[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 176 (Wednesday, December 7, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1107-D1108]
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 Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Ann Begeman, of South Dakota, to 
be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board, Department of 
Transportation.
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and 
Security concluded a hearing to examine assessing the security of our 
critical surface transportation infrastructure, after receiving 
testimony from John Roth, Inspector General, Office of Inspector 
General, Department of Homeland Security; Neil Trugman, Interim Chief, 
Amtrak Police Department; Thomas Belfiore, The Port Authority of New 
York and New Jersey, New York; Chris Spear, American Trucking 
Associations, Inc., Washington, D.C.; and Anthony Straquadine, Jr., 
Alliance Pipeline Inc., Eden Prairie, Minnesota, on behalf of the 
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Tuesday, December 6, 2016, Committee 
ordered favorably reported H. Con. Res. 40, encouraging reunions of 
divided Korean American families.
LAND BUY-BACK PROGRAM FOR TRIBAL NATIONS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the Department of the Interior's Land Buy-Back Program for 
Tribal Nations, four years later, after receiving testimony from 
Michael L. Connor, Deputy Secretary of the Interior; Floyd Azure, 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation, Poplar, 
Montana; Terry Tatsey, Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana; Turk 
Cobell, Cobell Board of Trustees, Lubbock, Texas; and Melvin E. 
Monette-Barajas, Indigenous Education, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico.
AT&T-TIME WARNER TRANSACTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine the 
competitive impact of the AT&T-Time Warner transaction, after receiving 
testimony from Randall Stephenson, AT&T Inc., and Mark Cuban, both of 
Dallas, Texas; Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner Inc., New York, New York; Gene 
Kimmelman, Public Knowledge, Washington, D.C.; and Daphna E. Ziman, 
Cinemoi, Los Angeles, California.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.