[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 162 (Thursday, November 14, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1086-D1088]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Janet L. Yellen, of California, to 
be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Johnson (SD), 
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
MAGNUSON-STEVENS ACT REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to 
examine Southeast regional perspectives on Magnuson-Stevens Act 
reauthorization, after receiving testimony from Roy E. Crabtree, 
Southeast Regional Administrator, National Marine Fisheries Service, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of 
Commerce; Douglass Boyd, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, San 
Antonio, Texas; Ben C. Hartig, South Atlantic Fishery Management 
Council, Hobe Sound, Florida; Carlos Farchette, Caribbean Fishery 
Management Council, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; John D. Brownlee, 
Salt Water Sportsman, Islamorada, Florida; Kelly Windes, Okaloosa 
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Board of County Commission (District 5), Crestview, Florida; Robert 
Johnson, Jodie Lynn Charters, St. Augustine, Florida; Lee Crockett, The 
Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, D.C.; and William E. Tucker, 
Dunedin, Florida.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 753, to provide for national security benefits for White Sands 
Missile Range and Fort Bliss, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1169, to withdraw and reserve certain public land in the State of 
Montana for the Limestone Hills Training Area, with an amendment; and
  S. 1309, to withdraw and reserve certain public land under the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for military uses, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Steven Croley, of Michigan, to be 
General Counsel, who was introduced by Senator Stabenow, and 
Christopher Smith, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary for Fossil 
Energy, both of the Department of Energy, and Esther Puakela Kia'aina, 
of Hawaii, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular 
Affairs, who was introduced by Senators Schatz and Hirono, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 1271, to direct the President to establish guidelines for the 
United States foreign assistance programs, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1683, to provide for the transfer of naval vessels to certain 
foreign recipients;
  S. Res. 292, expressing support for the victims of the typhoon in the 
Philippines and the surrounding region; and
  The nominations of Daniel W. Yohannes, of Colorado, to be 
Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and 
Development, with the rank of Ambassador, Anthony Luzzatto Gardner, of 
New York, to be Representative to the European Union, with the rank and 
status of Ambassador, Amy Jane Hyatt, of California, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Palau, Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, of the District of 
Columbia, Theodore Strickland, of Ohio, and Stephen N. Zack, of 
Florida, all to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of 
America to the Sixty-eighth Session of the General Assembly of the 
United Nations, 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, Michael 
G. Carroll, of New York, to be Inspector General, United States Agency 
for International Development, and Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of 
Virginia, to be Director of the Peace Corps.
EGYPT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
developments in Egypt from William J. Burns, Deputy Secretary of State; 
Derek Chollet, Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, 
and Lieutenant General Terry Wolff, Director, Strategic Plans and 
Policy (J5), Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of the Department of Defense; 
and Alina Romanowski, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Middle East 
Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development.
EASTERN PARTNERSHIP
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded a hearing to examine the Eastern Partnership, focusing on the 
outlook for Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Belarus, Armenia, and 
Azerbaijan, after receiving testimony from Victoria Nuland, Assistant 
Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; and Anders 
Aslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Damon W. 
Wilson, Atlantic Council, and Ariel Cohen, The Heritage Foundation 
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, 
all of Washington, D.C.
THREATS TO THE HOMELAND
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine threats to the homeland, after receiving 
testimony from Rand Beers, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security; James 
B. Comey, Jr., Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; and Matthew G. Olsen, Director, National Counterterrorism 
Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
ENSURING ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine ensuring access to higher education, 
focusing on simplifying Federal student aid for today's college 
student, after

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receiving testimony from Bridget Terry Long, Harvard Graduate School of 
Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kim Cook, National College Access 
Network, and Kristin D. Conklin, HCM Strategists, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Judith Scott-Clayton, Columbia University Teachers College, 
New York, New York.
INDIAN COUNTRY CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS AND SEQUESTRATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
contract support costs and sequestration, focusing on Indian country, 
after receiving testimony from Kevin Washburn, Assistant Secretary of 
the Interior for Indian Affairs; Yvette Roubideaux, Acting Director, 
Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Brian 
Cladoosby, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; 
Karen R. Diver, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Cloquet, 
Minnesota; Alfred Lane, III, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of 
Oregon, Siletz; Phyliss J. Anderson, Mississippi Band of Choctaw 
Indians, Choctaw; Jefferson Keel, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, Oklahoma; and 
Aaron Payment, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Sault Ste. 
Marie, Michigan.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of 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, Vince Girdhari 
Chhabria, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District 
of California, James Maxwell Moody, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Peter C. Tobin, to be 
United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, and Amos 
Rojas, Jr., of Florida, to be United States Marshal for the Southern 
District of Florida, both of the Department of Justice.
CARTEL PROSECUTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine cartel 
prosecution, focusing on stopping price fixers and protecting 
consumers, after receiving testimony from William J. Baer, Assistant 
Attorney General, Antitrust Division, and Ronald T. Hosko, Assistant 
Director, Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; Hollis Salzman, 
Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Ciresi, L.L.P., New York, New York, on 
behalf of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws; Christopher B. 
Hockett, Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP, Menlo Park, California, on behalf 
of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law; Margaret C. 
Levenstein, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Mark Rosman, Wilson 
Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati P.C., Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.