[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 103 (Thursday, July 18, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D722-D723]
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. 1329) making appropriations for Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2014; and
  An original bill (H.R. 2217) making appropriations for the Department 
of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of General Martin E. Dempsey, USA, for reappointment to 
the grade of general and reappointment as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff, and Admiral James A. Winnefeld, Jr., USN, for reappointment 
to the grade of admiral and reappointment as Vice Chairman of the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff, both of the Department of Defense, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Melvin L. Watt, of North 
Carolina, to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Jason 
Furman, of New York, to be a Member and Chairman of the Council of 
Economic Advisers, Kara Marlene Stein, of Maryland, Michael Sean 
Piwowar, of Virginia, and Mary Jo White, of New York, all to be a 
Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Richard T. 
Metsger, of Oregon, to be a Member of the National Credit Union 
Administration Board.
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress, 
after receiving testimony from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
CLEAN ENERGY FINANCE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the current state of clean energy finance in the 
United States and opportunities to facilitate greater investment in 
domestic clean energy technology development and deployment, after 
receiving testimony from Peter Davidson, Executive Director, Loan 
Programs Office, Department of Energy; Richard L. Kauffman, New York 
State Chairman of Energy and Finance, Albany; Ethan Zindler, Bloomberg 
New Energy Finance, and Nicolas Loris, The Heritage Foundation, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Will Coleman, OnRamp Capital, San Francisco, 
California.

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CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine climate change, after receiving testimony from Heidi 
Cullen, Climate Central, Princeton, New Jersey; Franklin W. Nutter, 
Reinsurance Association of America, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Manhattan 
Institute for Policy Research, and Robert P. Murphy, Institute for 
Energy Research, all of Washington, D.C.; KC Golden, Climate Solutions, 
Seattle, Washington; Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University Institute of 
Marine and Coastal Sciences, Marion, Massachusetts; Scott C. Doney, 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; 
Margaret Leinen, Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch 
Oceanographic Institute, Fort Pierce; Roger Pielke, Jr., University of 
Colorado, Boulder; and Roy W. Spencer, University of Alabama in 
Huntsville Earth System Science Center.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Michael B. Thornton, of Virginia, and Joseph W. Nega, of 
Illinois, both to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court, and F. 
Scott Kieff, of Illinois, to be a Member of the United States 
International Trade Commission, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Todd M. Hughes, of the District of Columbia, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, Colin Stirling 
Bruce, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of 
Illinois, Sara Lee Ellis, and Andrea R. Wood, both to be a United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, Madeline 
Hughes Haikala, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Alabama, and James B. Comey, Jr., of Connecticut, to be 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
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.