[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 99 (Thursday, July 11, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D690-D691]
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 Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill (S. 1284) making appropriations for Labor, Health 
and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2014; and
  An original bill (S. 1283) making appropriations for the Legislative 
Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
Department of Defense operations conducted pursuant to the 2001 
Authorization for Use of Military Force and the presidential policy 
guidance on counterterrorism from Michael G. Vickers, Under Secretary 
for Intelligence, Michael A. Sheehan, Assistant Secretary for Special 
Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Vice Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, USN, 
Director for Operations, and Commander William Gallagher, both of the 
Joint Staff, J3, and Brigadier General Richard Gross, Legal Counsel to 
the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of the Department of Defense.
WALL STREET REFORMS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine mitigating systemic risk through Wall Street 
reforms, 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, Member, Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Martin J. Gruenberg, 
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
U.S. TERRITORIES BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1237, to improve the administration of programs 
in the insular areas, and S. 1268, to approve an agreement between the 
United States and the Republic of Palau, after receiving testimony from 
Representatives Faleomavaega, Christensen, Bordallo, Sablan, and 
Pierluisi; Eileen Sobeck, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior 
for Insular Areas; Vikram J. Singh, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for South and Southeast Asia, Office of the Secretary of 
Defense for

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Policy; and Edgard Kagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau 
of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
TRANSITION IN AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine assessing the transition in Afghanistan, after receiving 
testimony from James F. Dobbins, Special Representative for Afghanistan 
and Pakistan, Department of State; Peter R. Lavoy, Acting Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs; Stephen 
Hadley, United States Institute of Peace, and Sarah Chayes, Carnegie 
Endowment for International Peace, both of Washington, D.C.; and Nader 
Nadery, Fair and Free Elections Foundation of Afghanistan, Kabul, 
Afghanistan.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Victoria Nuland, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, Douglas Edward 
Lute, of Indiana, to be United States Permanent Representative on the 
Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and 
status of Ambassador, and Daniel Brooks Baer, of Colorado, to be U.S. 
Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in 
Europe, with the rank of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Byron Todd Jones, of Minnesota, to be Director, Bureau 
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and Stuart F. Delery, of 
the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, both of 
the Department of Justice.