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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1117-D1118 on Nov. 20, 2013.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SOLDIERS AS CONSUMERS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine soldiers as consumers, focusing on business practices relating to the military community, after receiving testimony from Hollister K. Petraeus, Assistant Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of Servicemember Affairs; Charles A. Harwood, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Dwain Alexander, II, Senior Civilian Attorney, Regional Legal Service Office, Mid-Atlantic, United States Navy, Department of Defense; Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Nashville; and Deanna R. Nelson, New York Assistant Attorney General In Charge
(Watertown Regional), Watertown.
PUBLIC LANDS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded a hearing to examine S. 182, to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by the city of Anchorage, Alaska, for purposes of economic development by conveyance of the Federal reversion interest to the City, S. 483, to designate the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Conservation Area in the State of California, S. 771, to provide to the Secretary of the Interior a mechanism to cancel contracts for the sale of materials CA-
20139 and CA-22901, S. 776, to establish the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness in the State of New Mexico, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of National Forest System land in the State, S. 841, to designate certain Federal land in the San Juan National Forest in the State of Colorado as wilderness, S. 1305, to provide for the conveyance of the Forest Service Lake Hill Administrative Site in Summit County, Colorado, S. 1341, to modify the Forest Service Recreation Residence Program as the program applies to units of the National Forest System derived from the public domain by implementing a simple, equitable, and predictable procedure for determining cabin user fees, S. 1414, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon to the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, S. 1415, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, S. 1479, to address the forest health, public safety, and wildlife habitat threat presented by the risk of wildfire, including catastrophic wildfire, on National Forest System land and public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management by requiring the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to expedite forest management projects relating to hazardous fuels reduction, forest health, and economic development, and S. 339, to facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral resources in southeast Arizona by authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-Federal land, after receiving testimony from Senators Boxer, Udall (NM), and Bennet; Representatives McKeon and Tipton; Steven A. Ellis, Acting Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Leslie A. C. Weldon, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Mayor Robert Kellar, Santa Clarita, California; Robert Garcia, Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, Springfield, Oregon; Terry Rambler, San Carlos Apache Tribe, San Carlos, Arizona; and Michael Rondeau, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Roseburg, Oregon.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, who was introduced by former Senator Paul Sarbanes, and Rhonda K. Schmidtlein, of Missouri, to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Jeh Charles Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
NATIONAL SECURITY WORKFORCE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce concluded a hearing to examine the national security workforce, focusing on actions needed to help ensure correct designations on national security positions, after receiving testimony from Brian Prioletti, Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Timothy F. Curry, Deputy Associate Director, Partnership and Labor Relations, Office of Personnel Management; Brenda S. Farrell, Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, Government Accountability Office; and David A. Borer, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, and Angela Canterbury, Project on Government Oversight, both of Washington, DC.
HEALTH RELATING TO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine health relating to social and economic status, after receiving testimony from Steven Woolf, Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health, Richmond; Lisa F. Berkman, Harvard University Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.; David A. Kindig, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison; Michael Reisch, University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore; and Sabrina Shrader, Athens, West Virginia.
CARCIERI
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Carcieri, focusing on bringing certainty to trust land acquisitions, after receiving testimony from Senator Feinstein; Kevin K. Washburn, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Diane Dillon, Napa County Supervisor, Sacramento, California, on behalf of the California State Association of Counties; Jacqueline Johnson-Pata, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, DC.; and Marshall Pierite, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of David Jeremiah Barron, of Massachusetts, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
SMALL BUSINESS AFFORDABLE CARE ACT EXCHANGES
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Affordable Care Act implementation, focusing on how to achieve a successful rollout of the small business exchanges, after receiving testimony from Phyllis C. Borzi, Assistant Secretary of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration; Gary Cohen, Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Marianne O'Brien Markowitz, Regional Administrator, Region V, Small Business Administration; William Nold, Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange Deputy Executive Director, Frankfort; Mila Kofman, DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority Executive Director, Washington, DC.; Martin Hickey, New Mexico Health Connections Chief Executive Officer, Albuquerque; David M. Allen, Flatirons Practice Management, Boulder, Colorado; Sheila A. Salter, early2surg, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Connie E. Evans, Association for Enterprise Opportunity, Arlington, Virginia; and Drew Greenblatt, Marlin Steel Wire Products, LLC, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers.
