[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 125 (Tuesday, August 4, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D929]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the military balance 
in the Middle East, after receiving testimony from General Michael V. 
Hayden, USAF (ret.), Chertoff Group, and Eric S. Edelman, Center for 
Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, both of Washington, D.C.; Nicholas 
Burns, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Richard N. 
Haass, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,476 
nominations in the military.
EPA AND FWS LITIGATION OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine litigation at the Environmental Protection Agency 
and Fish and Wildlife Service, focusing on impacts on the United States 
economy, States, local communities, and the environment, after 
receiving testimony from Alfredo Gomez, Director, Natural Resources and 
Environment, Government Accountability Office; Dallas Baker, 
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Air Director, Jackson; 
Andrew M. Grossman, Baker and Hostetler LLP, Washington, D.C., on 
behalf of the Cato Institute; and Kathleen Sgamma, Western Energy 
Alliance, and Justin Pidot, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 
both of Denver, Colorado.
FAMILIES AND FOSTER CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
preserving families and reducing the need for foster care, after 
receiving testimony from Ann Silverberg Williamson, Utah Department of 
Human Services Executive Director, Salt Lake City; Sandra Killett, 
Child Welfare Organizing Project, New York, New York; Rosalina Burton, 
San Pasqual Academy, Escondido, California; Donna Butts, Generations 
United, Washington, D.C.; and Charles Nyby, Child Welfare Program, 
Salem, Oregon.
JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, focusing on non-
proliferation, inspections, and nuclear constraints, after receiving 
testimony from David Albright, Institute for Science and International 
Security, and Robert Joseph, former Under Secretary of State for Arms 
Control and International Security, National Institute for Public 
Policy, both of Washington, D.C.; and Gary Samore, Harvard University 
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Ann Calvaresi Barr, of Maryland, to be 
Inspector General, United States Agency for International Development, 
and David Malcolm Robinson, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant 
Secretary (Conflict and Stabilization Operations), and to be 
Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, Edwin Richard Nolan, 
Jr., of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname, 
and John L. Estrada, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Trinidad and Tobago, all of the Department of State, and Scott Allen, 
of Maryland, to be United States Director of the European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUREAU OF PRISONS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Bureau of Prisons, 
focusing on first-hand accounts of challenges facing the Federal prison 
system, after receiving testimony from Charles E. Samuels, Jr., 
Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector 
General, both of the Department of Justice; Piper Kerman, Orange is the 
New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Columbus, Ohio; Jerome Dillard, 
Voices Behind Bars, Fitchburg, Wisconsin; and Udi Ofer, American Civil 
Liberties Union of New Jersey, Newark.
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.