[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 157 (Wednesday, November 6, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1057-D1058]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AMERICA COMPETES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the ``America Creating Opportunities to 
Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science 
Act'' (America COMPETES), focusing on science and the United States 
economy, after receiving testimony from Senator Alexander; Saul 
Perlmutter, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 
Department of Energy; Kelvin K. Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma, 
Norman, on behalf of the National Science Board; Maria Klawe, Harvey 
Mudd College, Claremont, California; and Stephen S. Tang, University 
City Science Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine health 
insurance exchanges, focusing on an update from the Administration, 
after receiving testimony from Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health 
and Human Services.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of Virginia, to be 
Director of the Peace Corps, who was introduced by Senator Isakson, and 
Michael G. Carroll, of New York, to be Inspector General, United States 
Agency for International Development, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 994, to expand the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency 
Act of 2006 to increase accountability and transparency in Federal 
spending, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1611, to require certain agencies to conduct assessments of data 
centers and develop data center consolidation and optimization plans, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1499, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 278 Main Street in Chadron, Nebraska, as the 
``Sergeant Cory Mracek Memorial Post Office'';
  S. 1512, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1335 Jefferson Road in Rochester, New York, as the 
``Specialist Theodore Matthew Glende Post Office''; and

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  The nominations of William Ward Nooter, to be an Associate Judge of 
the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and Tony Hammond, of 
Missouri, and Nanci E. Langley, of Hawaii, both to be a Commissioner of 
the Postal Regulatory Commission.
RECOVERY FROM HURRICANE SANDY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Emergency Management, Intergovernmental Relations, and the District 
of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine the ongoing recovery from 
Hurricane Sandy one year later, after receiving testimony from Shaun 
Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John Porcari, 
Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Craig Fugate, Administrator, 
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security; 
Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, 
Department of Defense; Kathleen S. Tighe, Chairman, Recovery 
Accountability and Transparency Board; and Caswell F. Holloway, City of 
New York Deputy Mayor for Operations, New York, New York.
BUREAU OF PRISONS OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Bureau of Prisons and cost-effective strategies for 
reducing recidivism, after receiving testimony from Charles E. Samuels, 
Jr., Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice; John 
E. Wetzel, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary, 
Harrisburg; Kentucky Representative John Tilley, Kentucky House of 
Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman, Hopkinsville; Nancy G. La 
Vigne, Urban Institute Justice Policy Center, Washington, D.C.; Matt 
DeLisi, Iowa State University, Ames; and Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick, 
Keswick Advisors, LLC, Richmond, Virginia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Michelle T. Friedland, of California, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Christopher Reid Cooper, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, Gerald 
Austin McHugh, Jr., and Edward G. Smith, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, who were both 
introduced by Senator Toomey, and M. Douglas Harpool, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, who was 
introduced by Senator McCaskill, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Sloan D. Gibson, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary, who was introduced by Senator Reed, 
Linda A. Schwartz, of Connecticut, to be Assistant Secretary for Policy 
and Planning, and Constance B. Tobias, of Maryland, to be Chairman of 
the Board of Veterans' Appeals, all of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
TRANSPORTATION AND INDEPENDENCE FOR SENIORS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
transportation, focusing on independence for seniors, after receiving 
testimony from Grant Baldwin, Director, Division of Unintentional 
Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Therese W. McMillan, Deputy Administrator, Federal 
Transit Administration, Department of Transportation; Virginia Dize, 
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, Washington, D.C.; and 
Katherine Freund, ITNAmerica, Westbrook, Maine.