[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 15 (Thursday, January 29, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D81-D83]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments:
   Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies: Senators Moran (Chair), Blunt, 
Cochran, McConnell, Collins, Hoeven, Daines, Merkley, Feinstein, 
Tester, Udall, Leahy, and Baldwin.

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   Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: 
Senators Shelby (Chair), Alexander, Murkowski, Collins, Graham, Kirk, 
Boozman, Capito, Lankford, Mikulski, Leahy, Feinstein, Reed, Shaheen, 
Coons, Baldwin, and Murphy.
   Subcommittee on Department of Defense: Senators Cochran (Chair), 
McConnell, Shelby, Alexander, Collins, Murkowski, Graham, Blunt, 
Daines, Moran, Durbin, Leahy, Feinstein, Mikulski, Murray, Reed, 
Tester, Udall, and Schatz.
   Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Alexander 
(Chair), Cochran, McConnell, Shelby, Collins, Murkowski, Graham, 
Hoeven, Lankford, Feinstein, Murray, Tester, Durbin, Udall, Shaheen, 
Merkley, and Coons.
   Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government: Senators 
Boozman (Chair), Moran, Lankford, Coons, and Durbin.
   Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security: Senators Hoeven 
(Chair), Cochran, Shelby, Murkowski, Graham, Cassidy, Shaheen, Leahy, 
Murray, Tester, and Baldwin.
   Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies: Senators Murkowski (Chair), Alexander, Cochran, Blunt, 
Hoeven, McConnell, Daines, Cassidy, Udall, Feinstein, Leahy, Reed, 
Tester, and Merkley.
   Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, and Related Agencies: Senators Blunt (Chair), Moran, Shelby, 
Cochran, Alexander, Graham, Kirk, Cassidy, Capito, Lankford, Murray, 
Durbin, Reed, Mikulski, Shaheen, Merkley, Schatz, and Baldwin.
   Subcommittee on Legislative Branch: Senators Capito (Chair), Kirk, 
Moran, Schatz, and Murphy.
   Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and 
Related Agencies: Senators Kirk (Chair), McConnell, Murkowski, Hoeven, 
Collins, Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Tester, Murray, Reed, Udall, Schatz, 
Baldwin, and Murphy.
   Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: 
Senators Graham, McConnell, Kirk, Blunt, Boozman, Moran, Lankford, 
Daines, Leahy, Mikulski, Durbin, Shaheen, Coons, Merkley, and Murphy.
   Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and 
Related Agencies: Senators Collins (Chair), Shelby, Alexander, Kirk, 
Blunt, Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Daines, Reed, Mikulski, Murray, 
Durbin, Feinstein, Coons, Schatz, and Murphy.
  Senators Cochran and Mikulski are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND THE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
global challenges and the U.S. national security strategy, after 
receiving testimony from Henry A. Kissinger, Kissinger Associates, New 
York, New York, and George P. Shultz, Stanford University Hoover 
Institution, and Madeleine K. Albright, National Democratic Institute, 
both of Washington, DC, each a former Secretary of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 53) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee for the 114th Congress.
NUCLEAR WEAPON FREE IRAN ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``Nuclear Weapon Free 
Iran Act of 2015''.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 57) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee.
TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and 
Security concluded a hearing to examine improving the performance of 
transportation networks, focusing on stakeholder perspectives, after 
receiving testimony from former Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. 
Rendell, Building America's Future, Washington, DC; Jim Mullen, Werner 
Enterprises, and Lance M. Fritz, Union Pacific Railroad, both of Omaha, 
Nebraska; and Douglas Means, Cabela's, Sidney, Nebraska.
NATURAL GAS EXPORTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 33, to provide certainty with respect to the 
timing of Department of Energy decisions to approve or deny 
applications to export natural gas, after receiving testimony from 
Christopher Smith, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; and 
Paul N. Cicio, Industrial Energy Consumers of America, Martin J. 
Durbin, America's Natural Gas Alliance, Ross Eisenberg, National 
Association of Manufacturers, and David Koranyi, Atlantic Council, all 
of Washington, DC.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISIS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a closed hearing to 
examine the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria 
(ISIS), after receiving testimony from Nicholas J. Rasmussen, Director, 
National Counterterrorism Center; Christine Wormuth, Under Secretary 
for Policy, and Major

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General Steven M. Shepro, Vice Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, 
Joint Staff Pentagon, both of the Department of Defense; and General 
John R. Allen (USMC, Ret.), Special Presidential Envoy for the Global 
Coalition to Counter ISIL, Department of State.
EMPLOYER WELLNESS PROGRAMS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine employer wellness programs, focusing on 
better health outcomes and lower costs, after receiving testimony from 
Gary Loveman, Caesars Entertainment, Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of 
the Business Roundtable; Catherine Baase, The Dow Chemical Company, 
Midland, Michigan, on behalf of the American Benefits Council; David 
Grossman, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington; James Matthew 
Abernathy, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Nashville; and Jennifer 
Mathis, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, on behalf of the 
Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, and Eric Dreiband, Jones 
Day, both of Washington, DC.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
nomination of Loretta E. Lynch, of New York, to be Attorney General, 
after receiving testimony from David B. Barlow, Sidley Austin LLP, and 
Jonathan Turley, George Washington University, both of Washington, DC; 
David A. Clarke Jr., Milwaukee County Sheriff, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 
Catherine Engelbrecht, True the Vote, Houston, Texas; Janice K. 
Fedarcyk, Fedarcyk Consulting LLC, Crownsville, Maryland; Stephen H. 
Legomsky, Washington University School of Law, Saint Louis, Missouri; 
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Georgetown University Law Center, New York, 
New York; Reverend Clarence G. Newsome, National Underground Railroad 
Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Sharyl Attkisson, Leesburg, 
Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 54) authorizing expenditures 
by the Committee, and rules of procedure for the 114th Congress.
INTELLIGENCE
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.