[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 158 (Thursday, November 7, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1064]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IMPACT OF SEQUESTRATION ON NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the impact of sequestration on the national defense, after receiving 
testimony from General Raymond T. Odierno, Chief of Staff United States 
Army, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, United States Navy, Chief of Naval 
Operations, General James F. Amos, Commandant of the Marine Corps, and 
General Mark A. Welsh III, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, all 
of the Department of Defense.
HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine housing finance reform, focusing on essential 
elements to provide affordable options for housing, including S. 1217, 
to provide secondary mortgage market reform, after receiving testimony 
Hilary O. Shelton, National Association for the Advancement of Colored 
People (NAACP) Washington Bureau, St. Louis, Missouri; Rick Judson, 
National Association of Home Builders, Charlotte, North Carolina; 
Sheila Crowley, National Low Income Housing Coalition, and Douglas 
Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, both of Arlington, Virginia; and 
Ethan Handelman, National Housing Conference, Silver Spring, Maryland.
PATENT ASSERTION ENTITIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing 
to examine patent assertion entities, focusing on demand letters and 
consumer protection, after receiving testimony from Nebraska Attorney 
General Jon Bruning, Lincoln; Jon Potter, Application Developers 
Alliance, Washington, D.C.; Mark Chandler, Cisco Systems, San Jose, 
California; Julie P. Samuels, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San 
Francisco, California; Lary Sinewitz, BrandsMart USA, Hollywood, 
Florida, on behalf of The National Retail Federation; and Adam Mossoff, 
George Mason University School of Law Center for the Protection of 
Intellectual Property, Arlington, Virginia.
COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY DRAFT REGIONAL RECOMMENDATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the Draft Regional Recommendation 
regarding the Columbia River Treaty, after receiving testimony from 
Brigadier General John Kem, Commander, United States Army Corps of 
Engineers, Northwestern Division, Department of Defense, and Member, 
United States Entity for the Columbia River Treaty, and Stephen Oliver, 
Vice President, Generation Asset Management, Bonneville Power 
Administration, Department of Energy, and Coordinator, United States 
Entity for the Columbia River Treaty; Joel Moffett, Columbia River 
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Kristin Meira, Pacific Northwest 
Waterways Association, and Gregory Haller, Pacific Rivers Council, all 
of Portland, Oregon; Thomas Karier, Northwest Power and Conservation 
Council, Spokane, Washington; George Caan, Washington Public Utilities 
Districts Association, Olympia; and Norm Semanko, Idaho Water Users 
Association, Boise.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Heather Anne Higginbottom, of the District 
of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, Sarah 
Sewall, of Massachusetts, to be Under Secretary for Civilian Security, 
Democracy, and Human Rights, and Richard Stengel, of New York, to be 
Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, all of the Department of State, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
AUTO SAFETY AND MENTAL HEALTH
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Oversight, Federal Rights 
and Agency Action concluded a hearing to examine rules delayed on auto 
safety and mental health, after receiving testimony from former 
Representative Patrick J. Kennedy; Thomas O. McGarity, University of 
Texas School of Law, Austin; Clarence M. Ditlow, Center for Auto 
Safety, Washington, D.C.; Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania 
Penn Program on Regulation, Philadelphia; and Cathy Morelli, 
Southington, Connecticut.