[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 87 (Tuesday, June 18, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D591-D592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG 
ADMINISTRATION AND RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
approved for full committee consideration an original bill making 
appropriations for agriculture programs for fiscal year 2014.
APPROPRIATIONS: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED 
AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies approved for full committee 
consideration an original bill making appropriations for Military 
Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies for fiscal year 
2014.
REVERSE MORTGAGE LOANS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine long term sustainability for reverse mortgages, focusing on 
the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage's (HECM) impact on the mutual 
mortgage insurance fund, including S. 469, to assist the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development in stabilizing the Home Equity Conversion 
Mortgage program, after receiving testimony from Lori A. Trawinski, 
AARP Public Policy Institute, West Paterson, New Jersey; Odette 
Williamson, National Consumer Law Center, Hyde Park, Massachusetts; 
Ramsey L. Alwin, National Council on Aging, Kennebunkport, Maine; and 
Peter H. Bell, National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, 
Washington, DC.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2014 for education, 
after receiving testimony from Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nomination of Thomas Edgar Wheeler, of the 
District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Federal Communications 
Commission, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 28, to provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National 
Forest System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah 
to Brigham Young University, with amendments;

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  S. 155, to designate a mountain in the State of Alaska as Denali;
  S. 159, to designate the Wovoka Wilderness and provide for certain 
land conveyances in Lyon County, Nevada, with amendments;
  S. 255, to withdraw certain Federal land and interests in that land 
from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition 
under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, with an amendment;
  S. 285, to designate the Valles Caldera National Preserve as a unit 
of the National Park System, with an amendment;
  S. 327, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary 
of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with State 
foresters authorizing State foresters to provide certain forest, 
rangeland, and watershed restoration and protection services, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 340, to provide for the settlement of certain claims under the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute;
  S. 341, to designate certain lands in San Miguel, Ouray, and San Juan 
Counties, Colorado, as wilderness, with amendments;
  S. 353, to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as 
wilderness, to make additional wild and scenic river designations in 
the State of Oregon, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 360, to amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the 
authorization of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the 
Interior to provide service opportunities for young Americans; help 
restore the nation's natural, cultural, historic, archaeological, 
recreational and scenic resources; train a new generation of public 
land managers and enthusiasts; and promote the value of public service, 
with amendments;
  S. 486, to authorize pedestrian and motorized vehicular access in 
Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 783, to amend the Helium Act to improve helium stewardship, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
HEALTH CARE COSTS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine health 
care costs, after receiving testimony from Steven Brill, TIME Magazine, 
New York, New York; Suzanne F. Delbanco, Catalyst for Payment Reform, 
and Giovanni, Colella, Castlight Health, Inc., both of San Francisco, 
California; and Paul B. Ginsburg, Center for Studying Health System 
Change, and National Institute for Health Care Reform, Washington, D.C.
DEMOCRATIC REFORM AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN ZIMBABWE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded a hearing to examine prospects for democratic reform and 
economic recovery in Zimbabwe, after receiving testimony from Donald 
Yamamoto, Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African 
Affairs; Earl Gast, Assistant Administrator for Africa, United States 
Agency for International Development; and Dewa Mavhinga, Human Rights 
Watch, Mark L. Schneider, International Crisis Group, and Todd J. Moss, 
Center for Global Development, all of Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO SECURITY RELATIONSHIP
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and 
Global Narcotics Affairs concluded a hearing to examine security 
cooperation in Mexico, focusing on the next steps in the United States-
Mexico security relationship, after receiving testimony from Roberta S. 
Jacobson, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and 
William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics 
and Law Enforcement Affairs, both of the Department of State; Mark 
Feierstein, Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the 
Caribbean, United States Agency for International Development; Shannon 
K. O'Neil, Council on Foreign Relations, and Nik Steinberg, Human 
Rights Watch, both of New York, New York; and Duncan Wood, Woodrow 
Wilson International Center for Scholars Mexico Institute, Washington, 
D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Daniel M. Tangherlini, 
of the District of Columbia, to be Administrator of General Services, 
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
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.