[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 156 (Thursday, September 28, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1024-D1025]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
2018 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine rural development and energy programs, focusing on 
perspectives for the 2018 Farm Bill, after receiving testimony from 
Anne C. Hazlett, Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development, 
Richard A. Davis, Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service, Chad 
Parker, Acting Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and 
Chris McLean, Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, all of the 
Department of Agriculture; Aleta Botts, Kentucky Center for Agriculture 
and Rural Development, Elizabethtown; Elmer Ronnebaum, Kansas Rural 
Water Association, Seneca, on behalf of the National Rural Water 
Association; Chris Stephens, Coweta-Fayette Electric Membership 
Corporation, Palmetto, Georgia; Denny Law, