[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 128 (Wednesday, September 25, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D907-D908]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings


                  (Committees not listed did not meet)

TERRORISM RISK INSURANCE ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine reauthorizing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, 
focusing on the state of the terrorism risk insurance market, after 
receiving testimony from Peter J. Beshar, Marsh and McLennan Companies, 
and Robert P. Hartwig, Insurance Information Institute, both of New 
York, New York; and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, University of Pennsylvania 
Wharton School Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, 
Philadelphia.
FINANCIAL SERVICES IN INDIA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
National Security and International Trade and Finance concluded a 
hearing to examine assessing the investment climate and improving 
market access in financial services in India, after receiving testimony 
from Arvind Subramanian, Peterson Institute for International Economics 
and Center for Global Development, Chennai, India; and Richard M. 
Rossow, McLarty Associates, Alexandria, Virginia.
PRESERVE FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION FUNDING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the need to invest in America's infrastructure and 
preserve Federal transportation funding, after receiving testimony from 
Sean T. Connaughton, Commonwealth of Virginia Secretary of 
Transportation, Richmond; T. Peter Ruane, American Road and 
Transportation Builders Association, Michael P. Lewis, Rhode Island 
Department of Transportation Director, on behalf of the American 
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Janet F. 
Kavinoky, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Gregory M. Cohen, American Highway 
Users Alliance, Raymond J. Poupore, National Construction Alliance II, 
Kathy Ruffalo, Ruffalo and Associates, LLC, and Jack Schenendorf, 
Covington and Burling LLP, all of Washington, D.C.; Gregory DiLoreto, 
American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia; and Peter J. 
Basso, Peter J. Basso and Associates, LLC, Rockville, Maryland.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Philip S. Goldberg, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines, Robert 
O. Blake, Jr., of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Indonesia, who was introduced by Senator Whitehouse, Karen Clark 
Stanton, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of 
Timor-Leste, and Amy Jane Hyatt, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Palau, all of the Department of State, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Carol Waller Pope, of 
the District of Columbia, who was introduced by Representative Norton, 
Ernest W. Dubester, of Virginia, and Patrick Pizzella, of Virginia, all 
to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Carolyn B. McHugh, of Utah, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Pamela L. Reeves, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Vince 
Girdhari Chhabria, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of California, who was introduced by Senator Boxer, and James 
Maxwell Moody, Jr., to be United States

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District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, who was introduced 
by Senators Pryor and Boozman, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN SENIOR
  Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the state of the American senior, focusing on the changing 
retirement landscape for baby boomers, after receiving testimony 
from Olivia S. Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, 
Philadelphia; Paula A. Calimafde, Small Business Council of America, 
Bethesda, Maryland; Richard W. Johnson, The Urban Institute, 
Washington, DC.; and Joanne Jacobsen, Venice, Florida.
DANGEROUS SYNTHETIC DRUGS
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine dangerous synthetic drugs, focusing on 
unregulated forms of ecstasy, PCP and LSD, including S. 1323, to 
address the continued threat posed by dangerous synthetic drugs by 
amending the Controlled Substances Act relating to controlled substance 
analogues, and S. 1322, to amend the Controlled Substances Act relating 
to controlled substance analogues, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Feinstein, Klobuchar, and Grassley; Michael Botticelli, Deputy 
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Joseph T. Rannazzisi, 
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug 
Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; Timothy Heaphy, 
United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia; and Nora 
Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes 
of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.