[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 23 (Thursday, February 6, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D126-D128]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a closed hearing to 
examine counterterrorism policy in review of the Defense Authorization 
Request for fiscal year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from Michael G. Vickers, Under Secretary for 
Intelligence, Michael D. Lumpkin Assistant Secretary for Special 
Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, and Lieutenant General Joseph L. 
Votel, USA, Commander, and Lieutenant Colonel David Taylor, USA, both 
of the Joint Special Operations Command, all of the Department of 
Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Wanda Felton, of New York, to be 
First Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 
Katherine M. O'Regan, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development, and Arun Madhavan Kumar, of California, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United 
States and Foreign Commercial Service.
FINANCIAL STABILITY AND DATA SECURITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine financial stability and data security, 
after receiving testimony from Mary J. Miller, Under Secretary, and 
Thomas J. Curry, Comptroller of the Currency, both of the Department of 
the Treasury; Daniel K. Tarullo, Member, Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System; Martin J. Gruenberg, Chairman, Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation; Mary Jo White, Chair, Securities and Exchange 
Commission; and Mark P. Wetjen, Acting Chairman, Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission.
ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCE BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1784, to improve timber management on Oregon and 
California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land, and S. 1966, to 
provide for the restoration of the economic and ecological health of 
National Forest System land and rural communities, after receiving 
testimony

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from Representative DeFazio; Tomas Tidwell, Chief, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; Steven A. Ellis, Deputy Director for 
Operations, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Sid 
Leiken, Lane County Commissioner, and Dale Riddle, Seneca Sawmill 
Company, both of Eugene, Oregon; Doug Robertson, Douglas County 
Commissioner, Roseburg, Oregon, on behalf of the Association of O&C 
Counties; Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington School of 
Environmental and Forest Science, Seattle; Mike Matz, The Pew 
Charitable Trusts, Durango, Colorado; Andrew Miller, Stimson Lumber 
Company, and Sean Stevens, Oregon Wild, both of Portland, Oregon; Clint 
Georg, Saratoga Forest Management, Saratoga, Wyoming; and Mike Dombeck, 
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items;
  H.R. 1206, to grant the Secretary of the Interior permanent authority 
to authorize States to issue electronic duck stamps;
  S. 741, to extend the authorization of appropriations to carry out 
approved wetlands conservation projects under the North American 
Wetlands Conservation Act through fiscal year 2017, with an amendment;
  S. 212, to approve the transfer of Yellow Creek Port properties in 
Iuka, Mississippi;
  S. 864, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize technical 
assistance to small public water systems, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 724, to amend the Clean Air Act to remove the requirement for 
dealer certification of new light-duty motor vehicles;
  S. 51, to reauthorize and amend the National Fish and Wildlife 
Foundation Establishment Act;
  S. 970, to amend the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to 
reauthorize grants for and require applied water supply research 
regarding the water resources research and technology institutes 
established under the Act, with an amendment;
  S. 898, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey 
a parcel of real property in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Amy Biehl 
High School Foundation;
  S. 969, to amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to 
reauthorize the Act, with an amendment;
  S. 1077, to amend the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to 
provide for the reauthorization of the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and 
Watertrails Network;
  S. 1865, to amend the prices set for Federal Migratory Bird Hunting 
and Conservation Stamps and make limited waivers of stamp requirements 
for certain users;
  S. 1451, to provide for environmental restoration activities and 
forest management activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin, to amend title 
18, United States Code, to prohibit the importation or shipment of 
quagga mussels;
  S. 1080, to amend and reauthorize certain provisions relating to Long 
Island Sound restoration and stewardship;
  Proposed resolutions relating to the General Services Administration; 
and
  The nominations of Victoria Marie Baecher Wassmer, of Illinois, to be 
Chief Financial Officer, Thomas A. Burke, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Administrator, and Kenneth J. Kopocis, of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Administrator, all of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
Roy K. J. Williams, of Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Economic Development, Rhea Sun Suh, of Colorado, to be Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife, and Richard J. Engler, 
of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard 
Investigation Board.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Karen Dynan, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Luis G. Moreno, of Texas, to be Ambassador 
to Jamaica, John L. Estrada, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and Noah Bryson Mamet, of California, 
to be Ambassador to the Argentine Republic, who was introduced by 
Senator Bennet, all of the Department of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported S. 1486, to improve, sustain, and transform 
the United States Postal Service, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
HIGH-QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine supporting children and families through 
investments in high-quality early education, after receiving testimony 
from John White, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education, Baton 
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Ewen, District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington; Hirokazu 
Yoshikawa, New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education 
and Human Development, New York; and Charlotte M. Brantley, Clayton 
Early Learning, Denver, Colorado.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Indira Talwani, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Massachusetts, James D. Peterson, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin, Nancy J. 
Rosenstengel, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of Illinois, and Debo P. Adegbile, of New York, and John P. 
Carlin, of New York, both to be an Assistant Attorney General, 
Department of Justice.