[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 172 (Thursday, December 1, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1082-D1083]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,385 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the oversight, acquisition, testing, and employment of the Littoral 
Combat Ship (LCS) and LCS mission module programs, after receiving 
testimony from J. Michael Gilmore, Director of Operational Test and 
Evaluation, Sean J. Stackley,

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Assistant Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition, 
Department of the Navy, Vice Admiral Thomas S. Rowden, USN, Commander, 
Naval Surface Forces, and Commander, Naval Surface Force, Pacific 
Fleet, all of the Department of Defense; and Paul L. Francis, Managing 
Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government 
Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Charles P. Blahous, III, of Maryland, and Robert D. 
Reischauer, of Maryland, both to be a Member of the Board of Trustees 
of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, a Member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and 
the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and a Member of the Board 
of Trustees of the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the future of counter-terrorism strategy, after receiving 
testimony from Juan C. Zarate, Financial Integrity Network, Washington, 
D.C.; and Daniel Benjamin, Dartmouth University John Sloan Dickey 
Center for International Understanding, Hanover, New Hampshire.
RENEWABLE FUEL STANDARD
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to 
examine two Government Accountability Office reports regarding the 
renewable fuel standard, after receiving testimony from Frank Rusco, 
Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability 
Office; and Janet McCabe, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air 
and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.