine the nomination of Gary S. Guzy, of the District of
Columbia, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Environmental Quality,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Menendez and
Lautenberg, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine climate
change legislation, focusing on allowance and revenue distribution and
options for distributing program revenues or the economic value of
allowances, after receiving testimony from John Stephenson, Director,
Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office;
Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future, and Alan D.
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Viard, American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Charles
T. Drevna, National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, New York, New
York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Matthew Winthrop Barzun, of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to
Sweden, Bruce J. Oreck, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Finland, James B. Foley, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Croatia, Philip D. Murphy, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Federal
Republic of Germany, Douglas W. Kmiec, of California, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Malta, William Carlton Eacho III, of Maryland, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Austria, Judith Gail Garber, of Virginia, to
be Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, John R. Bass, of New York, to be
Ambassador to Georgia, Kerri-Ann Jones, of Maine, to be Assistant Secretary
of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs,
Ertharin Cousin, of Illinois, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure
of service as U.S. Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food
and Agriculture, David Killion, of the District of Columbia, for the rank of
Ambassador during his tenure of service as the United States Permanent
Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization, Glyn T. Davies, of the District of Columbia, to be
Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of
Ambassador, and to be Representative to the Vienna Office of the United
Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., of Utah, to be
Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, John Victor Roos, of
California, to be Ambassador to Japan, Jonathan S. Addleton, of Georgia, to
be Ambassador to Mongolia, Teddy Bernard Taylor, of Maryland, to be
Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands and Ambassador
to the Republic of Vanuatu, Martha Larzelere Campbell, of Michigan, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Kenneth E. Gross, Jr.,
of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, Michael Anthony
Battle, Sr., of Georgia, to be Representative to the African Union, with the
rank and status of Ambassador, James Knight, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Benin, and Karen Kornbluh, of New York, to be Representative
to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank
of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, and Aaron S. Williams, of
Virginia, to be Director of the Peace Corps.
GEORGIA ONE YEAR AFTER AUGUST WAR
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded a
hearing to examine Georgia one year after the August war, after receiving
testimony from Philip H. Gordon, Assistant Secretary of State for European
and Eurasian Affairs; Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs; and S. Ken Yamashita, Acting Assistant
Administrator for the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, United States Agency
for International Development.
CHILDREN IN DISASTERS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee
on Disaster Recovery concluded a hearing to examine children in disasters,
focusing on evacuation planning and mental health recovery, after receiving
testimony from Craig Fugate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department
of Homeland Security; Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response, RADM, United States Public Health Service, Department of Health
and Human Services; Cynthia A. Bascetta, Director, Health Care, Government
Accountability Office; Mark K. Shriver, Save the Children, Washington, D.C.,
on behalf of the National Commission on Children and Disasters; Irwin
Redlener, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health National
Center for Disaster Preparedness, New York, New York, on behalf of the
Children's Health Fund; and Teri G. Fontenot, Woman's Hospital, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Francis S. Collins, of Maryland, to be
Director of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and
Human Services, Raymond M. Jefferson, of Hawaii, to be Assistant Secretary
of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training, and Rocco Landesman, of New
York, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, and James A.
Leach, of Iowa, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the
Humanities, both of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.
MEDICAL DEVICE SAFETY ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a
hearing to examine S. 540, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
with respect to liability under State and local requirements respecting
devices, after receiving testimony from William H. Maisel, Harvard Medical
School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Thomas O. McGarity, University of Texas School of Law, Austin; Peter Barton
Hutt, Covington and Burling, Washington, D.C.; Michael Mulvihill,
Bettendorf, Iowa; and Michael G. Roman, Kirkwood, Missouri.
PERFORMANCE RIGHTS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the
Performance Rights Act and parity among music delivery platforms, after
receiving testimony from Sheila Escovedo, MusicFIRST
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Coalition, Sherman Oaks, California; Robert Kimball, Real Networks, Inc.,
Seattle, Washington; Marian Leighton-Levy, Rounder Records, Burlington,
Massachusetts; Steven Newberry, Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation,
Glasgow, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters;
Ralph Oman, George Washington University Law School, and James L. Winston,
National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, Inc., both of Washington,
D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the
intelligence community.
H
House of Representatives
Chamber Action
The House was not in session today. The House is scheduled to meet at 2
p.m. on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, pursuant to the provisions of H. Con.
Res. 172.
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
Joint Meetings
No joint committee meetings were held.
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COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 5, 2009
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Senate
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings to
examine proposals to enhance the regulation of credit rating agencies,
9:30 a.m., SD-538.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold hearings to
examine the nominations of Dennis F. Hightower, of the District of
Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, and Robert S. Adler, of
North Carolina, and Anne M. Northup, both to be a Commissioner of the
Consumer Product Safety Commission, 10 a.m., SR-253.
Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1078, to authorize a
comprehensive national cooperative geospatial imagery mapping program
through the United States Geological Survey, to promote use of the
program for education, workforce training and development, and applied
research, and to support Federal, State, tribal, and local government
programs, S. 30, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit
manipulation of caller identification information, S. 251, to amend the
Communications Act of 1934 to permit targeted interference with mobile
radio services within prison facilities, S. 952, to develop and promote a
comprehensive plan for a national strategy to address harmful algal
blooms and hypoxia through baseline research, forecasting and monitoring,
and mitigation and control while helping communities detect, control, and
mitigate coastal and Great Lakes harmful algal blooms and hypoxia events,
S. 1538, to establish a black carbon and other aerosols research program
in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that supports
observations, monitoring, modeling, S. 1539, to authorize the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a comprehensive
greenhouse gas observation and analysis system, and the nominations of
Christopher P. Bertram, of the District of Columbia, and Susan L.
Kurland, of Illinois, both to be Assistant Secretary, and Daniel R.
Elliott III, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board,
all of the Department of Transportation, Patricia D. Cahill, of Missouri,
to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, Christopher A. Hart, of Colorado, to be a Member of the
National Transportation Safety Board, Dennis F. Hightower, of the
District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, and Robert S.
Adler, of North Carolina, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product
Safety Commission, 2 p.m., SR-253.
Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the
nomination of David C. Jacobson, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to Canada,
Department of State, 10 a.m., SD-419.
Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending calendar business,
2:15 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business
meeting to consider the nominations of Alexander G. Garza, of Missouri,
to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security and Chief Medical Officer,
Ernest W. Dubester, of Virginia, to be a Member, and Julia Akins Clark,
of Maryland, to be General Counsel, both of the Federal Labor Relations
Authority, Time to be announced, S-216, Capitol.
Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Kelvin J.
Cochran, to be Administrator, United States Fire Administration, Federal
Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, 10 a.m.,
SD-342.
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal
Workforce, and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings to examine
strengthening the federal acquisition workforce, focusing on government-
wide leadership and initiatives, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
House
No committee meetings are scheduled.
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Next Meeting of the SENATE
9:30 a.m., Wednesday, August 5
Senate Chamber
Program for Wednesday: After the transaction of any morning business
(not to extend beyond 10 a.m.), Senate will continue consideration of
the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, of New York, to be an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
(Senate will recess from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. for a Democratic
caucus.)
Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2 p.m., Tuesday, September 8
House Chamber
Program for Tuesday: To be announced.