[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 62 (Thursday, April 21, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D415-D416]
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 Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably the following 
business items:
  An original bill (S. 2837) making appropriations for the Departments 
of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2017; and
   An original bill (S. 2844) making appropriations for the Departments 
of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, USA, for 
reappointment to the grade of general and to be Commander, United 
States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and 
General Lori J. Robinson, USAF, for reappointment to the grade of 
general and to be Commander, United States Northern Command, and 
Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PUBLIC LANDS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded a hearing to examine S. 1167, to 
modify the boundaries of the Pole Creek Wilderness, the Owyhee River 
Wilderness, and the North Fork Owyhee Wilderness and to authorize the 
continued use of motorized vehicles for livestock monitoring, herding, 
and grazing in certain wilderness areas in the State of Idaho, S. 1423, 
to designate certain Federal lands in California as wilderness, S. 
1510, to designate and expand wilderness areas in Olympic National 
Forest in the State of Washington, and to designate certain rivers in 
Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park as wild and scenic 
rivers, S. 1699, to designate certain land administered by the Bureau 
of Land Management and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as 
wilderness and national recreation areas and to make additional wild 
and scenic river designations in the State of Oregon, S. 1777, to amend 
the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to authorize the Secretary of 
Agriculture to maintain or replace certain facilities and structures 
for commercial recreation services at Smith Gulch in Idaho, S. 2018, to 
convey, without consideration, the reversionary interests of the United 
States in and to certain non-Federal land in Glennallen, Alaska, S. 
2223, to transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Bureau of 
Land Management land from the Secretary of the Interior to the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for inclusion in the Black Hills National 
Cemetery, S. 2379, to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-
Federal land owned by the city of Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of 
economic development by conveyance of the Federal reversionary interest 
to the City, and S. 2383, to withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management 
land in the State of Utah from all forms of public appropriation, to 
provide for the shared management of the withdrawn land by the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Air Force to 
facilitate enhanced weapons testing and pilot training, enhance public 
safety, and provide for continued public access to the withdrawn land, 
to provide for the exchange of certain Federal land and State land, 
after receiving testimony from Glenn Casamassa, Associate Deputy Chief, 
National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Mike 
Pool, Acting Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of 
the Interior; and Major General Martin Whelan, USAF, Director of Future 
Operations, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters Air 
Force, and Jennifer L. Miller, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air 
Force for Installations, both of the Department of Defense.
ENABLING ADVANCED REACTORS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine enabling advanced 
reactors, including S. 2795, to modernize the regulation

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of nuclear energy, after receiving testimony from Victor M. McCree, 
Executive Director for Operations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; 
Christina Back, General Atomics, San Diego, California; Ashley E. 
Finan, Nuclear Innovation Alliance, Boston, Massachusetts; and Maria G. 
Korsnick, Nuclear Energy Institute, Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned 
Scientists, and Jeffrey S. Merrifield, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, 
all of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Jeffrey A. Rosen, of 
Virginia, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, after 
the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Portman, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.