[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 143 (Thursday, October 1, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1043-D1044]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GERALD R. FORD-CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIER PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the procurement, acquisition, testing, and oversight of the Navy's 
Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier program, after receiving 
testimony from Sean J. Stackley, Assistant Secretary, Research, 
Development & Acquisition, Rear Admiral Donald E. Gaddis, USN, Program 
Executive Officer, Tactical Aircraft, and Rear Admiral Thomas J. Moore, 
USN, Program Executive Officer, Aircraft Carriers, all of the 
Department of the Navy, Katrina G. McFarland, Assistant Secretary for 
Acquisition, Rear Admiral Michael C. Manazir, USN, Director, Air 
Warfare (OPNAV), and J. Michael Gilmore, Director of Operational Test 
and Evaluation, all of the Department of Defense; and Paul L. Francis, 
Managing Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government 
Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``American Crude Oil 
Export Equality Act''.
NATURAL RESOURCES LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded a hearing to examine S. 2031, to 
reduce temporarily the royalty required to be paid for sodium produced 
on Federal lands, after receiving testimony from Amanda Leiter, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Land and Minerals Management; 
Christopher B. Douville, American Natural Soda Ash Corporation, 
Westport, Connecticut; Rick Finn, Port of Portland, Portland, Oregon; 
and Fred von Ahrens, Tronox Alkali, Green River, Wyoming.
IMPROPER PAYMENTS IN FEDERAL PROGRAMS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine improper 
payments in Federal programs, after receiving testimony from Gene L. 
Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, Government 
Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Scott Allen, of Maryland, to be United States 
Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Ann 
Calvaresi Barr, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, United States 
Agency for International Development, and Barbara Lee, of California, 
and Christopher H. Smith, of New Jersey, both to be a Representative of 
the United States of America to the Seventieth Session of the General 
Assembly of the United Nations, Carolyn Patricia Alsup, of Florida, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, John L. Estrada, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, David 
R. Gilmour, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Togolese Republic, 
Jeffrey J. Hawkins, Jr., of California, to be Ambassador to the Central 
African Republic, Edwin Richard Nolan, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be

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Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname, David Malcolm Robinson, of 
Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Conflict and 
Stabilization Operations), and to be Coordinator for Reconstruction and 
Stabilization, Daniel H. Rubinstein, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Tunisia, Lucy Tamlyn, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Benin, Susan Coppedge Amato, of Georgia, to be Director 
of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, with the rank of 
Ambassador at Large, and lists in the Foreign Service, all of the 
Department of State.
CIVIL NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH SOUTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the civil nuclear agreement with the Republic of South Korea, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas M. Countryman, Assistant 
Secretary of State.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Robert Porter Jackson, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana, Harry K. Thomas, Jr., of New York, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe, Julie Furuta-Toy, of 
Wyoming, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, and 
Dennis B. Hankins, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Guinea, all of the Department of State, and Linda I. Etim, of 
Wisconsin, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine achieving the promise of health 
information technology, after receiving testimony from Karen B. 
DeSalvo, National Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for 
Health Information Technology, and Patrick Conway, Acting Principal 
Deputy Administrator, Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, 
and Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 
both of the Department of Health and Human Services.
REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and the 
National Interest concluded an oversight hearing to examine the 
Administration's Fiscal Year 2016 refugee resettlement program, 
including fiscal and security implications, after receiving testimony 
from Lawrence Bartlett, Director, Office of Refugee Admissions, Bureau 
of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Department of State; Barbara L. 
Strack, Chief, Refugee Affairs Division, Refugee, Asylum, and 
International Operations Directorate, and Matthew D. Emrich, Acting 
Associate Director, Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, 
both of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland 
Security; and Robert Carey, Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, 
Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and 
Human Services.
GOLD KING MINE WASTE WATER SPILL
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the significant costs and related burdens for small 
businesses resulting from the Gold King Mine waste water spill near 
Silverton, Colorado, after receiving testimony from Representative 
Tipton; Bradford P. Blake, La Plata County Commissioner, and Andrew 
Corra, 4Corners Riversports, both of Durango, Colorado; and DeAnne 
Gallegos, Chamber of Commerce, Silverton, Colorado.
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.