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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D690-D691 on June 21, 2016.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Lieutenant General Thomas D. Waldhauser, USMC, to be general and Commander, United States Africa Command, and Lieutenant General Joseph L. Lengyel, ANG, to be general and Chief of the National Guard Bureau, who was introduced by Senator Cornyn, both of the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT TO THE CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the semiannual monetary policy report to the Congress, after receiving testimony from Janet L. Yellen, Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
FIRSTNET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet concluded an oversight hearing to examine FirstNet, focusing on an update on the status of the Public Safety Broadband Network, after receiving testimony from Andrew Katsaros, Principal Assistant Inspector General for Audit and Evaluation, Office of Inspector General, Department of Commerce; Major General Arthur J. Logan, Hawaii Adjutant General, Honolulu; Michael Poth, First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), Reston, Virginia; and Jeffrey S. McLeod, National Governors Association's Center for Best Practices, Washington, D.C.
BLM PLANNING 2.0 INITIATIVE OVERSIGHT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Bureau of Land Management's Planning 2.0 initiative, after receiving testimony from Neil Kornze, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Jim Magagna, Wyoming Stock Growers Association, Cheyenne; James D. Ogsbury, Western Governors' Association, and Kathleen Sgamma, Western Energy Alliance, both of Denver, Colorado; and Mark Squillace, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Anne Hall, of Maine, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania, Lawrence Robert Silverman, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Marie L. Yovanovitch, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey R. Pyatt, of California, to be Ambassador to Greece, Douglas Alan Silliman, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, Peter Michael McKinley, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, and Carol Z. Perez, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
IDEOLOGY OF ISIS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the ideology of ISIS, after receiving testimony from Subhi Nahas, Spectra, San Francisco, California; Hassan Hassan, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; Tarek Elgawhary, World Organization for Resource Development and Education, Montgomery Village, Maryland; and Nadia Murad Basee Taho, Essex, New York.
SMALL BUSINESS RETIREMENT POOLING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security concluded a hearing to examine small business retirement pooling, focusing on examining open multiple employer plans, after receiving testimony from Nicola Favorito, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Retirement Services, Boston; Jeffrey Stacey, McGee, Hearne and Paiz, LLP, Cheyenne, Wyoming; Kent Mason, Davis and Harman LLP, and Michele Varnhagen, AARP, both of Washington, D.C.; and James Kais, Transamerica, Miami, Florida.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Jennifer Klemetsrud Puhl, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, who was introduced by Senators Heitkamp and Hoeven, Donald C. Coggins, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, who was introduced by Senator Scott, David C. Nye, to be United States District Judge for the District of Idaho, who was introduced by Senators Crapo and Risch, and Kathleen Marie Sweet, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of New York, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
CREATES ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine the CREATES Act, focusing on ending regulatory abuse, protecting consumers, and ensuring drug price competition, including S. 3056, to provide for certain causes of action relating to delays of generic drugs and biosimilar biological products, after receiving testimony from Alden F. Abbott, The Heritage Foundation Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Peter Safir, Covington and Burling LLP, and George Slover, Consumers Union, all of Washington, D.C.; Robin Feldman, University of California Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco; Beth Zelnick Kaufman, Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, New Jersey; and Nitin Damle, American College of Physicians, Wakefield, Rhode Island.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Christopher E. O'Connor, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Congressional and Legislative Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
