[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 15, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D51-D52]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SITUATION IN IRAQ AND SYRIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
the situation in Iraq and Syria from Derek H. Chollet, Assistant 
Secretary for International Security Affairs, and Vice Admiral Frank C. 
Pandolfe, USN, Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Staff, 
both of the Department of Defense; Gerald M. Feierstein, Principal 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; and Alan 
R. Pino, National Intelligence Officer for Near East, and David Peck, 
Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats, both of 
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
REGULATING FINANCIAL HOLDING COMPANIES AND PHYSICAL COMMODITIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection concluded a hearing to 
examine regulating financial holding companies and physical 
commodities, after receiving testimony from Norman C. Bay, Director, 
Office of Enforcement, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Vincent 
McGonagle, Director, Division of Market Oversight, Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission; and Michael S. Gibson, Director, Division of 
Banking Supervision and Regulation, Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System.
FUTURE OF UNMANNED AVIATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the future of unmanned aviation in the United 
States economy, focusing on safety and privacy considerations, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Feinstein; Michael P. Huerta, 
Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration; Mary Cummings, Duke 
University Humans and Autonomy Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina; 
Henio Arcangeli, Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., Cypress, California; 
and Christopher R. Calabrese, American Civil Liberties Union, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary 
of the Treasury, and Rhonda K. Schmidtlein, of Missouri, to be a Member 
of the United States International Trade Commission.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of R. Gil Kerlikowske, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Commissioner of Customs, Department of Homeland Security, who was 
introduced by Senators Murray and Cantwell, and L. Paige Marvel, of 
Maryland, and Tamara Wenda Ashford, of Virginia, both to be a Judge of 
the United States Tax Court, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
IMPLICATIONS OF THE CRISIS IN UKRAINE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine implications of the crisis in Ukraine, after receiving 
testimony from Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary for European and 
Eurasian Affairs, and Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, both of the Department of State; and 
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 1901, to authorize the President to extend the term of the nuclear 
energy agreement with the Republic of Korea until March 19, 2016; and
  The nominations of Cynthia H. Akuetteh, of the District of Columbia, 
to be Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic, and to serve concurrently 
and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Democratic 
Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Catherine Ann Novelli, of Virginia, 
to be Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, 
Tina S. Kaidanow, of the District of Columbia, to be Coordinator for 
Counterterrorism, with the rank and status of Ambassador at Large, 
Michael A. Hammer, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Chile, Kevin Whitaker, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Colombia, Daniel W. Yohannes, of Colorado, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for 
Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador, 
Sarah Sewall, of Massachusetts, to be Under Secretary for Civilian 
Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Helen Meagher La Lime, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola,

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Larry Edward Andre, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Islamic 
Republic of Mauritania, Eric T. Schultz, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Zambia, Carlos Roberto Moreno, of California, to be 
Ambassador to Belize, Adam M. Scheinman, of Virginia, to be Special 
Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation, Timothy 
M. Broas, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of the 
Netherlands, Donald Lu, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Albania, Robert A. Sherman, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to 
the Portuguese Republic, Karen Clark Stanton, of Michigan, to be 
Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Amy Jane Hyatt, 
of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Palau, Tomasz P. 
Malinowski, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Crystal Nix-Hines, of California, 
for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as the United 
States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, 
Scientific, and Cultural Organization, John Hoover, of Massachusetts, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone, Thomas Frederick 
Daughton, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, 
Dwight L. Bush, Sr., of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to 
the Kingdom of Morocco, Matthew T. Harrington, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho, Charles Hammerman Rivkin, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Economic and 
Business Affairs, Mark Bradley Childress, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to the United Republic of Tanzania, Pamela K. Hamamoto, of Hawaii, to 
be Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the 
United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, with 
the rank of Ambassador, Michael Stephen Hoza, of Washington, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, Brian A. Nichols, of Rhode 
Island, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, Eunice S. Reddick, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, 
Bruce Heyman, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to Canada, Richard Stengel, 
of New York, to be Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, and Anthony 
Luzzatto Gardner, of New York, to be Representative of the United 
States of America to the European Union, with the rank and status of 
Ambassador, all of the Department of State, Catherine Ann Novelli, of 
Virginia, to be United States Alternate Governor of the International 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, United States Alternate 
Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank, and to be United 
States Alternate Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and 
Development, Carolyn Hessler Radelet, of Virginia, to be Director of 
the Peace Corps, Michael G. Carroll, of New York, to be Inspector 
General, United States Agency for International Development, Mark E. 
Lopes, of Arizona, to be United States Executive Director of the Inter-
American Development, Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be United 
States Alternate Governor of the International Monetary Fund, and Dana 
J. Hyde, of Maryland, to be Chief Executive Officer, Millennium 
Challenge Corporation.
SPECIAL NEEDS OF AMERICA'S HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
aging in comfort, focusing on assessing the special needs of America's 
Holocaust survivors, after receiving testimony from Sandor E. Samuels, 
Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Los Angeles, California; Elihu Kover, 
Selfhelp Community Services, New York, New York; Lee I. Sherman, 
Association of Jewish Family and Children's Agencies, Baltimore, 
Maryland; Jack Rubin and David Rubin, both of Boynton Beach, Florida; 
and Anat Bar-Cohen, Bethesda, Maryland.
COUNTERNARCOTICS EFFORTS IN AFGHANISTAN
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine strategies to counter the drug trade as 
United States troop drawdown continues, focusing on the future of 
United States counternarcotics efforts in Afghanistan, after receiving 
testimony from William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary of State for 
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; James L. Capra, 
Chief of Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of 
Justice; Erin Logan, Principal Director for Counternarcotics and Global 
Threats, Office of the Secretary of Defense; and John F. Sopko, Special 
Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.