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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D551-D553 on May 19, 2016.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM CREDIT SYSTEM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Farm Credit System, focusing on the outlook of the current economic climate, after receiving testimony from Kenneth A. Spearman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Dallas P. Tonsager, and Jeff Hall, both a Board Member, all of the Farm Credit Administration; Gus Barker, Community Bank of Oelwein, Oelwein, Iowa, on behalf of the Independent Community Bankers of America; Doug Stark, Farm Credit Services of America/Frontier Farm Credit, Omaha, Nebraska, on behalf of the Farm Credit System; Jed Welder, Trinity Farms, Greenville, Michigan; and Leonard Wolfe, United Bank and Trust, Marysville, Kansas, on behalf of the American Bankers Association.
APPROPRIATIONS: AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
An original bill (S. 2956) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017; and
An original bill (S. 2955) making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017.
ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment concluded a hearing to examine improving communities' and businesses' access to capital and economic development, including S. 1802, to protect the investment choices of American investors, H.R. 3868, to amend the Investment Company Act of 1940 to remove certain restrictions on the ability of business development companies to own securities of investment advisers and certain financial companies, to change certain requirements relating to the capital structure of business development companies, to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise certain rules relating to business development companies, and H.R. 4620, to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to exempt certain commercial real estate loans from risk retention requirements, after receiving testimony from Ron G. Crane, Idaho State Treasurer, Boise; and Michael J. Arougheti, Ares Capital Corporation, on behalf of the Small Business Investor Alliance, Stephen W. Hall, Better Markets, Inc., and Drew Fung, Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, all of Washington, D.C.
OCS OIL AND GAS LEASING PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's 2017-2022 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, after receiving testimony from Abigail Ross Hopper, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior; Mayor John Hopson, Jr., Wainwright, Alaska; Donald F. Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge; James H. Knapp, University of South Carolina School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Columbia; Athan Manuel, Sierra Club, Washington, D.C.; and Joseph R. Mason, Louisiana State University E.J. Ourso College of Business, Baton Rouge.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the international Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on November 3, 2001, and signed by the United States on November 1, 2002 (the ``Treaty'') (Treaty Doc.110-19), and the Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities Held with an Intermediary (the ``Convention''), done at The Hague on July 5, 2006, and signed by the United States on that same day
(Treaty Doc.112-06), after receiving testimony from Judith G. Garber, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, and John J. Kim, Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, Office of the Legal Adviser, both of the Department of State; John Schoenecker, HM.CLAUSE, Davis, California, on behalf of the American Seed Trade Association; and Edwin E. Smith, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP, Boston, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 2942, to extend certain privileges and immunities to the Gulf Cooperation Council;
S. Res. 469, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, a seminal moment in the journey of Ireland to independence; and
Routine lists in the Foreign Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Ronald G. Russell, to be United States District Judge for the District of Utah, Inga S. Bernstein, to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, Stephanie A. Gallagher, to be United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, and Suzanne Mitchell, and Scott L. Palk, both to be a United States District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma.
ADMINISTRATION'S IMMIGRATION POLICIES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest concluded a hearing to examine the Administration's immigration policies, after receiving testimony from Thomas Homan, Executive Associate Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Ronald Vitiello, Acting Chief, Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, both of the Department of Homeland Security; Brandon Judd, National Border Patrol Council, Malta, Montana; and Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, and Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
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.
