[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 102 (Wednesday, June 24, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D758-D760]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
THE FAIRNESS FOR CRIME VICTIMS ACT OF 2015
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1495, 
to curtail the use of changes in mandatory programs affecting the Crime 
Victims Fund to inflate spending.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported S. 1647, to amend title 23, United States Code, to authorize 
funds for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction 
programs, with amendments.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 607, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide 
for a five-year extension of the rural community hospital demonstration 
program;
  S. 1349, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require 
hospitals to provide certain notifications to individuals classified by 
such hospitals under observation status rather than admitted as 
inpatients of such hospitals;
  S. 1461, to provide for the extension of the enforcement instruction 
on supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services in 
critical access and small rural hospitals through 2015;
  S. 313, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to add 
physical therapists to the list of providers allowed to utilize locum 
tenens arrangements under Medicare;
  S. 1253, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide 
coverage of certain disposable medical technologies under the Medicare 
program;
  S. 1347, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act with respect 
to the treatment of patient encounters in ambulatory surgical centers 
in determining meaningful EHR use;
  S. 704, to establish a Community-Based Institutional Special Needs 
Plan demonstration program to target home and community-based care to 
eligible Medicare beneficiaries;
  S. 1362, to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to clarify 
waiver authority regarding programs of all-inclusive care for the 
elderly (PACE programs);
  S. 861, to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to 
curb waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs;
  S. 349, to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to empower 
individuals with disabilities to establish their own supplemental needs 
trusts;
  S. 466, to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the 
quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the 
Medicaid and CHIP programs by developing maternity care quality 
measures and supporting maternity care quality collaboratives; and
  S. 599, to extend and expand the Medicaid emergency psychiatric 
demonstration project.
WMD NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine lessons learned from past WMD negotiations, after receiving 
testimony from William Tobey, and Graham T. Allison, both of Harvard 
University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1629, to revise certain authorities of the District of Columbia 
courts, the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the 
District of Columbia, and the Public Defender Service for the District 
of Columbia;
  S. 1576, to amend title 5, United States Code, to prevent fraud by 
representative payees;
  S. 742, to appropriately limit the authority to award bonuses to 
employees, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1550, to amend title 31, United States Code, to establish entities 
tasked with improving program and project management in certain Federal 
agencies, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

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  S. 1616, to provide for the identification and prevention of improper 
payments and the identification of strategic souring opportunities by 
reviewing and analyzing the use of Federal agency charge cards;
  S. 1580, to allow additional appointing authorities to select 
individuals from competitive service certificates;
  S. 1090, to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act to provide eligibility for broadcasting 
facilities to receive certain disaster assistance;
  S. 1603, to actively recruit members of the Armed Forces who are 
separating from military service to serve as Customs and Border 
Protection Officers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1115, to close out expired, empty grant accounts, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 310, to prohibit the use of Federal funds for the costs of 
painting portraits of officers and employees of the Federal Government;
  S. 991, to establish the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1620, to reduce duplication of information technology at the 
Department of Homeland Security;
  S. 1638, to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to 
Congress information on the Department of Homeland Security 
headquarters consolidation project in the National Capital Region;
  H.R. 728, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 7050 Highway BB in Cedar Hill, Missouri, as the 
``Sergeant First Class William B. Woods, Jr. Post Office'';
  H.R. 891, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 141 Paloma Drive in Floresville, Texas, as the 
``Floresville Veterans Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1326, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2000 Mulford Road in Mulberry, Florida, as the 
``Sergeant First Class Daniel M. Ferguson Post Office'';
  H.R. 1350, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 442 East 167th Street in Bronx, New York, as the 
``Herman Badillo Post Office Building''; and
  The nominations of Carol Fortine Ochoa, of Virginia, to be Inspector 
General, General Services Administration, and Steven M. Wellner, and 
William Ward Nooter, both to be an Associate Judge of the Superior 
Court of the District of Columbia.
NATIVE YOUTH SUICIDE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine demanding results to end Native youth suicides, after 
receiving testimony from Robert G. McSwain, Acting Director, Indian 
Health Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Collins 
Clifford, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Darrell G. 
Seki, Sr., Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Red Lake, Minnesota; and 
Teresa D. LaFromboise, Stanford University Graduate School of 
Education, Stanford, California.
HEALTH CARE AND BENEFITS LEGISLATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine S. 469, to improve the reproductive assistance provided by the 
Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs to 
severely wounded, ill, or injured members of the Armed Forces, 
veterans, and their spouses or partners, S. 901, to establish in the 
Department of Veterans Affairs a national center for research on the 
diagnosis and treatment of health conditions of the descendants of 
veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces 
that are related to that exposure, to establish an advisory board on 
such health conditions, S. 1082, to amend title 38, United States Code, 
to provide for the removal or demotion of employees of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs based on performance or misconduct, S. 1085, to 
expand eligibility for the program of comprehensive assistance for 
family caregivers of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to expand 
benefits available to participants under such program, to enhance 
special compensation for members of the uniformed services who require 
assistance in everyday life, S. 1117, to amend title 38, United States 
Code, to expand the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
remove senior executives of the Department of Veterans Affairs for 
performance or misconduct to include removal of certain other employees 
of the Department, H.R. 91, to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to issue, upon request, 
veteran identification cards to certain veterans, an original bill 
entitled, ``Jason Simcakoski Memorial Opioid Safety Act'', and an 
original bill entitled, ``Biological Implant Tracking and Veterans 
Safety Act'', after receiving testimony from Rajiv Jain, Assistant 
Deputy Under Secretary Veterans Affairs for Health for Patient Care 
Services, Veterans Health Administration; Ian de Planque, The American 
Legion, Peter B. Hegseth, Concerned Veterans for America, Adrian M. 
Atizado, Disabled American Veterans, Carl Blake, Paralyzed Veterans of 
America, and Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and John Rowan, Vietnam Veterans of America, Queens, 
New York.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
an original bill entitled, ``Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2016''.
CAREER REINVENTIONS AND THE NEW RETIREMENT WORKSCAPE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
work in retirement, focusing on career reinventions and the new 
retirement workscape, after receiving testimony from Sara E. Rix, Work 
and Aging, and Kerry Hannon, Forbes, both of Washington, D.C.; Susan E. 
Nordman, Erda, Dexter, Maine; and James C. Godwin, Jr., Bon Secours 
Virginia Health System, Richmond.
CANNABIDIOL
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine cannabidiol, focusing on barriers to 
research and potential medical benefits, after receiving testimony from 
Joseph T. Rannazzisi, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Drug Enforcement 
Administration, Department of Justice; Douglas C. Throckmorton, Deputy 
Director for Regulatory Programs, Center for Drug Evaluation and 
Research, Food and Drug Administration, and Nora D. Volkow, Director, 
National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, both 
of the Department of Health and Human Services; John Bradford Ingram, 
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson; Kevin A. Sabet, SAM, 
Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Thomas Minahan, Arrowhead Regional 
Medical Center, Colton, California.