[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 84 (Thursday, June 13, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D563-D564]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine crumbling infrastructure, focusing on outdated and overburdened 
highways and bridges, including limited improvement in bridge 
conditions over the past decade, with remaining financial challenges, 
after receiving testimony from Polly Trottenberg, Under

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Secretary for Policy, and Victor M. Mendez, Administrator, Federal 
Highway Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; and 
Phillip R. Herr, Managing Director, Physical Infrastructure, Government 
Accountability Office.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill entitled, ``National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2014'';
  An original bill entitled, ``Department of Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2014'';
  An original bill entitled, ``Military Construction Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2014''; and
  An original bill entitled, ``Department of Energy National Security 
Act for Fiscal Year 2014''.
COMMUNITY BANKS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine lessons learned from the financial crisis regarding 
community banks, focusing on causes and consequences of recent 
community bank failures, after receiving testimony from Richard A. 
Brown, Chief Economist, and Jon T. Rymer, Inspector General, both of 
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Lawrance L. Evans, Jr., 
Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, Government 
Accountability Office.
HUMAN RIGHTS IN RUSSIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global 
Women's Issues with the Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded a 
joint hearing to examine Russia's human rights situation, after 
receiving testimony from Stephen Sestanovich, Council on Foreign 
Relations, Ariel Cohen, The Heritage Foundation, Leon Aaron, American 
Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Frank S. Jannuzi, 
Amnesty International, USA, New York, New York; and Boris Nemtsov, 
Republican Party of Russia, Moscow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 394, to prohibit and deter the theft of metal, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Derek Anthony West, of California, to be Associate 
Attorney General, Department of Justice, and Valerie E. Caproni, of the 
District of Columbia, and Vernon S. Broderick, of New York, both to be 
a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee began 
consideration of the following business items:
  S. 511, to amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to enhance 
the Small Business Investment Company Program; and
  S. 289, to extend the low-interest refinancing provisions under the 
Local Development Business Loan Program of the Small Business 
Administration, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet 
again on Monday, June 17, 2013.
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.