[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 180 (Wednesday, December 18, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1213]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           DECEMBER 19, 2013

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider S. 37, to sustain the economic development and recreational 
use of National Forest System land and other public land in the 
State of Montana, to add certain land to the National Wilderness 
Preservation System, to release certain wilderness study areas, to 
designate new areas for recreation, S. 404, to preserve the Green 
Mountain Lookout in the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the Mount Baker-
Snoqualmie National Forest, S. 974, to provide for certain land 
conveyances in the State of Nevada, S. 1237, to improve the 
administration of programs in the insular areas, S. 1300, to amend 
the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to provide for the 
conduct of stewardship end result contracting projects, S. 1301, to 
provide for the restoration of forest landscapes, protection of old 
growth forests, and management of national forests in the eastside 
forests of the State of Oregon, 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. 1491, to amend the Energy 
Independence and Security Act of 2007 to improve United States-
Israel energy cooperation, H.R. 1158, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the North 
Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake 
Chelan National Recreation Area, and H.R. 2337, to provide for the 
conveyance of the Forest Service Lake Hill Administrative Site in 
Summit County, Colorado, 9:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 619, 
to amend title 18, United States Code, to prevent unjust and 
irrational criminal punishments, S. 1410, to focus limited Federal 
resources on the most serious offenders, S. 1675, to reduce 
recidivism and increase public safety, S. 975, to provide for the 
inclusion of court-appointed guardianship improvement and oversight 
activities under the Elder Justice Act of 2009, and the nominations 
of John B. Owens, of California, and Michelle T. Friedland, of 
California, both to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth 
Circuit, Nancy L. Moritz , of Kansas, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Tenth Circuit, David Jeremiah Barron, of 
Massachusetts, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First 
Circuit, Matthew Frederick Leitman, Judith Ellen Levy, Laurie J. 
Michelson, and Linda Vivienne Parker, all to be a United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Christopher 
Reid Cooper, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Columbia, Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr., and Edward G. Smith, both to be 
a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, M. Douglas Harpool, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Missouri, Sheryl H. Lipman, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, Stanley 
Allen Bastian, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Washington, Manish S. Shah, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Peter Joseph 
Kadzik, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Robert L. 
Hobbs, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of 
Texas, and Gary Blankinship, to be United States Marshal for the 
Southern District of Texas, all of the Department of Justice, 10 
a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.