[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 7, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D778-D779]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine highly pathogenic avian influenza, focusing on the 
impact on the United States poultry sector and protecting poultry 
flocks, after receiving testimony from John Clifford, Deputy 
Administrator, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service, and David Swayne, Laboratory Director, Southeast Poultry 
Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Services, both of the 
Department of Agriculture; Jim Dean, United Egg Producers, Sioux 
Center, Iowa; Ken Klippen, National Association of Egg Farmers, 
Collegeville, Pennsylvania; Brad Moline, Moline Farms, Manson, Iowa, on 
behalf of the National Turkey Federation; Rob Knecht, Konos, Inc., 
Martin, Michigan, on behalf of Michigan Allied Poultry Industries; and 
Tom Elam, FarmEcon LLC, Carmel, Indiana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs approved for full committee consideration an 
original bill entitled, ``State, Foreign Operations, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, 2016''.
COUNTER-ISIL STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
counter-ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) strategy, after 
receiving testimony from Ashton B. Carter, Secretary, and General 
Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of the 
Department of Defense.
TECHNOLOGIES TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and 
Security concluded a hearing to examine technologies transforming 
transportation, focusing on whether the government is keeping up, after 
receiving testimony from Susan Alt, Volvo Group North America, 
Greensboro, North Carolina; Paul Misener, Amazon.com, and Greg Fox, 
BNSF Railway Company, both of Washington, D.C.; and Michael 
Christensen, Port of Long Beach, Long Beach, California.
YAKIMA RIVER BASIN WATER ENHANCEMENT PROJECT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1694, to amend Public Law 103-434 to authorize 
Phase III of the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project for the 
purposes of improving water management in the Yakima River basin, after 
receiving testimony from Tom Iseman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Water and Science; Derek Sandison, Washington State 
Department of Agriculture Director, Olympia; Urban Eberhart, Kittitas 
Reclamation District, Ellensburg, Washington; Michael Garrity, American 
Rivers, Tacoma, Washington; and Phil Rigdon, Yakama Nation Department 
of Natural Resources, Toppenish, Washington.
2014 HUMANITARIAN BORDER CRISIS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine 2014 humanitarian crisis at our border, 
focusing on a review of the government's response to unaccompanied 
minors one year later, after receiving testimony from Juan P. Osuna, 
Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Department of 
Justice; Mark Greenberg, Acting Assistant Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, Administration for Children and Families; and Philip T. 
Miller, Assistant Director for Field Operations, Enforcement and 
Removal Operations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Joseph E. 
Langlois, Associate Director, Refugee, Asylum and International 
Operations Directorate, Citizenship and Immigration Services, both of 
the Department of Homeland Security.
SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH CARE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Retirement Security concluded a hearing to examine 
small business health care challenges and opportunities, after 
receiving testimony from Thomas M. Harte, Landmark Benefits Inc., 
Hampstead, New Hampshire, on

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behalf of the National Association of Health Underwriters; James G. 
Scott, Applied Policy, Alexandria, Virginia; Sabrina Corlette, 
Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Center on Health 
Insurance Reforms, Washington, D.C.; and J. Kelly Conklin, Foley Waite 
Associates, Kenilworth, New Jersey, on behalf of the Main Street 
Alliance.
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.