[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 36 (Tuesday, March 4, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D216-D217]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee announced 
that Senator Tester resigned his position as Chairman of the 
Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment effective at 
close of business on February 28, 2014.
UNITED STATES ALLIANCES IN NORTHEAST ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded a hearing to examine strengthening United States 
alliances in Northeast Asia, after receiving testimony from Daniel R. 
Russel, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs; David F. Helvey, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
East Asia; and Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations, and

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Michael R. Auslin, The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy 
Research, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Caroline Diane Krass, of the District of Columbia, 
to be General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, John P. 
Carlin, of New York, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of 
Justice, and Francis Xavier Taylor, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary 
of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis.
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.