[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 2, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D942-D943]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                            OCTOBER 3, 2013

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: to receive a closed briefing on the 
situation in Syria, 9:30 a.m., SVC-217.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine 
reversing Iran's nuclear program, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
James Walter Brewster, Jr., of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the 
Dominican Republic, Brian A. Nichols, of Rhode Island, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, and Carlos Roberto Moreno, of 
California, to be Ambassador to Belize, all of the Department of 
State, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.

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                                 House

  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Al-Shabaab: How Great a Threat?'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Public Lands and 
Environmental Regulations, hearing on the following legislation: 
H.R. 3188, to expedite the planning and implementation of salvage 
timber sales as part of Forest Service and Department of the 
Interior restoration and rehabilitation activities for lands within 
the Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National park and Bureau 
of Land management lands adversely impacted by the 2013 Rim Fire in 
California; H.R. 298, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
conduct a special resource study to evaluate the significance of the 
Mill Springs Battlefield located in Pulaski and Wayne Counties, 
Kentucky, and the feasibility of its inclusion in the National Park 
System, and for other purposes; H.R. 712, to extend the 
authorization of the Highlands Conservation Act through fiscal year 
2024; H.R. 1167, the ``Restoring Storey County Act''; H.R. 1259, the 
``Coltsville National Historical Park Act''; H.R. 1633, the ``Small 
Lands Tracts Conveyance Act''; H.R. 1846, the ``Lower East Side 
Tenement National Historic Site Amendments Act''; H.R. 2015, the 
``Las Vegas Valley Public Land and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National 
Monument Act of 2013''; H.R. 2259, the ``North Fork Watershed 
Protection Act of 2013''; H.R. 2657, the ``Disposal of Excess 
Federal Lands Act of 2013''; and H.R. 2954, to authorize Escambia 
County, Florida, to convey certain property that was formerly part 
of Santa Rosa Island National Monument and that was conveyed to 
Escambia County subject to restrictions on use and reconveyance, 10 
a.m., 1324 Longworth.