[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 167 (Tuesday, November 10, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1205-D1207]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GOLDWATER-NICHOLS REFORM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
30 years of Goldwater-Nichols reform, after receiving testimony from 
John J. Hamre, Center for Strategic and International Studies, on 
behalf of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, James R. Locher 
III, Joint Special Operations University, and Jim Thomas, Center for 
Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, all of Washington, D.C.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 2184, to direct the President to establish guidelines for United 
States foreign development and economic assistance programs, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 515, to protect children from exploitation, especially sex 
trafficking in tourism, by providing advance notice of intended travel 
by registered child-sex offenders outside the United States to the 
government of the country of destination, requesting foreign 
governments to notify the United States when a known child-sex offender 
is seeking to enter the United States, with amendments;
  S. Res. 302, expressing the sense of the Senate in support of Israel 
and in condemnation of Palestinian terror attacks;
  An original resolution calling upon the President to condemn the 
ongoing sexual violence against women and children from Yezidi, 
Christian, Shabak, Turkmen, and other religious communities by Islamic 
State of Iraq and Syria militants and to urge the prosecution of the 
perpetrators and those complicit in these crimes;
  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);
  The Protocol Amending the Convention between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of Japan for 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); and
  The nominations of Linda I. Etim, of Wisconsin, to be an Assistant 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, Kenneth Damian Ward, of Virginia, for the rank of 
Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Representative 
to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, John 
Morton, of Massachusetts, to be Executive Vice President of the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and Roberta S. Jacobson, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the United Mexican States, Marc Jonathan 
Sievers, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, 
Elisabeth I. Millard, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Tajikistan, Deborah R. Malac, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Uganda, Lisa J. Peterson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Kingdom of Swaziland, H. Dean Pittman, of the District of Columbia, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique, Peter William Bodde, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to Libya, and Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., of 
Virginia, to be an Under Secretary (Political Affairs), all of the 
Department of State.

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ISIS IN SYRIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
the campaign against ISIS in Syria from Brett McGurk, Deputy Special 
Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, Department 
of State.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.