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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D807-D809 on July 17, 2014.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 4870, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC, for reappointment to the grade of general and to be Commandant of the Marine Corps, Department of Defense, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
GENERAL MOTORS RECALLS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing to examine accountability and corporate culture in wake of the General Motors recalls, after receiving testimony from Kenneth R. Feinberg, Feinberg Rozen, LLP, Washington, DC; Mary T. Barra, and Michael P. Millikin, both of the General Motors Company, Detroit, Michigan; Rodney O'Neal, Delphi Automotive, Gillingham, United Kingdom; and Anton R. Valukas, Jenner and Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois.
FEDERAL RESEARCH PORTFOLIO
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Federal research portfolio, focusing on capitalizing on investments in research and development, after receiving testimony from Vinton G. Cerf, Google, Reston, Virginia; Mariette DiChristina, Scientific American, New York, New York; Neal Lane, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas, on behalf of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Committee on New Models for U.S. Science and Technology Policy; and Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
21ST CENTURY MANUFACTURING
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the role of trade and technology in 21st century manufacturing, after receiving testimony from Jacklyn A. Sturm, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California; Ray Kimber, RKB Industrial and Kimber Kable, Ogden, Utah, on behalf of the Consumer Electronics Association; and Stephen J. Ezell, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, DC.
UNACCOMPANIED MINORS IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Central America in crisis and the exodus of unaccompanied minors, after receiving testimony from Thomas A. Shannon, Counselor of the Department of State; Bruce Swartz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Counselor for International Affairs, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; and Sonia Nazario, Kids in Need of Defense
(KIND), Cynthia J. Arnson, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Stephen Johnson, International Republican Institute, all of Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of Bangladesh, David Pressman, of New York, to be Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate Representative to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during his tenure of service as Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, George Albert Krol, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Allan P. Mustard, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Turkmenistan, and Erica J. Barks Ruggles, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their behalf.
NEED TO IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine the need to improve patient safety and reduce preventable deaths, after receiving testimony from John T. James, Patient Safety America, Houston, Texas; Ashish K. Jha, Harvard School of Public Health, and Tejal K. Gandhi, Harvard Medical School, both of Boston, Massachusetts; Peter Pronovost, Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Baltimore, Maryland; Joanne Disch, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis; and Lisa McGiffert, Consumers Union, Austin, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Pamela Harris, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Pamela Pepper, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Brenda K. Sannes, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York, and Patricia M. McCarthy, of Maryland, and Jeri Kaylene Somers, of Virginia, both to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
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.
