[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 165 (Thursday, November 5, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1192-D1193]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
WILDFIRES
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine wildfire, focusing on stakeholder perspectives on 
budgetary impacts and threats to natural resources on Federal, state, 
and private lands, after receiving testimony from Daniel R. Dessecker, 
Ruffed Grouse Society/American Woodcock Society, Rice Lake, Wisconsin; 
William R. Dougan, National Federation of Federal Employees, 
Washington, D.C.; Ken Stewart, Georgia Institute of Technology 
Renewable Bioproducts Institute, Marietta, Georgia, on behalf of the 
American Forest Foundation; Chris Treese, Colorado River Water 
Conservation District, Glenwood Springs, on behalf of the National 
Water Resources Association; and Chris Wood, Trout Unlimited, 
Arlington, Virginia.
ROLES AND MISSIONS OF THE ARMED FORCES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
revisiting the roles and missions of the armed forces, after receiving 
testimony from Lieutenant General David A. Deptula, USAF (Ret.), the 
Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Arlington, Virgnia; Robert 
Martinage, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and Michael 
O'Hanlon, The Future of Land Warfare, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Bryan McGrath, Hudson Institute Center for American Seapower, Easton, 
Maryland.
RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF EXISTING REGULATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to 
examine agency progress in retrospective review of existing 
regulations, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth Klein, Associate 
Deputy Secretary of the Interior; Bill Nickerson, Acting Director, 
Office of Regulatory Policy and Management, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Megan J. Uzzell, Associate Deputy Secretary of Labor; and 
Christopher Zehren, Deputy

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Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, Department of 
Agriculture.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Iowa, Leonard Terry Strand, of South 
Dakota, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Iowa, Julien Xavier Neals, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of New Jersey, Gary Richard Brown, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, and Mark A. Young, 
to be United States District Judge for the Central District of 
California.
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.