[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 98 (Thursday, June 18, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D731]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill entitled, ``Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 
2016''; and
  An original bill entitled, ``Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016''.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,659 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
WATER AND POWER LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 593, to require the Secretary 
of the Interior to submit to Congress a report on the efforts of the 
Bureau of Reclamation to manage its infrastructure assets, S. 982, to 
prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement 
on the transfer of any water right to the United States by the 
Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, and to require the 
Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to develop water planning 
instruments consistent with State law, S. 1305, to amend the Colorado 
River Storage Project Act to authorize the use of the active capacity 
of the Fontenelle Reservoir, S. 1365, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to use designated funding to pay for construction of 
authorized rural water projects, S. 1291, to authorize early repayment 
of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within the Northport 
Irrigation District in the State of Nebraska, S. 1552, to authorize the 
Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System and the Musselshell-Judith 
Rural Water System in the State of Montana, and S. 1533, to authorize 
the Secretary of the Interior to coordinate Federal and State 
permitting processes related to the construction of new surface water 
storage projects on lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of 
the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture and to designate the 
Bureau of Reclamation as the lead agency for permit processing, after 
receiving testimony from Dionne Thompson, Deputy Commissioner for 
External and Intergovernmental Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation, 
Department of the Interior; Charles V. Stern, Specialist in Natural 
Resources Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; 
Jerry Meissner, Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority, Circle, Montana; 
Adam P. Schempp, Environmental Law Institute, and Ryan R. Yates, 
American Farm Bureau Federation, both of Washington, D.C.; and Anthony 
Willardson, Western States Water Council, Murray, Utah.
FUTURE OF HIGHWAY FUNDING
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
challenges to the future of highway funding, after receiving testimony 
from Joseph Kile, Assistant Director for Microeconomic Studies, 
Congressional Budget Office; and former Representative Ray LaHood, 
Building America's Future, and Stephen Moore, The Heritage Foundation, 
both of Washington, D.C.
RENEWABLE FUEL STANDARD PROGRAM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to 
examine the Environmental Protection Agency's management of the 
renewable fuel standard program, after receiving testimony from Janet 
McCabe, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, 
Environmental Protection Agency.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence committee.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.