06/10/09 2:10 PM
An amendment numbered 3 printed in part C of House Report 111-143 to broaden the experience within the Foreign Service and encourage Foreign Service officers to pursue a functional specialty by making it mandatory to develop a functional focus during an officer's first two years as well as creating a more diverse promotions panel where functional and regional specialists are evenly distributed. It requires the State Department to make materials from libraries and resource centers, including U.S. films available over the Internet when possible and for the advisory commission on public diplomacy to gauge the effectiveness of online outreach authorized under section 214.
06/10/09 2:09 PM
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Ros-Lehtinen amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced the ayes had prevailed. Ms. Ros-Lehtinen demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
06/10/09 2:00 PM
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 522, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Ros-Lehtinen amendment.
Amendment offered by Ms. Ros-Lehtinen.
06/10/09 2:00 PM
An amendment numbered 2 printed in part C of House Report 111-143 to require the Secretary of State to withhold from the U.S. contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency an amount equal to nuclear technical cooperation provided by the IAEA in 2007 to Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba.
06/10/09 1:59 PM
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Berman amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Smith (NJ) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
06/10/09 1:37 PM
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 522, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with twenty minutes of debate on the Berman amendment.
Amendment offered by Mr. Berman.
06/10/09 1:37 PM
An amendment numbered 1 printed in part C of House Report 111-143 to (1) make a number of minor, technical and conforming changes, including changes to address concerns of other Committees that have jurisdiction over certain provisions of H.R. 2410 and making changes to certain authorizations; (2) add the relevant text from H.R. 2828, 110th Congress, as passed by the House, relating to compensation of Foreign Service victims of terrorism; (3) add a provision relating to streamlining export controls to better serve the scientific and research community, consistent with the protection of U.S. national security interests; (4) add a provision on monitoring and evaluating certain provision U.S. overseas activities; (5) add a provision to improve the stabilization and reconstruction activities of the Department of State; (6) add a provision on implementation of an international nuclear fuel bank; (7) add a provision relating to the development of a food security strategy; (8) adds certain other sense of congress provisions; and (9) add a new subsection to section 334 providing that nothing in that section shall be construed as affecting existing statutory prohibitions relating to abortion.
06/10/09 1:36 PM
Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 522, an amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in Part B of House Report 111-143, is considered as adopted as original text for the purpose of further amendment.
06/10/09 12:21 PM
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2410.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Tim Holden to act as Chairman of the Committee.
06/10/09 12:20 PM
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 522 and Rule XVIII.
