[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 74 (Wednesday, May 11, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D487-D488]
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 Armed Services: Committee began consideration of the 
proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017, but 
did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, May 
12, 2016.
U.S. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine leveraging the United States science and 
technology enterprise, after receiving testimony from Kelvin 
Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma, Norman; Jeannette Wing, Microsoft 
Corporation, Redmond, Washington; Robert D. Atkinson, Information 
Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and David C. 
Munson, Jr., University of Michigan College of Engineering, Ann Arbor.
CBP OVERSIGHT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Customs and Border Protection agency, after receiving 
testimony from R. Gil Kerlikowske, Commissioner, Customs and Border 
Protection, Department of Homeland Security.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Charles P. Blahous, III, and Robert D. Reischauer, both 
of Maryland, both to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the 
Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, a Member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and 
the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and a Member of the Board 
of Trustees of the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S.1163, to amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to provide 
flexibility and reauthorization to ensure the survival and continuing 
vitality of Native American languages;
  S.2580, to establish the Indian Education Agency to streamline the 
administration of Indian education, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute; and
  S.2739, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of 
Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the 
production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 2417, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to allow the 
Indian Health Service to cover the cost of a copayment of an Indian or 
Alaska Native veteran receiving medical care or services from the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, and S. 2842, to amend and reform the 
Johnson-O'Malley Act to award contracts to certain tribal 
organizations, Indian corporations, school districts, States, and 
consortia of tribal organizations, after receiving testimony from 
Michael Black, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the 
Interior; Roger Trudell, Santee Sioux Nation, Niobrara, Nebraska, on 
behalf of the Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Health Board; and Carla 
Mann, National Johnson O'Malley Association, Fort Washakie, Wyoming.
FCC PRIVACY RULES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the 
Law concluded a hearing to examine the proposed Federal Communications 
Commission privacy rules, after receiving testimony from Tom Wheeler, 
Chairman, and Ajit Pai, Commissioner, both of the Federal 
Communications Commission; and Edith Ramirez, Chairwoman, and

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Maureen Ohlhausen, Commissioner, both of the Federal Trade Commission.
THE ADMINISTRATION'S OVERTIME RULE
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Administration's overtime rule and the rising 
costs of doing business, including S. 2707, to require the Secretary of 
Labor to nullify the proposed rule regarding defining and delimiting 
the exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, outside 
sales, and computer employees, to require the Secretary of Labor to 
conduct a full and complete economic analysis with improved economic 
data on small businesses, nonprofit employers, Medicare or Medicaid 
dependent health care providers, and small governmental jurisdictions, 
and all other employers, and minimize the impact on such employers, 
before promulgating any substantially similar rule, and to provide a 
rule of construction regarding the salary threshold exemption under the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, after receiving testimony from Tammy 
D. McCutchen, Littler Mendelson, Sarita Gupta, Jobs With Justice, and 
Ross Eisenbrey, Economic Policy Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; 
Octavio Mantilla, Besh Restaurant Group, New Orleans, Louisiana, on 
behalf of the National Restaurant Association; and Nancy Duncan, 
Operation Smile, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2812, to amend the Small Business Act to reauthorize and improve 
the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business 
Technology Transfer Program, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2831, to amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to 
provide priority for applicants for a license to operate as a small 
business investment company that are located in a disaster area, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2838, to improve the HUBZone program, S. 2846, to amend the Small 
Business Act to expand intellectual property education and training for 
small businesses, with amendments;
  S. 2846, to amend the Small Business Act to expand intellectual 
property education and training for small businesses;
  S. 2850, to amend the Small Business Act to provide for expanded 
participation in the microloan program; and
  S. 2847, to require greater transparency for Federal regulatory 
decisions that impact small businesses.