[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 57 (Thursday, April 14, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D370-D371]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill to reauthorize the Commodity 
Futures Trading Commission, to ensure protections of futures customers, 
to provide relief for farmers, ranchers, and end-users that manage risk 
to help keep consumer costs low.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill entitled, ``Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations Act, 2017'';
  An original bill entitled, ``Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017''; and
  302(b) Subcommittee allocations.
FIXED-INCOME MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance, and Investment with the Subcommittee on Economic 
Policy concluded a joint hearing to examine current trends and changes 
in the fixed-income markets, including S. 881, to ensure that Federal 
financial regulators perform a comprehensive review of regulations to 
identify outdated or otherwise unnecessary regulatory requirements 
imposed on financial institutions, after receiving testimony from 
Jerome H. Powell, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System; and Antonio Weiss, Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury.
KING COVE, ALASKA
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine options for addressing the continuing lack 
of reliable emergency medical transportation for the isolated community 
of King Cove, Alaska, after receiving testimony from Alaska Lieutenant 
Governor Byron Mallott, Juneau; Mayor Stanley Mack, Sand Point, Alaska; 
Denise Desiderio, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, 
D.C.; Nicole Whittington-Evans, The Wilderness Society, Anchorage, 
Alaska; Commander John Whiddon, USCG (Ret.), Kodiak, Alaska; and Della 
Trumble, King Cove, Alaska.

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WASTE PREVENTION, PRODUCTION SUBJECT TO ROYALTIES, AND RESOURCES 
CONSERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded an oversight hearing to examine 
the Bureau of Land Management's proposed rule, entitled ``Waste 
Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resources 
Conservation,'' published in the Federal Register on February 8, 2016, 
after receiving testimony from Amanda Leiter, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Todd 
Parfitt, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Director, 
Cheyenne; James Olguin, Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Ignacio, Colorado; 
Mark Boccella, FLIR Systems, Inc., Austin, Texas; and Kathleen Sgamma, 
Western Energy Alliance, Denver, Colorado.
OUR NATION'S BIODEFENSE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the Federal perspective on the state of 
our nation's biodefense, including multiple challenges in building and 
maintaining biodefense and biosurveillance, after receiving testimony 
from Richard J. Hatchett, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting 
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority Director, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and Rear 
Admiral Stephen C. Redd, Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness 
and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both of the 
Department of Health and Human Services; Kevin Shea, Administrator, 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture; 
Aaron Firoved, Senior Biodefense Advisor, Office of Health Affairs, 
Department of Homeland Security; and Chris Currie, Director, Homeland 
Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2390, to provide adequate protections for whistleblowers at the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2613, to reauthorize certain programs established by the Adam 
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2614, to amend the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 
of 1994, to reauthorize the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Alert 
Program, and to promote initiatives that will reduce the risk of injury 
and death relating to the wandering characteristics of some children 
with autism; and
  The nomination of Clare E. Connors, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Hawaii.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.