[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 118 (Tuesday, September 10, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D845-D846]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Wanda Felton, of New York, to be 
First Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 
and Katherine M. O'Regan, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 1448, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of 
Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the 
production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, S. 1219, to authorize 
the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Water Rights Settlement, 
and S. 1447, to make technical corrections to certain Native American 
water rights settlements in the State of New Mexico, after receiving 
testimony from Kevin K. Washburn, Assistant Secretary of the Interior 
for Indian Affairs; Rudy J. Peone, and Marian Wynecoop, both of the 
Spokane Tribe of Indians, Wellpinit, Washington; and Mark Macarro, 
Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, and Matthew G. Stone, Rancho 
California Water District, both of Temecula.
FEDERAL JUDGESHIP ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and the Courts 
concluded a hearing to examine S. 1385, to provide for the appointment 
of additional Federal circuit and district judges, after receiving 
testimony from Timothy M. Tymkovich, United States Circuit Judge for 
the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, on behalf of the Judicial 
Conference of the United States; Sue L. Robinson, United States 
District Judge, United States District Court for the District of 
Delaware; Jay Alan Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice, 
Washington, D.C.; and Michael H. Reed, Pepper Hamilton LLP, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Bar Association.
CONFLICTS BETWEEN STATE AND FEDERAL MARIJUANA LAWS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
conflicts between state and Federal marijuana laws, after receiving 
testimony from

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James M. Cole, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; John 
Urquhart, Sheriff of King County, Seattle, Washington; Jack Finlaw, 
Colorado Governor John W. Hickenlooper Chief Legal Counsel, Denver; and 
Kevin A. Sabet, University of Florida Drug Policy Institute, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
AMERICAN LEGION LEGISLATIVE PRESENTATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a joint hearing 
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the 
legislative presentation of the American Legion, after receiving 
testimony from Daniel M. Dellinger, Brett Reistad, Louis Celli, Ralph 
Bozella, Verna Jones, Dale Barnett, and Mark Walker, all of the 
American Legion, Washington, D.C.
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.