[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 153 (Wednesday, October 30, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1036-D1037]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                            OCTOBER 31, 2013

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to consider the nominations of Wanda

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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; to be 
immediately followed by a hearing to examine housing finance reform, 
focusing on a government guarantee for mortgage-backed securities, 
10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider S. 
Res. 268, condemning the September 2013 terrorist attack at the 
Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and reaffirming United States 
support for the people and Government of Kenya, S. Res. 277, 
recognizing the religious and historical significance of the 
festival of Diwali, and the nominations of Gregory B. Starr, of 
Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security, Mark 
Bradley Childress, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the United 
Republic of Tanzania, Thomas Frederick Daughton, of Arizona, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, Matthew T. Harrington, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho, Eunice S. 
Reddick, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Niger, John Hoover, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Sierra Leone, Michael Stephen Hoza, of 
Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, Tomasz P. 
Malinowski, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Crystal Nix-Hines, of 
California, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service 
as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Pamela K. 
Hamamoto, of Hawaii, to be Representative to the Office of the 
United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, with 
the rank of Ambassador, 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, Karen Clark Stanton, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to 
the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, 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, 
Robert A. Sherman, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the 
Portuguese Republic, Anne W. Patterson, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, Adam M. Scheinman, of Virginia, 
to be Special Representative of the President for Nuclear 
Nonproliferation, with the rank of Ambassador, Rose Eilene 
Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Arms Control 
and International Security, Frank A. Rose, of Massachusetts, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance, Dwight L. Bush, 
Sr., of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of 
Morocco, 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, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Syria, 10:15 a.m., SD-
419.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nomination of 
Daniel W. Yohannes, of Colorado, to be Representative of the United 
States of America to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and 
Development, with the rank of Ambassador, and Anthony Luzzatto 
Gardner, of New York, to be Representative of the United States of 
America to the European Union, with the rank and status of 
Ambassador, both of the Department of State, 2:15 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine attaining a quality degree, focusing on 
innovations to improve student success, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine government clearances and background checks, 
focusing on the Navy Yard tragedy, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 42, to 
provide anti-retaliation protections for antitrust whistleblowers, 
S. 822, to protect crime victims' rights, to eliminate the 
substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and 
convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity 
of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase 
research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop 
new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA 
evidence, to provide post conviction testing of DNA evidence to 
exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in 
State capital cases, and the nominations of Robert Leon Wilkins, to 
be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, 
Brian J. Davis, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Florida, Timothy L. Brooks, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, James Donato, Beth 
Labson Freeman, and Vince Girdhari Chhabria, all to be a United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of California, Pedro 
A. Delgado Hernandez, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Puerto Rico, 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, 
and James Maxwell Moody, Jr., to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of Arkansas, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.