[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 18, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D296-D298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

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.

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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.,

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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.