[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 28, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D722-D723]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs approved for full committee consideration an 
original bill entitled, ``State, Foreign Operations, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2017''.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,677 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
DOD STRATEGIC INTEGRATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
improving strategic integration at the Department of Defense, after 
receiving testimony from James R. Locher III, Distinguished Senior 
Fellow, Joint Special Operations University, Department of Defense; 
General Stanley McChrystal, USA (Ret.), McChrystal Group, Alexandria, 
Virginia; and Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard Business School, Boston, 
Massachusetts.
THE INTERNET OF THINGS: TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and 
Security concluded a hearing to examine how the Internet of Things 
(IoT) can bring United States transportation and infrastructure into 
the 21st century, after receiving testimony from Carlos Monje, Jr., 
Acting Under Secretary for Policy, and Assistant Secretary for 
Transportation Policy, Department of Transportation; Seleta Reynolds, 
Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Los Angeles, California; 
Jordan Kass, C. H. Robinson, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the 
Transportation Intermediaries Association; Doug Davis, Intel 
Corporation, Chandler, Arizona; and Robert Edelstein, AECOM, Pompano 
Beach, Florida.
SAGE GROUSE CONSERVATION OVERSIGHT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded an oversight hearing to examine 
the status of the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service's 
efforts to implement amendments to land use plans and specific 
management plans regarding sage grouse conservation, and those 
agencies' coordination activities with affected states, after receiving 
testimony from Jim Lyons, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals 
Management, Department of the Interior; Robert Harper, Director, Water, 
Fish, Wildlife, Air and Rare Plants, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Kathleen Clarke, Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating 
Office, Salt Lake City; Catherine Macdonald, The Nature Conservancy, 
Portland, Oregon; Brenda Richards, Public Lands Council, Murphy, Idaho; 
and Katie Sweeney, National Mining Association, Washington, D.C.
MEDICARE PART B DRUG DEMONSTRATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
proposed Medicare Part B drug demonstration, after receiving testimony 
from Patrick Conway, Acting Principal Deputy Administrator, Deputy 
Administrator for Innovation and Quality, and Chief Medical Officer, 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and 
Human Services.

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GLOBAL EFFORTS TO DEFEAT ISIS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine global efforts to defeat ISIS, after receiving testimony from 
Brett H. McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to 
Counter ISIL, Department of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Andrew Mayock, of 
Illinois, to be Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management 
and Budget, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH CARE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Retirement Security concluded a hearing to examine 
small business health care, focusing on costs and options, after 
receiving testimony from Tom Glause, Wyoming Insurance Commissioner, 
Cheyenne; Warren S. Hudak, Jr., Hudak and Company, New Cumberland, 
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Federation of Independent 
Business; Thomas M. Harte, Landmark Benefits, Hampstead, New Hampshire, 
on behalf of the National Association of Health Underwriters; and Sarah 
Lueck, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C.
JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the implementation of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 
2015, after receiving testimony from Jill Steinberg, National 
Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, 
Department of Justice; and Gretta L. Goodwin, Acting Director, Homeland 
Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office.
COMBATING TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, 
Federal Rights and Federal Courts concluded a hearing to examine the 
consequences of agency efforts to deemphasize radical Islam in 
combating terrorism, after receiving testimony from Andrew C. McCarthy, 
former Chief Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, Department of Justice, and Michael German, New York 
University Law School Brennan Center for Justice, both of New York, New 
York; Philip B. Haney, former Customs and Border Protection Officer, 
Department of Homeland Security, Marietta, Georgia; M. Zuhdi Jasser, 
American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Phoenix, Arizona; Farhana Y. 
Khera, Muslim Advocates, Oakland, California; J. Richard Cohen, 
Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama; and Chris Gaubatz, 
Understanding the Threat, Ferrum, Virginia.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.