[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 139 (Wednesday, September 14, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D921-D922]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NUCLEAR POWER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine the future of nuclear power, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Whitehouse; former Senator Judd 
Gregg, Nuclear Matters; Ernest J. Moniz, Secretary of Energy; and Jay 
Faison, ClearPath Foundation, Washington, D.C.
CBO OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Congressional Budget Office, including the CBO's work since 
May 2015 and plans for the future, after receiving testimony from Keith 
Hall, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
GLOBAL EFFORTS TO END CHILD MARRIAGE
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 protecting girls, 
focusing on global efforts to end child marriage, after receiving 
testimony from Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 
Population Refugees and Migration, and Catherine M. Russell, Ambassador 
at Large for Global Women's Issues, both of the Department of State; 
Lakshmi Sundaram, Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child 
Marriage, London, United Kingdom; and Suzanne Petroni, International 
Center for Research on Women, Washington, D.C.
NATO ACCESSION OF MONTENEGRO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine North Atlantic Treaty Organization expansion, focusing on the 
accession of Montenegro, after receiving testimony from Hoyt Yee, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; 
and Michael R. Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
2796, to repeal certain obsolete laws relating to Indians, with an 
amendment.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 2636, to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to require mandatory 
approval of applications for land to be taken into trust if the land is 
wholly within a reservation, S. 3216, to repeal the Act entitled ``An 
Act to confer jurisdiction on the State of Iowa over offenses committed 
by or against Indians on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation'', S. 3222, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assess sanitation and 
safety conditions at Bureau of Indian Affairs facilities that were 
constructed to provide treaty tribes access to traditional fishing 
grounds and expend funds on construction of facilities and structures 
to improve those conditions, and S. 3300, to approve the settlement of 
water rights claims of the Hualapai Tribe and certain allottees in the 
State of Arizona, to authorize construction of a water project relating 
to those water rights claims, after receiving testimony from Lawrence 
S. Roberts, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for 
Indian Affairs; Damon Clarke, Hualapai Tribe, Peach Springs, Arizona; 
Lavern Jefferson, Sac and Fox of the Mississippi in Iowa, Tama; W. Ron 
Allen, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; and 
Paul Lumley, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Portland, 
Oregon.
INTERNET OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, 
Federal Rights and Federal Courts concluded a hearing to examine 
protecting Internet freedom, focusing on the implications of ending 
United States oversight of the Internet, after receiving testimony from 
Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration; Goran Marby, Internet Corporation for 
Assigned Names and Numbers, Los Angeles, California; Berin M. Szoka, 
Tech Freedom, Jonathan Zuck, ACT The App Association, J. Beckwith Burr, 
Neustar, Inc., Steve DelBianco, NetChoice, and Paul Rosenzweig, Red 
Branch Consulting, PLLC, all of Washington, D.C.; Dawn Grove, Karsten 
Manufacturing Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona; and John C. Horton, 
LegitScript, Portland, Oregon.

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FUTURE OF THE VA
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the future of the Department of Veterans Affairs, focusing on 
examining the Commission on Care report and the VA's response, after 
receiving testimony from Robert A. McDonald, Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs; Nancy M. Schlichting, Chairperson, and Thomas E. Harvey, 
Member, both of the Commission on Care; and Jeff Steele, The American 
Legion, Joy J. Ilem, Disabled American Veterans, Lauren Augustine, Iraq 
and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Commander Rene A. Campos, USN 
(Ret.), Military Officers Association of America, Carlos Fuentes, 
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and Rick Weidman, 
Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C.
SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
maximizing Social Security benefits, after receiving testimony from 
Charles Jeszeck, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security 
Division, Government Accountability Office; Virginia Reno, Deputy 
Commissioner for Retirement and Disability Policy, Social Security 
Administration; Bill Meyer, Social Security Solutions, Inc., Leawood, 
Kansas; and Sita Nataraj Slavov, American Enterprise Institute, 
Washington, D.C.