[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 114 (Thursday, July 14, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D822-D823]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CYBERSECURITY AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
cybersecurity and United States national security, after receiving 
testimony from New York County District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., 
New York; and Kenneth L. Wainstein, Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft 
LLP, former Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush and 
Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Chris Inglis, 
United States Naval Academy, former Deputy Director of the National 
Security Agency, both of Washington, D.C.
FINANCIAL RISKS OF CHINA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine evaluating the financial risks of China, after 
receiving testimony from Dennis C. Shea, Chairman, United States-China 
Economic and Security Review Commission; and Desmond Lachman, American 
Enterprise Institute, Thomas J. Gibson, American Iron and Steel 
Institute, and William T. Wilson, The Heritage Foundation, all of 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Res. 515, welcoming Prime Minister Lee Hsien-Loong to the United 
States and reaffirming Singapore's strategic partnership with the 
United States, encompassing broad and robust economic, military-to-
military, law enforcement, and counterterrorism cooperation;
  S. Res. 524, expressing the sense of the Senate on the conflict in 
Yemen;
  S. Res. 485, to encourage the Government of the Democratic Republic 
of the Congo to abide by constitutional provisions regarding the 
holding of presidential elections in 2016, with the aim of ensuring a 
peaceful and orderly democratic transition of power, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Con. Res. 41, expressing the sense of Congress on the Peshmerga of 
the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, with amendments;
  S. Con. Res. 42, to express the sense of Congress regarding the safe 
and expeditious resettlement to Albania of all residents of Camp 
Liberty;
  S. Con. Res. 46, expressing support for the goal of ensuring that all 
Holocaust victims live with dignity, comfort, and security in their 
remaining years, and urging the Federal Republic of Germany to continue 
to reaffirm its commitment to comprehensively address the unique health 
and welfare needs of vulnerable Holocaust victims, including home care 
and other medically prescribed needs; and
  The nominations of Mark Sobel, of Virginia, to be United States 
Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, and Marie L. 
Yovanovitch, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey R. 
Pyatt, of California, to be Ambassador to Greece, Anne Hall, of Maine, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania, 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, Lawrence Robert Silverman, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador 
to the State of Kuwait, and Carol Z. Perez, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, all of the Department of State.
IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Iran nuclear agreement, after receiving testimony from Mark 
Dubowitz, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Center on Sanctions and 
Illicit Finance, Washington, D.C.; and Richard Nephew, Columbia 
University School of International and Public Affairs Center on Global 
Energy Policy, New York, New York.
EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine Every Student Succeeds Act 
implementation, focusing on perspectives from education stakeholders on 
proposed

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regulations, after receiving testimony from Stephen L. Pruitt, Kentucky 
Commissioner of Education, Frankfort; Linda Darling-Hammond, Learning 
Policy Institute, Palo Alto, California; Gail Pletnick, Dysart Unified 
School District, Surprise, Arizona; and Alison Harris Welcher, Project 
L.I.F.T., Charlotte, North Carolina.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Jennifer Klemetsrud Puhl, of North Dakota, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Donald C. Coggins, Jr., to 
be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, and 
David C. Nye, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Idaho.
ENTREPRENEURS AND STARTUP COMPANIES
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine how venture capitalists and angel investors fund 
entrepreneurs and startup companies, including S. 2670, to provide for 
the operation of micro unmanned aircraft systems, after receiving 
testimony from Scott Kupor, Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Park, 
California, and Ali Behbahani, New Enterprise Associates, Timonium, 
Maryland, both on behalf of the National Venture Capital Association; 
Jeffrey Sohl, University of New Hampshire Peter T. Paul College of 
Business and Economics Center for Venture Research, Durham; Michael J. 
Eckert, NO/LA Angel Network, New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of the 
Angel Capital Association; and Joseph L. Schocken, Broadmark Capital, 
LLC, Seattle, Washington.