[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 160 (Thursday, October 29, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1153-D1154]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE STRATEGY AND FORCE STRUCTURE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
alternative approaches to defense strategy and force structure, after 
receiving testimony from Thomas M. Donnelly, American Enterprise 
Institute Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, Shawn Brimley, 
Center for a New American Security, Andrew F. Krepinevich, Center for 
Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Christopher A. Preble, Cato 
Institute, and Dakota L. Wood, The Heritage Foundation, all of 
Washington, D.C.
WELFARE AND POVERTY IN AMERICA
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine welfare 
and poverty in America, after receiving testimony from Jon S. Pierpont, 
Utah Department of Workforce Services Executive Director, Salt Lake 
City; Pamela Loprest, Urban Institute, and Aretha J. Jackson, America 
Works, both of Washington, D.C.; and H. Luke Shaefer, University of 
Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy School of Social Work, 
Ann Arbor.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., of Virginia, to be an 
Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs), and Laura S. H. Holgate, 
of Virginia, to be the Representative of the United States of America 
to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador, 
and to be Representative of the United States of America to the Vienna 
Office of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of 
America and the Swiss Confederation for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on 
October 2, 1996, signed on September 23, 2009, at Washington, as 
corrected by an exchange of notes effected November 16, 2010 and a 
related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on September 23, 
2009 (Treaty Doc. 112-01), protocol Amending the Convention between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the 
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and 
Capital, signed on May 20, 2009, at Luxembourg (the ``proposed 
Protocol'') and a related agreement effected by the exchange of notes 
also signed on May 20, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 111-08), convention between 
the Government of the United States of America and the Government of 
the Republic of Hungary for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income, signed on 
February 4, 2010, at Budapest (the ``proposed Convention'') and a 
related agreement effected by an exchange of notes on February 4, 2010 
(Treaty Doc. 111-07), the Convention between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Chile 
for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal 
Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and Capital, signed in 
Washington on February 4, 2010, with a Protocol signed the same day, as 
corrected by exchanges of notes effected February 25, 2011, and 
February 10 and 21, 2012, and a related agreement effected by exchange 
of notes (the ``related Agreement'') on February 4, 2010 (Treaty Doc. 
112-08), the Protocol Amending the Convention on Mutual Administrative 
Assistance in Tax Matters, done at Paris on May 27, 2010 (the 
``proposed Protocol''), which was signed by the United States on May 
27, 2010 (Treaty Doc. 112-05), the Protocol Amending the Convention 
between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain for the 
Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with 
Respect to Taxes on Income and its Protocol, signed at Madrid on 
February 22, 1990 (Treaty Doc. 113-04), the Convention between the 
United States of America and the Republic of Poland for the Avoidance 
of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to 
Taxes on Income, signed on February 13, 2013, at Warsaw (Treaty Doc. 
113-05), and the Protocol Amending the Convention between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government of Japan 
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the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion 
with respect to Taxes on Income and a related agreement entered into by 
an exchange of notes (together the ``proposed Protocol''), both signed 
on January 24, 2013, at Washington, together with correcting notes 
exchanged March 9 and March 29, 2013 (Treaty Doc. 114-01), after 
receiving testimony from Robert B. Stack, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury for International Tax Affairs; and Thomas A. Barthold, 
Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation.
MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine mental health and substance use 
disorders in America, focusing on priorities, challenges, and 
opportunities, after receiving testimony from Kana Enomoto, Acting 
Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration, James Macrae, Acting Administrator, Health Resources 
and Services Administration, and Thomas Insel, Director, National 
Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, all of the 
Department of Health and Human Services.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Brian R. Martinotti, to be a United States District 
Judge for the District of New Jersey, Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska, and Edward 
L. Stanton III, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Tennessee.
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.