[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 51 (Thursday, March 26, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D362-D363]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing 
to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2016 
for the Department of Labor, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. Perez, 
Secretary of Labor.
DIPLOMACY, DEVELOPMENT, AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and 
Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine diplomacy, development, and 
national security, after receiving testimony from Ben Affleck, Eastern Congo 
Initiative, and Bill Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, both of 
Seattle, Washington; Scott Ford, Westrock Group, LLC, Little Rock, Arkansas; 
John Megrue, Born Free Africa, New York, New York; and Admiral James 
Stavridis, USN (Ret.), Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and 
Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine U.S. 
Central Command, U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Special Operations Command 
programs and budget in review of the Defense Authorization Request for 
fiscal year 2016 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving 
testimony from General Lloyd J. Austin, USA, Commander, U.S. Central 
Command, General David M. Rodriguez, USA, Commander, U.S. Africa Command, 
and General Joseph L. Votel, USA, Commander, U.S. Special Operations 
Command, all of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported lists 
in the Foreign Service.
SECURING THE BORDER
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine securing the border, focusing on defining the current 
population living in the shadows and addressing future flows, after 
receiving testimony from Jeffrey S. Passel, Pew Research Center, Randel K. 
Johnson, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Marc R. Rosenblum, Migration Policy 
Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Daniel Garza, The LIBRE Initiative, 
Mission, Texas; and Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 665, to encourage, enhance, and integrate Blue Alert plans throughout 
the United States in order to disseminate information when a law enforcement 
officer is seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, is missing in 
connection with the officer's official duties, or an imminent and credible 
threat that an individual intends to cause the serious injury or death of a 
law enforcement officer is received; and
  S. 125, to amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership 
Grant Program through fiscal year 2020.
EXAMINE VETERANS' AFFAIRS OPIOID PRESCRIPTION POLICY
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Veterans' Affairs opioid prescription policy, practice and procedures, after 
receiving testimony from Carolyn Clancy, Interim Under Secretary for Health, 
Veterans Health Administration, and John D. Daigh, Jr., Assistant Inspector 
General for Healthcare Inspections, Office of Inspector General, both of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs; John Gadea, Jr., Connecticut Department of 
Consumer Protection State Drug Control Division Director, Hartford; G. Caleb 
Alexander, Johns Hopkins Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, 
Baltimore,

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Maryland; and Carol Forster, Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Permanente 
Medical Group, Oak Hill, Virginia.
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