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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D460 on April 27, 2017.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PREVENTING VETERAN SUICIDE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine preventing veteran suicide, after receiving testimony from Carolyn M. Clancy, Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Organizational Excellence, Harold S. Kudler, Chief Consultant for Mental Health Services, and Stephanie A. Davis, Suicide Prevention Coordinator and Staff Psychologist, VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System, each of the Veterans Health Administration, and Michael L. Missal, Inspector General, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Melissa D. Jarboe, Military Veteran Project, Topeka, Kansas; and Rajeev Ramchand, Rand Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
U.S. PACIFIC COMMAND AND U.S. FORCES KOREA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine United States Pacific Command and United States Forces Korea, after receiving testimony from Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr., USN, Commander, United States Pacific Command, Department of Defense.
CYBER-ENABLED INFORMATION OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity concluded a hearing to examine cyber-enabled information operations, after receiving testimony from John C. Inglis, former Deputy Director, National Security Agency; Michael D. Lumpkin, Neptune Computer Incorporated, and former Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Rand Waltzman, RAND Corporation; and Clint Watts, Foreign Policy Research Institute.
COUNTERING RUSSIA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine countering Russia, focusing on further assessing options for sanctions, including S. 94, to impose sanctions in response to cyber intrusions by the Government of the Russian Federation and other aggressive activities of the Russian Federation, and S. 341, to provide for congressional oversight of actions to waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the application of sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation, after receiving testimony from Chip Poncy, Financial Integrity Network, Fairfax, Virginia; and R. Nicholas Burns, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS ECONOMIC EXPANSION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine H.R. 339, to amend Public Law 94-241 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands, after receiving testimony from Representative Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan; Nikolao I. Pula, Acting Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas, Department of the Interior; David Gootnick, Director, International Affairs and Trade, Government Accountability Office; Northern Mariana Islands Governor Ralph DLG. Torres, and Jim Arenovski, Island Training Solutions, both of Saipan.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Scott Gottlieb, of Connecticut, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services.
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.
AGING WITHOUT COMMUNITY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine aging without community, focusing on the consequences of isolation and loneliness, after receiving testimony from W. Mark Clark, Pima Council on Aging, Tucson, Arizona; Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; Lenard W. Kaye, University of Maine Center on Aging, Bangor; and Rick Creech, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
