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AP WASHINGTON DAYBOOK, Thursday, Feb. 27
CONGRESS-SENATE
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Feb. 27 - 28. 2ND GLOBE CLIMATE LEGISLATION SUMMIT — Legislators from over 50 countries will convene for the 2nd GLOBE Climate Legislation Summit in Washington DC. http://www.globeinternational.org/news/item/new-international-partnership-summit-us-senate
Location: Kennedy Caucus Room 325 Russell.
Notes: Press must RSVP to Eben Burnham Snyder at Eben_BS@markey.senate.gov or 202-224-2742.
3 p.m. - 4 p.m. VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE — Senate Law Enforcement Caucus and House Victims Rights Caucus Joint Briefing: "Childrens Advocacy Centers and the Victims of Child Abuse Act - How Trained Forensic Interviewers and Multi-Disciplinary Teams Support Law Enforcement and Child Victims. Participants: Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), Founder/Co-Chair, Senate Law Enforcement Caucus; Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Founder/Co-Chair, Senate Law Enforcement Caucus; Congressman Ted Poe (R-Texas), Co-Chair of the House Victims Rights Caucus; Congressman Jim Costa (D-Calif.), Co-Chair of the House Victims Rights Caucus; Dr. Jerry Dunn, Executive Director of the St. Louis Childrens Advocacy Centers; Diane Klecan, Program Director for Client Services, Childrens Advocacy Center of Delaware and a forensic interviewer who has conducted over 2300 forensic interviews; Capt. Martin Bartness, Baltimore Police Department.
Location: Capitol Visitors Center: SVC 212-10.
Contacts: Jamie Serlin Jamie_Serlin@coons.senate.gov. (202-224-5042)
6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. PNND RECEPTION - MARKEY, UMAROV — Reception with Senator Ed Markey, Co-President of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and H. E. Kairat Umarov, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United States of America. Special guest: Karipbek Kuyukov, Honorary Ambassador of the ATOM Project (Abolish Testing Our Mission) and 2nd generation victim of Soviet nuclear tests,"acclaimed armless artist". RSVP at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pnnd-reception-with-senator-ed-markey-kazakhstan-ambassador-kairat-umarov-tickets-10498187361?affestw
Location: 325 Russell.
Notes: Reception is by invitation only.
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FLOOR SCHEDULE
9:30 a.m. — The Senate convenes and begins a period of morning business. Thereafter, senators resume consideration of S.1982, the Veterans Benefits bill.
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COMMITTEE MEETINGS
9:30 a.m. ARMED SERVICES — Meets to receive testimony on U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Cyber Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program. Witnesses: Admiral Cecil D. Haney, USN, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command; General Keith B. Alexander, USA, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/us-strategic-command-and-us-cyber-command\_02/27/2014
Location: G50 Dirksen.
10 a.m. BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS — "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress. Witness: Janet L. Yellen, Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Location: 538 Dirksen.
10 a.m. HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR, AND PENSIONS ROUNDTABLE — Full committee hearing on "Promoting College Access and Success For Students With Disabilities. Witnesses: Panel I: Will Farrior , Student, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC; Laysha Ostrow , Student, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Dana Fink , Assistant Project Coordinator, Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, DC; Liz Getzel , Director of Postsecondary Education Initiatives, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Katherine Myers, Associate Director, Office of Disability Services, Wright State University, Dayton, OH; Melissa Emrey-Arras , Director of Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Boston, MA . http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=2100f47b-5056-a032-524e-5103813e1a73
Location: 216 Hart.
10 a.m. HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS — Hearing on Recycling Electronics: A Common Sense Solution for Enhancing Government Efficiency and Protecting Our Environment. Witnesses: Panel I: Kevin Kampschroer, Director, Office of Federal High Performance Green Buildings, Office of Governmentwide Policy, U.S. General Services Administration; Thomas G. Day, Chief Sustainability Officer, U.S. Postal Service. Panel II: Brenda Pulley, Senior Vice President of Recycling, Keep America Beautiful; Walter Alcorn, Vice President, Environmental Affairs and Industry Sustainability, Consumer Electronics Association; Stephen Skurnac, President, Sims Recycling Solutions. http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/recycling-electronics-a-common-sense-solution-for-enhancing-government-efficiency-and-protecting-our-environment
Location: 342 Dirksen.
