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By 76 yeas to 22 nays (Vote No. 194), three-fifths 

of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, having 

voted in the affirmative, Senate agreed to the motion 

to close further debate on the motion to proceed to 

consideration of the joint resolution. Page S6405 

A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 2 p.m., on Thursday, September 20, 

2012, all post-cloture time on the motion to proceed 

to consideration of the joint resolution, be considered 

expired, and Senate vote on the motion to proceed 

to consideration of the joint resolution, and that following the vote, the Majority Leader be recognized. 

 Page S6473 

Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations: 

Joseph Eldridge, of the District of Columbia, to 

be a Member of the Board of Directors of the United 

States Institute of Peace for a term of four years. 

George E. Moose, of Virginia, to be a Member of 

the Board of Directors of the United States Institute 

of Peace for a term of four years. 

Sylvia M. Becker, of the District of Columbia, to 

be a Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement 

Commission of the United States for the term expiring September 30, 2013. 

Keith Kelly, of Montana, to be Assistant Secretary 

of Labor for Veterans’ Employment and Training. 

Bibiana Boerio, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of 

the Mint for a term of five years. 

Beth J. Rosenberg, of Massachusetts, to be a 

Member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board for a term of five years. 

Robert F. Godec, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 

to the Republic of Kenya. 

Cheryl Saban, of California, to be Representative 

of the United States of America to the Sixty-seventh 

Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. 

Caitlin Joan Halligan, of New York, to be United 

States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia 

Circuit. 

Jennifer A. Dorsey, of Nevada, to be United States 

District Judge for the District of Nevada. 

Andrew Patrick Gordon, of Nevada, to be United 

States District Judge for the District of Nevada. 

Michael J. McShane, of Oregon, to be United 

States District Judge for the District of Oregon. 

Derek Anthony West, of California, to be Associate Attorney General. 

Frederick Vollrath, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 

Secretary of Defense. 

A routine list in the Coast Guard. Page S6473 

Messages from the House: Page S6446 

Measures Referred: Page S6446 

Measures Placed on the Calendar: Page S6446 

Measures Read the First Time: Pages S6446, S6473 

Executive Communications: Pages S6446–51 

Executive Reports of Committees: Pages S6451–53 

Additional Cosponsors: Pages S6455–58 

Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: 

 Pages S6458–67 

Additional Statements: Pages S6441–45 

Amendments Submitted: Pages S6467–68 

Notices of Hearings/Meetings: Pages S6468–69 

Authorities for Committees to Meet: Page S6469 

Privileges of the Floor: Page S6469 

Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. 

(Total—194) Pages S6404–05, S6405 

Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 7:25 p.m., until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, 

September 20, 2012. (For Senate’s program, see the 

remarks of the Majority Leader in today’s Record on 

page S6473.) 

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 7,276 nominations in the Army, Navy, 

and Air Force. 

AMERICA COMPETES ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 

Committee concluded a hearing to examine five 

years of the ‘‘America COMPETES Act’’, focusing on 

progress, challenges, and next steps, after receiving 

testimony from Carl Wieman, University of Colorado Boulder, and Norman R. Augustine, both of 

Bethesda, Maryland; Jeffrey L. Furman, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Peter Lee, Microsoft 

Research, Redmond, Washington; and John L. 

Winn, National Math and Science Initiative, Dallas, 

Texas. 

WATER AND POWER BILLS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded a hearing 

to examine S. 3265, to amend the Federal Power Act 

to remove the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to collect land use fees for land 

that has been sold, exchanged, or otherwise transferred from Federal ownership but that is subject to 

a power site reservation, H.R. 2842, to authorize all 

Bureau of Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal Reclamation law, 

S. 3464, to amend the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 


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1988 to facilitate completion of the Mni Wiconi 

Rural Water Supply System, and S. 3483, to amend 

the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to adjust the Crooked River boundary, to provide water certainty for the 

City of Prineville, Oregon, after receiving testimony 

from Senator Merkley; Representative Tipton; 

Grayford F. Payne, Deputy Commissioner for Policy, 

Administration and Budget, Bureau of Reclamation, 

Department of the Interior; and John Katz, Deputy 

Associate General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded 

a hearing to examine nomination of Robert Stephen 

Beecroft, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, Department of State, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items: 

S. 2215, to create jobs in the United States by increasing United States exports to Africa by at least 

200 percent in real dollar value within 10 years, 

with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 2318, to authorize the Secretary of State to pay 

a reward to combat transnational organized crime 

and for information concerning foreign nationals 

wanted by international criminal tribunals, with an 

amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 3310, to direct the President, in consultation 

with the Department of State, United States Agency 

for International Development, Millennium Challenge Corporation, and the Department of Defense, 

to establish guidelines for United States foreign assistance programs, with an amendment in the nature 

of a substitute; 

S. 3331, to provide for universal intercountry 

adoption accreditation standards; 

S. 3341, to require a quadrennial diplomacy and 

development review; 

S. Con. Res. 50, expressing the sense of Congress 

regarding actions to preserve and advance the multistakeholder governance model under which the 

Internet has thrived; 

