D820 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST August 2, 2012 

Jenny R. Yang, of the District of Columbia, to be 

a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission for a term expiring July 1, 2017. 

John Hardy Isakson, of Georgia, to be a Representative of the United States of America to the 

Sixty-seventh Session of the General Assembly of the 

United Nations. 

Patrick J. Leahy, of Vermont, to be a Representative of the United States of America to the Sixtyseventh Session of the General Assembly of the 

United Nations. 

Kevin K. Washburn, of New Mexico, to be an 

Assistant Secretary of the Interior. 

3 Air Force nominations in the rank of general. 

8 Army nominations in the rank of general. 

1 Navy nomination in the rank of admiral. 

Routine lists in the Air Force, Army, and Navy. 

 Pages S6014–19 

Messages from the House: Pages S5972–73 

Measures Referred: Pages S5973–74 

Measures Placed on the Calendar: Page S5974 

Measures Read the First Time: Pages S5974, S6014 

Enrolled Bills Presented: Page S5974 

Executive Communications: Pages S5974–75 

Petitions and Memorials: Pages S5975–76 

Executive Reports of Committees: Page S5976 

Additional Cosponsors: Pages S5978–80 

Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: 

 Pages S5980–95 

Additional Statements: Pages S5969–72 

Amendments Submitted: Pages S5995–S6004 

Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S6004 

Privileges of the Floor: Page S6004 

Record Votes: Three record votes were taken today. 

(Total—189) Pages S5919–20, S5932 

Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and 

adjourned, pursuant to the provisions of S. Con. Res. 

59, at 8:31 p.m., until 10:15 a.m. on Friday, August 

3, 2012 (Unless the Senate has received a message 

from the House of Representatives that the House 

has adopted S. Con. Res. 59, Adjournment Resolution. And if the Senate has received such a message, 

the Senate stand adjourned until 2 p.m., on Monday, 

September 10, 2012). (For Senate’s program, see the 

remarks of the Majority Leader in today’s RECORD

on page S6014.) 

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items: 

An original bill (H.R. 5856) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal 

year ending September 30, 2013; and 

An original bill (H.R. 5882) making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year 

ending September 30, 2013. 

TRI–PARTY REPO MARKET 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: 

Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine the tri-party 

repo market, focusing on the remaining challenges, 

after receiving testimony from Matthew J. Eichner, 

Deputy Director of the Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System; Karen B. Peetz, The Bank of New York 

Mellon, Brooklyn Heights, New York; Steven R. 

Meier, State Street Global Advisors, Sudbury, Massachusetts; and Thomas G. Wipf, Morgan Stanley, 

Brooklyn, New York. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably 

reported an original bill entitled, ‘‘The Family and 

Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012’’. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items: 

S. 225, to permit the disclosure of certain information for the purpose of missing child investigations, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S.J. Res. 44, granting the consent of Congress to 

the State and Province Emergency Management Assistance Memorandum of Understanding; and 

The nominations of Thomas M. Durkin, to be 

United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Jon S. Tigar, and William H. 

Orrick, III, of the District of Columbia, both to be 

a United States District Judge for the Northern District of California. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Thomas Skerik 

Sowers II, of Missouri, to be Assistant Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs for Public and Intergovernmental 

Affairs. 


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