[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 24 (Thursday, February 14, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D109-D111]
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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee adopted 
its rules of procedure for the 113th Congress and announced the 
following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Commodities, Markets, Trade and Risk Management: 
Senators Donnelly (Chair), Baucus, Heitkamp, Harkin, Brown, Gillibrand, 
Chambliss, Roberts, Boozman, Hoeven, and Johanns.
Subcommittee on Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation: 
Senators Heitkamp (Chair), Brown, Klobuchar, Bennet, Donnelly, Cowan, 
Johanns, Hoeven, Grassley, Thune, and Boozman.
Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry and Natural Resources: Senators 
Bennet (Chair), Harkin, Klobuchar, Leahy, Baucus, Heitkamp, Boozman, 
McConnell, Chambliss, Thune, and Roberts.
Subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agriculture 
Research: Senators Cowan (Chair), Leahy, Harkin, Brown, Gillibrand, 
Bennet, Hoeven, McConnell, Chambliss, Grassley, and Thune.
Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture 
Security: Senators Gillibrand (Chair), Leahy, Baucus, Klobuchar, 
Donnelly, Cowan, Roberts, McConnell, Boozman, Johanns, and Grassley.
  Senators Stabenow and Cochran are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
ECONOMICS OF DISASTERS FOR AMERICA'S AGRICULTURE PRODUCERS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine drought, fire, and freeze, focusing on the 
economics of disasters for America's agricultural producers, after 
receiving testimony from Roger S. Pulwarty, National Integrated Drought 
Information System, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
Department of Commerce; Joseph Glauber, Chief Economist, Department of 
Agriculture; Leon LaSalle, LaSalle Ranch Incorporated, Havre, Montana; 
Anngie Steinbarger, Edinburgh, Indiana; Jeff Send, Leelanau, Michigan; 
and Ben Steffen, Humboldt, Nebraska.
IMPACTS OF SEQUESTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the impacts of sequestration, after receiving testimony from Daniel I. 
Werfel, Controller, Office of Management and Budget; Arne Duncan, 
Secretary of Education; Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland 
Security; Shaun Donovan,

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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Ashton B. Carter, 
Deputy Secretary of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of General Lloyd J. Austin III, USA, for reappointment 
to the grade of general and to be Commander, United States Central 
Command, and General David M. Rodriguez, USA, for reappointment to the 
grade of general and to be Commander, United States Africa Command, 
both of the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
WALL STREET REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Wall Street reform, focusing on oversight of 
financial stability and consumer and investor protections, after 
receiving testimony from Mary J. Miller, Under Secretary, and Thomas J. 
Curry, Comptroller of the Currency, both of the Department of the 
Treasury; Daniel K. Tarullo, Governor, Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System; Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation; Richard Cordray, Director, Consumer Financial 
Protection Bureau; Elisse B. Walter, Chairman, United States Securities 
and Exchange Commission; and Gary Gensler, Chairman, Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee adopted its rules 
of procedure for the 113th Congress and announced the following 
subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Senators Baucus 
(Chair), Carper, Lautenberg, Cardin, Sanders, Udall (NM), Gillibrand, 
Barrasso, Inhofe, Sessions, Crapo, Wicker, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety: Senators Carper 
(Chair), Baucus, Cardin, Sanders, Whitehouse, Udall (NM), Sessions, 
Barrasso, Crapo, Wicker, and Boozman.
  Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife: Senators Cardin (Chair), Carper, 
Lautenberg, Whitehouse, Merkley, Gillibrand, Boozman, Inhofe, Barrasso, 
Sessions, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health: Senators 
Udall (NM) (Chair), Baucus, Lautenberg, Merkley, Gillibrand, Crapo, 
Inhofe, Wicker, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy: Senators Merkley 
(Chair), Carper, Sanders, Wicker, and Sessions.
  Subcommittee on Oversight: Senators Whitehouse (Chair), Baucus, 
Lautenberg, Inhofe, and Boozman.
  Senators Boxer and Vitter are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine health 
insurance exchanges, focusing on a progress report, after receiving 
testimony from Gary Cohen, Deputy Administrator and Director, Center 
for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare 
and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Don 
Hughes, Health Care Policy Advisor to the Governor and Arizona Exchange 
Executive Director, Phoenix; Christine Ferguson, Rhode Island Health 
Benefits Exchange Director, Providence; and Bettina Tweardy Riveros, 
Advisor to the Governor and Chair of the Delaware Health Care 
Commission, Wilmington.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
298, to prevent nuclear proliferation in North Korea, with amendments.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
announced the following subcommittee assignments for the 113th 
Congress:
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Levin (Chair), 
Pryor, Landrieu, McCaskill, Tester, Baldwin, Heitkamp, McCain, Johnson 
(WI), Portman, Paul, and Ayotte.
Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight: Senators McCaskill 
(Chair), Levin, Pryor, Landrieu, Begich, Baldwin, Johnson (WI), McCain, 
Enzi, and Ayotte.
Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs 
and the Federal Workforce: Senators Tester (Chair), Pryor, McCaskill, 
Begich, Baldwin, Heitkamp, Portman, Johnson (WI), Paul, and Enzi.
Subcommittee on Emergency Management, Intergovernmental Relations, and 
the District of Columbia: Senators Begich (Chair), Levin, Pryor, 
Landrieu, Tester, Heitkamp, Paul, McCain, Portman, and Enzi.
  Senators Levin and Coburn are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Caitlin Joan Halligan, of New York, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, Patty Shwartz, of 
New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, 
Pamela Ki Mai Chen,

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to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New 
York, Katherine Polk Failla, and Analisa Torres, both to be a United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Andrew 
Patrick Gordon, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Nevada, Ketanji Brown Jackson, of Maryland, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Columbia, Raymond P. Moore, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Colorado, Troy L. 
Nunley, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
California, Beverly Reid O'Connell, to be United States District Judge 
for the Central District of California, Derrick Kahala Watson, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, and Mark A. 
Barnett, of Virginia, and Claire R. Kelly, of New York, both to be a 
Judge of the United States Court of International Trade.
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.