[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 18 (Tuesday, February 3, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D97]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILITARY COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT MODERNIZATION COMMISSION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the findings of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization 
Commission, after receiving testimony from Alphonso Maldon, Jr., 
Chairman, and former Senator Larry L. Pressler, former Senator J. 
Robert Kerrey, former Representative Stephen E. Buyer, former 
Representative Christopher P. Carney, General Peter W. Chiarelli, USA 
(Ret.), Dov S. Zakheim, and Michael R. Higgins, each a Commissioner, 
all of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization 
Commission.
PRESIDENT'S PROPOSED BUDGET REQUEST
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2016, after 
receiving testimony from Shaun Donovan, Director, Office of Management 
and Budget.
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
Internal Revenue Service operations and the President's proposed budget 
request for fiscal year 2016, after receiving testimony from John A. 
Koskinen, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the 
Treasury.
POLICY CHANGES IN CUBA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere 
Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and 
Global Women's Issues concluded a hearing to examine understanding Cuba 
policy changes, including the impact on human rights in Cuba, after 
receiving testimony from Roberta S. Jacobson, Assistant Secretary for 
Western Hemisphere Affairs, and Tom P. Malinowski, Assistant Secretary 
for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, both of the Department of 
State; Rosa Maria Paya, Christian Liberation Movement, Miami, Florida; 
Berta Soler, Cuban Ladies in White, Matanzas, Cuba; and Manuel Cuesta 
Morua, Progressive Arc, and Miriam Leiva, both of Havana, Cuba.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine No Child Left Behind, focusing on 
innovation to meet the needs of students, after receiving testimony 
from Ken Bradford, Louisiana Assistant Superintendent of Education, 
Baton Rouge; Robert Balfanz, Johns Hopkins University School of 
Education Center for Social Organization of Schools, and Henriette 
Taylor, University of Maryland School of Social Work, both of 
Baltimore; Josh Davis, Delta Health Alliance, Stoneville, Mississippi; 
Katie Duffy, Democracy Prep Public Schools, New York, New York; Susan 
Stone Kessler, Hunter Lane High School, Nashville, Tennessee; and James 
P. McIntyre, Jr., Knox County Schools, Knoxville, Tennessee.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.