[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 30, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1034-D1035]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SECURITIES INVESTOR PROTECTION CORPORATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance, and Investment concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, including S. 
67, to amend the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 to confirm 
that a customer's net equity claim is based on the customer's last 
statement and that certain recoveries are prohibited, to change how 
trustees are appointed, after receiving testimony from Stephen P. 
Harbeck, Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Sigmund S. 
Wissner-Gross, Brown Rudnick, LLP, and James W. Giddens, Hughes Hubbard 
and Reed LLP, all of Washington, D.C.; and J.W. Verret, George Mason 
School of Law, Fairfax, Virginia.
ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the Army Corps of Engineers' participation 
in the development of the new regulatory definition of ``Waters of the 
United States'', after receiving testimony from Jo-Ellen Darcy, 
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Department of Defense.
ECONOMIC CRISIS IN UKRAINE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a closed hearing to 
examine the economic crisis in Ukraine, after receiving testimony from 
Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Education and student 
achievement, after receiving testimony from Ted Mitchell, Under 
Secretary of Education; Richard K. Vedder, Center for College 
Affordability and Productivity, Athens, Ohio; and Kevin Carey, New 
America, Washington, D.C.
END OF THE YEAR SPENDING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management concluded a 
hearing to examine end of the year spending, after receiving testimony 
from Jason J. Fichtner, George Mason University Mercatus Center, 
Arlington, Virginia; Philip G. Joyce, University of Maryland School of

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Public Policy, College Park; and Dean W. Sinclair, Alexandria, 
Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 799, to combat the rise of prenatal opioid abuse and neonatal 
abstinence syndrome, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1893, to reauthorize and improve programs related to mental health 
and substance use disorders, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  S. 481, to amend the Controlled Substances Act and the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to drug scheduling recommendations 
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and with respect to 
registration of manufacturers and distributors seeking to conduct 
clinical testing, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Brian R. Martinotti, and Julien Xavier Neals, both 
to be United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, who 
were both introduced by Senators Menendez and Booker, Robert F. 
Rossiter, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Nebraska, who was introduced by Senator Fischer, and Edward L. Stanton 
III, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of 
Tennessee, who was introduced by Senators Alexander and Corker, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Michael Herman Michaud, of Maine, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training, 
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.
PENSION ADVANCES
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
pension advances, focusing on questionable business practices and the 
Federal response, after receiving testimony from Stephen Lord, Managing 
Director, Forensic Audits and Investigative Service, Government 
Accountability Office; Kaycee L. Wolf, Arkansas Securities Department, 
Little Rock; Stuart T. Rossman, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, 
Massachusetts; Maria Walden, Public School and Education Employee 
Retirement Systems of Missouri, Jefferson City; and Louis Kroot, USN 
(Ret.), Lexington, Kentucky.
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