[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 144 (Thursday, September 22, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D967-D968]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
United States national security challenges and ongoing military 
operations, after receiving testimony from Ashton B. Carter, Secretary, 
and General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of 
Staff, both of the Department of Defense.
HUD INSPECTION PROCESS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation, and Community Development concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development inspection process, including S. 3219, to provide standards 
for physical condition and management of housing receiving assistance 
payments under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, and 
S. 3083, to provide housing opportunities in the United States through 
modernization of various housing programs, after receiving testimony 
from Senators Nelson and Rubio; Ed Olsen, University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville; Tracy Grant, Eureka Gardens Tenants' Association, 
Jacksonville, Florida; Josh Lewis, Riviera Beach Police Department, 
Riviera Beach, Florida; and Vincent F. O'Donnell, Auburndale, 
Massachusetts.
NATURAL RESOURCES LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 346, to withdraw certain land located in Curry 
County and Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, 
appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, location, entry, 
and patent under the mining laws, and operation under the mineral 
leasing and geothermal leasing laws, S. 437, to provide for 
congressional approval of national monuments and restrictions on the 
use of national monuments, to establish requirements for the 
declaration of marine national monuments, S. 1416, to amend title 54, 
United States Code, to limit the authority to reserve water rights in 
designating a national monument, S. 2056, to provide for the 
establishment of the National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring 
System, S. 2380, to require the Secretary of the Interior to establish 
a pilot program for commercial recreation concessions on certain land 
managed by the Bureau of Land Management, S. 2681, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease 
applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial 
quantities determination,

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to substitute certain land selections of the Navajo Nation, to 
designate certain wilderness areas, S. 2991, to withdraw certain land 
in Okanogan County, Washington, to protect the land, S. 3049, to 
designate the Organ Mountains and other public land as components of 
the National Wilderness Preservation System in the State of New Mexico, 
S. 3102, to promote conservation, improve public land management, and 
provide for sensible development in Pershing County, Nevada, S. 3167, 
to establish the Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area, S. 3192, to 
designate a mountain peak in the State of Montana as ``Alex Diekmann 
Peak'', S. 3203, to provide for economic development and access to 
resources in Alaska, S. 3204, to provide for the exchange of Federal 
land and non-Federal land in the State of Alaska for the construction 
of a road between King Cove and Cold Bay, S. 3254, to provide for a 
land exchange involving certain National Forest System land in the 
State of South Dakota, S. 3273, to make technical corrections to the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, S. 3312, to extend the 
authorization of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 
1978 relating to the disposal site in Mesa County, Colorado, S. 3315, 
to authorize the modification or augmentation of the Second Division 
Memorial, S. 3316, to maximize land management efficiencies, promote 
land conservation, generate education funding, S. 3317, to prohibit the 
further extension or establishment of national monuments in the State 
of Utah except by express authorization of Congress, H.R. 1838, to 
establish the Clear Creek National Recreation Area in San Benito and 
Fresno Counties, California, to designate the Joaquin Rocks Wilderness 
in such counties, and H.R. 2009, to provide for the conveyance of 
certain land inholdings owned by the United States to the Tucson 
Unified School District and to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Reid and Sullivan; Neil Kornze, 
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; and 
Leslie Weldon, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture.
TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine exploring a right to try for terminally 
ill patients, including S. 2912, to authorize the use of unapproved 
medical products by patients diagnosed with a terminal illness in 
accordance with State law, after receiving testimony from Peter Lurie, 
Associate Commissioner for Public Health Strategy and Analysis, Office 
of Policy, Planning, Legislation, and Analysis, Food and Drug 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Ian C. 
Calderon, California State Assembly, Sacramento; Jim Neely, Missouri 
State Representative, Jefferson City; Lieutenant Commander Matthew 
Bellina, USN (Ret.), Holland, Pennsylvania; Richard Garr, Neuralstem, 
Inc., Del Rey, California; Andrew McFadyen, The Issac Foundation, 
Campbellford, Ontario; and Frank Mongiello, and Luke Mongiello, both of 
Yardley, Pennsylvania.
AGENCY REGULATORY GUIDANCE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to 
examine agency regulatory guidance, after receiving testimony from 
Howard Shelanski, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; M. Patricia Smith, Solicitor, 
Department of Labor; and Amy McIntosh, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary Delegated the Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Education, 
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
COSMETIC DEVELOPMENT AND SAFETY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine exploring current practices in cosmetic 
development and safety, including S. 1014, to amend the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of cosmetics, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Feinstein and Collins; Beth Lange 
Jonas, Personal Care Products Council, and Scott Faber, Environmental 
Working Group, both of Washington, D.C.; Wilma Bergfeld, Cosmetic 
Ingredient Review Expert Panel, Cleveland, Ohio; and Curran Dandurand, 
Jack Black LLC, Carrollton, Texas.
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.