[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 60 (Thursday, April 23, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D436-D437]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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 Health and 
Human Services, after receiving testimony from Sylvia Burwell, 
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to consider matters related 
to markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2016.
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine surface transportation reauthorization, focusing on 
building on the successes of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st 
Century Act (MAP-21) to deliver safe, efficient, and effective public 
transportation services and projects, after receiving testimony from 
Michael P. Melaniphy, American Public Transportation Association, Janet 
Kavinoky, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Harry Lombardo, Transport 
Workers Union of America, all of Washington, D.C.; and Barbara K. 
Cline, Community Transportation Association of America, Spearfish, 
South Dakota.
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization, 
focusing on airport issues and infrastructure financing, after 
receiving testimony from Gerald L. Dillingham, Director, Physical 
Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability Office; Sharon 
Pinkerton, Airlines for America, and Michael J. Minerva, American 
Airlines, both of Washington, D.C.; Todd Hauptli, American Association 
of Airport Executives, Alexandria, Virginia; and Mark M. Reis, Seattle-
Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, Washington.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Committee ordered 
favorably reported:
  S. 995, to establish congressional trade negotiating objectives and 
enhanced consultation requirements for trade negotiations, to provide 
for consideration of trade agreements, with amendments;
  An original bill relating to extension of the trade adjustment 
assistance program, and amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
extend and modify the credit for health insurance costs of certain 
eligible individuals;
  An original bill to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act, 
the Generalized System of Preferences, the preferential duty treatment 
program for Haiti; and
  An original bill to reauthorize trade facilitation and trade 
enforcement functions and activities.

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IMPACT OF THE MEDICAL DEVICE TAX ON JOBS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health Care concluded a hearing 
to examine the impact of the medical device tax on jobs, innovation, 
and patients, after receiving testimony from Bruce A. Heugel, BBraun of 
America, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Quinton J. Farrar, West Surry 
Strategies, LLC, Keene, New Hampshire; Alyra Donisvitch, Manchester, 
Maine; and Mark Judge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Anne Elizabeth Wall, of Illinois, to be a Deputy Under 
Secretary of the Treasury, Brodi L. Fontenot, of Louisiana, to be Chief 
Financial Officer, Department of the Treasury, and Rafael J. Lopez, of 
California, to be Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families, 
Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
AFRICA GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), after receiving 
testimony from Thomas H. Hart, ONE Campaign, Scott Eisner, U.S. Chamber 
of Commerce, Walker A. Williams, Leadership Africa USA, and Cathy 
Feingold, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C.; and William McRaith, PVH 
Corp., New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Sally Quillian Yates, of Georgia, to be Deputy Attorney 
General, Department of Justice, Kara Farnandez Stoll, of Virginia, to 
be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, and Roseann A. 
Ketchmark, to be United States District Judge for the Western District 
of Missouri.
CENTRAL AMERICAN MINORS REFUGEE/PAROLE PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and the 
National Interest concluded a hearing to examine the Administration's 
Central American minors refugee/parole program, after receiving 
testimony from Joseph Langlois, Associate Director, Refugee, Asylum and 
International Operations Directorate, Citizenship and Immigration 
Services, Department of Homeland Security; Simon Henshaw, Principal 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, 
and Migration; Doris Meissner, Migration Policy Institute, Igor V. 
Timofeyev, former Director of Immigration Policy and Special Advisor 
for Refugee and Asylum Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, Paul 
Hastings, Anastasia Brown, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' 
Migration and Refugee Services, Jessica M. Vaughan, Center for 
Immigration Studies, all of Washington, D.C.; and Jan C. Ting, Temple 
University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 552, to amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to provide 
for increased limitations on leverage for multiple licenses under 
common control;
  S. 957, to increase access to capital for veteran entrepreneurs to 
help create jobs;
  S. 958, to amend the Small Business Act to provide for team and joint 
venture offers for certain contracts, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 966, to extend the low-interest refinancing provisions under the 
Local Development Business Loan Program of the Small Business 
Administration, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 967, to require the Small Business Administration to make 
information relating to lenders making covered loans publicly 
available, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 999, to amend the Small Business Act to provide for improvements 
to small business development centers, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 1000, to strengthen resources for entrepreneurs by improving the 
SCORE program, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1001, to establish authorization levels for general business loans 
for fiscal years 2015 and 2016.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.