[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 113 (Thursday, August 1, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D819-D820]
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 an 
original bill (S. 1429) making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014.
POLITICAL STATUS OF PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the November 6, 2012 referendum on the political 
status of Puerto Rico and the Administration's response, after 
receiving testimony from Representative Pierluisi; Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia-Padilla, Popular Democratic 
Party, and Ruben Berrios Martinez, Puerto Rican Independence Party, 
both of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 1386, to provide for enhanced embassy security, with amendments; 
and
  The nominations of Steve A. Linick, of Virginia, to be Inspector 
General, Matthew Winthrop Barzun, of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, David Hale, of 
New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, Liliana 
Ayalde, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of 
Brazil, Evan Ryan, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Educational and Cultural Affairs, Kirk W.B. Wagar, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, Daniel A. Sepulveda, of 
Florida, to be Deputy Assistant Secretary for International 
Communications and Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic, 
Energy, and Business Affairs and U.S. Coordinator for International 
Communications and Information Policy, Terence Patrick McCulley, of 
Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, James C. 
Swan, of California, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the 
Congo, John R. Phillips, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador 
to the Italian Republic, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of San Marino, 
Kenneth Francis Hackett, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Holy See, 
and Alexa Lange Wesner, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Austria, all of the Department of State, and Ryan

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Clark Crocker, of Washington, Matthew C. Armstrong, of Illinois, and 
Jeffrey Shell, of California, to be Chairman, all to be a Member of the 
Broadcasting Board of Governors.
POW/MIA ACCOUNTING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Financial and Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine 
Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) accounting, after 
receiving testimony from Major General Kelly McKeague, Commander, Joint 
POW/MIA Accounting Command, Major General W. Montague Winfield, USA 
(Ret.), Deputy Assistant Secretary for Prisoner of War/Missing 
Personnel Affairs, and John A. Goines, III, Chief, Life Sciences 
Equipment Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, all of the Department of 
Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 933, to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest 
Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2018; and
  The nominations of Patricia Ann Millett, of Virginia, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, Gregory 
Howard Woods, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of New York, Elizabeth A. Wolford, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of New York, and Debra M. 
Brown, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Mississippi.
  Also, committee began markup of S. 987, to maintain the free flow of 
information to the public by providing conditions for the federally 
compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with 
the news media but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again 
on Thursday, September 12, 2013.
HUMAN COST OF REGULATORY PARALYSIS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Oversight, Federal Rights 
and Agency Action concluded a hearing to examine the human cost of 
regulatory paralysis, after receiving testimony from Rena Steinzor, 
University of Maryland Carey School of Law, Baltimore; Sam Batkins, 
American Action Forum, and Peg Seminario, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, 
D.C.; Patrick K. McLaughlin, George Mason University Mercatus Center, 
Arlington, Virginia; and Janette E. Fennell, KidsAndCars.org, Bala 
Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.