[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 83 (Wednesday, May 25, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D583-D585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
IRAN DEAL SANCTIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine understanding the role of sanctions under the Iran 
Deal, focusing on Administration perspectives, after receiving 
testimony from Adam J. Szubin, Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury 
for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence; and Stephen D. Mull, Lead 
Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation, Department of State.
HURRICANE FORECASTING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to 
examine improvements in hurricane forecasting and the path forward, 
after receiving testimony from Richard Knabb, Director, National 
Hurricane Center, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce.
INTERNATIONAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, 
and International Cybersecurity Policy concluded a hearing to examine 
international cybersecurity strategy, focusing on deterring foreign 
threats and building global cyber norms, after receiving testimony from 
Christopher M. E. Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, Department of 
State.
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
trafficking in persons, focusing on preparing the 2016 annual report 
from Susan Coppedge, Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat 
Trafficking in Persons, William E. Todd, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau

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of South and Central Asian Affairs, D. Bruce Wharton, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Susan A. Thornton, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs, and John S. Creamer, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 
Western Hemisphere Affairs, all of the Department of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2976, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to reform, 
streamline, and make improvements to the Department of Homeland 
Security and support the Department's efforts to implement better 
policy, planning, management, and performance, with amendments;
  S. 2967, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the 
Office of Management and Budget to execute a national biodefense 
strategy, with amendments;
  S. 2968, to reauthorize the Office of Special Counsel;
  S. 2964, to eliminate or modify certain mandates of the Government 
Accountability Office;
  S. 2834, to improve the Governmentwide management of unnecessarily 
duplicative Government programs and for other purposes, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2966, to update the financial disclosure requirements for judges 
of the District of Columbia courts, and to make other improvements to 
the District of Columbia courts, with an amendment;
  S. 2971, to authorize the National Urban Search and Rescue Response 
System;
  S. 1378, to strengthen employee cost savings suggestions programs 
within the Federal Government, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2972, to amend title 31, United States Code, to provide 
transparency and require certain standards in the award of Federal 
grants, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2975, to provide agencies with discretion in securing information 
technology and information systems, with an amendment;
  S. 2849, to ensure the Government Accountability Office has adequate 
access to information;
  S. 461, to provide for alternative financing arrangements for the 
provision of certain services and the construction and maintenance of 
infrastructure at land border ports of entry, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2852, to expand the Government's use and administration of data to 
facilitate transparency, effective governance, and innovation, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2970, to amend title 5, United States Code, to expand law 
enforcement availability pay to employees of the Air and Marine 
Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection;
  S. 231, and H.R. 433, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 523 East Railroad Street in Knox, 
Pennsylvania, as the ``Specialist Ross A. McGinnis Memorial Post 
Office'';
  S. 2465, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 15 Rochester Street in Bergen, New York, as the 
Barry G. Miller Post Office;
  S. 2891, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 525 North Broadway in Aurora, Illinois, as the 
``Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 136, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1103 USPS Building 1103 in Camp Pendleton, 
California, as the ``Camp Pendleton Medal of Honor Post Office'';
  H.R. 1132, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1048 West Robinhood Drive in Stockton, California, 
as the ``W. Ronald Coale Memorial Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2458, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 5351 Lapalco Boulevard in Marrero, Louisiana, as the 
``Lionel R. Collins, Sr. Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2928, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 201 B Street in Perryville, Arkansas, as the 
``Harold George Bennett Post Office'';
  H.R. 3082, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 5919 Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans, Louisiana, 
as the ``Daryle Holloway Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3274, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 4567 Rockbridge Road in Pine Lake, Georgia, as the 
``Francis Manuel Ortega Post Office'';
  H.R. 3601, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 7715 Post Road, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, as 
the ``Melvoid J. Benson Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3735, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 200 Town Run Lane in Winston Salem, North Carolina, 
as the ``Maya Angelou Memorial Post Office'';
  H.R. 3866, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1265 Hurffville Road in Deptford Township, New 
Jersey, as the ``First Lieutenant Salvatore S. Corma II Post Office 
Building'';

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  H.R. 4046, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 220 East Oak Street, Glenwood City, Wisconsin, as 
the Second Lt. Ellen Ainsworth Memorial Post Office;
  H.R. 4605, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 615 6th Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as the 
``Sgt. 1st Class Terryl L. Pasker Post Office Building''; and
  The nomination of Jay Neal Lerner, of Illinois, to be Inspector 
General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.