[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 174 (Tuesday, December 10, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1164]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ASSISTANCE FOR JORDAN AND LEBANON
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine assistance for 
Jordan and Lebanon, after receiving testimony from Anne Richard, 
Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration; 
Alia Bouran, Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the 
United States, Amman; Antoine Chedid, Ambassador of the Lebanese 
Republic to the United States, Beirut; and Andrew Harper, and Ewen 
Macleod, both of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, New 
York, New York.
HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine housing finance reform, focusing on the fundamentals 
of transferring credit risk in a future housing finance system, 
including S. 1217, to provide secondary mortgage market reform, after 
receiving testimony from Wanda DeLeo, Deputy Director, Division of 
Conservatorship, Federal Housing Finance Agency; Kevin Palmer, Freddie 
Mac, Leesburg, Virginia; Laurel Davis, Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C.; 
Ted Durant, MGIC, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Sandeep Bordia, Barclays, 
Udaipur, India.
CRAFTING A SUCCESSFUL INCENTIVE AUCTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine crafting a successful incentive auction, focusing 
on the stakeholders' perspectives, after receiving testimony from Gary 
Epstein, Special Advisor and Chair, Incentive Auction Task Force, 
Federal Communications Commission; Joan Marsh, AT&T, Hal J. Singer, 
Progressive Policy Institute, Steven K. Berry, Competitive Carriers 
Association, Rick Kaplan, National Association of Broadcasters, and 
Harold Feld, Public Knowledge, all of Washington, D.C.; and Preston 
Padden, Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition, Boulder, 
Colorado.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine the 
nomination of John Andrew Koskinen, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury, the 
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call and will meet again on 
Wednesday, December 11, 2013.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the transition in Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from 
James F. Dobbins, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 
Department of State; and Donald L. Sampler, Assistant to the 
Administrator and Director of the Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan 
Affairs, U.S. Agency for International Development.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of David Weil, of 
Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, 
Department of Labor, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator 
Warren, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
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.