[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 12, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D94-D95]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments for the 113th Congress:
  Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies: Senators Pryor (Chair), Harkin, 
Feinstein, Johnson (SD), Tester, Udall (NM), Merkley, Blunt, Cochran, 
McConnell, Collins, Moran, and Hoeven.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: 
Senators Mikulski (Chair), Leahy, Feinstein, Reed, Lautenberg, Pryor, 
Landrieu, Shaheen, Merkley, Shelby, McConnell, Alexander, Collins, 
Murkowski, Graham, Kirk, and Boozman.
  Subcommittee on Department of Defense: Senators Durbin (Chair), 
Leahy, Harkin, Feinstein, Mikulski, Murray, Johnson (SD), Reed, 
Landrieu, Pryor, Cochran, McConnell, Shelby, Alexander, Collins, 
Murkowski, Graham, Coats, and Blunt.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Feinstein 
(Chair), Murray, Johnson (SD), Landrieu, Lautenberg, Harkin, Tester, 
Durbin, Udall (NM), Alexander, Cochran, McConnell, Shelby, Collins, 
Murkowski, Graham, and Hoeven.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government: Senators 
Lautenberg (Chair), Durbin, Udall (NM), Johanns, and Moran.
  Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security: Senators Landrieu 
(Chair), Leahy, Murray, Lautenberg, Tester, Begich, Coats, Cochran, 
Shelby, Murkowski, and Moran.
  Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies: Senators Reed (Chair), Feinstein, Leahy, Johnson (SD), 
Tester, Udall (NM), Merkley, Begich, Murkowski, Cochran, Alexander, 
Blunt, Hoeven, and Johanns.
  Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, and Related Agencies: Senators Harkin (Chair), Murray, 
Landrieu, Durbin, Reed, Pryor, Mikulski, Tester, Shaheen, Merkley, 
Moran, Cochran, Shelby, Alexander, Graham, Kirk, Johanns, and Boozman.
  Subcommittee on Legislative Branch: Senators Shaheen (Chair), 
Merkley, Begich, Hoeven, and Boozman.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and 
Related Agencies: Senators Johnson (SD) (Chair), Murray, Reed, Pryor, 
Tester, Udall (NM), Shaheen, Begich, Kirk, McConnell, Collins, 
Murkowski, Coats, Hoeven, and Johanns.
  Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: 
Senators Leahy (Chair), Harkin, Mikulski, Durbin, Landrieu, Lautenberg, 
Shaheen, Begich, Graham, McConnell, Kirk, Coats, Blunt, Johanns, and 
Boozman.
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and 
Related Agencies: Senators Murray (Chair), Mikulski, Durbin, Leahy, 
Harkin, Feinstein, Johnson (SD), Lautenberg, Pryor, Reed, Collins, 
Shelby, Alexander, Graham, Kirk, Coats, Blunt, Moran, and Boozman.
IMPACTS OF SEQUESTRATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the impacts of sequestration and/or a full-year continuing resolution 
on the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from Ashton B. 
Carter, Deputy Secretary, Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary 
(Comptroller), General Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs 
of Staff, General Raymond T. Odierno, Chief of Staff United States 
Army, Admiral Mark E. Ferguson III, USN, Vice Chief of Naval 
Operations, General James F. Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps, 
General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF, Chief of Staff, United States Air 
Force, and General Frank J. Grass, Chief, National Guard Bureau, all of 
the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Charles Timothy Hagel, of Nebraska, to be Secretary of 
Defense.
BUDGET AND ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
budget and economic outlook, focusing on fiscal years 2013-2023, after 
receiving testimony from Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director, Congressional 
Budget Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported its rules of procedure for the 113th Congress, a questionnaire 
for executive nominations, and announced the following subcommittee 
assignments:
  Subcommittee on Energy: Senators Franken (Chair), Johnson (SD), 
Landrieu, Cantwell, Sanders, Stabenow, Udall (CO), Manchin, Coons, 
Heinrich, Risch, Heller, Flake, Alexander, Portman, and Hoeven.
  Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining: Senators Manchin 
(Chair), Johnson (SD), Landrieu, Cantwell, Udall (CO), Franken, Coons, 
Schatz, Heinrich, Barrasso, Risch, Lee, Heller, Flake, Scott, 
Alexander, and Hoeven.
  Subcommittee on National Parks: Senators Udall (CO) (Chair), 
Landrieu, Sanders, Stabenow, Coons, Schatz, Heinrich, Portman, 
Barrasso, Lee, Alexander, and Hoeven.

[[Page D95]]


  Subcommittee on Water and Power: Senators Schatz (Chair), Johnson 
(SD), Cantwell, Sanders, Stabenow, Manchin, Franken, Lee, Barrasso, 
Risch, Heller, Flake, and Scott.
  Senators Wyden and Murkowski are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
AMERICA'S NATURAL GAS RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine opportunities and challenges associated with 
America's natural gas resources, after receiving testimony from 
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Denver; Andrew N. Liveris, The Dow 
Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan; Ross Eisenberg, National 
Association of Manufacturers, and Jack N. Gerard, American Petroleum 
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Frances Beinecke, Natural 
Resources Defense Council, New York, New York; and Kenneth B. Medlock 
III, Rice University James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, 
Houston, Texas.
PROPOSALS TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Human Rights concluded a hearing to examine proposals to 
reduce gun violence, focusing on protecting our communities while 
respecting the Second Amendment, including S. 54, to increase public 
safety by punishing and deterring firearms trafficking, S. 179, to 
prevent gun trafficking, S. 195, to amend the Public Health Service Act 
to revise and extend projects relating to children and violence to 
provide access to school-based comprehensive mental health programs, S. 
150, to regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and 
bear arms is not unlimited, and S. 174, to appropriately restrict sales 
of ammunition, after receiving testimony from Timothy J. Heaphy, United 
States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, Department of 
Justice; Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; Daniel W. Webster, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy 
and Research, Baltimore, Maryland; Charles J. Cooper, Cooper and Kirk 
PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Sandra J. Wortham, Chicago, Illinois; and 
Suzanna Gratia Hupp, Lampasas, Texas.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.