[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 22, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D825-D826]
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 Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC, for reappointment 
to the grade of general and to be Commandant of the Marine Corps, 
Admiral William E. Gortney, USN, for reappointment to the grade of 
admiral and to be Commander, United States Northern Command/Commander, 
North American Aerospace Defense Command, General John F. Campbell, 
USA, for reappointment to the grade of general and to be Commander, 
International Security Assistance Force/Commander, United States 
Forces, Afghanistan, and Lieutenant General Joseph L. Votel, USA, to be 
general and Commander, United States Special Operations Command, all of 
the Department of Defense, and 492 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air 
Force, and Marine Corps.
ECONOMICALLY RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine building economically resilient communities, focusing on 
local and regional approaches, after receiving testimony from Mayor 
Steven M. Fulop, Jersey City, New Jersey; Claire Collins, Bath County 
Supervisor, Bath County, Virginia, on behalf of the National 
Association of Counties; Joseph A. Calabrese, Greater Cleveland 
Regional Transit Authority, Westlake, Ohio; and Lee Gibson, Regional 
Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Reno, Nevada.
NATURAL RESOURCE PRODUCTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine leveraging America's resources as a revenue 
generator and job creator, focusing on the state and local government 
benefits in terms of revenue generated and jobs created from natural 
resource production, after receiving testimony from Greg Gould, 
Director, Office of Natural Resources Revenue, Department of the 
Interior; Laura Nelson, Utah Governor's Office of Energy Development 
Director, Salt Lake City; Charlotte A. Randolph, Lafourche Parish 
President, Thibodaux, Louisiana; Paul J. Pearce, National Forest 
Counties and Schools Coalition, Stevenson, Washington; Joel Webster, 
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Center for Western Lands, 
Missoula, Montana; Sean Shafer, Quest Offshore Resources, Inc., Sugar 
Land, Texas; and Duane Taylor, Motorcycle Industry Council, Arlington, 
Virginia.
U.S. TAX CODE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
United States Tax Code, after receiving testimony from Robert B. Stack, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Tax 
Affairs; Pascal Saint-Amans, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and 
Development, Paris, France; Mihir A. Desai, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Peter R. Merrill, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 
Washington, D.C.; Leslie Robinson, Dartmouth College Tuck School of 
Business, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Allan Sloan, Fortune, New York, 
New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted by 
the United Nations General Assembly on December 13, 2006, and signed by 
the United States of America on June 30, 2009 (the ``Convention'') 
(Treaty Doc. 112-07), with amendments; and

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  S.J. Res. 36, relating to the approval and implementation of the 
proposed agreement for nuclear cooperation between the United States 
and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICIES AND ISSUES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs, International 
Environmental Protection, and Peace Corps concluded a hearing to 
examine United States security implications of international energy and 
climate policies and issues, after receiving testimony from Amos J 
Hochstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Diplomacy, 
Bureau of Energy Resources; Eric G. Postel, Assistant Administrator, 
Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; Daniel Y. Chiu, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of Defense for Strategy and Force Development; Rear Admiral David W. 
Titley, USN (Ret.), CNA Military Advisory Board, Arlington, Virginia; 
David L. Goldwyn, Brookings Institution, and Michael Breen, Truman 
National Security Project, both of Washington, DC; and Mary J. Hutzler, 
Institute for Energy Research, Berlin, Maryland.
ABUSE OF STRUCTURED FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine abuse of 
structured financial products, focusing on misusing basket options to 
avoid taxes and leverage limits, including a set of transactions that 
utilize financial engineering and structured financial products, and if 
a growing population and complexity can hinder effective Internal 
Revenue Service (IRS) audits, after receiving testimony from James R. 
White, Director, Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office; 
Steven M. Rosenthal, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Washington, DC; 
Marty Malloy, Barclays, London, United Kingdom; and Mark Silber, 
Jonathan Mayers, and Peter F. Brown, East Setauket, New York, all of 
Renaissance Technologies LLC, Satish Ramakrishna, and Barry Bausano, 
both of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., and Gerard LaRocca, Barclays 
Bank PLC, all of New York, New York.
COAL MINERS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine coal 
miners, focusing on black lung claimants, after receiving testimony 
from Christopher P. Lu, Deputy Secretary, and Patricia Smith, 
Solicitor, both of the Department of Labor; John Howard, Director, 
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human 
Services; John Cline, Federal Black Lung Claimants, Piney View, West 
Virginia; John E. Parker, West Virginia University Health Sciences 
Center, Morgantown; Robert Bailey, Jr., United Mine Workers of America, 
Princeton, West Virginia; and Robert Briscoe, Milliman Inc., New York, 
New York.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Robert Alan McDonald, of Ohio, to be 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senators Brown and Portman, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
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.