[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D339-D340]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: THE DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2016 for the Defense Health Program, 
after receiving testimony from Lieutenant General Patricia Horoho, 
Surgeon General of the Army, Vice Admiral Matthew Nathan, Surgeon 
General of the Navy, Lieutenant General Thomas Travis, Surgeon General 
of the Air Force, and Chris Miller, Program Executive Officer, Defense 
Health Management Systems, all of the Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
and justification for fiscal year 2016 for the Department of Energy, 
after receiving testimony from Ernest J. Moniz, Secretary, and Franklin 
Orr, Under Secretary for Science and Energy, both of the Department of 
Energy.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded a 
hearing to examine Navy and Marine Corps aviation programs in review of 
the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2016 and the Future 
Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Vice Admiral Paul 
A. Grosklags, USN, Principal Military Deputy, Assistant Secretary of 
the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisitions, Lieutenant 
General Jon M. Davis, USMC, Deputy Commandant for Aviation, and Rear 
Admiral Michael C. Manazir, USN, Director, Air Warfare (OPNAV N98), all 
of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the current state of readiness 
of U.S. forces in review of the Defense Authorization Request for 
fiscal year 2016 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving 
testimony from General Daniel B. Allyn, USA, Vice Chief of Staff, 
Admiral Michelle J. Howard, USN, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, 
General John M. Paxton, Jr., USMC,

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Assistant Commandant, and General Larry O. Spencer, USAF, Vice Chief of 
Staff, all of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded 
a hearing to examine ballistic missile defense programs in review of 
the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2016 and the Future 
Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Vice Admiral 
James D. Syring, USN, Director, Missile Defense Agency, Lieutenant 
General David L. Mann, USA, Commanding General, Army Space and Missile 
Defense Command, Army Forces Strategic Command, and Joint Functional 
Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, Brian P. McKeon, 
Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, and J. Michael Gilmore, 
Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, all of the Department of 
Defense.
FINANCIAL STABILITY OVERSIGHT COUNCIL ACCOUNTABILITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) 
accountability, focusing on nonbank designations, after receiving 
testimony from Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of the Treasury; and Douglas 
Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, Gary E. Hughes, American Council of 
Life Insurers, Dennis M. Kelleher, Better Markets, Inc., and Paul 
Schott Stevens, Investment Company Institute, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 808, to establish the Surface Transportation Board as an 
independent establishment;
  S. 650, to extend the positive train control system implementation 
deadline, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 834, to amend the law relating to sport fish restoration and 
recreational boating safety, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 764, to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College 
Program Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 766, to limit the retrieval of data from vehicle event data 
recorders; and
  The nominations of Willie E. May, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary 
of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Director of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, Dava J. Newman, of 
Massachusetts, to be Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration, and Patricia D. Cahill, of Missouri, to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Paul A. Folmsbee, of Oklahoma, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, Mary Catherine Phee, of Illinois, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of South Sudan, Cassandra Q. Butts, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The 
Bahamas, and Katherine Simonds Dhanani, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
the Federal Republic of Somalia, all of the Department of State, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine securing the border, focusing on 
understanding and addressing the root causes of Central American 
migration to the United States, after receiving testimony from William 
Kandel, Analyst in Immigration Policy, Congressional Research Service, 
Library of Congress; Alan D. Bersin, Assistant Secretary of Homeland 
Security and Chief Diplomatic Officer; Francisco Palmieri, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; 
Lieutenant General Kenneth E. Tovo, USA, Military Deputy Commander, 
United States Southern Command, Department of Defense; Roger F. 
Noriega, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere 
Affairs and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American 
States, American Enterprise Institute, and Eric L. Olson, Woodrow 
Wilson International Center for Scholars Latin American Program, both 
of Washington, D.C.; and Adolfo A. Franco, former Assistant 
Administrator, United States Agency for International Development, 
Alexandria, Virginia.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the fight against Alzheimer's disease, focusing on a treatment by 2025, 
after receiving testimony from Richard J. Hodes, Director, National 
Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health 
and Human Services; Ronald C. Petersen, Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease 
Research Center, Rochester, Minnesota; Kim Stemley, Rx Outreach, St. 
Louis, Missouri; Heidi Wierman, Maine Medical Center, Portland; and 
Barbara Smith, and Dan Gasby, both of Sag Harbor, New York.