[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 29, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D88-D89]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OFFICE OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT AND OVERSIGHT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Economic Policy concluded a hearing to examine the annual report and 
oversight of the Office of Financial Research, after receiving 
testimony from Richard Berner, Director of the Office of Financial 
Research, Department of the Treasury.
POSTAL REFORM ACT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
began consideration of S. 1486, to improve, sustain, and transform the 
United States

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Postal Service, but did not complete action thereon and recessed 
subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Michael Keith Yudin, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Special Education 
and Rehabilitative Services, James Cole, Jr., of New York, to be 
General Counsel, James H. Shelton III, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Deputy Secretary, Theodore Reed Mitchell, of California, to be Under 
Secretary, and Ericka M. Miller, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Postsecondary Education, all of the Department of Education, France 
A. Cordova, of New Mexico, to be Director of the National Science 
Foundation, David Weil, of Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the 
Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, and Steven Joel Anthony, 
of Virginia, to be a Member of the Railroad Retirement Board.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1448, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe 
of Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for 
the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nomination of Vincent G. Logan, of New York, to be Special 
Trustee, Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of 
the Interior.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 919, to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 
Act to provide further self-governance by Indian tribes, after 
receiving testimony from Kevin K. Washburn, Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs; W. Ron Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, 
Sequim, Washington; Ronald Trahan, Confederated Salish and Kootenai 
Tribes, Pablo, Montana; Jerry Isaac, Tanana Chiefs Conference, 
Fairbanks, Alaska; and Mickey Peercy, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, 
Durant.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from Eric 
H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General, Department of Justice.
SENTRI ACT
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine S. 1728, to amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee 
Voting Act to improve ballot accessibility to uniformed services voters 
and overseas voters, after receiving testimony from Senator Cornyn; 
Matt Boehmer, Director, Federal Voting Assistance Program, Department 
of Defense; Kevin J. Kennedy, Wisconsin Government Accountability Board 
Director and General Counsel, Madison; and Don Palmer, Virginia Board 
of Elections Secretary of the Board, Richmond.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 
Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving 
testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
WORLDWIDE THREAT
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine worldwide threat, after receiving testimony James Clapper, 
Director, National Intelligence, and Matthew Olson, Director, National 
Counterterrorism Center, both of the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence; John Brennan, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; 
James Comey, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; and Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, Director, Defense 
Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense.