Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on May 8, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room SD-106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Hearing on the nomination of the Secretary of Health and Human Services-Designate, Sylvia Mathews Burwell.'' For further information regarding this meeting, please contact Emily Schlichting of the committee staff on (202) 224-6840. COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR, AND PENSIONS
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