03.10.15

WEDNESDAY: Appropriations Committee Hearing Schedule

 
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Senate Appropriations Committee will hold five hearings on Wednesday, March 11. The hearings will be webcast, and livestreaming will begin on the Senate Appropriations Committe website before the hearings start.
 
Wednesday's full schedule is below: 
 
ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE (Lamar Alexander, Chairman)
 
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2016 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration
 
9:00 a.m., Room 138, Dirksen Senate Office Building
 
Webcast:  http://1.usa.gov/1AivXCr
 
Witnesses:
 
Lieutenant General Frank G. Klotz, USAF (Ret.)
Under Secretary for Nuclear Security
Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
 
Dr. Donald Cook
Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs
National Nuclear Security Administration
 
Anne Harrington
Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
National Nuclear Security Administration
 
Admiral John Richardson, United States Navy
Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Deputy Administrator for Office of Naval Reactors
National Nuclear Security Administration
 
 
INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE (Lisa Murkowski, Chairman)
 
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2016 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Indian Health Service
 
10:00 a.m., Room 124, Dirksen Senate Office Building
 
Webcast:  http://1.usa.gov/1GEFgVl
 
Witnesses:
 
Dr. Yvette Roubideaux
Senior Advisor to the Secretary for American Indians and Alaska Natives
 
Robert G. McSwain
Acting Director of the Indian Health Service
 
 
TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES SUBCOMMITTEE(Susan Collins, Chairman)
 
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2016 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
 
10:00 a.m., Room 562, Dirksen Senate Office Building
 
Webcast:  http://1.usa.gov/1AiNt9z
 
Witnesses:
 
The Honorable Julian Castro
Secretary
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
 
 
DEFENSE SUBCOMMITTEE (Thad Cochran, Chairman)
 
Hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2016 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Army
 
10:30 a.m., Room 192, Dirksen Senate Office Building
 
Webcast:  http://1.usa.gov/1EXjN87
 
Witnesses:
 
The Honorable John McHugh
Secretary of the Army
 
General Raymond T. Odierno
Chief of Staff
United States Army
 
 
STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS SUBCOMMITTEE (Lindsey Graham, Chairman)
 
Hearing on “Protecting Religious Freedom Abroad”
 
2:00 p.m., Room 124, Dirksen Senate Office Building
 
Webcast:  http://1.usa.gov/1b2mKt2
 
Witnesses:
 
  The Honorable David N. Saperstein
  Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
  U.S. Department of State
 
  Bishop Oscar Cantú
  Chairman
  Committee on International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
 
Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
 
Jay Sekulow
Chief Counsel
American Center for Law and Justice