[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 141 (Tuesday, September 29, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1026-D1027]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TSA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Homeland 
Security concluded a hearing to examine the Transportation Security 
Administration's efforts to address inspector general findings, after 
receiving testimony from Peter V. Neffenger, Administrator, 
Transportation Security Administration, and John Roth, Inspector 
General, both of the Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. CYBERSECURITY POLICY AND THREATS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
United States Cybersecurity policy and threats, after receiving 
testimony from James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence; 
Robert O. Work, Deputy Secretary of Defense; and Admiral Michael S. 
Rogers, USN, Commander, United States

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Cyber Command, Director, National Security Agency, and Chief, Central 
Security Services.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Adewale Adeyemo, of California, 
and Amias Moore Gerety, of Connecticut, both to be an Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury, and Jay Neal Lerner, of Illinois, to be 
Inspector General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PIPELINE NETWORK OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and 
Security concluded a hearing to examine pipeline safety, focusing on 
oversight of our nation's pipeline network, after receiving testimony 
from Christopher A. Hart, Chairman, National Transportation Safety 
Board; Susan A. Fleming, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; Michael Bellamy, PII Pipeline 
Solutions, Cramlington, United Kingdom; and Donald F. Santa, The 
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, and Terry McCallister, 
WGL Holdings, on behalf of the American Gas Association of America, 
both of Washington, D.C.
PRESIDENT'S AIR AGENDA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine economy-wide implications of President Obama's air 
agenda, after receiving testimony from Janet McCabe, Acting Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection 
Agency.
IMPROVING THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Water, and Wildlife received a briefing on improving the Endangered 
Species Act from Dan Ashe, Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Department of the Interior; and Wyoming Governor Matthew H. Mead, and 
Montana Governor Steve Bullock, both on behalf of the Western 
Governors' Association.
FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES IN PUERTO RICO
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
financial and economic challenges in Puerto Rico, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Pierluisi; Melba Acosta-Febo, Government 
Development Bank for Puerto Rico, and Sergio M. Marxuach, Center for a 
New Economy, both of San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, 
American Action Forum, Washington, D.C.
U.S. ROLE AND STRATEGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the United States role and strategy in the Middle East, 
focusing on the humanitarian crisis, after receiving testimony from 
Michel Gabaudan, Refugees International, and Nancy Lindborg, United 
States Institute of Peace, both of Washington, D.C.; and David 
Miliband, International Rescue Committee, New York, New York.
U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, 
and International Cybersecurity Policy concluded a hearing to examine 
the changing landscape of United States-China Relations, after 
receiving testimony from Christopher K. Johnson, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, and Melanie Hart, Center for American 
Progress, both of Washington, D.C.
TOXIC CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AND VA RESPONSE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the impact of exposure to toxic chemicals on veterans and the 
VA's response, after receiving testimony from David R. McLenachen, 
Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Disability 
Assistance, Veterans Benefits Administration; Kenneth S. Ramos, 
University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, and National Academies of 
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Institute of Medicine Committee on 
Veterans and Agent Orange, Update 2014, Tucson; Commander John B. 
Wells, USN (Ret.), Military-Veterans Advocacy, Slidell, Louisiana; John 
Rowan, Vietnam Veterans of America, Silver Spring, Maryland; and Jerome 
M. Ensminger, Elizabethtown, North Carolina.
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.