10 a.m. JUDICIARY — Executive Business Meeting on pending nominations. and bills: NOMINATIONS: Steven Paul Logan, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona; John Joseph Tuchi, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona; Diane J. Humetewa, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona; Rosemary Marquez, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona; Douglas L. Rayes, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona; James Alan Soto, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona. BILLS: S.1675, Recidivism Reduction and Public Safety Act of 2013 (Whitehouse, Portman); S.149, STOP Identity Theft Act of 2013 (Klobuchar, Sessions). Check website for updates - http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=f00b2bec76ceca7ac77335d8aa10d5be
Location: 226 Dirksen.
10:30 a.m. COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION — Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard will hold a hearing on North Pacific Perspectives on Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization. This hearing is the fourth in a series of regionally-focused hearings regarding the upcoming reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Witness Panel 1: Dr. James W. Balsiger, Regional Administrator, Alaska Region, National Marine Fisheries Service; Chris Oliver, Executive Director, North Pacific Fishery Management Council; Tim Andrew, Director of Natural Resources, Association of Village Council Presidents. Panel 2: Joseph Plesha, Chief Legal Officer, Trident Seafoods; Lori Swanson, Executive Director, Groundfish Forum; Linda Behnken, Executive Director, Alaska Longline Fishermens Association; Ricky Gease, Executive Director, Kenai River Sportsmen's Association; Michael LeVine, Pacific Senior Counsel, Oceana; Julianne Curry, Executive Director, United Fishermen of Alaska. http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Hearings&ContentRecord\_id=8d9327f0-4290-4f29-91d1-4548896cb2a2&ContentType\_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group\_idb06c39af-e033-4cba-9221-de668ca1978a
Location: 253 Russell.
11:15 a.m. FOREIGN RELATIONS — Hearing on International Parental Child Abduction. Panel One: Susan Jacobs, Special Advisor for Childrens Issues, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S Department of State, Washington, DC; Panel Two: Ernie Allen, President and Chief Executive Officer, International Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Washington, DC; David Goldman, Cofounder and Director, Bring Sean Home Foundation, Lincroft, NJ; Patrick Braden, Chief Executive Officer, Global Future: The Parents Council on International Childrens Policy, Los Angeles, CA; Dr. Noelle Hunter, Parent of an Abducted Child, Morehead, KY. http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/international-parental-child-abduction
Location: 419 Dirksen.
2:30 p.m. ARMED SERVICES — To resume closed hearings to examine responses to questions from the open session on current and future worldwide threats to the national security of the United States. Witnesses: James R. Clapper, Jr., Director of National Intelligence; Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/current-and-future-worldwide-threats-continued\_02/27/2014
Location: SVC-217.
2:30 p.m. ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES — Subcommittee on Water and Power hearings to examine S.1419, to promote research, development, and demonstration of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technologies, S.1771, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to adjust the Crooked River boundary, to provide water certainty for the City of Prineville, Oregon, S.1800, to require the Secretary of the Interior to submit to Congress a report on the efforts of the Bureau of Reclamation to manage its infrastructure assets, S.1946, to amend the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to modify the authorization of appropriations, S.1965, to amend the East Bench Irrigation District Water Contract Extension Act to permit the Secretary of the Interior to extend the contract for certain water services, S.2019, to reauthorize and update certain provisions of the Secure Water Act, and H.R.1963, to amend the Water Conservation and Utilization Act to authorize the development of non-Federal hydropower and issuance of leases of power privileges at projects constructed pursuant to the authority of the Water Conservation and Utilization Act.
Location: 366 Dirksen.
2:30 p.m. INTELLIGENCE — Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters. http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings.cfm?hearingId=f00b2bec76ceca7ac77335d8aa10d12b
Location: 219 Hart.
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