[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 43 (Thursday, March 17, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D291-D293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
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 Labor, after 
receiving testimony from Thomas E. Perez, Secretary of Labor.

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DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Department of Defense budget posture in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2017 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Ashton B. Carter, Secretary, 
Michael J. McCord, Under Secretary (Comptroller) and Chief Financial 
Officer, and General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC, Chairman of the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of the Department of Defense.
NATIONAL PARKS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 2177 and H.R. 959, bills to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource 
study of the Medgar Evers House, located in Jackson, Mississippi, S. 
651 and H.R. 1289, bills to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
acquire certain land in Martinez, California, for inclusion in the John 
Muir National Historic Site, H.R. 1949, to provide for the 
consideration and submission of site and design proposals for the 
National Liberty Memorial approved for establishment in the District of 
Columbia, S. 1329 and H.R. 2288, bills to remove the use restrictions 
on certain land transferred to Rockingham County, Virginia, H.R. 2880, 
to redesignate the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site 
in the State of Georgia, S. 1930 and H.R. 3371, bills to adjust the 
boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park to include 
the Wallis House and Harriston Hill, S. 119, to amend the Federal Lands 
Recreation Enhancement Act to provide for a lifetime National 
Recreational Pass for any veteran with a service-connected disability, 
S. 718, to modify the boundary of Petersburg National Battlefield in 
the Commonwealth of Virginia, S. 770, to authorize Escambia County, 
Florida, to convey certain property that was formerly part of Santa 
Rosa Island National Monument and that was conveyed to Escambia County 
subject to restrictions on use and reconveyance, S. 1577, to amend the 
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of East 
Rosebud Creek in Carbon County, Montana, as components of the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers System, S. 1943, to modify the boundary of the Shiloh 
National Military Park located in the State of Tennessee and 
Mississippi, to establish Parker's Crossroads Battlefield as an 
affiliated area of the National Park System, S. 1975, to establish the 
Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site as a unit of the National 
Park System, S. 1982, to authorize a Wall of Remembrance as part of the 
Korean War Veterans Memorial and to allow certain private contributions 
to fund the Wall of Remembrance, S. 1993, to establish the 21st Century 
Conservation Service Corps to place youth and veterans in the United 
States in national service positions to protect, restore, and enhance 
the great outdoors of the United States, S. 2039, to designate the 
mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, as Devils 
Tower, S. 2061, to designate a National Memorial to Fallen Educators at 
the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas, S. 2309, to 
amend title 54, United States Code, to establish within the National 
Park Service the U.S. Civil Rights Network, S. 2608, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to place 
signage on Federal land along the trail known as the ``American 
Discovery Trail'', S. 2620, to facilitate the addition of park 
administration at the Coltsville National Historical Park, and S. 2628, 
to authorize the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial 
Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of 
Columbia and its environs, after receiving testimony from Peggy O'Dell, 
Deputy Director for Operations, National Park Service, Department of 
the Interior.
HEALTHCARE.GOV
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
HealthCare.gov, focusing on a review of operations and enrollment, 
after receiving testimony from Erin Bliss, Assistant Inspector General, 
Office of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector General, 
Department of Health and Human Services; and Seto J. Bagdoyan, Director 
of Audits, Forensic Audits and Investigative Service, Government 
Accountability Office.
ADMINISTRATION'S NUCLEAR AGENDA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Administration's nuclear agenda, after receiving testimony 
from former Representative Ellen Tauscher; Rose E. Gottemoeller, Under 
Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, and Thomas M. 
Countryman, Assistant Secretary for International Security and 
Nonproliferation, both of the Department of State; and William Tobey, 
Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International 
Affairs, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
AGENCY USE OF DEFERENCE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to 
examine agency use of deference, after receiving testimony from Charles 
J. Cooper, Cooper and Kirk, PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Neomi Rao, George 
Mason School of Law Center for the Study of the Administrative State, 
Arlington, Virginia; and Michael Herz,

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Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New 
York.
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.
PRICE SPIKES IN PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
sudden price spikes in decades-old prescription drugs, after receiving 
testimony from Adaora Adimora, University of North Carolina, Chapel 
Hill, on behalf of the HIV Medicine Association; Ron Tilles, and 
Michael Smith, both of Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC, Dan Wichman, 
Broadfin Capital, LLC, and Howard L. Dorfman, all of New York, New 
York; and Shannon Weston, Whispering Pines, North Carolina.