[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 72 (Thursday, April 27, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D460]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PREVENTING VETERAN SUICIDE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine 
preventing veteran suicide, after receiving testimony from Carolyn M. 
Clancy, Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Organizational 
Excellence, Harold S. Kudler, Chief Consultant for Mental Health 
Services, and Stephanie A. Davis, Suicide Prevention Coordinator and 
Staff Psychologist, VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System, each of the 
Veterans Health Administration, and Michael L. Missal, Inspector 
General, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Melissa D. Jarboe, 
Military Veteran Project, Topeka, Kansas; and Rajeev Ramchand, Rand 
Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
U.S. PACIFIC COMMAND AND U.S. FORCES KOREA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
United States Pacific Command and United States Forces Korea, after 
receiving testimony from Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr., USN, Commander, 
United States Pacific Command, Department of Defense.
CYBER-ENABLED INFORMATION OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity concluded a 
hearing to examine cyber-enabled information operations, after 
receiving testimony from John C. Inglis, former Deputy Director, 
National Security Agency; Michael D. Lumpkin, Neptune Computer 
Incorporated, and former Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; 
Rand Waltzman, RAND Corporation; and Clint Watts, Foreign Policy 
Research Institute.
COUNTERING RUSSIA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine countering Russia, focusing on further assessing 
options for sanctions, including S. 94, to impose sanctions in response 
to cyber intrusions by the Government of the Russian Federation and 
other aggressive activities of the Russian Federation, and S. 341, to 
provide for congressional oversight of actions to waive, suspend, 
reduce, provide relief from, or otherwise limit the application of 
sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation, after receiving 
testimony from Chip Poncy, Financial Integrity Network, Fairfax, 
Virginia; and R. Nicholas Burns, Harvard University John F. Kennedy 
School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS ECONOMIC EXPANSION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine H.R. 339, to amend Public Law 94-241 with respect to 
the Northern Mariana Islands, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan; Nikolao I. Pula, Acting 
Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas, Department of the Interior; 
David Gootnick, Director, International Affairs and Trade, Government 
Accountability Office; Northern Mariana Islands Governor Ralph DLG. 
Torres, and Jim Arenovski, Island Training Solutions, both of Saipan.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Scott Gottlieb, of Connecticut, to 
be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human 
Services.
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.
AGING WITHOUT COMMUNITY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
aging without community, focusing on the consequences of isolation and 
loneliness, after receiving testimony from W. Mark Clark, Pima Council 
on Aging, Tucson, Arizona; Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Brigham Young 
University, Provo, Utah; Lenard W. Kaye, University of Maine Center on 
Aging, Bangor; and Rick Creech, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.