[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 134 (Thursday, September 18, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D986-D987]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CONSUMER FINANCIAL SERVICES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine assessing and enhancing protections in consumer 
financial services, including S. 635, to amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley 
Act to provide an exception to the annual written privacy notice 
requirement, and H.R. 5130, to amend the Truth in Lending Act to 
establish a national usury rate for consumer credit transactions, after 
receiving testimony from Travis B. Plunkett, The Pew Charitable Trusts, 
Oliver I. Ireland, Morrison and Foerster, and Hilary O. Shelton, NAACP 
Washington Bureau, all of Washington, D.C.; and Sheri Ekdom, LSS Center 
for Financial Resources, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported 13 resolutions relating to General Services Administration.
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Carolyn Watts Colvin, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of 
Social Security for the term expiring January 19, 2019.
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 2828, to impose sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation, 
to provide additional assistance to Ukraine, with amendments;
  S. 2778, to require the Secretary of State to offer rewards totaling 
up to $10,000,000 for information on the kidnapping and murder of James 
Foley and Steven Sotloff;
  S. Res. 530, expressing the sense of the Senate on the current 
situation in Iraq and the urgent need to protect religious minorities 
from persecution from the Sunni Islamist insurgent and terrorist group 
the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the 
Levant (ISIL), as it expands its control over areas in northwestern 
Iraq, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, an amendment to 
the preamble, and an amendment to the title;
  S. Res. 541, recognizing the severe threat that the Ebola outbreak in 
West Africa poses to populations,

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governments, and economies across Africa and, if not properly 
contained, to regions across the globe, and expressing support for 
those affected by this epidemic, with an amendment to the preamble;
  S. Res. 540, recognizing September 15, 2014, as the International Day 
of Democracy, affirming the role of civil society as a cornerstone of 
democracy, and encouraging all governments to stand with civil society 
in the face of mounting restrictions on civil society organizations; 
and
  The nominations of Donald L. Heflin, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Cabo Verde, Craig B. Allen, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam, Stafford Fitzgerald Haney, of New 
Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica, Charles C. 
Adams, Jr., of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Finland, 
Earl Robert Miller, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Botswana, William V. Roebuck, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to 
the Kingdom of Bahrain, Judith Beth Cefkin, of Colorado, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of Tonga, and Tuvalu, 
Barbara A. Leaf, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the United Arab 
Emirates, Pamela Leora Spratlen, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Uzbekistan, Benjamin L. Cardin, of Maryland, to be a 
Representative of the United States of America to the Sixty-ninth 
Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Ronald H. 
Johnson, of Wisconsin, to be a Representative of the United States of 
America to the Sixty-ninth Session of the General Assembly of the 
United Nations, 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, David 
Nathan Saperstein, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador at 
Large for International Religious Freedom, Thomas Frieden, of New York, 
to be Representative of the United States on the Executive Board of the 
World Health Organization, and a list in the Foreign Service.
ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine overcoming persistent barriers to 
economic self-sufficiency for people with disabilities, after receiving 
testimony from Tennessee State Senator Becky Massey, Sertoma Center, 
Knoxville; Geoffrey M. Lauer, Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa, Iowa City; 
Ann Wai-Yee Kwong, University of California Berkeley, El Monte; Alison 
M. Lozano, New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities, Trenton; 
and Justin Herbst, Western Springs, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1690, to reauthorize the Second Chance Act of 2007, with 
amendments;
  S. 2646, to reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Madeline Cox Arleo, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of New Jersey, Wendy Beetlestone, Mark A. 
Kearney, Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., and Gerald J. Pappert, all to be a 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 
Victor Allen Bolden, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Connecticut, Armando Ormar Bonilla, of the District of 
Columbia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, 
Stephen R. Bough, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Missouri, David J. Hale, and Gregory N. Stivers, both to be 
a United States District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky.
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.