[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 30 (Thursday, February 25, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D172-D173]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2017 for the 
Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from Loretta E. Lynch, 
Attorney General, Department of Justice.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Brad R. Carson, of Oklahoma, to be Under Secretary 
for Personnel and Readiness, Jennifer M. O'Connor, of Maryland, to be 
General Counsel, and Todd A. Weiler, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, all

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of the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
LIFE SAVING TREATMENTS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine connecting patients to new and potential 
life saving treatments, after receiving testimony from Darcy Olsen, 
Goldwater Institute, Phoenix, Arizona; Joseph V. Gulfo, Farleigh 
Dickinson University Rothman Institute of Innovation and 
Entrepreneurship, New York, New York; Nancy Goodman, Kids v Cancer, 
Washington, D.C.; Laura McLinn, Indianapolis, Indiana; and Diego 
Morris, Phoenix, Arizona.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of John B. King, of New 
York, to be Secretary of Education, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Representative Robert C. Scott, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
IMPACT OF HIGH-SKILLED IMMIGRATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and the 
National Interest concluded a hearing to examine the impact of high-
skilled immigration on United States workers, after receiving testimony 
from John M. Miano, Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, Summit, 
New Jersey; Mark O'Neill, Jackthreads, New York, New York; Hal Salzman, 
Rutgers University E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy 
J.J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, New Brunswick, New 
Jersey; Chad Sparber, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York; Ronil 
Hira, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; and Leo Perrero, Longwood, 
Florida.
U.S. PATENT SYSTEM
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine changes to the United States patent system and 
impacts on America's small businesses, including S. 632, to strengthen 
the position of the United States as the world's leading innovator by 
amending title 35, United States Code, to protect the property rights 
of the inventors that grow the country's economy, S. 926, to amend the 
patent law to promote basic research, to stimulate publication of 
scientific documents, to encourage collaboration in scientific 
endeavors, to improve the transfer of technology to the private sector, 
S. 1137, to amend title 35, United States Code, and the Leahy-Smith 
America Invents Act to make improvements and technical corrections, 
H.R. 9, to amend title 35, United States Code, and the Leahy-Smith 
America Invents Act to make improvements and technical corrections, and 
H.R. 616, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for 
reforms to the EB-5 immigrant investor program, after receiving 
testimony from Robert L. Stoll, Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP, and Brian 
P. O'Shaughnessy, Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada), Inc., 
both of Washington, D.C.
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.