[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 130 (Thursday, September 11, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D946]
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 Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, of California, 
to be Deputy Secretary of Energy.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Jeffery Martin Baran, of Virginia, and 
Stephen G. Burns, of Maryland, both to be a Member of the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of James Peter Zumwalt, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Guinea-Bissau, Robert T. Yamate, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Madagascar, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Union of the Comoros, 
Virginia E. Palmer, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Malawi, and David Nathan Saperstein, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, all of the 
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1535, to deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nomination of Arthur Lee Bentley III, to be United States 
Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Department of Justice.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.