[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 11 (Thursday, January 22, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D53-D54]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SYRIAN OPPOSITION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
training and equipping the vetted Syrian opposition from Major General 
Michael K. Nagata, USA, Commander, Special Operations Command Central, 
and Matthew J. Spence, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Middle East 
Policy, both of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee for the 114th Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
resolution (S. Res. 34) authorizing expenditures by the Committee, and 
adopted its rules of procedure for the 114th Congress.
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight: Senators Crapo (Chair), 
Roberts, Enzi, Cornyn, Thune, Isakson, Portman, Toomey, Coats, Heller, 
Scott, Casey, Schumer, Nelson, Menendez, Carper, Cardin, Bennet, 
Warner, and Wyden.
Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global 
Competitiveness: Senators Cornyn (Chair), Grassley, Roberts, Thune, 
Isakson, Portman, Wyden, Schumer, Stabenow, and Nelson.
Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth: Senators 
Portman (Chair), Crapo, Burr, and Warner.
Subcommittee on Health Care: Senators Toomey (Chair), Grassley, 
Roberts, Enzi, Burr, Coats, Heller, Scott, Stabenow, Cantwell, 
Menendez, Cardin, Brown, and Warner.
Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure: Senators 
Coats (Chair), Grassley, Crapo, Enzi, Cornyn, Thune, Burr, Bennet, 
Cantwell, Nelson, Carper, and Casey.
Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy: Senators 
Heller (Chair), Isakson, Toomey, Scott, Brown, and Schumer.
  Senators Hatch and Wyden are ex officio members of each subcommittee.
JOBS AND A HEALTHY ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine jobs and 
a healthy economy after receiving testimony from John Engler, Business 
Roundtable, Washington, DC; Robert E. Hall, Stanford University Hoover 
Institution, Stanford, California; and Justin Wolfers, Peterson 
Institute for International Economics, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  An original resolution (S. Res. 33) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee, and adopted its rules of procedure for the 114th Congress; 
and
  The nominations of Russell C. Deyo, of New Jersey, to be Under 
Secretary of Homeland Security for Management, and Earl L. Gay, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel 
Management.
JOB-BASED HEALTH INSURANCE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine job-based health insurance and defining 
full-time work, after receiving testimony from Betsy M. Webb, Bangor 
School Department, Bangor, Maine; Andrew F. Puzder, CKE Restaurants 
Holdings, Inc., Carpinteria, California; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, The 
American Action Forum, Washington, DC; and Joe Fugere, Tutta Bella 
Neapolitan Pizzeria, Seattle, Washington.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Michael Greco, to be United States Marshal for the 
Southern District of New York, and Ronald Lee Miller, to be United 
States Marshal for the District of Kansas, both of the Department of 
Justice; and
  An original resolution (S. Res. 36) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee, and adopted its rules of procedure for the 114th Congress.
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:

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Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights: 
Senators Lee (Chair), Perdue, Tillis, Grassley, Hatch, Klobuchar, 
Coons, Franken, and Blumenthal.
Subcommittee on the Constitution: Senators Cornyn (Chair), Tillis, 
Graham, Cruz, Vitter, Durbin, Whitehouse, Coons, and Franken.
Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism: Senators Graham (Chair), Vitter, 
Sessions, Cornyn, Flake, Whitehouse, Schumer, Klobuchar, and Franken.
Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest: Senators 
Sessions (Chair), Vitter, Perdue, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Tillis, 
Schumer, Leahy, Feinstein, Durbin, Klobuchar, Franken, and Blumenthal.
Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal 
Courts: Senators Cruz (Chair), Grassley, Hatch, Sessions, Flake, 
Graham, Lee, Vitter, Coons, Feinstein, Durbin, Schumer, Whitehouse, 
Klobuchar, and Blumenthal.
Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law: Senators Flake 
(Chair), Hatch, Perdue, Lee, Tillis, Graham, Franken, Feinstein, 
Schumer, Whitehouse, and Coons.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.