[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 100 (Wednesday, June 25, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D709-D711]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. NUCLEAR DETERRENCE POLICY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces received 
a closed briefing on United States nuclear deterrence policy from Gary 
Samore, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Belfer 
Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 
Keith B. Payne, National Institute for Public Policy, Fairfax, 
Virginia; and Paul J. Bracken, Yale School of Management, New Haven, 
Connecticut.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Julian Castro, of Texas, to be 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Laura S. Wertheimer, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Inspector General of the Federal 
Housing Finance Agency.
FINANCIAL STABILITY OVERSIGHT COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council annual 
report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Jacob J. Lew, 
Secretary of the Treasury.
YOUNG WORKERS AND RECENT GRADUATES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Economic Policy concluded a hearing to examine young workers and recent 
graduates in the United States economy, after receiving testimony from 
Emma Kallaway, Oregon Student Association, Portland; Rory O'Sullivan, 
Young Invincibles, Washington, D.C.; Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy 
Institute, Silver Spring, Maryland; and Keith Hall, George Mason 
University Mercatus Center, Oakton, Virginia.

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IMPROVING AVIATION SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security concluded a hearing to 
examine NextGen, focusing on a review of progress, challenges, and 
opportunities for improving aviation safety and efficiency, after 
receiving testimony from Michael G. Whitaker, Deputy Administrator, 
Federal Aviation Administration, and Matthew E. Hampton, Assistant 
Inspector General for Aviation Audits, both of the Department of 
Transportation; Paul Rinaldi, National Air Traffic Controllers 
Association, Washington, DC; and Gary Beck, Alaska Airlines, Seattle, 
Washington.
NEXUS OF ENERGY AND WATER FOR SUSTAINABILITY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 1971, to establish an 
interagency coordination committee or subcommittee with the leadership 
of the Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior, focused 
on the nexus between energy and water production, use, and efficiency, 
after receiving testimony from Jonathan Pershing, Principal Deputy 
Director, Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, Department of 
Energy; Tom Iseman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for 
Water and Science; Nicole T. Carter, Specialist in Natural Resources 
Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Anda Ray, 
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California; and Mary Ann 
Dickinson, Alliance for Water Efficiency, Chicago, Illinois.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of D. Nathan Sheets, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary, 
and Ramin Toloui, of Iowa, to be Deputy Under Secretary, both of the 
Department of the Treasury, and Maria Cancian, of Wisconsin, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Family Support, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
TRADE ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine trade 
enforcement, focusing on using trade rules to level the playing field 
for United States companies and workers, after receiving testimony from 
Kevin J. Brosch, BroschTrade, LLC, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the 
National Chicken Council; Richard Wilkins, American Soybean 
Association, Greenwood, Delaware; Bart Peterson, Eli Lilly and Company, 
Indianapolis, Indiana; and Leo W. Gerard, United Steelworkers, and 
Mario Longhi, United States Steel Corporation, both of Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania.
U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the future of United States-China relations, after receiving 
testimony from Daniel Russel, Assistant Secretary of State for East 
Asian and Pacific Affairs; J. Stapleton Roy, Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC; and Aaron L. 
Friedberg, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2521, Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014;
  S. 2519, National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center 
Act of 2014, with an amendment;
  H.R. 1232, to amend titles 40, 41, and 44, United States Code, to 
eliminate duplication and waste in information technology acquisition 
and management, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1691, to amend title 5, United States Code, to improve the 
security of the United States border and to provide for reforms and 
rates of pay for border patrol agents, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  H.R. 4194, to provide for the elimination or modification of Federal 
reporting requirements, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2061, to prevent conflicts of interest relating to contractors 
providing background investigation fieldwork services and investigative 
support services, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 231, to reauthorize the Multinational Species Conservation Funds 
Semipostal Stamp;
  S. 1214, to require the purchase of domestically made flags of the 
United States of America for use by the Federal Government;
  S. 2117, to amend title 5, United States Code, to change the default 
investment fund under the Thrift Savings Plan, S. 1347, to provide 
transparency, accountability, and limitations of Government sponsored 
conferences;
  H.R. 1376, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 369 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Jersey City, New 
Jersey, as the ``Judge Shirley A. Tolentino Post Office Building'';

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  H.R. 1813, to redesignate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 162 Northeast Avenue in Tallmadge, Ohio, as the 
``Lance Corporal Daniel Nathan Deyarmin, Jr., Post Office Building'';
  S. 2056, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 13127 Broadway Street in Alden, New York, as the 
``Sergeant Brett E. Gornewicz Memorial Post Office'';
  S. 2057, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 198 Baker Street in Corning, New York, as the 
``Specialist Ryan P. Jayne Post Office Building''; and
  The nomination of Shaun L. S. Donovan, of New York, to be Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2449, to reauthorize certain provisions of the Public Health 
Service Act relating to autism, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  The nominations of William D. Adams, of Maine, to be Chairperson of 
the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Robert M. Gordon, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Education for 
Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine economic development, focusing on encouraging investment in 
Indian country, after receiving testimony from Dennis Nolan, Acting 
Director, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, Department 
of the Treasury; Gary Davis, The National Center for American Indian 
Enterprise Development, Mesa, Arizona; William M. Lettig, KeyBank, 
Bellevue, Washington; Gerald Sherman, Native CDFI Network, Roscoe, 
Montana; Kevin J. Allis, Native American Contractors Association and 
Potawatomi Business Development Corporation, Washington, DC; and Sherry 
L. Rupert, American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association, 
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
VOTING RIGHTS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 
1945, to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for 
determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to 
section 4 of the Act, focusing on updating the ``Voting Rights Act'' in 
response to Shelby County v. Holder, after receiving testimony from 
Texas State Senator Sylvia R. Garcia, Houston; Michael A. Carvin, Jones 
Day, Abigail Thernstrom, American Enterprise Institute, and Sherrilyn 
Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., all of 
Washington, DC; and Francys Johnson, Georgia NAACP, Statesboro.
EARLY AND ABSENTEE VOTING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine how early and absentee voting can benefit citizens and 
administrators, focusing on election administration, after receiving 
testimony from Kate Brown, Oregon Secretary of State, Salem; John C. 
Fortier, Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC; Rhonda Whiting, 
Western Native Voice Board of Directors, Missoula, Montana; and Larry 
Lomax, former Clark County Registrar, Las Vegas, Nevada.
BRAIN INJURIES AND DISEASES
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
brain injuries and diseases of aging, after receiving testimony from 
Christopher Nowinski, Sports Legacy Institute, and Robert A. Stern, 
Boston University School of Medicine, both of Boston, Massachusetts; 
Jacob W. VanLandingham, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and Florida 
State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee; and Ben Utecht, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota.