[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 112 (Thursday, July 17, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D807-D809]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 
4870, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC, for 
reappointment to the grade of general and to be Commandant of the 
Marine Corps, Department of Defense, after the nominee testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
GENERAL MOTORS RECALLS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing 
to examine accountability and corporate culture in wake of the General 
Motors recalls, after receiving testimony from Kenneth R. Feinberg, 
Feinberg Rozen, LLP, Washington, DC; Mary T. Barra, and Michael P. 
Millikin, both of the General Motors Company, Detroit, Michigan; Rodney 
O'Neal, Delphi Automotive, Gillingham, United Kingdom; and Anton R. 
Valukas, Jenner and Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois.
FEDERAL RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the Federal research portfolio, focusing on 
capitalizing on investments in research and development, after 
receiving testimony from Vinton G. Cerf, Google, Reston, Virginia; 
Mariette DiChristina, Scientific American, New York, New York; Neal 
Lane, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, 
Texas, on behalf of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Committee 
on New Models for U.S. Science and Technology Policy; and Stephen E. 
Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
21ST CENTURY MANUFACTURING
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the role 
of trade and technology in 21st century manufacturing, after receiving 
testimony from Jacklyn A. Sturm, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, 
California; Ray Kimber, RKB Industrial and Kimber Kable, Ogden, Utah, 
on behalf of the Consumer Electronics Association; and Stephen J. 
Ezell, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, 
DC.
UNACCOMPANIED MINORS IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Central America in crisis and the exodus of unaccompanied 
minors, after receiving testimony from Thomas A. Shannon, Counselor of 
the Department of State; Bruce Swartz, Deputy Assistant Attorney 
General, and Counselor for International Affairs, Criminal Division, 
Department of Justice; and Sonia Nazario, Kids in Need of Defense 
(KIND), Cynthia J. Arnson, Woodrow Wilson International Center for 
Scholars, and Stephen Johnson, International Republican Institute, all 
of Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, of New 
Jersey, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of Bangladesh, David 
Pressman, of New York, to be Alternate Representative of the United 
States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, 
with the rank of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate Representative to 
the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during his 
tenure of service as Alternate Representative for Special Political 
Affairs in the United Nations, George Albert Krol, of New Jersey, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Allan P. Mustard, of 
Washington, to be Ambassador to Turkmenistan, and Erica J. Barks 
Ruggles, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, all 
of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their behalf.

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NEED TO IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine the need to 
improve patient safety and reduce preventable deaths, after receiving 
testimony from John T. James, Patient Safety America, Houston, Texas; 
Ashish K. Jha, Harvard School of Public Health, and Tejal K. Gandhi, 
Harvard Medical School, both of Boston, Massachusetts; Peter Pronovost, 
Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and 
Quality, Baltimore, Maryland; Joanne Disch, University of Minnesota 
School of Nursing, Minneapolis; and Lisa McGiffert, Consumers Union, 
Austin, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Pamela Harris, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Pamela Pepper, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Brenda K. Sannes, 
to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of New 
York, and Patricia M. McCarthy, of Maryland, and Jeri Kaylene Somers, 
of Virginia, both to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal 
Claims.
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.