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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D296-D298 on March 18, 2015.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2016 for the Forest Service, after receiving testimony from Tom Tidwell, Chief, and Tony Dixon, Director, Strategic Planning, Budget and Accountability, both of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
APPROPRIATIONS: MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2016 for the Missile Defense Agency, after receiving testimony from Vice Admiral J.D. Syring, USN, Director, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded a hearing to examine Navy shipbuilding programs in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2016 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Sean J. Stackley, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition, Vice Admiral William H. Hilarides, USN, Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Vice Admiral Joseph P. Mulloy, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Integration of Capabilities and Resources (N8), all of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the postures of the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2016 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from John M. McHugh, Secretary of the Army, Deborah Lee James, Secretary of the Air Force, General Raymond T. Odierno, USA, Chief of Staff of the Army, and General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, all of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee began consideration of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to the call and will meet again on Thursday, March 19, 2015.
FCC OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission, after receiving testimony from Tom Wheeler, Chairman, and Mignon L. Clyburn, Michael O'Rielly, Ajit Pai, and Jessica Rosenworcel, each a Commissioner, all of the Federal Communications Commission.
TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 697, to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to reauthorize and modernize that Act, after receiving testimony from Senator Udall; James Jones, Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency; Brian Frosh, Maryland Attorney General, Baltimore; Richard A. Denison, Environmental Defense Fund, Lynn R. Goldman, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, and Kenneth Cook, Environmental Working Group, all of Washington, D.C.; Edward R.B. McCabe, March of Dimes Foundation, White Plains, New York; and Bonnie Lautenberg, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 35, to extend the Federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana;
S. 438, to provide for the repair, replacement, and maintenance of certain Indian irrigation projects, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 465, to extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe; and
The nomination of Jonodev Osceola Chaudhuri, of Arizona, to be Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission.
NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND SELF-DETERMINATION REAUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 710, to reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996, after receiving testimony from Karen R. Diver, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Cloquet, Minnesota; Gary Cooper, Cherokee Nation Housing Authority, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National American Indian Housing Council; and Russell Sossamon, The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Housing Authority, Hugo.
PATENT LITIGATION PRACTICES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the impact of patent litigation practices on the American economy, including H.R. 9, to amend title 35, United States Code, and the Leahy-
Smith America Invents Act to make improvements and technical corrections, after receiving testimony from Brad Powers, Kinze Manufacturing, Inc., Williamsburg, Iowa; Hans Sauer, Biotechnology Industry Association, Washington, D.C.; Steven E. Anderson, Culver Franchising System, Inc., Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin; Michael R. Crum, Iowa State University, Ames; and Krish Gupta, EMC Corporation, Hopkington, Massachusetts.
