[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 129 (Thursday, September 26, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D913]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Rose Eilene Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be 
Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, who was 
introduced by Senators Shaheen and Isakson, Frank A. Rose, of 
Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary for Verification and 
Compliance, and Adam M. Scheinman, of Virginia, to be Special 
Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation, with the 
rank of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Timothy M. Broas, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Donald Lu, of California, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, and Robert A. Sherman, of 
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic, all of the 
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
PROMOTING A 21ST CENTURY WORKFORCE FOR THE POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine reforming and renewing the postal 
service, part II, focusing on promoting a 21st century workforce, 
including health and pension benefits proposals involving trade-offs, 
and S. 1486, to improve, sustain, and transform the United States 
Postal Service, after receiving testimony from Patrick R. Donahoe, 
Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, United States Postal 
Service; Jonathan Foley, Director, Planning and Policy Analysis, Office 
of Personnel Management; Frank Todisco, Chief Actuary, Applied Research 
and Methods, and John E. Dicken, Director, Health Care, both of the 
Government Accountability Office; Fredric V. Rolando, National 
Association of Letter Carriers, John F. Hegarty, National Postal Mail 
Handlers Union, Robert J. Rapoza, National Association of Postmasters 
of the United States, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, and 
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, all of Washington, 
D.C.
NEWBORN SCREENING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded a hearing to examine how newborn 
screening saves lives, focusing on the past, present, and future of the 
newborn screening system, after receiving testimony from Natasha F. 
Bonhomme, Baby's First Test, and Jennifer L. Howse, March of Dimes 
Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.; R. Rodney Howell, University of 
Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; and Joye Mullis, 
Raleigh, North Carolina.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Patricia M. Wald, of the District of Columbia, to be a 
Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and Zachary 
Thomas Fardon, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, Department of Justice.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, focusing on the NSA call 
records program, after receiving testimony from James Clapper, Director 
of National Intelligence; General Keith Alexander, Director, National 
Security Agency; James Cole, Deputy Attorney General, Department of 
Justice; Ben Wittes, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.; and Tim 
Edgar, Brown University Watson Institute for International Studies, 
Providence, Rhode Island.