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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D613-D614 on June 20, 2013.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
H.R.2216, making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
An original bill making appropriations for Agricultural, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014.
NSA ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance programs from John C. Inglis, Deputy Director, National Security Agency; Robert S. Litt, Office of General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and James M. Cole, Deputy Attorney General, and Stephanie Douglas, Executive Assistant Director of National Security Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice.
KLAMATH RIVER BASIN
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine water resource issues in the Klamath River Basin, after receiving testimony from Michael L. Connor, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Richard M. Whitman, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber's Natural Recourses Office Policy Director, Dean S. Brockbank, PacifiCorp Energy, Jim McCarthy, WaterWatch of Oregon, and Tim Johnson, Bonneville Power Administration, all of Portland, Oregon; John Laird, California Secretary for Natural Resources, Sacramento; Donald C. Gentry, Klamath Tribes of Oregon, and Becky Hyde, Upper Klamath Water Users Association, both of Chiloquin, Oregon; Leaf G. Hillman, Karuk Tribe, Happy Camp, California; Hayley Hutt, Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, Hoopa, California; Troy Fletcher, Yurok Tribe, Klamath, California; Tom Mallams, Klamath County, and Greg Addington, Klamath Water Users Association, both of Klamath Falls, Oregon; Michael Kobseff, Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors, Yreka, California; Mark Lovelace, Humboldt County, Eureka, California; Roger Nicholson, Resource Conservancy, Ft. Klamath, Oregon; and Richard Roos-
Collins, Water and Power Law Group PC, Berkley, California, on behalf of American Rivers.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Daniel R. Russel, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
SYRIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on Syria from John Kerry, Secretary of State.
SECURITY CLEARANCE PROCESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce with the Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight concluded joint hearings to examine the workforce of the United States Intelligence Community and the role of private contractors, focusing on further actions needed to improve the personnel security clearance process and realize efficiencies, after receiving testimony from Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General, Michelle B. Schmitz, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, and Merton W. Miller, Associate Director of Investigations, Federal Investigative Services, all of the Office of Personnel Management; Stephen F. Lewis, Defense Intelligence Senior Leader, and Deputy Director for Personnel, Industrial and Physical Security Policy, Security Policy and Oversight Directorate, Office of the Under Secretary for Intelligence, and Stanley L. Sims, Director, Defense Security Service, both of the Department of Defense; and Brenda S. Farrell, Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, Government Accountability Office.
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine developing a skilled workforce for a competitive economy, focusing on reauthorizing the ``Workforce Investment Act'', after receiving testimony from Steven Partridge, Charlotte Works, Charlotte, North Carolina; Beverly Smith, Adult Education Technical College System of Georgia, Atlanta; David L. Mitchell, Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Des Moines; and Alan N. Rosenberg, Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 162, to reauthorize and improve the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2004, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
SEQUESTRATION
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a hearing to examine sequestration, focusing on small business contractors, after receiving testimony from Joseph Misanin, Deputy Director, Technology and Innovation, Office of Small Business Programs, Department of Defense; Kevin Boshears, Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Department of Homeland Security; Jiyoung Park, Associate Administrator for the Office of Small Business Utilization, General Services Administration; Joe Jordan, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Mauricio P. Vera, Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, U.S. Agency for International Development; Brandon Neal, Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and Willie Smith, Senior Procurement Executive, both of the Department of Transportation; Dot Harris, Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Department of Energy; Calvin Jenkins, Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Government Contracting and Business Development, Small Business Administration; Antwanye Ford, Enlightened Inc., Washington, D.C.; Nicole Priester, Encore Solutions, Inc., Rockville, Maryland; Peter L. Antoinette, Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., Merrimack, New Hampshire; and Roger Jordan, Professional Services Council, Arlington, Virginia.
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.
