[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 14, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D43]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities received a closed briefing on Department of Defense 
counterterrorism operations from Michael G. Vickers, Under Secretary 
for Intelligence, Gary Reid, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Lieutenant General 
William C. Mayville, Jr., USA, Director for Operations, Joint Staff, 
and Brigadier General Richard C. Gross, JAGC, USA, Legal Counsel, 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the nominations of John Roth, of Michigan, 
to be Inspector General, and Suzanne Eleanor Spaulding, of Virginia, to 
be Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs, both of the 
Department of Homeland Security, and William Ward Nooter, to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE AND TRAVEL SPENDING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine conference and travel spending across 
the Federal government, after receiving testimony from Beth F. Cobert, 
Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget, 
Executive Office of the President; Dan Tangherlini, Administrator, and 
Brian D. Miller, Inspector General, both of the General Services 
Administration; Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, Department of 
Justice; and J. Russell George, Inspector General for Tax 
Administration, Department of the Treasury.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER TRAINING CONTRACTS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Financial and Contracting Oversight concluded a hearing to examine 
management of air traffic controller training contracts, after 
receiving testimony from Mary Kay Langan-Feirson, Assistant Inspector 
General for Acquisition and Procurement Audits, Department of 
Transportation; Pat McNall, Acquisition Executive, Federal Aviation 
Administration; and Lynn Dugle, Raytheon Company, Washington, D.C.
PRESIDENT'S REVIEW GROUP ON INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNICATIONS 
TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the report of the President's Review Group on Intelligence and 
Communications Technologies, after receiving testimony from Richard A. 
Clarke, Michael J. Morell, Geoffrey R. Stone, Cass Sunstein, and Peter 
Swire, all a Member, President's Review Group on Intelligence and 
Communications Technologies.