[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 52 (Tuesday, April 1, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D345-D346]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded opened and closed hearings to examine 
proliferation prevention programs at the Department of Energy and at 
the Department of Defense in review of the Defense Authorization 
Request for fiscal year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
after receiving testimony from Anne M. Harrington, Deputy Administrator 
for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy; Rebecca K. C. Hersman, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and 
Kenneth A. Myers III, Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 
and Director of the United States Strategic Command Center for 
Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction, both of the Department of 
Defense; Michael L. Lansdown, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for 
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Chemical Warfare, Office of the 
Director of National Intelligence; and Simon G. Limage, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation Programs, Bureau of 
International Security and Nonproliferation.
OPPORTUNITY, MOBILITY, AND INEQUALITY IN TODAY'S ECONOMY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
opportunity, mobility, and inequality in today's economy, after 
receiving testimony from Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, New 
York,

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New York; Raj Chetty, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and 
Keith Hall, George Mason University Mercatus Center, Arlington, 
Virginia.
SATELLITE TELEVISION EXTENSION AND LOCALISM ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, and the Internet concluded a hearing to 
examine reauthorization of the ``Satellite Television Extension and 
Localism Act'', after receiving testimony from William Lake, Bureau 
Chief, Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; Gordon Smith, 
National Association of Broadcasters, Michael K. Powell, National Cable 
and Telecommunications Association, and Matthew F. Wood, Free Press, 
all of Washington, D.C.; Michael W. Palkovic, DIRECTV, El Segundo, 
California; and Tom Rogers, TiVo Inc., New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  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 October 2, 1996, 
signed September 23, 2009, at Washington, with a related agreement 
effected by an exchange of notes September 23, 2009, as corrected by an 
exchange of notes effected November 16, 2010 (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 at 
Luxembourg May 20, 2009, with a related agreement effected by exchange 
of notes 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 at Budapest February 4, 2010, with a related agreement 
effected by exchange of notes 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 at Washington February 4, 2010, with a 
Protocol and a related agreement effected by exchange of notes February 
4, 2010, as corrected by exchanges of notes effected February 25, 2011, 
and February 10 and 21, 2012 (Treaty Doc. 112-8);
  Protocol Amending the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance 
in Tax Matters, done at Paris May 27, 2010 (Treaty Doc. 112-5); and
  S. Res. 384, expressing the sense of the Senate concerning the 
humanitarian crisis in Syria and neighboring countries, resulting 
humanitarian and development challenges, and the urgent need for a 
political solution to the crisis.
CATERPILLAR OFFSHORE TAX STRATEGY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine 
Caterpillar's offshore tax strategy, after receiving testimony from 
Bret Wells, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas; Reuven S. 
Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan Law School International Tax Master 
of Law Program, Ann Arbor; Thomas F. Quinn, Chicago, Illinois, James 
Bowers, Dallas, Texas, and Steven Williams, McLean, Virginia, all of 
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC; and Julie A. Lagacy, Robin D. Beran, and 
Rodney Perkins, all of Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Illinois.
PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine S. 84, to amend the Fair Labor Standards 
Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of 
discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, after 
receiving testimony from Deborah Thompson Eisenberg, University of 
Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore; ReShonda Young, 
Alpha Express, Inc, Waterloo, Iowa; Camille A. Olson, Seyfarth Shaw 
LLP, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and 
Kerri Sleeman, Hancock, Michigan.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Beth Bloom, and Darrin P. Gayles, both to be a 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, and 
Paul G. Byron, and Carlos Eduardo Mendoza, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, after the nominees, 
who were all introduced by Senators Nelson and Rubio, testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
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.