[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 35 (Thursday, March 3, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D214-D215]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2017 for the Department of Health and 
Human Services, after receiving testimony from Sylvia Burwell, 
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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 Commerce, after receiving testimony from Penny Pritzker, 
Secretary of Commerce.
APPROPRIATIONS: VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION AND VETERANS BENEFITS 
ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine 
proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2017 and 
fiscal year 2018 for the Veterans Health Administration and Veterans 
Benefits Administration, after receiving testimony from David J. 
Shulkin, Under Secretary for Health, Veterans Health Administration, 
and Danny G. I. Pummill, Acting Under Secretary for Benefits, Veterans 
Benefits Administration, both of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the posture of the Department of the Air Force in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2017 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Deborah Lee James, Secretary, 
and General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF, Chief of Staff, both of the 
Department of the Air Force, Department of Defense.
REGULATORY REFORMS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance, and Investment concluded a hearing to examine 
regulatory reforms to improve equity market structure, after receiving 
testimony from Stephen Luparello, Director, Division of Trading and 
Markets, Securities and Exchange Commission; and Richard G. Ketchum, 
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
   S. 2555, to provide opportunities for broadband investment, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Thomas F. Scott Darling, III, of Massachusetts, to 
be Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 
Department of

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Transportation, Daniel B. Maffei, of New York, to be a Federal Maritime 
Commissioner, and routine lists in the Coast Guard.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2017 for the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from 
Ernest Moniz, Secretary of Energy.
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine free 
trade agreement implementation, focusing on lessons from the past, 
after receiving testimony from Sean P. Murphy, Qualcomm Incorporated, 
San Diego, California; Steven Tepp, Sentinel Worldwide, Vienna, 
Virginia; and Glenn Prickett, The Nature Conservancy, and Jim Mulhern, 
National Milk Producers Federation, both of Arlington, Virginia.
LIBYA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the path forward in Libya, after receiving testimony from 
Frederic Wehrey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Middle East 
Program, and Claudia Gazzini, International Crisis Group, both of 
Washington, D.C.
DHS CANINE PROGRAMS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the dogs of the Department of Homeland 
Security, focusing on how canine programs contribute to homeland 
security, after receiving testimony from Kimberly Hutchinson, Deputy 
Assistant Administrator, Office of Training and Development, and Doug 
Timberlake, Transportation Security Inspector, both of the 
Transportation Security Administration, and Damian Montes, Director, 
Canine Training Program, Office of Training and Development, Patrick 
Dowling, Officer/Instructor, and Jennifer Jones, Agriculture 
Specialist, each of Customs and Border Protection, all of the 
Department of Homeland Security; Jennifer Grover, Director, Homeland 
Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office; and Cynthia M. 
Otto, University of Pennsylvania Penn Vet Working Dog Center, 
Philadelphia.
FEDERAL FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the impacts of Federal fisheries management on small 
businesses, including H.R. 3094, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act to transfer to States the authority to 
manage red snapper fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Garret Graves; Pamela W. Anderson, Capt. 
Anderson's Marina, Panama City Beach, Florida; Hughes Andry, Sportco 
Marketing, Richmond, Texas; Brad Gentner, Gentner Consulting Group, 
Tucson, Arizona; James Hayward, XI Northeast Fishery Sector, 
Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and Joshua B. Wiersma, Environmental Defense 
Fund, Boston, Massachusetts.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.