[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 90 (Wednesday, June 8, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D622-D623]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FAST ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine implementation of the FAST Act, after receiving 
testimony from Anthony R. Foxx, Secretary of Transportation.


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                                                SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
   Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Africa and Global 
 Health Policy concluded a hearing to examine United States sanctions 
  policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, after receiving testimony from Sue E. 
Eckert, Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public 
Affairs, Providence, Rhode Island; and Todd J. Moss, Center for Global 
Development, Princeton N. Lyman, United States Institute of Peace, and 
       Brad Brooks-Rubin, Enough Project, all of Washington, D.C.
                                                       NOMINATIONS
   Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Geeta Pasi, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
 the Republic of Chad, Anne S. Casper, of Nevada, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Burundi, and Mary Beth Leonard, of Massachusetts, to be 
 Representative of the United States of America to the African Union, 
with the rank and status of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, 
   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. 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

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Native veteran receiving medical care or services from the Department 
of Veterans Affairs; and
  S. 2916, to provide that the pueblo of Santa Clara may lease for 99 
years certain restricted land.
                                     INTERAGENCY FOREST MANAGEMENT
 Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine improving interagency forest management to strengthen tribal 
 capabilities for responding to and preventing wildfires, including S. 
3014, to improve the management of Indian forest land, after receiving 
    testimony from Mike Black, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
  Department of the Interior; James Hubbard, Deputy Chief, State and 
 Private Forestry, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; William 
  Nicholson, Intertribal Timber Council, Coulee Dam, Washington; and 
    Carole Lankford, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the 
                 Flathead Reservation, Pablo, Montana.
                             H-2B TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER PROGRAM
    Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and the 
  National Interest concluded a hearing to examine the H-2B Temporary 
Foreign Worker Program, focusing on examining the effects on Americans' 
  job opportunities and wages, after receiving testimony from Michael 
   Cunningham, Texas State Building and Construction Trades Council, 
 Austin; Meredith B. Stewart, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, 
   Alabama; and Daniel Costa, Economic Policy Institute, Stephen G. 
   Bronars, Edgeworth Economics, and Steven A. Camarota, Center for 
              Immigration Studies, all of Washington, D.C.
                                                  BUSINESS MEETING
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
            favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2992, to amend the Small Business Act to strengthen the Office of 
Credit Risk Management of the Small Business Administration, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3009, to support entrepreneurs serving in the National Guard and 
Reserve, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 3024, to improve cyber security for small businesses.

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