[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 171 (Thursday, November 19, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1242-D1243]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Alissa M. Starzak, of New York, to be General 
Counsel of the Department of the Army, Franklin R. Parker, of Illinois, 
to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, John Conger, of Maryland, to 
be a Principal Deputy Under Secretary, and Stephen P. Welby, of 
Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of 
Defense, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 329, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain 
segments of the Farmington River and Salmon Brook in the State of 
Connecticut as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
System, with an amendment;
  S. 556, to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational 
hunting, fishing, and shooting, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 782, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a bison 
management plan for Grand Canyon National Park;
  S. 1583, to authorize the expansion of an existing hydroelectric 
project, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1592, to clarify the description of certain Federal land under the 
Northern Arizona Land Exchange and Verde River Basin Partnership Act of 
2005 to include additional land in the Kaibab National Forest;
  S. 1694, to amend Public Law 103-434 to authorize Phase III of the 
Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project for the purposes of 
improving water management in the Yakima River basin, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1941 and H.R. 2223, bills to authorize, direct, expedite, and 
facilitate a land exchange in El Paso and Teller Counties, Colorado;
  S. 1942 and H.R. 1554, bills to require a land conveyance involving 
the Elkhorn Ranch and the White River National Forest in the State of 
Colorado;
  S. 2046, to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to 
issue an order continuing a stay of a hydroelectric license for the 
Mahoney Lake hydroelectric project in the State of Alaska;
  S. 2069, to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to 
modify provisions relating to certain land exchanges in the Mt. Hood 
Wilderness in the State of Oregon, with amendments;
  S. 2083, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a 
hydroelectric project;
  H.R. 373, to direct the Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of 
Agriculture to expedite access to certain Federal land under the 
administrative jurisdiction of each Secretary for good Samaritan 
search-and-recovery missions;
  H.R. 1324, to adjust the boundary of the Arapaho National Forest, 
Colorado; and
  The nominations of Suzette M. Kimball, of West Virginia, to be 
Director of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the 
Interior, and Victoria Marie Baecher Wassmer, of Illinois, to be Under 
Secretary, John Francis Kotek, of Idaho, to be an Assistant Secretary 
(Nuclear Energy), and Cherry Ann Murray, of Kansas, to be Director of 
the Office of Science, all of the Department of Energy.
DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, 
and International Cybersecurity Policy concluded a hearing to examine 
democratic transitions in Southeast Asia, after receiving testimony 
from Scott Busby, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asia and the 
Pacific, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and James 
Carouso, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Maritime and Mainland 
Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, both 
of the Department of State; Mark Green, International Republican 
Institute, and Murray Hiebert, Center for Strategic and International 
Studies, both of Washington, D.C.; and Kelley Currie, Project 2049 
Institute, Arlington, Virginia.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine human 
trafficking, after receiving testimony from Washington Deputy Attorney 
General Darwin P. Roberts, Olympia; and Yiota G. Souras, The National 
Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Alexandria, Virginia.
IMPACT OF ISIS AND REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the impact of ISIS on the homeland and 
refugee resettlement, after receiving testimony from Anne C. Richard, 
Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of

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Population, Refugees, and Migration; Leon Rodriguez, Director, 
Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security; 
Peter Bergen, New America, and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Foundation for 
Defense of Democracies, both of Washington, D.C.; Brian Michael 
Jenkins, RAND Corporation, and Lavinia Limon, U.S. Committee for 
Refugees and Immigrants, both of Arlington, Virginia; and Eric P. 
Schwartz, University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 
Minneapolis.
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.