[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 167 (Thursday, November 21, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1128-D1129]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Janet L. Yellen, of California, to 
be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine housing finance reform, focusing on powers and 
structure of a strong regulator, including S. 1217, to provide 
secondary mortgage market reform, after receiving testimony from Alfred 
M. Pollard, General Counsel, Federal Housing Finance Agency; Diane 
Ellis, Director, Division of Insurance and Research, Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation; Kurt Regner, Arizona Department of Insurance 
Assistant Director, Phoenix, on behalf of the National Association of 
Insurance Commissioners; Bart Dzivi, The Dzivi Law Firm, Sausalito, 
California; Robert M. Couch, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, 
Birmingham, Alabama, on behalf of the Bipartisan Policy Center Housing 
Commission; and Paul Leonard, The Financial Services Roundtable Housing 
Policy Council, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Paul Nathan Jaenichen, Sr., of 
Kentucky, to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration, and Debra 
L. Miller, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation 
Board, both of the Department of Transportation, and Arun Madhavan 
Kumar, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade 
Promotion and Director General of the United States and Foreign 
Commercial Service, after the nominees testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 258, to amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 
to improve the management of grazing leases and permits, with 
amendments;
  S. 364, to establish the Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Management 
Area, to designate certain Federal land as wilderness, and to improve 
the management of noxious weeds in the Lewis and Clark National Forest;
  S. 715, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use designated 
funding to pay for construction of authorized rural water projects, 
with amendments;
  S. 782, to amend Public Law 101-377 to revise the boundaries of the 
Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train 
Station, with amendments;
  S. 974, to provide for certain land conveyances in the State of 
Nevada;
  S. 995, to authorize the National Desert Storm Memorial Association 
to establish the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial as a 
commemorative work in the District of Columbia;
  S. 1044, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the 
area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a 
suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President 
Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on D-Day, June 6, 
1944;
  S. 1252, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate 
segments of the Missisquoi River and the Trout River in the State of 
Vermont, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
  H.R. 507, to provide for the conveyance of certain land inholdings 
owned by the United States to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona;

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  H.R. 697, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in 
Clark County, Nevada, for the environmental remediation and reclamation 
of the Three Kids Mine Project Site;
  H.R. 862, to authorize the conveyance of two small parcels of land 
within the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest containing 
private improvements that were developed based upon the reliance of the 
landowners in an erroneous survey conducted in May 1960;
  H.R. 876, to authorize the continued use of certain water diversions 
located on National Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No 
Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the State of 
Idaho; and
  H.R. 1033, to authorize the acquisition and protection of nationally 
significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War 
and the War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection Program, 
with amendments.
CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 
adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 13, 2006, 
and signed by the United States of America on June 30, 2009 (TD112-7), 
after receiving testimony from John F. Kerry, Secretary of State; 
Frances W. West, IBM Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts; C. Boyden 
Gray, C. Boyden Gray and Associates, Washington, DC.; Jeremy Rabkin, 
George Mason School of Law, Arlington, Virginia; and Curtis A. Bradley, 
Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina.
NORTH AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
and Central Asian Affairs concluded a hearing to examine the political, 
economic, and security situation in North Africa, after receiving 
testimony from Richard Schmierer, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Amanda Dory, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs; Alina L. 
Romanowski, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, 
U.S. Agency for International Development; and Frederic Wehrey, 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Middle East Program, and 
Thomas Joscelyn, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, both of 
Washington, DC.
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.