[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 14, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D439-D441]
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 ordered 
  favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``Agriculture Reform, 
                     Food, and Jobs Act of 2013''.
                                       APPROPRIATIONS: COAST GUARD
  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Homeland 
 Security concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for 
 fiscal year 2014 for the Coast Guard, after receiving testimony from 
 Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Department 
                         of Homeland Security.
           DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE 
                                                           PROGRAM
   Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded a 
hearing to examine Marine Corps modernization in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2014 and the Future Years Defense 
  Program, after receiving testimony from Sean J. Stackley, Assistant 
                              Secretary of

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  the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, and Lieutenant 
     General Richard P. Mills, USMC, Deputy Commandant for Combat 
   Development and Integration, and Commanding General, Marine Corps 
     Combat Development Command, both of the Department of Defense.
                                                SITUATION IN SYRIA
 Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
   the situation in Syria from James N. Miller, Under Secretary for 
Policy, Lieutenant General Terry Wolff, USA, Director, Strategic Plans 
 and Policy (J-5), Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Michael Lansdown, Barry 
Truluck, and Amir Asmar, all Analysts, Defense Intelligence Agency, all 
                     of the Department of Defense.
                     RETURNING PRIVATE CAPITAL TO MORTGAGE MARKETS
   Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
  Securities, Insurance and Investment concluded a hearing to examine 
  returning private capital to mortgage markets, focusing on housing 
finance reform, after receiving testimony from Mark A. Willis, New York 
 University Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, and Andrew 
 Davidson, Andrew Davidson and Co., Inc., both of New York, New York; 
  Phillip L. Swagel, University of Maryland School of Public Policy, 
   Chevy Chase; and Robert Van Order, George Washington University, 
                           Chicago, Illinois.
                                                    STATE OF VIDEO
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
  Communications, Technology, and the Internet concluded a hearing to 
  examine the state of video, after receiving testimony from Senator 
     McCain; former Senator Gordon Smith, National Association of 
Broadcasters, Michael K. Powell, National Cable and Telecommunications 
Association, R. Stanton Dodge, DISH Network L.L.C., and John Bergmayer, 
               Public Knowledge, all of Washington, D.C.
                                                       NATURAL GAS
   Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
 hearing to examine what the next applications are for natural gas and 
 how this new demand will be met, focusing on pipeline infrastructure 
 and increased use of natural gas in the transportation sector, after 
   receiving testimony from Jeff Wright, Director, Office of Energy 
 Projects, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy; 
  Kathryn Clay, Drive Natural Gas Initiative, and Donald Santa, Jr., 
  Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, both of Washington, 
 D.C.; Scott Prochazka, Centerpoint Energy, Inc., Houston, Texas; Jim 
  Arthurs, Cummins Westport Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia; Robert 
 Carrick, Daimler Trucks North America, and Gregg Kantor, NW Natural, 
 both of Portland, Oregon; Richard Cargile, Midstream Energy Transfer 
 Partners, Dallas, Texas; Steve Bolze, GE Power and Water, Fairfield, 
Connecticut; Gordon van Welie, ISO New England, Holyoke, Massachusetts; 
   Jesus Soto, Jr., Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, 
           California; and Jim Bruce, UPS, Atlanta, Georgia.
                                      MEDICARE PHYSICIANS PAYMENTS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Medicare 
  physicians payments, focusing on advancing reform, after receiving 
 testimony from Mark E. Miller, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; 
   and A. Bruce Steinwald, Bruce Steinwald Consulting, and Kavita K. 
       Patel, The Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
 Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
                     the following business items:
  S. 793, to support revitalization and reform of the Organization of 
American States;
  S. 579, to direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to 
obtain observer status for Taiwan at the triennial International Civil 
Aviation Organization Assembly; and
  The nominations of James Knight, of Alabama, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Chad, and Deborah Kay Jones, of New Mexico, to be 
Ambassador to Libya, both of the Department of State.
                            THE ADA AND ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES
    Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the Americans with Disabilities Act and 
 entertainment technologies, focusing on improving accessibility from 
the movie screen to your mobile device, including S. 555, to amend the 
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to require captioning and video 
 description at certain movie theaters, and S. 556, to amend title 49, 
   United States Code, to improve the accessibility of entertainment 
   programming provided by air carriers on passenger flights, after 
receiving testimony from Eve L. Hill, Senior Counselor to the Assistant 
 Attorney General for Civil Rights, Department of Justice; Karen Peltz 
   Strauss, Deputy Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, 
 Federal Communications Commission; John Fithian, National Association 
  of Theatre Owners, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Betsy Beaumon, Benetech, 
 Palo Alto, California; Brian Charlson, Carroll Center for the Blind, 
               Watertown, Massachusetts, on behalf of the

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     American Council of the Blind; and Andrew Phillips, National 
           Association of the Deaf, Silver Spring, Maryland.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed consideration of S. 744, 
 to provide for comprehensive immigration reform, but did not complete 
                            action thereon.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
                                                      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.

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