[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 166 (Wednesday, November 20, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1117-D1118]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOLDIERS AS CONSUMERS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine soldiers as consumers, focusing on business 
practices relating to the military community, after receiving testimony 
from Hollister K. Petraeus, Assistant Director, Consumer Financial 
Protection Bureau, Office of Servicemember Affairs; Charles A. Harwood, 
Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade 
Commission; Dwain Alexander, II, Senior Civilian Attorney, Regional 
Legal Service Office, Mid-Atlantic, United States Navy, Department of 
Defense; Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Nashville; 
and Deanna R. Nelson, New York Assistant Attorney General In Charge 
(Watertown Regional), Watertown.
PUBLIC LANDS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded a hearing to examine S. 182, to 
provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by the 
city of Anchorage, Alaska, for purposes of economic development by 
conveyance of the Federal reversion interest to the City, S. 483, to 
designate the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Conservation Area in the 
State of California, S. 771, to provide to the Secretary of the 
Interior a mechanism to cancel contracts for the sale of materials CA-
20139 and CA-22901, S. 776, to establish the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness 
in the State of New Mexico, to provide for the conveyance of certain 
parcels of National Forest System land in the State, S. 841, to 
designate certain Federal land in the San Juan National Forest in the 
State of Colorado as wilderness, S. 1305, to provide for the conveyance 
of the Forest Service Lake Hill Administrative Site in Summit County, 
Colorado, S. 1341, to modify the Forest Service Recreation Residence 
Program as the program applies to units of the National Forest System 
derived from the public domain by implementing a simple, equitable, and 
predictable procedure for determining cabin user fees, S. 1414, to 
provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of 
Oregon to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw 
Indians, S. 1415, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land 
in the State of Oregon to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of 
Indians, S. 1479, to address the forest health, public safety, and 
wildlife habitat threat presented by the risk of wildfire, including 
catastrophic wildfire, on National Forest System land and public land 
managed by the Bureau of Land Management by requiring the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to expedite forest 
management projects relating to hazardous fuels reduction, forest 
health, and economic development, and S. 339, to facilitate the 
efficient extraction of mineral resources in southeast Arizona by 
authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-Federal land, 
after receiving testimony from Senators Boxer, Udall (NM), and Bennet; 
Representatives McKeon and Tipton; Steven A. Ellis, Acting Deputy 
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Leslie 
A. C. Weldon, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; Mayor Robert Kellar, Santa Clarita, 
California; Robert Garcia, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, 
and Siuslaw Indians, Springfield, Oregon; Terry Rambler, San Carlos 
Apache Tribe, San Carlos, Arizona; and Michael Rondeau, Cow Creek Band 
of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Roseburg, Oregon.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary 
of the Treasury, who was introduced by former Senator Paul Sarbanes, 
and Rhonda K. Schmidtlein, of Missouri, to be a Member of the United 
States International Trade Commission, 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 nomination of Jeh Charles Johnson, of 
New Jersey, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
NATIONAL SECURITY WORKFORCE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal 
Workforce concluded a hearing to examine the national security 
workforce, focusing on actions needed to help ensure correct 
designations on national security positions, after receiving testimony 
from Brian Prioletti, Office of the National Counterintelligence 
Executive, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Timothy F. 
Curry, Deputy Associate Director, Partnership and Labor Relations, 
Office of Personnel Management; Brenda S. Farrell, Director, Defense 
Capabilities and

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Management, Government Accountability Office; and David A. Borer, 
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, and Angela 
Canterbury, Project on Government Oversight, both of Washington, DC.
HEALTH RELATING TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine health relating 
to social and economic status, after receiving testimony from Steven 
Woolf, Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health, 
Richmond; Lisa F. Berkman, Harvard University Center for Population and 
Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Nicholas Eberstadt, 
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.; David A. Kindig, 
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison; 
Michael Reisch, University of Maryland School of Social Work, 
Baltimore; and Sabrina Shrader, Athens, West Virginia.
CARCIERI
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Carcieri, focusing on bringing certainty to trust land acquisitions, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Feinstein; Kevin K. Washburn, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Diane Dillon, 
Napa County Supervisor, Sacramento, California, on behalf of the 
California State Association of Counties; Jacqueline Johnson-Pata, 
National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC.; and Marshall 
Pierite, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Nashville, Tennessee, on 
behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of David Jeremiah Barron, of Massachusetts, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, after the nominee testified 
and answered questions in his own behalf.
SMALL BUSINESS AFFORDABLE CARE ACT EXCHANGES
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Affordable Care Act implementation, focusing on how 
to achieve a successful rollout of the small business exchanges, after 
receiving testimony from Phyllis C. Borzi, Assistant Secretary of 
Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration; Gary Cohen, Deputy 
Administrator and Director, Center for Consumer Information and 
Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Marianne O'Brien Markowitz, 
Regional Administrator, Region V, Small Business Administration; 
William Nold, Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange Deputy Executive 
Director, Frankfort; Mila Kofman, DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority 
Executive Director, Washington, DC.; Martin Hickey, New Mexico Health 
Connections Chief Executive Officer, Albuquerque; David M. Allen, 
Flatirons Practice Management, Boulder, Colorado; Sheila A. Salter, 
early2surg, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Connie E. Evans, Association 
for Enterprise Opportunity, Arlington, Virginia; and Drew Greenblatt, 
Marlin Steel Wire Products, LLC, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the 
National Association of Manufacturers.