[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 21, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D538-D540]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ENERGY SECURITY AND RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
concluded a hearing to examine energy security and research, after 
receiving testimony from Tom Morehouse, Acting Assistant Secretary for 
Operational Energy Plans and Programs, Dennis V.

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McGinn, Assistant Secretary of Navy for Energy, Installations, and 
Environment, Daniel Y. Chiu, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategy 
and Force Development, and Brigadier General Kenneth D. Lewis, Jr., J-5 
Deputy Director for Partnership, Strategy and Trans-Regional Policy, 
Joint Staff, all of the Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND THE COMMUNITY 
DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FUND
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2015 for the Small Business 
Administration and the Community Development Financial Institutions 
Fund, after receiving testimony from Maria Contreras-Sweet, 
Administrator, Small Business Administration; and Amias Gerety, Acting 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel met in open 
session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2015.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to mark up 
proposed legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2015 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, but did not 
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, May 22, 2014.
  Also, committee ordered favorably reported 1,275 nominations in the 
Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
DELIVERING BETTER HEALTH CARE VALUE TO CONSUMERS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine delivering better health care value to consumers, 
focusing on the first three years of the medical loss ratio, after 
receiving testimony from Wendell Potter, Center for Public Integrity, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Katy Fernandez, My Design Team and My 
Cabinet Source, Houston, Texas; Mark A. Hall, Wake Forest University, 
Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute, 
Alexandria, Virginia.
STRENGTHENING SOCIAL SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and 
Family Policy concluded a hearing to examine strengthening Social 
Security to meet the needs of tomorrow's retirees, after receiving 
testimony from Stephen C. Goss, Chief Actuary, Social Security 
Administration; Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School, New York, New York; 
Jason, J. Fichtner, George Mason University Mercatus Center, Arlington, 
Virginia; and Maya Rockeymoore, Center for Global Policy Solutions, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, of West Virginia, to be 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Stefan M. Selig, of New York, 
to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Darci L. 
Vetter, of Nebraska, to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the 
United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador.
MILITARY FORCE AUTHORIZATION FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine authorization for the use of military force after Iraq and 
Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from Stephen W. Preston, General 
Counsel, Department of Defense; Mary E. McLeod, Principal Deputy Legal 
Adviser, Department of State; Harold Hongju Koh, Yale Law School, New 
Haven, Connecticut; and Michael B. Mukasey, former Attorney General of 
the United States, Debevoise and Plimpton, New York, New York.
INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs with 
the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs concluded a hearing 
to examine the escalating international wildlife trafficking crisis, 
focusing on ecological, economic and national security issues, after 
receiving testimony from Judith G. Garber, Acting Assistant Secretary, 
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific 
Affairs, and Brooke Darby, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International 
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, both of the Department of State; 
Dan Ashe, Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the 
Interior; and Eric G. Postel, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for 
Economic Growth, Education and Environment, U.S. Agency for 
International Development.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:

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   S. 2354, DHS Cybersecurity Workforce Recruitment and Retention Act 
of 2014, with an amendment;
  S. 1744, to strengthen the accountability of individuals involved in 
misconduct affecting the integrity of background investigations, to 
update guidelines for security clearances, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2113, to provide taxpayers with an annual report disclosing the 
cost and performance of Government programs and areas of duplication 
among them, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 1233, to amend chapter 22 of title 44, United States Code, 
popularly known as the Presidential Records Act, to establish 
procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionally based 
privilege against disclosure of Presidential records, with an 
amendment;
  S. 1045, to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that 
persons having seriously delinquent tax debts shall be ineligible for 
Federal employment, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 675, to prohibit contracting with the enemy, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1820, to prohibit the use of Federal funds for the costs of 
official portraits of Members of Congress, heads of executive agencies, 
and heads of agencies and offices of the legislative branch;
  H.R. 1036, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 103 Center Street West in Eatonville, Washington, as 
the ``National Park Ranger Margaret Anderson Post Office'';
  H.R. 1228, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 123 South 9th Street in De Pere, Wisconsin, as the 
``Corporal Justin D. Ross Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1451, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 14 Main Street in Brockport, New York, as the 
``Staff Sergeant Nicholas J. Reid Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2391, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 5323 Highway N in Cottleville, Missouri, as the 
``Lance Corporal Phillip Vinnedge Post Office'';
  H.R. 3060, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 232 Southwest Johnson Avenue in Burleson, Texas, as 
the ``Sergeant William Moody Post Office Building''; and
  The nominations of Steven M. Wellner, to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Julia Akins Clark, of 
Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations 
Authority, and Tony Hammond, of Missouri, and Nanci E. Langley, of 
Hawaii, both to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1474, to encourage the State of Alaska to enter into 
intergovernmental agreements with Indian tribes in the State relating 
to the enforcement of certain State laws by Indian tribes, to improve 
the quality of life in rural Alaska, to reduce alcohol and drug abuse, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1603, to reaffirm that certain land has been taken into trust for 
the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatami 
Indians;
  S. 1622, to establish the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff 
Commission on Native Children, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1818, to ratify a water settlement agreement affecting the Pyramid 
Lake Paiute Tribe;
  S. 2040, to exchange trust and fee land to resolve land disputes 
created by the realignment of the Blackfoot River along the boundary of 
the Fort Hall Indian Reservation;
  S. 2132, to amend the Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-
Determination Act of 2005, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  H.R. 2388, to take certain Federal lands located in El Dorado County, 
California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of 
Miwok Indians.
INDIAN EDUCATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Indian education, focusing on the Bureau of Indian 
Education, after receiving testimony from Charles Roessel, Director, 
Bureau of Indian Education, Department of the Interior; Thomas M. 
Brady, Director, Department of Defense Education Activity; Bryan 
Brewer, and Dayna Brave Eagle, both of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine 
Ridge, South Dakota; Timothy Benally, Navajo Nation Department of Dine 
Education, Window Rock, Arizona; and Melvin Monette, National Indian 
Education Association, Washington, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation, after receiving testimony 
from James B. Comey, Jr., Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
Department of Justice.