[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 99 (Tuesday, June 21, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D690-D691]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Lieutenant General Thomas D. Waldhauser, USMC, to be 
general and Commander, United States Africa Command, and Lieutenant 
General Joseph L. Lengyel, ANG, to be general and Chief of the National 
Guard Bureau, who was introduced by Senator Cornyn, both of the 
Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT TO THE CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the semiannual monetary policy report to the 
Congress, after receiving testimony from Janet L. Yellen, Chair, Board 
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
FIRSTNET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine FirstNet, focusing on an update on the 
status of the Public Safety Broadband Network, after receiving 
testimony from Andrew Katsaros, Principal Assistant Inspector General 
for Audit and Evaluation, Office of Inspector General, Department of 
Commerce; Major General Arthur J. Logan, Hawaii Adjutant General, 
Honolulu; Michael Poth, First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), 
Reston, Virginia; and Jeffrey S. McLeod, National Governors 
Association's Center for Best Practices, Washington, D.C.
BLM PLANNING 2.0 INITIATIVE OVERSIGHT
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 Planning 2.0 initiative, after 
receiving testimony from Neil Kornze, Director, Bureau of Land 
Management, Department of the Interior; Jim Magagna, Wyoming Stock 
Growers Association, Cheyenne; James D. Ogsbury, Western Governors' 
Association, and Kathleen Sgamma, Western Energy Alliance, both of 
Denver, Colorado; and Mark Squillace, University of Colorado Law 
School, Boulder.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Anne Hall, of Maine, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Lithuania, Lawrence Robert Silverman, of Massachusetts, to 
be Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Marie L. Yovanovitch, of 
Connecticut, to be Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey R. Pyatt, of 
California, to be Ambassador to Greece, Douglas Alan Silliman, of 
Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq, Peter Michael 
McKinley, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of 
Brazil, and Carol Z. Perez, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Chile, all of the Department of State, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.

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IDEOLOGY OF ISIS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the ideology of ISIS, after receiving 
testimony from Subhi Nahas, Spectra, San Francisco, California; Hassan 
Hassan, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, Washington, D.C., on behalf of 
the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; Tarek Elgawhary, World 
Organization for Resource Development and Education, Montgomery 
Village, Maryland; and Nadia Murad Basee Taho, Essex, New York.
SMALL BUSINESS RETIREMENT POOLING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Retirement Security concluded a hearing to examine 
small business retirement pooling, focusing on examining open multiple 
employer plans, after receiving testimony from Nicola Favorito, 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Retirement Services, Boston; Jeffrey 
Stacey, McGee, Hearne and Paiz, LLP, Cheyenne, Wyoming; Kent Mason, 
Davis and Harman LLP, and Michele Varnhagen, AARP, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and James Kais, Transamerica, Miami, Florida.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Jennifer Klemetsrud Puhl, of North Dakota, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, who was introduced 
by Senators Heitkamp and Hoeven, Donald C. Coggins, Jr., to be United 
States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, who was 
introduced by Senator Scott, David C. Nye, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Idaho, who was introduced by Senators Crapo 
and Risch, and Kathleen Marie Sweet, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of New York, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
CREATES ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine the CREATES 
Act, focusing on ending regulatory abuse, protecting consumers, and 
ensuring drug price competition, including S. 3056, to provide for 
certain causes of action relating to delays of generic drugs and 
biosimilar biological products, after receiving testimony from Alden F. 
Abbott, The Heritage Foundation Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and 
Judicial Studies, Peter Safir, Covington and Burling LLP, and George 
Slover, Consumers Union, all of Washington, D.C.; Robin Feldman, 
University of California Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco; 
Beth Zelnick Kaufman, Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, New Jersey; 
and Nitin Damle, American College of Physicians, Wakefield, Rhode 
Island.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Christopher E. O'Connor, of Virginia, to be 
an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Congressional and 
Legislative Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered questions 
in his own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.