[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 111 (Thursday, July 16, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D840-D841]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FORESTRY LEGISLATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine pending Forest Service and forestry related bills, 
including S. 61, to provide for the conveyance of certain National 
Forest System land in the State of Louisiana, S. 755, to designate as 
wilderness certain public land in the Cherokee National Forest in the 
State of Tennessee, S. 1100, to require State and local government 
approval of prescribed burns on Federal land during conditions of 
drought or fire danger, S. 1110, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture 
to publish in the Federal Register a strategy to significantly increase 
the role of volunteers and partners in National Forest System trail 
maintenance, S. 1671, to reauthorize the National Forest Foundation 
Act, S. 1712, to amend the Small Tract Act of 1983 to expand the 
authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange small 
parcels of National Forest System land to enhance the management of the 
National Forest System, resolve minor encroachments, and S. 1733, to 
require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a forest incentives 
program to keep forests intact and sequester carbon on private forest 
land of the United States, and S. 1744, to authorize the sale of 
certain National Forest System land in the State of Georgia, after 
receiving testimony from Robert Bonnie, Under Secretary of Agriculture 
for Natural Resources and Environment.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill entitled, ``Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016''.
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the semiannual monetary policy report to Congress, 
including S. 1484, a bill to improve accountability and transparency in 
the United States financial regulatory system, protect access to credit 
for consumers, provide sensible relief to financial institutions, after 
receiving testimony from Janet L. Yellen, Chair, Board of Governors of 
the Federal Reserve System.
ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 132, to improve timber management on Oregon and 
California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land, S. 326, to 
amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to provide 
cancellation ceilings for stewardship end result contracting projects, 
and S. 1691, to expedite and prioritize forest management activities to 
achieve ecosystem restoration objectives, after receiving testimony 
from Tom Tidwell, Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; 
Steven A. Ellis, Deputy Director for Operations, Bureau of Land 
Management, Department of the Interior; Mike Matz, The Pew Charitable 
Trusts, Durango, Colorado; Jim D. Neiman, Neiman Enterprises, Inc., 
Hulett, Wyoming, on behalf of the Federal Forest Resource Coalition; 
and Steve Swanson, Swanson Group, Inc., Glendale, Oregon.
HEALTHCARE.GOV CONTROLS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
HealthCare.gov controls, focusing on observations on 18 undercover 
tests of enrollment controls for health-care coverage and consumer 
subsidies provided under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
Act, after receiving testimony from Seto J.

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Bagdoyan, Director, Forensic Audits and Investigative Service, 
Government Accountability Office.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine human rights around the world, focusing on corruption, Global 
Magnitsky, and modern slavery, after receiving testimony from Tom 
Malinowski, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human 
Rights and Labor; and Mark P. Lagon, Freedom House, and Sarah Margon, 
Human Rights Watch, both of Washington, D.C.
WILDLIFE POACHING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Africa and Global 
Health Policy concluded a hearing to examine wildlife poaching, after 
receiving testimony from Jean Marc Froment, African Parks, 
Johannesburg, South Africa; George Wittemyer, Colorado State University 
Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Fort Collins, on 
behalf of Save the Elephants; and Ian Saunders, The Tsavo Trust, and 
Ginette Hemley, World Wildlife Fund, both of Washington, D.C.
OIRA'S ROLE IN THE REGULATORY PROCESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to 
examine the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs' role in the 
regulatory process, after receiving testimony from Howard Shelanski, 
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
1599, to provide anti-retaliation protections for antitrust 
whistleblowers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
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.