[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 3, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D595-D596]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND 
RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies approved for full committee 
consideration an original bill making appropriations for 
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies for 
fiscal year 2015.
APPROPRIATIONS: COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies approved for full committee consideration 
an original bill making appropriations for Commerce, Justice, Science, 
and Related Agencies for fiscal year 2015.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 2244, to extend the termination date of the 
Terrorism Insurance Program established under the Terrorism Insurance 
Act of 2002, with an amendment.
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and 
Security concluded a hearing to examine surface transportation 
reauthorization, focusing on examining the safety and effectiveness of 
our transportation systems, after receiving testimony from Joseph C. 
Szabo, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Anne S. Ferro, 
Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Cynthia L. 
Quarterman, Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, and Gregory D. Winfree, Assistant Secretary for 
Research and Technology, all of the Department of Transportation.

[[Page D596]]


KLAMATH BASIN WATER RECOVERY AND ECONOMIC RESTORATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 2379, to approve and implement 
the Klamath Basin agreements, to improve natural resource management, 
support economic development, and sustain agricultural production in 
the Klamath River Basin in the public interest and the interest of the 
United States, after receiving testimony from John C. Bezdek, Senior 
Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of the Interior; Richard M. Whitman, 
Oregon Natural Resources Policy Director, Portland; Donald C. Gentry, 
The Klamath Tribes, and Becky Hyde, Upper Klamath Water Users 
Association, both of Chiloquin, Oregon; and Roger Nicholson, Sprague 
River Water Resource Foundation and Fort Klamath Critical Habitat 
Landowners, Fort Klamath, Oregon.
FARMING, FISHING, FORESTRY AND HUNTING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Green Jobs 
and the New Economy concluded a hearing to examine farming, fishing, 
forestry, and hunting in an era of changing climate, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Tester; Dan Ashe, Director, Fish and Wildlife 
Service, Department of the Interior; James K. Walls, Lake County 
Resources Initiative, Lakeview, Oregon; Clay Pope, Oklahoma Association 
of Conservation Districts, Loyal; Daniel Cohen, Atlantic Capes 
Fisheries, Inc., Cape May, New Jersey; David R. Legates, University of 
Delaware, Newark; and David B. South, Auburn University, Pickens, South 
Carolina.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine a 
constitutional amendment to restore democracy to the American people, 
including S.J. Res. 19, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended 
to affect elections, after receiving testimony from Senators Reid and 
McConnell; North Carolina State Senator Floyd McKissick, Jr., Raleigh; 
Floyd Abrams, Cahill Gordon and Reindel LLP, New York, New York; and 
Jamin B. Raskin, American University Washington College of Law, 
Washington, DC.
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.