[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 175 (Tuesday, December 6, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1099-D1100]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
WORLDWIDE THREATS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
emerging United States defense challenges and worldwide threats, after 
receiving testimony from General John M. Keane, USA (Ret.), Institute 
for the Study of War, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Shawn 
Brimley, Center for a New American Security, and Robert Kagan, The 
Brookings Institution, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  H.R. 1150, to amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 
to improve the ability of the United States to advance religious 
freedom globally through enhanced diplomacy, training, 
counterterrorism, and foreign assistance efforts, and through stronger 
and more flexible political responses to religious freedom violations 
and violent extremism worldwide, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 2845, to promote access to benefits under the African Growth and 
Opportunity Act, with an amendment;
  H.R. 4481, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide 
assistance for developing countries to promote quality basic education 
and to establish the goal of all children in school and learning as an 
objective of the United States foreign assistance policy, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 4939, to increase engagement with the governments of the 
Caribbean region, the Caribbean diaspora community in the United 
States, and the private sector and civil society in both the United 
States and the Caribbean, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. Res. 537, expressing profound concern about the ongoing political, 
economic, social and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, urging the 
release of political prisoners, and calling for respect of 
constitutional and democratic processes, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 535, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the 
trafficking of illicit fentanyl into the United States from Mexico and 
China, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 8, to provide for the approval of the Agreement for Cooperation 
Between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of the Kingdom of Norway Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear 
Energy;
  S. Con. Res. 57, honoring in praise and remembrance the extraordinary 
life, steady leadership, and remarkable 70-year reign of King Bhumibol 
Adulyadej of Thailand;
  S. Con. Res. 30, expressing concern over the disappearance of David 
Sneddon;
  Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of 
Montenegro (Treaty Doc. 114-12); and
  The nomination of Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, of Connecticut, to be 
Ambassador to Malaysia, and lists in the Foreign Service, all of the 
Department of State.

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IRANIAN THREAT NETWORK
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine defeating the Iranian threat network, focusing on options for 
countering Iranian proxies, after receiving testimony from J. Matthew 
McInnis, American Enterprise Institute, and Melissa G. Dalton, Center 
for Strategic and International Studies International Security Program, 
both of Washington, D.C.
RETALIATORY CRIMINAL REFERRALS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism 
concluded a hearing to examine whether additional firewalls are needed 
to protect Congressional oversight staff from retaliatory criminal 
referrals, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey H. Smith, Arnold and 
Porter LLP, and William Pittard, KaiserDillon PLLC, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Scott Horton, Columbia Law School, Pelham, New York.