[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 113 (Wednesday, July 13, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D802-D805]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NUCLEAR CRUISE MISSILE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded open and closed hearings to examine proposed 
budget estimates and justification for the nuclear cruise missile, 
after receiving testimony from William Perry, former Secretary, John J. 
Hamre, former Deputy Secretary, Admiral C. D. Haney, Commander, United 
States Strategic Command, Robert Scher, Assistant Secretary for 
Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, all of the Department of Defense; 
Franklin C. Miller, former Special Assistant to President George W. 
Bush and Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the 
National Security Council; Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary of State 
for Arms Control and International Security; and Madelyn Creedon, 
Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy.
VETERANS AFFAIRS' ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine a 
review of the Department of Veterans Affairs' electronic health record 
(VistA), progress toward interoperability with the Department of 
Defense's electronic health record, and plans for the future, after 
receiving testimony from Valerie C. Melvin, Director, Information 
Management and Technology Resources Issues, Government Accountability 
Office; Lauren Thompson, Director, Department of Defense/Veterans 
Affairs Interagency Program Office; and LaVerne H. Council, Assistant 
Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer, 
and David W. Waltman, Program Executive, VistA Evolution, Senior 
Advisor to the Under Secretary for Health, and Jonathan R. Nebeker, 
Deputy Chief Medical Information Officer for Strategy and Design, both 
of the Veterans Health Administration, all of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs.
NASA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Space, Science, and Competiveness concluded a hearing to examine NASA 
at a crossroads, focusing on reasserting American leadership in space 
exploration, after receiving testimony from William H. Gerstenmaier, 
Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Mary Lynne Dittmar, Coalition for 
Deep Space Exploration, Washington, D.C.; Michael Gold, Space Systems 
Loral, Chevy Chase, Maryland; Mark N. Sirangelo, Sierra Nevada 
Corporation, Louisville, Colorado; and Daniel L. Dumbacher, Purdue 
University College of Engineering School of Aeronautics and 
Astronautics, West Lafayette, Indiana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  H.R. 1289, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 
approximately 44 acres of land in Martinez, California;
  S. 718, to modify the boundary of Petersburg National Battlefield in 
the Commonwealth of Virginia, with an amendment;
  S. 815, to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the 
State of Oregon to the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1007, to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 
1992 to rename a site of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National 
Historical Park, with an amendment;
  S. 1167, to modify the boundaries of the Pole Creek Wilderness, the 
Owyhee River Wilderness, and the North Fork Owyhee Wilderness and to 
authorize the continued use of motorized vehicles for livestock 
monitoring, herding, and grazing in certain wilderness areas in the 
State of Idaho, with an amendment;
  H.R. 2288, to remove the use restrictions on certain land transferred 
to Rockingham County, Virginia;
  S. 1448, to designate the Frank Moore Wild Steelhead Sanctuary in the 
State of Oregon, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1577, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain 
segments of East Rosebud Creek in Carbon County, Montana, as components 
of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, with an amendment;
  S. 1623, to establish the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area 
in the State of Washington, with an amendment;

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  S. 1662, to include Livingston County, the city of Jonesboro in Union 
County, and the city of Freeport in Stephenson County, Illinois, to the 
Lincoln National Heritage Area;
  S. 1690, to establish the Mountains to Sound Greenway National 
Heritage Area in the State of Washington, with an amendment;
  S. 1696, to redesignate the Ocmulgee National Monument in the State 
of Georgia, to revise the boundary of that monument, with an amendment;
  S. 1777, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to authorize the 
Secretary of Agriculture to maintain or replace certain facilities and 
structures for commercial recreation services at Smith Gulch in Idaho, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1930, to adjust the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National 
Battlefield Park to include the Wallis House and Harriston Hill;
  S. 1943, to modify the boundary of the Shiloh National Military Park 
located in the State of Tennessee and Mississippi, to establish 
Parker's Crossroads Battlefield as an affiliated area of the National 
Park System, with an amendment;
  S. 2018, to convey, without consideration, the reversionary interests 
of the United States in and to certain non-Federal land in Glennallen, 
Alaska;
  S. 2087, to modify the boundary of the Fort Scott National Historic 
Site in the State of Kansas, with an amendment;
  S. 2177 and H.R. 959, bills to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a special resource study of the Medgar Evers House, 
located in Jackson, Mississippi;
  S. 2223, to transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Bureau 
of Land Management land from the Secretary of the Interior to the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for inclusion in the Black Hills National 
Cemetery, with an amendment;
  S. 2309, to amend title 54, United States Code, to establish within 
the National Park Service the U.S. Civil Rights Network, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2360, to improve the administration of certain programs in the 
insular areas, with an amendment;
  S. 2383, to withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land in the 
State of Utah from all forms of public appropriation, to provide for 
the shared management of the withdrawn land by the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of the Air Force to facilitate enhanced 
weapons testing and pilot training, enhance public safety, and provide 
for continued public access to the withdrawn land, to provide for the 
exchange of certain Federal land and State land, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2412, to establish the Tule Lake National Historic Site in the 
State of California;
