[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 15, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D254-D255]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: USAID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2017 for the United States 
Agency for International Development, after receiving testimony from 
Gayle Smith, Administrator, United States Agency for International 
Development.
APPROPRIATIONS: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2017 for the Library of Congress and the 
Architect of the Capitol, after receiving testimony from David Mao, 
Acting Librarian of Congress; and Stephen T. Ayers, Architect of the 
Capitol.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the current state of readiness 
of United States forces in review of the Defense Authorization Request 
for fiscal year 2017 and the Future Years Defense Program, after 
receiving testimony from General Daniel Allyn, USA, Vice Chief of Staff 
of the Army, Admiral Michelle Howard, USN, Vice Chief of Naval 
Operations, General John Paxton, USMC, Assistant Commandant of the 
Marine Corps, and General David L. Goldfein, USAF, Vice Chief of Staff 
of the Air Force, all of the Department of Defense.
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 Navy in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2017 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Raymond E. Mabus, Jr., 
Secretary of the Navy, Admiral John M. Richardson, USN, Chief of Naval 
Operations, and General Robert B. Neller, USMC, Commandant of the 
Marine Corps, all of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Matthew Rhett Jeppson, of 
Florida, to be Director of the Mint, Department of the Treasury, and 
Lisa M. Fairfax, of Maryland, and Hester Maria Peirce, of Ohio, both to 
be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
SELF-DRIVING CARS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the future of self-driving cars, after receiving 
testimony from Chris Urmson, Google X, Mountain View, California; 
Michael F. Ableson, General Motors Co., Austin, Texas; Glen W. De Vos, 
Delphi Automotive, Auburn Hills, Michigan; Joseph Okpaku, Lyft, Inc., 
San Francisco, California; and Mary Cummings, Duke University Humans 
and Autonomy Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina.
IMPACTS ON NATURAL RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the presidential memorandum issued on 
November 3, 2015 entitled, ``Mitigating Impacts on Natural Resources 
from Development and Encouraging Related Private Investment'', after 
receiving testimony from Michael Bean, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks; Brian

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Ferebee, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Department of 
Agriculture; Sara Longan, Alaska Department of Natural Resources Office 
of Project Management and Permitting Executive Director, Anchorage; 
Shaun Sims, Sims Sheep Company, Evanston, on behalf of the Wyoming 
Association of Conservation Districts; Doug Lashley, GreenVest, 
Annapolis, Maryland; Laura Skaer, American Exploration and Mining 
Association, Spokane, Washington; and Lynn Scarlett, The Nature 
Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia.
UKRAINIAN REFORMS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Ukrainian reforms two years after the Maidan Revolution and the 
Russian invasion, after receiving testimony from Victoria Nuland, 
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs; 
and Ian J. Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft Center on International 
Security, and John E. Herbst, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, both of the 
Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C.
U.S. VISA PROGRAMS SECURITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the security of United States visa 
programs, after receiving testimony from David T. Donahue, Principal 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs; and Leon 
Rodriguez, Director, Citizenship and Immigration Services, Sarah R. 
Saldana, Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and John Roth, 
Inspector General, all of the Department of Homeland Security.
LATE-TERM ABORTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
late-term abortion, including S. 1553, to amend title 18, United States 
Code, to protect pain-capable unborn children, after receiving 
testimony from Melissa Ohden, The Abortion Survivors Network, 
Gladstone, Missouri; Colleen A. Malloy, Northwestern University 
Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Diana Greene Foster, 
University of California San Francisco Bixby Center for Global 
Reproductive Health, San Francisco; Jodi Magee, Physicians for 
Reproductive Health, Clifton, New Jersey; Angelina B. Nguyen, Charlotte 
Lozier Institute, and Christy Zink, both of Washington, D.C.; and Kathi 
A. Aultman, Orange Park, Florida.
VETERANS AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine S. 2646, to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish 
the Veterans Choice Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs to 
improve health care provided to veterans by the Department, S. 2633, to 
improve the ability of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide 
health care to veterans through non-Department health care providers, 
and S. 2473, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a 
pilot program to provide veterans the option of using an alternative 
appeals process to more quickly determine claims for disability 
compensation, after receiving testimony from Senator Burr; Robert A. 
McDonald, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Louis J. Celli, Jr., The 
American Legion, Carlos Fuentes, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United 
States, and Adrian Atizado, Disabled American Veterans, all 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.