[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 177 (Tuesday, December 8, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1289-D1290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PENTAGON POLICY, STRATEGY, AND PLANS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
improving the Pentagon's development of policy, strategy, and plans, 
after receiving testimony from Michele A. Flournoy, former Under 
Secretary of Defense for Policy, Center for a New American Security; 
Michael G. Vickers, former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; 
and Commander Jeff Eggers, USN (Ret.), former Special Assistant to the 
President for National Security Affairs, New America.
MAGNITUDE OF HUMAN IMPACT ON EARTH'S CLIMATE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine promoting open inquiry in the debate over the 
magnitude of human impact on earth's climate, after receiving testimony 
from John R. Christy, University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System 
Science Center, Huntsville; Judith A. Curry, Georgia Institute of 
Technology School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta; William 
Happer, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Mark Steyn, ``A 
Disgrace to the Profession'': The World's Scientists--in Their Own 
Words--On Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick, and Their Damage to 
Science, Volume One, Woodsville, New Hampshire; and Rear Admiral David 
W. Titley, USN (Ret.), Pennsylvania State University Center for 
Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, University Park.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CENTENNIAL ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 2257, to prepare the National Park Service for 
its Centennial in 2016 and for a second century of protecting our 
national parks' natural, historic, and cultural resources for present 
and future generations, after receiving testimony from Jonathan B. 
Jarvis, Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; 
and Will Shafroth, National Park Foundation, Derrick Crandall, National 
Park Hospitality Association, and Theresa Pierno, National Parks 
Conservation Association, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Res. 189, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the 25th 
anniversary of democracy in Mongolia;
  S. Res. 326, celebrating the 135th anniversary of diplomatic 
relations between the United States and Romania;
  S. Res. 320, congratulating the people of Burma on their commitment 
to peaceful elections, with amendments; and
  The nominations of Catherine Ebert-Gray, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the 
Solomon Islands and Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu, John D. 
Feeley, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Panama, Linda Swartz Taglialatela, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador to the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, 
Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint 
Vincent and the Grenadines, Todd C. Chapman, of Texas, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Ecuador, Jean Elizabeth Manes, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, G. Kathleen Hill, of 
Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malta, Eric Seth Rubin, 
of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria, Kyle R. 
Scott, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia, David 
McKean, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, and routine 
lists in the Foreign Service, all of the Department of State, and 
Carlos J. Torres, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director of the Peace 
Corps.

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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Millennium Challenge Corporation, focusing on lessons 
learned after a decade and outlook for the future, after receiving 
testimony from Dana J. Hyde, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium 
Challenge Corporation; Jim Kolbe, The German Marshall Fund of the 
United States, and Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development, both 
of Washington, D.C.; and Andrew S. Natsios, Scowcroft Institute of 
International Affairs and Texas A&M University George H. W. Bush School 
of Government and Public Service, College Station.
OPIOID ABUSE IN AMERICA
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine opioid abuse in America, focusing on 
facing the epidemic and examining solutions, after receiving testimony 
from Leana Wen, Baltimore City Health Commissioner, Baltimore, 
Maryland; Robert J. Valuck, University of Colorado Skaggs School of 
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Aurora; and Eric Spofford, The 
Granite House, Derry, New Hampshire.
AB INBEV/SABMILLER MERGER
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine the AB InBev/
SABMiller merger and the state of competition in the beer industry, 
after receiving testimony from Carlos Brito, AB InBev, Greenwich, 
Connecticut; Bob Pease, Brewers Association, and Diana L. Moss, 
American Antitrust Institute, both of Boulder, Colorado; Craig Purser, 
National Beer Wholesalers Association, Alexandria, Virginia; J. Wilson, 
Iowa Brewers Guild, Prescott; and Mark Hunter, Molson Coors, Denver, 
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.