[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 138 (Thursday, November 13, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1016-D1017]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Lourdes Maria Castro Ramirez, of 
California, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, and Therese W. McMillan, of California, to be Federal 
Transit Administrator, Department of Transportation, after the 
nominees, who were introduced by Senator Johnson (SD), testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1784, to improve timber management on Oregon and California 
Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2379, to approve and implement the Klamath Basin agreements, to 
improve natural resource management, support economic development, and 
sustain agricultural production in the Klamath River Basin in the 
public interest and the interest of the United States, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1750, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary 
of Agriculture to enter into agreements with States and political 
subdivisions of States providing for the continued operation, in whole 
or in part, of public land, units of the National Park System, units of 
the National Wildlife Refuge System, and units of the National Forest 
System in the State during any period in which the Secretary of the 
Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture is unable to maintain normal 
level of operations at the units due to a lapse in appropriations;
  S. 2104, to require the Director of the National Park Service to 
refund to States all State funds that were used to reopen and 
temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the 
October 2013 shutdown;
  S. 2602, to establish the Mountains to Sound Greenway National 
Heritage Area in the State of Washington, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 182, to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal land 
owned by the city of Anchorage, Alaska, for purposes of economic 
development by conveyance of the Federal reversion interest to the 
City, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 776, to establish the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness in the State of 
New Mexico, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of 
National Forest System land in the State, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 841, to designate certain Federal land in the San Juan National 
Forest in the State of Colorado as wilderness, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1419, to promote research, development, and demonstration of 
marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technologies, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1971, to establish an interagency coordination committee or 
subcommittee with the leadership of the Department of Energy and the 
Department of the Interior, focused on the nexus between energy and 
water production, use, and efficiency, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 398, to establish the Commission to Study the Potential Creation 
of a National Women's History Museum, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 2031, to amend the Act to provide for the establishment of the 
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in the State of Wisconsin, to adjust 
the boundary of that National Lakeshore to include the lighthouse known 
as Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute;
  H.R. 885, to expand the boundary of the San Antonio Missions National 
Historical Park;

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  S. 1328, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
special resource study of the archeological site and surrounding land 
of the New Philadelphia town site in the State of Illinois;
  H.R. 1241, to facilitate a land exchange involving certain National 
Forest System lands in the Inyo National Forest; and
  S. 2873, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acknowledge 
contributions at units of the National Park System, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Virginia Tyler Lodge, and Ronald 
Anderson Walter, who was introduced by Representative Cohen, both to be 
a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
COUNTERING ISIL IN IRAQ AND SYRIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 
committee concluded a closed hearing to examine countering ISIL in Iraq 
and Syria, after receiving testimony from General John R. Allen, USMC 
(Retired), Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to 
Counter ISIL, Department of State; and Christine Wormuth, Under 
Secretary for Policy, and Vice Admiral Frank Craig Pandolfe, Director 
for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Staff (J-5), both of the 
Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of P. David Lopez, of 
Arizona, to be General Counsel, and Charlotte A. Burrows, of the 
District of Columbia, to be a Member, both of the Equal Employment 
Opportunity Commission, who were both introduced by Senator Harkin, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Joan Marie Azrack, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of New York, Loretta Copeland Biggs, to 
be United States District Judge for the Middle District of North 
Carolina, who was introduced by Senators Hagan and Burr, Elizabeth K. 
Dillon, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of 
Virginia, and Michael P. Botticelli, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Director of National Drug Control Policy, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of David Rivera, to be United States Attorney for the Middle 
District of Tennessee, 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.