[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 17, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D868-D869]
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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by 
the committee during the 113th Congress.
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee 
during the 113th Congress; and
  6,913 nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the 
committee during the 113th Congress.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Ronald J. Binz, of Colorado, to 
be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who was 
introduced by Senators Bennet and Udall (CO), Elizabeth M. Robinson, of 
Washington, to be Under Secretary of Energy, and Michael L. Connor, of 
New Mexico, to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior, who was introduced 
by former Senator Jeff Bingaman and Senator Udall (NM), after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the 
committee during the 113th Congress.
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
   An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee 
during the 113th Congress;
  S. 120, to expand the number of scholarships available to Pakistani 
women under the Merit and Needs-Based Scholarship Program, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Kenneth R. Weinstein, of the District of Columbia, 
to be a Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and Evan Ryan, 
of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, and Nisha Desai Biswal, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs, both of the Department of 
State.
SYRIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
an update on Syria from John F. Kerry, Secretary of State.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported an original resolution authorizing 
expenditures by the committee during the 113th Congress.
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  An original resolution authorizing the reporting of committee funding 
resolutions for the period October 1, 2013, through February 28, 2015;
  An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee 
during the 113th Congress; and
  The nominations of Ann Miller Ravel, of California, and Lee E. 
Goodman, of Virginia, both to be a Member of the Federal Election 
Commission.
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by 
the committee during the 113th Congress.
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.