[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 110 (Tuesday, July 15, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D784-D785]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
approved for full committee consideration an original bill making 
appropriations for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2015.
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT TO THE CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the 
Congress, after receiving testimony from Janet L. Yellen, Chair, Board 
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Elliot F. Kaye, of New York, to 
be a Commissioner and Chairman, and Joseph P. Mohorovic, of Illinois, 
and Robert S. Adler, of the District of Columbia, both to be a 
Commissioner, all of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Judith M. 
Davenport, of Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Sembler, of Florida, both to 
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting, Victor M. Mendez, of Arizona, to be Deputy Secretary, and 
Peter M. Rogoff, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Policy, both of 
the Department of Transportation, Bruce H. Andrews, of New York, to be 
Deputy Secretary, and Marcus Dwayne Jadotte, of Florida, to be an 
Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Commerce, and a Coast 
Guard Promotion List.
WILDLAND FIRE PREPAREDNESS AND FOREST SERVICE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine wildland fire preparedness and to consider the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2015 for the Forest 
Service, after receiving testimony from Senators Feinstein, McCain, and 
Crapo; Thomas Tidwell, Chief, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Kim Thorsen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior 
for Public Safety, Resource Protection and Emergency Services; Ken 
Pimlott, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Chief, 
Sacramento; Dan Gibbs, Summit County Commissioner, Breckenridge, 
Colorado; and David Porter Tenney, Navajo County Board of Supervisors, 
Holbrook, Arizona.
CHRONIC ILLNESS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine chronic 
illness, focusing on addressing patients' unmet needs, after receiving 
testimony from Stephanie Dempsey, American Heart Association, 
Varnville, South Carolina; William A. Bornstein, Emory University 
Healthcare, Atlanta, Georgia; Cheryl DeMars, The Alliance, Fitchburg, 
Wisconsin; and Mary Margaret Lehmann, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of John R. Bass, of New York, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Turkey, Jane D. Hartley, of New York, to be 
Ambassador to the French Republic, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as

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Ambassador to the Principality of Monaco, Kevin F. O'Malley, of 
Missouri, to be Ambassador to Ireland, who was introduced by Senators 
McCaskill and Blunt, James D. Pettit, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Moldova, and Brent Robert Hartley, of Oregon, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia, all of the Department of State, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
WOMEN'S HEALTH PROTECTION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 
1696, to protect a women's right to determine whether and when to bear 
a child or end a pregnancy by limiting restrictions on the provision of 
abortion services, focusing on removing barriers to constitutionally 
protected reproductive rights, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Baldwin; Representatives Black, Chu, and Blackburn; Wisconsin State 
Representative Chris Taylor, Madison; Nancy Northup, Center for 
Reproductive Rights, New York, New York; Monique V. Chireau, Duke 
University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Carol Tobias, 
National Right to Life Committee, Washington, D.C.; and Willie Parker, 
Birmingham, Alabama.
CYBERCRIMINAL NETWORKS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism 
concluded a hearing to examine taking down botnets, focusing on public 
and private efforts to disrupt and dismantle cybercriminal networks, 
after receiving testimony from Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney 
General, Criminal Division, Joseph Demarest, Assistant Director, Cyber 
Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of 
Justice; Richard Domingues Boscovich, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, 
Washington; Cheri F. McGuire, Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, 
California; Paul Vixie, Farsight Security, Inc., San Mateo, California; 
and Craig D. Spiezle, Online Trust Alliance, Bellevue, Washington.
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.