[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 25 (Thursday, February 11, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D134-D135]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ZIKA SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
concluded a hearing to examine emerging health threats and the Zika 
supplemental request, after receiving testimony from Tom Frieden, 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Anthony S. 
Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 
National Institutes of Health, both of the Department of Health and 
Human Services.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the National Commission on the Future of the United States Army in 
review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2017 and 
the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from 
General Carter F. Ham, USA (Ret.), Chairman, Thomas R. Lamont, Vice 
Chairman, and General James D. Thurman, USA (Ret.), and Sergeant Major 
of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III, USA (Ret.), both a Commissioner, 
all of the National Commission on the Future of the Army, all of the 
Department of Defense.
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT TO THE CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the 
Congress, including H.R. 2209, to require the appropriate Federal 
banking agencies to treat certain municipal obligations as level 2A 
liquid assets, after receiving testimony from Janet L. Yellen, Chair, 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2017, after 
receiving testimony from Sylvia M. Burwell, Secretary of Health and 
Human Services.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Karen Brevard Stewart, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Robert Annan Riley 
III, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Federated States of 
Micronesia, and Matthew John Matthews, of Oregon, for the rank of 
Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Senior 
Official for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum, all of 
the Department of State, Swati A. Dandekar, of Iowa, to be United 
States Director of the Asian Development Bank, who was introduced by 
Senator Grassley, and Marcela Escobari, of Massachusetts, to be an 
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
SETTING AND ENFORCING REGULATORY FINES AND PENALTIES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to 
examine agency discretion in setting and enforcing regulatory fines and 
penalties, after receiving testimony from Jordan Barab, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration; and Susan Shinkman, Director, Office of Civil 
Enforcement, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, 
Environmental Protection Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:

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  S. 483, to improve enforcement efforts related to prescription drug 
diversion and abuse, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 
and
  S. 524, to authorize the Attorney General to award grants to address 
the national epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
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.