[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 151 (Thursday, December 11, 2014)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1118]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IMPROVING CHEMICAL FACILITY SAFETY AND SECURITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a joint 
oversight hearing with the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions to examine the implementation of the President's executive 
order on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security, after 
receiving testimony from David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor 
for Occupational Safety and Health Administration; and Mathy 
Stanislaus, Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and 
Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  An original resolution to authorize the limited use of the United 
States Armed Forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant;
  S. Con. Res. 38, expressing the sense of Congress that Warren 
Weinstein should be returned home to his family, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 595, recognizing Nobel Laureates Kailash Satyarthi and Malala 
Yousafzai for their efforts to end the financial exploitation of 
children and to ensure the right of all children to an education, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 597, commemorating and supporting the goals of World AIDS 
Day;
  H.R. 4573, to protect children from exploitation, especially sex 
trafficking in tourism, by providing advance notice of intended travel 
by registered child-sex offenders outside the United States to the 
government of the country of destination, requesting foreign 
governments to notify the United States when a known child-sex offender 
is seeking to enter the United States;
  S. 2922, to reinstate reporting requirements related to United 
States-Hong Kong relations, with an amendment; and
  The nominations of Antony Blinken, of New York, to be Deputy 
Secretary of State, Leslie Berger Kiernan, of Maryland, as an Alternate 
Representative of the United States of America, to the Sixty-ninth 
Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and a list in 
the Foreign Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported 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, 
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.