[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 29, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D430-D431]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INNOVATION THROUGH FEDERAL INVESTMENTS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
driving innovation through Federal investments, after receiving 
testimony from John P. Holdren, Director, Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; Ernest Moniz, 
Secretary of Energy; Francis S. Collins, Director, National Institutes 
of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; France Cordova, 
Director, National Science Foundation; and Arati Prabhakar, Director, 
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force in review of 
the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2015 and the Future 
Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Deborah Lee 
James, Secretary, and General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF, Chief of Staff, 
both of the Air Force, and Lieutenant General Dennis M. McCarthy, USMCR 
(Ret.), Chair, and R. L. Brownlee, Janine A. Davidson, Margaret C. 
Harrell, General Raymond E. Johns, Jr., USAF (Ret.), and

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Lieutenant General Harry M. Wyatt III, ANG (Ret.), each a Member, 
National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force, all of the 
Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Stanley Fischer, of New York, to 
be Vice Chairman, Jerome H. Powell, of Maryland, and Lael Brainard, of 
the District of Columbia, all to be a Member of the Board of Governors 
of the Federal Reserve System, Gustavo Velasquez Aguilar, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary, and Nani A. Coloretti, 
of California, to be Deputy Secretary, both of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, and J. Mark McWatters, of Texas, to be a 
Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board.
  Also, committee began consideration of S. 1217, to provide secondary 
mortgage market reform, but did not complete action thereon, and 
recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Julia Akins Clark, of 
Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations 
Authority, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her 
own behalf.
WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine workers' 
Memorial Day, focusing on if existing private sector whistleblower 
protections are adequate to ensure safe workplaces, after receiving 
testimony from David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Emily A. Spieler, 
Northeastern University School of Law, and Gregory Keating, Littler 
Mendelson, P.C., both of Boston, Massachusetts; and Thomas Devine, 
Government Accountability Project, Washington, D.C.; and Ross Baize, 
United Auto Workers, East Peoria, Illinois.
LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSES TO DISABLED AMERICANS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Human Rights concluded a hearing to examine law enforcement 
responses to disabled Americans, focusing on promising approaches for 
protecting public safety, after receiving testimony from Denise E. 
O'Donnell, Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice 
Programs, Department of Justice; Jay M. Quam, Hennepin County District 
Court Judge, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Alfonza Wysinger, Chicago Police 
Department First Deputy Superintendent, Chicago, Illinois; Aubrey Dale 
Paul Jr., Plano Police Department, Frisco, Texas; Pete Earley, Fairfax, 
Virginia; and Patti Saylor, Frederick, Maryland.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a joint closed 
hearing with the Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging 
Threats and Capabilities, to examine certain intelligence matters, 
receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
   Committee recessed subject to the call.