[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D59-D61]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Madelyn R.

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Creedon, of Indiana, to be Principal Deputy Administrator, National 
Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy, and Brad R. 
Carson, to be Under Secretary of the Army, and William A. LaPlante, 
Jr., to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, both 
of the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
MAP-21
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine a progress report on public transportation under the 
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), focusing on 
funding transit, improving capital decision making, and coordinating 
services for transit disadvantaged populations, after receiving 
testimony from Peter M. Rogoff, Administrator, Federal Transit 
Administration; and Dave Wise, Director, Physical Infrastructure 
Issues, Government Accountability Office.
LOCATING 911 CALLERS IN A WIRELESS WORLD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, and the Internet concluded a hearing to 
examine locating 911 callers in a wireless world, after receiving 
testimony from Gigi Smith, Association of Public-Safety Communications 
Officials (APCO) International, Daytona Beach, Florida; Claude L. 
Stout, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI), 
Silver Spring, Maryland; Chris Guttman-McCabe, CTIA--The Wireless 
Association, Washington, D.C.; Kirk Burroughs, Qualcomm Incorporated, 
San Diego, California; and Telford E. Forgety, III, NENA: The 9-1-1-
Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Michael L. Connor, of New Mexico, to be 
Deputy Secretary, Esther Puakela Kia`aina, of Hawaii, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Insular Areas, Tommy Port Beaudreau, of Alaska, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget, and Neil 
Gregory Kornze, of Nevada, to be Director of the Bureau of Land 
Management, all of the Department of the Interior, and Elizabeth M. 
Robinson, of Washington, to be Under Secretary, Franklin M. Orr, Jr., 
of California, to be Under Secretary for Science, Steven Croley, of 
Michigan, to be General Counsel, Christopher Smith, of Texas, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Jonathan Elkind, of Maryland, to 
be Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Marc A. Kastner, of 
Massachusetts, to be Director of the Office of Science, and Ellen 
Dudley Williams, of Maryland, to be Director of the Advanced Research 
Projects Agency-Energy, all of the Department of Energy.
PRESIDENT'S CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine a review of the President's Climate Action Plan, 
after receiving testimony from Regina McCarthy, Administrator, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Nancy H. Sutley, Council on 
Environmental Quality; Dan Tangherlini, Administrator, General Services 
Administration; Dan Ashe, Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Department of the Interior; former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., 
Colorado State University Center for the New Energy Economy, Fort 
Collins; Andrew E. Dessler, Texas A&M University, College Station; 
Daniel A. Lashof, Natural Resource Defense Council, New York, New York; 
Judith A. Curry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; and Kathleen 
Hartnett White, Texas Public Policy Foundation Armstrong Center for 
Energy and the Environment, Austin.
TRADE AGENDA
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
advancing Congress's trade agenda, focusing on the role of trade 
negotiating authority, after receiving testimony from David M. Cote, 
Honeywell, Morristown, New Jersey; James S. Allen, New York Apple 
Association, Inc., Victor; Elena M. Stegemann, NuStep, Inc., Ann Arbor, 
Michigan; and Larry Cohen, Communications Workers of America, 
Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Robert C. Barber, of Massachusetts, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, George James Tsunis, of New 
York, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway, who was introduced by 
Senator Schumer, and Colleen Bradley Bell, of California, to be 
Ambassador to Hungary, all of the Department of State, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
TRIO AND GEAR UP
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine strengthening Federal access programs to 
meet 21st century needs, focusing on TRIO and the Global Education and 
Awareness Research Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP), after receiving 
testimony from Maureen Hoyler, Council for Opportunity in Education, 
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Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.; Scott 
Giles, Vermont Student Assistance Corporation, Shelburne; Cornelius D. 
Griggs, Walsh Group, Chicago, Illinois; Tallie Sertich, Hibbing 
Community College TRIO Upward Bound, Hibbing, Minnesota; Weiya Liang, 
Washington State Student Achievement Council, Olympia; and Douglas N. 
Harris, Tulane University Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, 
New Orleans, Louisiana.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Carolyn B. McHugh, of Utah, and Nancy L. Moritz, of 
Kansas, both to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, 
John B. Owens, of California, and Michelle T. Friedland, of California, 
both to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, David 
Jeremiah Barron, of Massachusetts, to be United States Circuit Judge 
for the First Circuit, Jeffrey Alker Meyer, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Connecticut, Timothy L. Brooks, to 
be United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, 
James Donato, Beth Labson Freeman, and Vince Girdhari Chhabria, all to 
be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
California, Pedro A. Delgado Hernandez, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, Pamela L. Reeves, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, James 
Maxwell Moody, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Arkansas, 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, M. Douglas Harpool, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Missouri, Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr., and Edward 
G. Smith, both to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania, 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, Daniel D. Crabtree, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Kansas, Cynthia Ann Bashant, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of California, 
Jon David Levy, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Maine, Theodore David Chuang, and George Jarrod Hazel, both to be a 
United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, and Peter 
Joseph Kadzik, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General, 
Department of Justice.
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.