S. Res. 516, expressing the sense of the Senate on 

the restitution of or compensation for property seized 

during the Nazi and Communist eras; 

S. Res. 466, calling for the release from prison of 

former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia 

Tymoshenko, with an amendment in the nature of 

a substitute; 

S. Res. 543, to express the sense of the Senate on 

international parental child abduction, with an 

amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

The nominations of Richard G. Olson, of New 

Mexico, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic 

of Pakistan, Joseph E. Macmanus, of New York, to 

be Representative of the United States of America to 

the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the 

rank of Ambassador, and to be Representative of the 

United States of America to the Vienna Office of the 

United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, Walter North, of Washington, 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, Sharon English Woods Villarosa, of 

Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic 

of Seychelles, Dawn M. Liberi, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, and Stephen D. 

Mull, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 

of Poland, all of the Department of State, John 

Hardy Isakson, of Georgia, and Patrick J. Leahy, of 

Vermont, both to be a Representative of the United 

States of America to the Sixty-seventh Session of the 

General Assembly of the United Nations, and lists 

in the Foreign Service. 

HOMELAND THREATS AND AGENCY 

RESPONSES 

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 

homeland threats and agency responses, after receiving testimony from Janet Napolitano, Secretary of 

Homeland Security; Matthew G. Olsen, Director, 

National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and Robert S. 

Mueller, III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice. 

INVESTING IN AN EFFECTIVE FEDERAL 

WORKFORCE 

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government 

Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine 

investing in an effective Federal workforce, focusing 

on how effectively implementing reforms and closing 

critical skills gaps are key to addressing Federal 

workforce challenges, after receiving testimony from 

John Berry, Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of 

the United States, Government Accountability Office; and Colleen M. Kelley, National Treasury Employees Union, J. David Cox, Sr., American Federation of Government Employees, American Federation 

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(AFL–CIO), Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service, and William L. Bransford, Government Managers Coalition, all of Washington, DC. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: 

Committee ordered favorably reported the following 

business items: 

S. 3391, to amend section 353 of the Public 

Health Service Act with respect to suspension, revocation, and limitation of laboratory certification; 

An original bill (S. 3566) entitled, ‘‘Recalcitrant 

Cancer Research Act of 2012’’; 

S. 1440, to reduce preterm labor and delivery and 

the risk of pregnancy-related deaths and complications due to pregnancy, and to reduce infant mortality caused by prematurity, with an amendment in 

the nature of a substitute; and 

Nomination lists in the Public Health Service. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a 

hearing to examine the nominations of Katherine 

Polk Failla, to be United States District Judge for 

the Southern District of New York, Pamela Ki Mai 

Chen, to be United States District Judge for the 

Eastern District of New York, and Mark A. Barnett, 

of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court 

of International Trade, each introduced by Senator 

Schumer, Troy L. Nunley, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 

who was introduced by Senator Feinstein, and Sheri 

Polster Chappell, to be United States District Judge 

for the Middle District of Florida, who was introduced by Senator Nelson (FL), after the nominees 

testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

HATE CRIMES AND DOMESTIC EXTREMISM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights to examine hate crimes and the threat of domestic extremism, after receiving testimony from Scott 

McAllister, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security; Roy L. Austin, Jr., 

Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, and Michael A. Clancy, Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of 

Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; 

Daryl Johnson, DT Analytics, Washington, DC; 

James B. Jacobs, New York University School of 

Law, New York, New York; and Harpreet Singh 

Saini, Oak Creek, Wisconsin. 

ELIMINATING WASTE AND FRAUD IN 

MEDICARE 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a 

hearing to examine eliminating waste and fraud in 

Medicare, focusing on an examination of prior authorization requirements for power mobility devices, 

after receiving testimony from Deborah Taylor, Chief 

Financial Officer and Director, Office of Financial 

Management, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 

Services, Department of Health and Human Services; 

Paul Hughes, Durable Medical Equipment Medicare 

Administrative Contractor, Lexington, South Carolina; Stephen T. Peake, Blue Cross Blue Shield of 

Tennessee, Chattanooga; Michael B. Clark, The 

SCOOTER Store, New Braunfels, Texas; and Jerome 

Epplin, Litchfield Family Practice Center, Litchfield, 

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Illinois, on behalf of the American Geriatrics Society. 

House of Representatives 

Chamber Action 

Public Bills and Resolutions Introduced: 14 public bills, H.R. 6430–6443; and 4 resolutions, H. 

Res. 789–792 were introduced. Pages H6150–51 

Additional Cosponsors: Pages H6151–52 

Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows: 

H.R. 5948, to amend title 38, United States 

Code, to improve the supervision of fiduciaries of 

veterans under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes, 

with an amendment (H. Rept. 112–678); 

H.R. 6194, to ensure the viability and competitiveness of the United States agricultural sector (H. 

Rept. 112–679); and 

H. Res. 788, providing for consideration of the 

joint resolution (H.J. Res. 118) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 

United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of Family Assistance of the Administration for 

Children and Families of the Department of Health 

and Human Services relating to waiver and expenditure authority under section 1115 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1315) with respect to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3409) to 


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