[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 91 (Thursday, June 12, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D643]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the importance of child nutrition programs to our 
nation's health, economy and national security, after receiving 
testimony from General Richard E. Hawley, USAF (Ret.), Mission: 
Readiness, Newport News, Virginia; Otha Thornton, Jr., National PTA, 
Fort Stewart, Georgia; Stephen Cook, University of Rochester Medical 
Center, Rochester, New York; and Yolanda Stanislaus, Francis Scott Key 
Middle School, Silver Spring, Maryland.
SECURITY SITUATION IN IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
the security situation in Iraq from Elissa Slotkin, Performing the 
Duties of the Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, and 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security 
Affairs, Paul N. Wolfe, Senior Defense Intelligence Expert for Iraq, 
Egypt, and the Levant, Middle East and Africa Regional Center, and 
Patrick J. Pryor, Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for Combating 
Terrorism Mission Management, both of the Defense Intelligence Agency, 
and Lieutenant General John M. Bednarek, USA, Chief, Office of Security 
Cooperation-Iraq, all of the Department of Defense.
SITUATION IN UKRAINE
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, Committee 
received a closed briefing on the situation in Ukraine from Victoria 
Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; 
Evelyn N. Farkas, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, 
Ukraine, and Eurasia; Jen Fowler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes; Paige Alexander, 
Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, United 
States Agency for International Development; and the National 
Intelligence Manager for Europe and Eurasia, Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence.
REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF A NUCLEAR DEAL WITH IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine regional implications of a nuclear deal with Iran, after 
receiving testimony from Dennis Ross, The Washington Institute for Near 
East Policy, Scott Modell, Center for Strategic and International 
Studies, and Frederick W. Kagan, American Enterprise Institute, all of 
Washington, DC.
THAILAND
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
politics in Thailand from Scot Marciel, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
SECURING RADIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine securing radiological materials, after 
receiving testimony from Anne Harrington, Deputy Associate 
Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Ioanna 
Iliopulos, Director, North and South American Threat Reduction, Office 
of Global Threat Reduction, both of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration; Huban A. Gowadia, Director, Domestic Nuclear Detection 
Office, Department of Homeland Security; Mark A. Satorius, Executive 
Director for Operations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and David 
Trimble, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government 
Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1799, to reauthorize subtitle A of the Victims of Child Abuse Act 
of 1990; and
  The nominations of Geoffrey W. Crawford, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Vermont, and Lydia Kay Griggsby, of Maryland, 
to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed sessions to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.