  S. 2524, to insure adequate use and access to the existing Bolts 
Ditch headgate and ditch segment within the Holy Cross Wilderness in 
Eagle County, Colorado, with an amendment;
  H.R. 4539 and S. 2548, bills to establish the 400 Years of African-
American History Commission, with an amendment;
  S. 2608, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
of Agriculture to place signage on Federal land along the trail known 
as the ``American Discovery Trail'';
  S. 2616, to modify certain cost-sharing and revenue provisions 
relating to the Arkansas Valley Conduit, Colorado;
  S. 2620, to facilitate the addition of park administration at the 
Coltsville National Historical Park;
  S. 2805, to modify the boundary of Voyageurs National Park in the 
State of Minnesota, with an amendment;
  S. 2839 and H.R. 3004, bills to amend the Gullah/Geechee Cultural 
Heritage Act to extend the authorization for the Gullah/Geechee 
Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission;
  S. 2902, to provide for long-term water supplies, optimal use of 
existing water supply infrastructure, and protection of existing water 
rights, with an amendment;
  S. 2954, to establish the Ste. Genevieve National Historic Site in 
the State of Missouri, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3020, to update the map of, and modify the acreage available for 
inclusion in, the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3027, to clarify the boundary of Acadia National Park, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3028, to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness as the Daniel J. Evans 
Wilderness;
  H.R. 1475, to authorize a Wall of Remembrance as part of the Korean 
War Veterans Memorial and to allow certain private contributions to 
fund that Wall of Remembrance, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 2615, to establish the Virgin Islands of the United States 
Centennial Commission;
  H.R. 2880, to redesignate the Martin Luther King, Junior, National 
Historic Site in the State of Georgia;
  H.R. 3620, to amend the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area 
Improvement Act to provide access to certain vehicles serving residents 
of municipalities adjacent to the Delaware Water Gap National 
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  H.R. 4119, to authorize the exchange of certain land located in Gulf 
Islands National Seashore, Jackson County, Mississippi, between the 
National Park Service and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, with an 
amendment.
MEDICARE ACCESS AND CHIP REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2015
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, focusing on 
ensuring successful implementation of physician payment reforms, after 
receiving testimony from Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers 
for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human 
Services.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health Care concluded a hearing 
to examine Alzheimer's disease, focusing on the struggle for families 
and a looming crisis for Medicare, after receiving testimony from 
Ronald C. Petersen, Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, 
Rochester, Minnesota, on behalf of the Advisory Council on Research, 
Care and Services for the National Alzheimer's Project Act; Henry 
Paulson, University of Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Center, Ann Arbor; 
and Connie B. Karasow, Levittown, Pennsylvania.
U.S. POLICY OPTIONS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, 
and International Cybersecurity Policy concluded a hearing to examine 
United States policy options in the South China Sea, after receiving 
testimony from Admiral Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.), former Commander, 
United States Pacific Command, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, and Kurt 
M. Campbell, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs, Center for a New American Security, both of 
Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Sung Y. Kim, of California, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of the Philippines, Rena Bitter, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Kamala Shirin 
Lakhdhir, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to Malaysia, all of the 
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
ZIKA IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and 
Global Women's Issues concluded a hearing to examine Zika in the 
Western Hemisphere, focusing on risks and response, after receiving 
testimony from Judith G. Garber, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 
Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 
Department of State; Tom Frieden, Director, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; and Irene 
Koek, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health, United 
States Agency for International Development.
CAMPUS SAFETY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine campus safety, focusing on improving 
prevention and response efforts, after receiving testimony from Rick 
Amweg, Security Risk Management Consultants, LLC, Columbus, Ohio; 
Elizabeth J. Allan, StopHazing.org, Orono, Maine; Melynda Huskey, 
Washington State University, Pullman; Wendy S. Krisak, DeSales 
University, Center Valley, Pennsylvania; Joseph Storch, The State 
University of New York, Albany; and Jane Clementi, Tyler Clementi 
Foundation, New York, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Lucy Haeran Koh, of California, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, who was introduced by Senators 
Boxer and Feinstein, Florence Y. Pan, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Columbia, who was introduced by Delegate 
Norton, and Danny C. Reeves, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the United 
States Sentencing Commission, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
MEDICAL BENEFITS AND RISKS OF MARIJUANA
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism 
concluded a hearing to examine researching the potential medical 
benefits and risks of marijuana, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Booker and Gillibrand; Susan R.B. Weiss, Director, Division of 
Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National 
Institutes of Health, and Douglas C. Throckmorton, Deputy Director for 
Regulatory Programs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and 
Drug Administration, both of the Department of Health and Human 
Services; Daniele Piomelli, University of California, Irvine; Stuart 
Gitlow, Annenberg Physician Training Program in Addictive Disease, 
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, on behalf of the American Society of 
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Medicine; and D. Linden Barber, Quarles and Brady, LLP, Indianapolis, 
Indiana.