[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 53 (Thursday, April 7, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D340-D341]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
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 National Institutes of 
Health, after receiving testimony from Francis S. Collins, Director, 
Douglas Lowy, Acting Director, National Cancer Institute, Walter 
Koroshetz, Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and 
Stroke, Richard Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging, 
Christopher Austin, Director, National Center for Advancing 
Translational Sciences, and Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute 
on Drug Abuse, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND FAMILY HOUSING
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 for 
Department of Defense military construction and family housing, after 
receiving testimony from Peter J. Potochney, performing the duties of 
Assistant Secretary (Energy, Installations and Environment), Office of 
the Secretary, Katherine Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army 
(Installations, Energy and Environment), Department of the Army, Steven 
R. Iselin, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, 
Installations and Environment), Department of the Navy, and Miranda A. 
A. Ballentine, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations, 
Environment and Energy), Department 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 Army in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2017 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from former Representative Patrick 
J. Murphy, Acting

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Secretary of the Army, and General Mark A. Milley, USA, Chief of Staff 
of the Army, both of the Department of Defense.
CFPB SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Semi-
Annual Report to Congress, including S. 2663, to nullify certain 
guidance of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection and to provide 
requirements for guidance issued by the Bureau with respect to indirect 
auto lending, after receiving testimony from Richard Cordray, Director, 
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
USGS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the United States Geological Survey, after 
receiving testimony from Suzette S. Kimball, Director, United States 
Geological Survey; Edmund Fogels, Alaska Department of Natural 
Resources, Anchorage; P. Patrick Leahy, American Geosciences Institute, 
Alexandria, Virginia; Robert McCoy, University of Alaska Geophysical 
Institute, Fairbanks; and John Vidale, University of Washington 
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle.
KEEPING WATER AND WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE AFFORDABLE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Federal role in keeping water and wastewater 
infrastructure affordable, after receiving testimony from Mayor David 
Berger, Lima, Ohio, on behalf of the United States Conference of 
Mayors; Rudolph S. Chow, Baltimore City Department of Public Works, 
Maryland, on behalf of the Water Environment Federation; Robert Moore, 
Marshall County Water Corporation, Madill, Oklahoma, on behalf of the 
National Rural Water Assosciation; Aurel Arndt, American Water Works 
Association Water Utility Council, and Erik D. Olson, Natural Resources 
Defense Council, both of Washington, D.C.; and Joe Gysel, EPCOR Water 
USA, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the National Association of 
Water Companies.
WEST AFRICA EBOLA EPIDEMIC
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Africa and Global 
Health Policy concluded a hearing to examine a progress report on the 
West Africa Ebola epidemic, after receiving testimony from Alan Knight, 
Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group, London, England; Raj Panjabi, 
Last Mile Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Amanda Glassman, Center for 
Global Development, Washington, D.C.; and Sophie Delaunay, Doctors 
Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) USA, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Elizabeth J. Drake, of Maryland, Jennifer Choe Groves, 
of Virginia, and Gary Stephen Katzmann, of Massachusetts, each to be a 
Judge of the United States Court of International Trade.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.