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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D675-D676 on June 19, 2014.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS, AND THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
An original bill (S. 2499) making appropriations for State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs for fiscal year 2015; and
H.R. 4487, making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Laura Junor, of Virginia, to be a Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, Gordon O. Tanner, of Alabama, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, Debra S. Wada, of Hawaii, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, and Miranda A. A. Ballentine, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment, and Energy, all of the Department of Defense, and Monica C. Regalbuto, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
SECURITY SITUATION IN IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on the security situation in Iraq from Elissa Slotkin, Performing the duties of the Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Vice Admiral Frank C. Pandolfe III, USN, Director of Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5), Joint Staff, and Paul N. Wolfe, Senior Defense Intelligence Expert for Iraq, Egypt, and the Levant, Middle East and African Regional Center, and Joseph Gigliotti, Senior Defense Intelligence Expert for Counter Network Operations, Target Development, and Threat Finance, both of the Defense Intelligence Agency, all of the Department of the Defense.
RESOURCES FOR EXPORT, DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION, AND TRANSPORTATION FUEL
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine resources for export, domestic consumption, and transportation fuel, after receiving testimony from Christopher Smith, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; and Martin J. Durbin, America's Natural Gas Alliance, Robert McNally, The Rapidan Group LLC, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Center for a New American Security, and Daniel J. Weiss, Center for American Progress, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Henry J. Aaron, of the District of Columbia, Lanhee J. Chen, of California, and Alan L. Cohen, of Virginia, all to be a Member of the Social Security Advisory Board.
TAXATION TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and its Protocol, signed at Madrid on February 22, 1990
(Treaty Doc. 113-04), and the Convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Poland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on February 13, 2013, at Warsaw (Treaty Doc. 113-05), after receiving testimony from Robert B. Stack, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Tax Affairs; Thomas A. Barthold, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation; Mary Jean Riley, North American Stainless, Ghent, Kentucky; and Catherine Schultz, National Foreign Trade Council, Inc., Washington, D.C.
IRAQ UPDATE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on an update on Iraq from Anne Patterson, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, and Gregory B. Starr, Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security, both of the Department of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Julie E. Carnes, of Georgia, and Jill A. Pryor, of Georgia, both to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Andre Birotte, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, John W. deGravelles, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana, Randolph D. Moss, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, Robin L. Rosenberg, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, Ronnie L. White, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, Leslie Joyce Abrams, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, Mark Howard Cohen, Leigh Martin May, and Eleanor Louise Ross, all to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, and Nancy B. Firestone, of Virginia, and Thomas L. Halkowski, of Pennsylvania, both to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
