[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 122 (Thursday, July 30, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D915-D916]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine 
whistleblower claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs, after 
receiving testimony from Linda A. Halliday, Deputy Inspector General, 
Office of the Inspector General, and Katherine L. Mitchell, Veterans 
Integrated Service Network 18, Veterans Healthcare Administration, both 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Carolyn Lerner, Special Counsel, 
Office of Special Counsel; and Danielle Brian, Project on Government 
Oversight, and Lisa M. Nee, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of Admiral John M. Richardson, USN, to be Chief of Naval 
Operations, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  An original bill to provide for the modernization of the energy 
policy of the United States;
  An original bill to provide for reforms of the administration of the 
Outer Continental Shelf of the United States;
  S. 720, to promote energy savings in residential buildings and 
industry, with an amendment;
  S. 583, to establish certain wilderness areas in central Idaho and to 
authorize various land conveyances involving National Forest System 
land and Bureau of Land Management land in central Idaho;
  S. 1240, to designate the Cerro del Yuta and Rio San Antonio 
Wilderness Areas in the State of New Mexico, with an amendment;
  S. 145, to require the Director of the National Park Service to 
refund to States all State funds that were used to reopen and 
temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the 
October 2013 shutdown;
  S. 403, to revise the authorized route of the North Country National 
Scenic Trail in northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into 
Vermont to connect with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, with an 
amendment;
  S. 521, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
special resource study of President Station in Baltimore, Maryland, 
with an amendment;
  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, with an amendment;
  S. 610, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
special resource study of P.S. 103 in West Baltimore, Maryland and for 
other purposes;
  S. 873, to designate the wilderness within the Lake Clark National 
Park and Preserve in the State of Alaska as the Jay S. Hammond 
Wilderness Area;

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  S. 1103, to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of 
construction of a hydroelectric project involving Clark Canyon Dam;
  S. 1104, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a 
hydroelectric project involving the Gibson Dam;
  S. 1305, to amend the Colorado River Storage Project Act to authorize 
the use of the active capacity of the Fontenelle Reservoir, with an 
amendment; and
  S. 1483, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the 
suitability and feasibility of designating the James K. Polk Home in 
Columbia, Tennessee, as a unit of the National Park System, with an 
amendment.
SANCTIONS AND THE JCPOA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine sanctions and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, after 
receiving testimony from Juan C. Zarate, Foundation for Defense of 
Democracies Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance, Washington, D.C.; 
and Richard Nephew, Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, New York, 
New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Lucy Tamlyn, of New York, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Benin, Jeffrey J. Hawkins, Jr., of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Central African Republic, David R. Gilmour, of Texas, 
to be Ambassador to the Togolese Republic, Daniel H. Rubinstein, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia, and Carolyn 
Patricia Alsup, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of The 
Gambia, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
U.S. TAX CODE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine the 
impact of the United States tax code on the market for corporate 
control and jobs, after receiving testimony from Jim Koch, Boston Beer 
Company, Boston, Massachusetts; David E.I. Pyott, Allergan, Washington, 
D.C.; Walter J. Galvin, Emerson, St. Louis, Missouri; Howard B. 
Schiller, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., Bridgewater, New 
Jersey; and Joshua Kobza, Restaurant Brands International, Miami, 
Florida.
CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: On July 29, 2015, 
Committee concluded a hearing to examine reauthorizing the Higher 
Education Act, focusing on combating campus sexual assault, including 
S. 590, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, after receiving 
testimony from Senators McCaskill, Heller, Gillibrand, and Ayotte; 
Janet Napolitano, University of California, Oakland; Dana Bolger, Know 
Your IX, and Mollie Benz Flounlacker, Association of American 
Universities, both of Washington, D.C.; and Dolores A. Stafford, D. 
Stafford and Associates, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on behalf of the 
National Association of Clery Compliance Officers and Professionals.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.