[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 125 (Tuesday, August 4, 2015)] [Daily Digest] [Page D929] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] Committee Meetings (Committees not listed did not meet) JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the military balance in the Middle East, after receiving testimony from General Michael V. Hayden, USAF (ret.), Chertoff Group, and Eric S. Edelman, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, both of Washington, D.C.; Nicholas Burns, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Richard N. Haass, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,476 nominations in the military. EPA AND FWS LITIGATION OVERSIGHT Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight concluded an oversight hearing to examine litigation at the Environmental Protection Agency and Fish and Wildlife Service, focusing on impacts on the United States economy, States, local communities, and the environment, after receiving testimony from Alfredo Gomez, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; Dallas Baker, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Air Director, Jackson; Andrew M. Grossman, Baker and Hostetler LLP, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Cato Institute; and Kathleen Sgamma, Western Energy Alliance, and Justin Pidot, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, both of Denver, Colorado. FAMILIES AND FOSTER CARE Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine preserving families and reducing the need for foster care, after receiving testimony from Ann Silverberg Williamson, Utah Department of Human Services Executive Director, Salt Lake City; Sandra Killett, Child Welfare Organizing Project, New York, New York; Rosalina Burton, San Pasqual Academy, Escondido, California; Donna Butts, Generations United, Washington, D.C.; and Charles Nyby, Child Welfare Program, Salem, Oregon. JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, focusing on non- proliferation, inspections, and nuclear constraints, after receiving testimony from David Albright, Institute for Science and International Security, and Robert Joseph, former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, National Institute for Public Policy, both of Washington, D.C.; and Gary Samore, Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge, Massachusetts. NOMINATIONS Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Ann Calvaresi Barr, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, United States Agency for International Development, and David Malcolm Robinson, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary (Conflict and Stabilization Operations), and to be Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, Edwin Richard Nolan, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname, and John L. Estrada, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, all of the Department of State, and Scott Allen, of Maryland, to be United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. BUREAU OF PRISONS OVERSIGHT Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Bureau of Prisons, focusing on first-hand accounts of challenges facing the Federal prison system, after receiving testimony from Charles E. Samuels, Jr., Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, both of the Department of Justice; Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, Columbus, Ohio; Jerome Dillard, Voices Behind Bars, Fitchburg, Wisconsin; and Udi Ofer, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, Newark. 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.