[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 28 (Thursday, February 16, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D174-D175]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RESHAPING THE U.S. MILITARY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
reshaping the United States military, after receiving testimony from 
David A. Ochmanek, RAND Corporation; James P. Thomas, The Telemus 
Group; Thomas M. Donnelly, American Enterprise Institute for Public 
Policy Research Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies; and Bryan 
Clark, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
IMPROVING TSA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security concluded a hearing to 
examine stakeholder perspectives on improving the Transportation 
Security Administration for the security of the traveling public, after 
receiving testimony from Stephen A. Alterman, Cargo Airline 
Association, on behalf of Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and 
Sharon Pinkerton, Airlines for America, both of Washington, D.C.; Kim 
Day, Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado; and Mark Laustra, 
Analogic Corporation, Peabody, Massachusetts.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of Seema Verma, of Indiana, to be Administrator of the 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and 
Human Services, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators 
Donnelly and Young, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of David Friedman, of New York, to be Ambassador 
to Israel, Department of State, after the nominee, who was introduced 
by Senator Graham and former Senator Joe Lieberman, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Transnational Crime, Civilian

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Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues concluded 
a hearing to examine democracy and human rights, focusing on the case 
for United States leadership, after receiving testimony from former 
Representative Mark Green, International Republican Institute, Carl 
Gershman, The National Endowment for Democracy, Kenneth Wollack, 
National Democratic Institute, and Hala Aldosari, Arab Gulf States 
Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Garry Kasparov, Human Rights 
Foundation, New York, New York; and Danilo Maldonado Machado.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 62) authorizing expenditures 
by committees of the Senate for the periods March 1, 2017 through 
September 30, 2017, October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018, and 
October 1, 2018 through February 28, 2019, and adopted its rules of 
procedure for the 115th Congress.
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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee announced 
the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade: Senators 
Boozman (Chair), Cochran, Hoeven, Grassley, Thune, Daines, Perdue, 
Heitkamp, Brown, Bennet, Gillibrand, Donnelly, and Van Hollen.
  Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy: Senators Ernst (Chair), 
Cochran, Boozman, Hoeven, Thune, Daines, Strange, Van Hollen, Brown, 
Klobuchar, Bennet, Donnelly, and Heitkamp.
  Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, and Natural Resources: 
Senator Daines (Chair), Cochran, McConnell, Boozman, Grassley, Strange, 
Bennet, Leahy, Klobuchar, Donnelly, and Casey.
  Subcommittee on Nutrition, Agricultural Research, and Specialty 
Crops: Senators Strange (Chair), McConnell, Boozman, Hoeven, Ernst, 
Perdue, Casey, Leahy, Brown, Gillibrand, and Van Hollen.
  Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing, and Agriculture Security: 
Senators Perdue (Chair), McConnell, Ernst, Grassley, Thune, Daines, 
Gillibrand, Leahy, Klobuchar, Heitkamp, and Casey.
  Senators Roberts and Stabenow are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.