[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 105 (Tuesday, July 8, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D740-D741]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
     (Committees not listed did not meet)
                                SITUATIONS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
 Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
     the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan from Charles T. Hagel, 
 Secretary, General Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of 
           Staff, and Alyssa Slotkin, Acting Deputy Assistant

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Secretary for International Security, all of the Department of Defense.
                    EQUITY MARKET STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC TRADING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
  hearing to examine the role of regulation in shaping equity market 
   structure and electronic trading, after receiving testimony from 
Jeffrey Sprecher, Intercontinental Exchange, and Kevin Cronin, Invesco 
   Ltd., both of Atlanta, Georgia; Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel LLC, 
  Chicago, Illinois; James J. Angel, Georgetown University McDonough 
School of Business, Fairfax, Virginia; Tom Wittman, NASDAQ OMX, Mullica 
 Hill, New Jersey; Joe Ratterman, BATS Global Markets, Inc., Overland 
Park, Kansas; and David Lauer, KOR Group LLC, Collingswood, New Jersey.
                     COMBATING FORCED LABOR AND MODERN-DAY SLAVERY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
   Affairs concluded a hearing to examine combating forced labor and 
   modern-day slavery in East Asia and the Pacific, after receiving 
   testimony from Scot Marciel, Acting Assistant Secretary, and Luis 
   CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in 
 Persons, both of the Department of State; and Neha Misra, Solidarity 
   Center, and Jesse Eaves, World Vision USA, both of Washington, DC.
                                          EUROPEAN ENERGY SECURITY
   Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
    concluded a hearing to examine renewed focus on European energy 
  security, after receiving testimony from Amos J. Hochstein, Deputy 
 Assistant Secretary for Energy Diplomacy, Bureau of Energy Resources, 
  and Hoyt Yee, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian 
 Affairs, both of the Department of State; and Edward C. Chow, Center 
  for Strategic and International Studies, Brenda Shaffer, Georgetown 
  University Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, 
Edward Lucas, Center for European Policy Analysis, and Andras Simonyi, 
 former Hungarian Ambassador to the United States and NATO, and Johns 
   Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International 
                    Studies, all of Washington, DC.
                           CHILD TRAFFICKING AND PRIVATE RE-HOMING
 Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded a hearing to examine the challenges of 
   prevention and identification in child trafficking and private re-
   homing, after receiving testimony from Joo Yeun Chang, Associate 
 Commissioner, The Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and 
  Families, Department of Health and Human Services; Abigail English, 
 Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 
Jenee Littrell, Grossmont Union High School District, San Diego County, 
       California; and Megan Twohey, Reuters, New York, New York.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
an original bill to improve cybersecurity in the United States through 
enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats.

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