BUSINESS MEETING

HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Time: 2:15 P.M.
Place: S-116 Capitol Building
Presiding: Senator Kerry


    Agenda Items

    Nominations:
1. The Honorable Johnnie Carson
   to be Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
2. The Honorable Harold H. Koh
    to be Legal Adviser to the Department of State
3. Ivo Daalder
   to be to be United States Permanent Representative
   on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty
   Organization (NATO)
4. Susan Burk
   to be Special Representative of the President
   for Nuclear Non-Proliferation
5. Luis C. de Baca
    to be Director of the Office to
   Monitor and Combat Trafficking
6. Foreign Service Officer Promotion List dated
   April 2, 2009 (Gregory D. Loose, of Virginia, et al.)
7. Foreign Service Officer Promotion List dated
   April 2, 2009 (Laszlo F. Sagi, of Virginia, et al.)
8. Foreign Service Officer Promotion List dated
   April 2, 2009 (John M. Kowalski, of Wisconsin, et al.)

    Legislation:
9. S. 345, the Tropical Forest and Coral
   Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2009
10. S. 954. A bill to authorize United States participation
   in the replenishment of resources of the International
   Development Association, and for other purposes;
   to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
11. S. 955. A bill to authorize United States participation
   in, and appropriations for the United States
   contribution to, the African Development Fund
   and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative, to require
   budgetary disclosures by multilateral development
   banks, to encourage multilateral development banks
   to endorse the principles of the Extractive Industries
   Transparency Initiative, and for other purposes;
   to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
12. S. 838, a bill to provide for the appointment of
   United States Science Envoys
13. S. Res. 49, a resolution to express the sense of the
   Senate regarding the importance of public diplomacy
14.  S. Res. 84, A resolution urging the Government
   of Canada to end the commercial seal hunt
15. S. Con. Res. 19, a concurrent resolution expressing
   the sense of Congress that the Shi'ite Personal Status
   Law in Afghanistan violates the fundamental human
   rights of women and should be repealed, as amended

 

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