[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 17, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D657-D658]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BIO BASED MANUFACTURING JOBS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine creating jobs through bio based manufacturing, 
after receiving testimony from Scott Vitters, The Coca-Cola Company, 
Atlanta, Georgia; Ashford Galbreath, Lear Corporation, Southfield, 
Michigan; Kurtis Miller, Cargill, Incorporated, Hopkins, Minnesota; 
Adam Monroe, Novozymes, Franklinton, North Carolina; and JD Hankins, 
Hankins Incorporated, Ripley, Mississippi.
APPROPRIATIONS: ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development approved for full Committee consideration an original bill 
making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for fiscal year 
2015.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED 
AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs approved for full Committee consideration an 
original bill making appropriations for the Department of State, 
Foreign Operations, and Related Agencies for fiscal year 2015.
THREATS FACING THE NAVY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower received a closed 
briefing on the major threats facing Navy forces and the current and 
projected capabilities of the Navy to meet those threats from Vice 
Admiral Joseph P. Aucoin, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, 
Warfare Systems (N9), and Arthur H. Barber III, Deputy Director, 
Assessment Division (N81B), both of the Office of the Chief of Naval 
Operations, and Joseph E. Enright, USN, Director of Integration and 
Hard Target Strategies, OPNAV N2/N61, Office of Naval Intelligence, all 
of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Julian Castro, of Texas, to be 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who was introduced by 
Senator Cornyn, and Laura S. Wertheimer, of the District of Columbia, 
to be Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PROTECTING CONSUMERS FROM DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing 
to examine protecting consumers from false and deceptive advertising of 
weight-loss products, after receiving testimony from Mary Koelbel 
Engle, Associate Director, Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of 
Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Mehmet Oz, Columbia 
University New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cliffside Park, New Jersey; 
C. Lee Peeler, Council of Better Business Bureaus Advertising Self-
Regulatory Council, New York, New York; and Steve Mister, Council for 
Responsible Nutrition, Robert H. Haralson IV, TrustInAds.org, and 
Daniel Fabricant, Natural Products Association, all of Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Jonathan Nicholas Stivers, of the District 
of Columbia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development, and Mark William Lippert, of 
Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, who was introduced by 
Senator Leahy, Theodore G. Osius III, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Joan A. Polaschik, of Virginia, 
to be Ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, all of 
the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
U.S. STOCK MARKETS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations

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concluded a hearing to examine conflicts of interest, investor loss of 
confidence, and high speed trading in the United States stock markets, 
after receiving testimony from Robert Battalio, University of Notre 
Dame Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame, Indiana; Bradley 
Katsuyama, IEX Group, Inc., and Thomas W. Farley, New York Stock 
Exchange, both of New York, New York; Joe Ratterman, BATS Global 
Markets, Inc., Lenexa, Kansas; Joseph Brennan, The Vanguard Group, 
Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania; and Steven Quirk, TD Ameritrade, Omaha, 
Nebraska.
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.
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