[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 100 (Wednesday, June 22, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D697-D698]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PATHWAYS TOWARD NAAQS COMPLIANCE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine pathways towards 
compliance of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground-
level ozone, including S. 2882, to facilitate efficient State 
implementation of ground-level ozone standards, and S. 2072, to require 
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Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a 
program under which the Administrator shall defer the designation of an 
area as a nonattainment area for purposes of the 8-hour ozone national 
ambient air quality standard if the area achieves and maintains certain 
standards under a voluntary early action compact plan, after receiving 
testimony from Mark Raymond, Uintah County Commission, Vernal, Utah; 
Kurt Karperos, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento; Glenn Hamer, 
Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Phoenix; Andrew Chesley, San 
Joaquin Council of Governments, Stockton, California; and Mary B. Rice, 
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the 
American Thoracic Society.
SECURITY ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a closed hearing to 
examine security assistance, focusing on cutting through a tangled web 
of authorities, after receiving testimony from Tina S. Kaidanow, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Political-
Military Affairs; and Vice Admiral Joseph W. Rixey, Director, Defense 
Security Cooperation Agency, Department of Defense.
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine renewing communities and providing 
opportunities through innovative solutions to poverty, after receiving 
testimony from Robert L. Woodson, Sr., Center for Neighborhood 
Enterprise, Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution, on behalf of the Annie 
E. Casey Foundation, and Olivia Golden, Center for Law and Social 
Policy, all of Washington, D.C.; and Peter L. Ochs, Capital III, 
Hutchinson, Kansas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S.2785, to protect Native children and promote public safety in 
Indian country, with amendments;
  S.2920, to amend the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 and the Indian 
Law Enforcement Reform Act to provide for advancements in public safety 
services to Indian communities, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  S.3014, to improve the management of Indian forest land, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine accessing Department of Agriculture rural development 
programs in native communities, after receiving testimony from Lillian 
Salerno, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development; 
Lafe Haugen, Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority, Lame Deer, 
Montana; and Timothy Tisru Schuerch, Maniilaq Association, Kotzebue, 
Alaska.
DEA OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Drug Enforcement Administration, after receiving testimony 
from Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, and Chuck Rosenberg, 
Acting Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, both of the 
Department of Justice; and Diana C. Maurer, Director, Homeland Security 
and Justice, Government Accountability Office.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT THE VA
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the progress in modernizing information technology at the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, including the need for sustained 
management attention to address numerous information technology 
challenges, after receiving testimony from David Shulkin, 
Undersecretary of Health, Veterans Health Administration, Department of 
Veterans Affairs; and Valerie C. Melvin, Director, Information 
Technology, Government Accountability Office.