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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D778-D779 on July 7, 2015.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine highly pathogenic avian influenza, focusing on the impact on the United States poultry sector and protecting poultry flocks, after receiving testimony from John Clifford, Deputy Administrator, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and David Swayne, Laboratory Director, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Services, both of the Department of Agriculture; Jim Dean, United Egg Producers, Sioux Center, Iowa; Ken Klippen, National Association of Egg Farmers, Collegeville, Pennsylvania; Brad Moline, Moline Farms, Manson, Iowa, on behalf of the National Turkey Federation; Rob Knecht, Konos, Inc., Martin, Michigan, on behalf of Michigan Allied Poultry Industries; and Tom Elam, FarmEcon LLC, Carmel, Indiana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs approved for full committee consideration an original bill entitled, ``State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2016''.
COUNTER-ISIL STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine counter-ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) strategy, after receiving testimony from Ashton B. Carter, Secretary, and General Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of the Department of Defense.
TECHNOLOGIES TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security concluded a hearing to examine technologies transforming transportation, focusing on whether the government is keeping up, after receiving testimony from Susan Alt, Volvo Group North America, Greensboro, North Carolina; Paul Misener, Amazon.com, and Greg Fox, BNSF Railway Company, both of Washington, D.C.; and Michael Christensen, Port of Long Beach, Long Beach, California.
YAKIMA RIVER BASIN WATER ENHANCEMENT PROJECT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 1694, to amend Public Law 103-434 to authorize Phase III of the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project for the purposes of improving water management in the Yakima River basin, after receiving testimony from Tom Iseman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science; Derek Sandison, Washington State Department of Agriculture Director, Olympia; Urban Eberhart, Kittitas Reclamation District, Ellensburg, Washington; Michael Garrity, American Rivers, Tacoma, Washington; and Phil Rigdon, Yakama Nation Department of Natural Resources, Toppenish, Washington.
2014 HUMANITARIAN BORDER CRISIS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 2014 humanitarian crisis at our border, focusing on a review of the government's response to unaccompanied minors one year later, after receiving testimony from Juan P. Osuna, Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Department of Justice; Mark Greenberg, Acting Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families; and Philip T. Miller, Assistant Director for Field Operations, Enforcement and Removal Operations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Joseph E. Langlois, Associate Director, Refugee, Asylum and International Operations Directorate, Citizenship and Immigration Services, both of the Department of Homeland Security.
SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH CARE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security concluded a hearing to examine small business health care challenges and opportunities, after receiving testimony from Thomas M. Harte, Landmark Benefits Inc., Hampstead, New Hampshire, on behalf of the National Association of Health Underwriters; James G. Scott, Applied Policy, Alexandria, Virginia; Sabrina Corlette, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Washington, D.C.; and J. Kelly Conklin, Foley Waite Associates, Kenilworth, New Jersey, on behalf of the Main Street Alliance.
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.
