[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 31 (Tuesday, March 5, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D159-D160]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the United States Central Command and United States Special Operations 
Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 
2014 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony 
from General James N. Mattis, USMC, Commander, United States Central 
Command, and Admiral William H. McRaven, USN, Commander, Untied States 
Special Operations Command, both of the Department of Defense.
TAX CODE
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
reducing the deficit by eliminating wasteful spending in the tax code, 
after receiving testimony from Edward D. Kleinbard, University of

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Southern California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles; and Jared 
Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Russ Roberts, 
Stanford University Hoover Institution, both of Washington, D.C.
LEGISLATIVE PRESENTATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a joint hearing 
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine a legislative 
presentation of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), after receiving 
testimony from John E. Hamilton, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United 
States, St Augustine, Florida.
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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of John Owen Brennan, of Virginia, to be Director of the 
Central Intelligence Agency.