[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 21 (Thursday, February 4, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D105]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported one 
nomination in the Army.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the situation in Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from General 
John F. Campbell, USA, Commander, Resolute Support, and Commander, 
United States Forces--Afghanistan, Department of Defense.
INTERMODAL USF SUPPORT FOR RURAL AMERICA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet concluded a 
hearing to examine ensuring intermodal Universal Service Fund support 
for rural America, after receiving testimony from Darrington Seward, 
Seward and Son Planting Company, Louise, Mississippi; Steven K. Berry, 
Competitive Carriers Association, Washington, D.C.; James G. Carr, All 
Points Broadband, Ashburn, Virginia, on behalf of the Wireless Internet 
Service Providers Association; Michael Rapelyea, ViaSat, Inc., 
Arlington, Virginia; and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., United States Cellular 
Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Mary Katherine Wakefield, of North Dakota, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, who was introduced by Senators 
Hoeven, Heitkamp, and former Senator Kent Conrad, Andrew LaMont Eanes, 
of Kansas, to be Deputy Commissioner of Social Security, who was 
introduced by Senator Roberts, and Elizabeth Ann Copeland, of Texas, 
who was introduced by Senator Cornyn, and Vik Edwin Stoll, of Missouri, 
both to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Beth F. Cobert, of 
California, to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management for a 
term of four years, after the nominee testified and answered questions 
in her own behalf.
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.