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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D358-D360 on April 23, 2013.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2014 for the Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony from Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Department of the Army in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2014 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from John M. McHugh, Secretary of the Army, and General Raymond T. Odierno, USA, Chief of Staff of the Army, both of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities concluded open and closed hearings to examine proliferation prevention programs at the Department of Energy and at the Department of Defense in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2014 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Madelyn R. Creedon, Assistant Secretary for Global Strategic Affairs, Michael Lansdown, Defense Intelligence Agency, and Kenneth A. Myers III, Director, Strategic Command Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Director, and Nick Wager, both of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, all of the Department of Defense; and Anne Harrington, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.
CFPB SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's semi-
annual report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Richard Cordray, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
VETERANS PROGRAM PROPOSALS BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee to examine the President's proposed budget and revenue request for fiscal year 2014 for Veterans' program proposals, after receiving testimony from Erik K. Shinseki, Secretary, Robert A. Petzel, Undersecretary for Health, and Allison A. Hickey, Undersecretary for Benefits, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
COAST GUARD AND NOAA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2014 for the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, after receiving testimony from Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., Commandant, Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security; and Kathryn Sullivan, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Acting Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science and Space concluded a hearing to examine challenges and opportunities for human space exploration, after receiving testimony from William H. Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Stephen Cook, Dynetics, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama; and Lieutenant General Thomas P. Stafford, USAF (Ret.), Satellite Beach, Florida.
HYDROPOWER LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 306 and H.R. 678, bills to authorize all Bureau of Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal Reclamation law, S. 545, to improve hydropower, H.R. 267, to improve hydropower, and S. 761, to promote energy savings in residential and commercial buildings and industry, after receiving testimony from Representative McMorris Rodgers; Jeff C. Wright, Director, Office of Energy Projects, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Lowell Pimley, Deputy Commissioner of Operations, and Kerry McCalman, Manager, Power Resources Office, both of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; and Kathleen Hogan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
PARKS BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 59, to designate a Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California, S. 155, to designate a mountain in the State of Alaska as Denali, S. 156, to allow for the harvest of gull eggs by the Huna Tlingit people within Glacier Bay National Park in the State of Alaska, S. 219, to establish the Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area in the State of Pennsylvania, S. 225, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of alternatives for commemorating and interpreting the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in the early years of the National Parks, S. 228, to establish the Sacramento-
San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area, S. 285, to designate the Valles Caldera National Preserve as a unit of the National Park System, S. 305, to authorize the acquisition of core battlefield land at Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond for addition to Vicksburg National Military Park, S. 349, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 371, to establish the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, to dedicate the Park to John H. Chafee, S. 476, to amend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission, S. 486, to authorize pedestrian and motorized vehicular access in Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area, S. 507, to establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, and S. 615, to establish Coltsville National Historical Park in the State of Connecticut, after receiving testimony from Peggy O'Dell, Deputy Director for Operations, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; and Ingrid Kolb, Director, Office of Management, Department of Energy.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Marilyn B. Tavenner, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
CHILD WELFARE CASE STUDY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Antwone Fisher story as a case study for child welfare, after receiving testimony from Gary Stangler, Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, St. Louis, Missouri; Eric Fenner, Casey Family Programs, Westerville, Ohio; Kevin A. Campbell, Center for Family Finding and Youth Connectedness, Lakewood, Washington; and Antwone Fisher, Los Angeles, California.
SUCCESSFUL PRIMARY CARE PROGRAMS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine successful primary care programs, after receiving testimony from Rebecca Spitzgo, Associate Administrator, Bureau of Clinical Recruitment and Service, and Director, National Health Service Corps, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; George Rust, Morehouse School of Medicine National Center for Primary Care, Atlanta, Georgia; Daniel R. Hawkins, Jr., National Association of Community Health Centers, Washington, D.C.; Paul R. G. Cunningham, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina; Deborah Wachtel, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
(AANP), Essex, Vermont; and Bruce M. Koeppen, Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, Hamden, Connecticut.
COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine S. 744, to provide for comprehensive immigration reform, after receiving testimony from Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
DRONE WARS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights concluded a hearing to examine drone wars, focusing on the constitutional and counterterrorism implications of targeted killing, after receiving testimony from General James E. Cartwright, USMC (Ret.), Peter Bergen, New America Foundation, and Rosa Brooks, Georgetown University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; Colonel Martha McSally, USAF (Ret.), Tucson, Arizona; Ilya Somin, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia; and Farea Al-Muslimi, Sana'a, Yemen.
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.
