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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D430-D431 on April 29, 2014.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INNOVATION THROUGH FEDERAL INVESTMENTS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine driving innovation through Federal investments, after receiving testimony from John P. Holdren, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; Ernest Moniz, Secretary of Energy; Francis S. Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; France Cordova, Director, National Science Foundation; and Arati Prabhakar, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Deborah Lee James, Secretary, and General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF, Chief of Staff, both of the Air Force, and Lieutenant General Dennis M. McCarthy, USMCR
(Ret.), Chair, and R. L. Brownlee, Janine A. Davidson, Margaret C. Harrell, General Raymond E. Johns, Jr., USAF (Ret.), and Lieutenant General Harry M. Wyatt III, ANG (Ret.), each a Member, National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force, all of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Stanley Fischer, of New York, to be Vice Chairman, Jerome H. Powell, of Maryland, and Lael Brainard, of the District of Columbia, all to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Gustavo Velasquez Aguilar, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary, and Nani A. Coloretti, of California, to be Deputy Secretary, both of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and J. Mark McWatters, of Texas, to be a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board.
Also, committee began consideration of S. 1217, to provide secondary mortgage market reform, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Julia Akins Clark, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine workers' Memorial Day, focusing on if existing private sector whistleblower protections are adequate to ensure safe workplaces, after receiving testimony from David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Emily A. Spieler, Northeastern University School of Law, and Gregory Keating, Littler Mendelson, P.C., both of Boston, Massachusetts; and Thomas Devine, Government Accountability Project, Washington, D.C.; and Ross Baize, United Auto Workers, East Peoria, Illinois.
LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSES TO DISABLED AMERICANS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights concluded a hearing to examine law enforcement responses to disabled Americans, focusing on promising approaches for protecting public safety, after receiving testimony from Denise E. O'Donnell, Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice; Jay M. Quam, Hennepin County District Court Judge, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Alfonza Wysinger, Chicago Police Department First Deputy Superintendent, Chicago, Illinois; Aubrey Dale Paul Jr., Plano Police Department, Frisco, Texas; Pete Earley, Fairfax, Virginia; and Patti Saylor, Frederick, Maryland.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a joint closed hearing with the Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, to examine certain intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
