[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 153 (Tuesday, October 20, 2015)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1101-D1102]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Cherry Ann Murray, of Kansas, to 
be Director of the Office of Science, Victoria Marie Baecher Wassmer, 
of Illinois, to be Under Secretary, and John Francis Kotek, of Idaho, 
to be an Assistant Secretary (Nuclear Energy), all of the Department of 
Energy, and Mary L. Kendall, of Minnesota, to be Inspector General, 
Suzette M. Kimball, of West Virginia, to be Director of the United 
States Geological Survey, who was introduced by Senators Manchin and 
Capito, and Kristen Joan Sarri, of Michigan, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, who was introduced by Senator Reed, all of the Department of 
the Interior, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the persistent North Korea denuclearization and human rights 
challenge, after receiving testimony from Sung Kim, Special 
Representative for North Korea Policy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
State, and Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights 
Issues, both of the Department of State.

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PARIS INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Multilateral 
International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International 
Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy concluded a hearing to 
examine the 2015 Paris international climate negotiations, focusing on 
the economic and environmental impacts, after receiving testimony from 
Todd D. Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change, Department of State.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.