[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 26, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D175-D177]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RISING COST OF ALZHEIMER'S IN AMERICA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
concluded a hearing to examine the rising cost of Alzheimer's in 
America, focusing on families and the economy, after receiving 
testimony from former Representative Dennis Moore, Lenexa, Kansas; 
Francis S. Collins, Director, Richard J. Hodes, Director, National 
Institute on Aging, and Story C. Landis, Director, National Institute 
of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, all of the National Institutes of 
Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Michael D. Hurd, The 
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California; and Seth Rogen, Los 
Angeles, California.
MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT, POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, AND SUICIDE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a 
hearing to examine the relationships between military sexual assault, 
posttraumatic stress disorder and suicide, and on Department of Defense 
and Department of Veterans Affairs medical treatment and management of 
victims of sexual trauma, after receiving testimony from Karen S. 
Guice, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs, 
Jacqueline Garrick, Director, Suicide Prevention Office, Nathan W. 
Galbreath, Senior Executive Advisor, Sexual Assault Prevention and 
Response Office, Lance Corporal Jeremiah J. Arbogast, USMC (Ret.), and 
Jessica Kenyon, former Private First Class, USA, all of the Department 
of Defense; and Susan J. McCutcheon, National Mental Health Director, 
Family Services, Women's Mental Health and Military Sexual Trauma, and 
Margret E. Bell, Director for Education and Training, National Military 
Sexual Trauma Support Team, both of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine Department of Defense 
information technology acquisition processes, business transformation, 
and management practices in review of the Defense Authorization Request 
for fiscal year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program, including 
H.R. 1232, to amend titles 40, 41, and 44, United States Code, to 
eliminate duplication and waste in information technology acquisition 
and management, after receiving testimony from Katrina G. McFarland, 
Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Kevin J. Scheid, Acting Deputy 
Chief Management Officer, and Teresa M. Takai, Chief Information 
Officer, all of the Department of Defense; and David A. Powner, 
Director, Information Technology and Management Issues, Government 
Accountability Office.
RETIREMENT SAVINGS FOR LOW-INCOME WORKERS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and 
Family Policy concluded a hearing to examine retirement savings for 
low-income workers, after receiving testimony from J. Mark Iwry, Senior 
Advisor to the Secretary, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Retirement and Health Policy; Diane Oakley, National 
Institute on Retirement Security, Washington, D.C.; Stephen P. Utkus, 
Vanguard, Malvern, Pennsylvania; and Judy A. Miller, American Society 
of Pension Professionals and Actuaries, Arlington, Virginia.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of 
America and the Swiss Confederation for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on 
October 2, 1996, signed on September 23, 2009, at Washington, as 
corrected by an exchange of notes effected November 16, 2010 and a 
related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on September 23, 
2009 (Treaty Doc. 112-1), Protocol Amending the Convention between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the 
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and 
Capital, signed on May 20, 2009, at Luxembourg (the ``proposed 
Protocol'') and a related agreement effected by the exchange of notes 
also signed on May 20, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 111-8), Convention between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the 
Republic of Hungary for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on 
February 4, 2010, at Budapest (the ``proposed Convention'') and a 
related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on February 4, 2010 
(Treaty Doc. 111-7), Convention between the Government of the United 
States of America and the Government of the Republic of Chile for the 
Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with 
Respect to Taxes on Income and Capital, signed in Washington on 
February 4, 2010, with a Protocol signed the same day, as corrected by 
exchanges of notes effected February 25, 2011, and February 10 and 21, 
2012, and a related agreement effected by exchange of notes (the 
``related Agreement'') on February 4, 2010 (Treaty Doc. 112-8), and 
Protocol Amending the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in 
Tax Matters, done at Paris on May 27, 2010 (the ``proposed Protocol''), 
which was signed by the United States on May 27, 2010 (Treaty Doc. 112-
5), after receiving testimony from Robert Stack, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury for International Tax Affairs; Thomas A. 
Barthold, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation; William Reinsch, 
National Foreign Trade Council, Inc., and Nancy L. McLernon, 
Organization for International Investment, both of Washington, D.C.; 
and Paul B. Nolan, McCormick and Company, Inc., Sparks, Maryland.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine prospects for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 
Great Lakes Region, after receiving testimony from former Senator 
Russell D. Feingold, U.S. Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region and 
the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Roger Meece, former U.S. 
Ambassador and former United Nations Special Representative to the 
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Seattle, Washington, both of the 
Department of State; Raymond Gilpin, National Defense University Africa 
Center for Strategic Studies, Washington, D.C.; and Ben Affleck, 
Eastern Congo Initiative, Los Angeles, California.
OFFSHORE TAX EVASION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine offshore 
tax evasion, focusing on the effort to collect unpaid taxes on billions 
in hidden offshore accounts, after receiving testimony from James M. 
Cole, Deputy Attorney General, and Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney 
General, Tax Division, both of the Department of Justice; and Brady 
Dougan, and Rob Shafir, both of

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New York, New York, and Romeo Cerutti, and Hans-Ulrich Meister, both of 
Zurich, Switzerland, all of Credit Suisse.
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine early childhood development and education in Indian country, 
focusing on building a foundation for academic success, after receiving 
testimony from Linda K. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and 
Human Services and Inter-Departmental Liaison for Early Childhood 
Development, Administration for Children and Families; Danny Wells, 
Chickasaw Nation Division of Education, Ada, Oklahoma; Barbara Fabre, 
White Earth Nation Child Care/Early Childhood Program, White Earth, 
Minnesota, on behalf of the National Indian Child Care Association; 
Jacquelyn Power, Blackwater Community School, Coolidge, Arizona, on 
behalf of the Family and Child Education Program; and Elizabeth Jane 
Costello, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
COMPETITION IN THE WIRELESS MARKET
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine competition 
in the wireless market, after receiving testimony from Eric B. Graham, 
C Spire Wireless, Ridgeland, Mississippi; Roslyn Layton, Aalborg 
University, Denmark; Randal S. Milch, Verizon Communications Inc., New 
York, New York; Jonathan Spalter, Mobile Future, Berkeley, California; 
and Kathleen O'Brien Ham, T-Mobile USA, Inc., and Matthew F. Wood, Free 
Press, both of Washington, D.C.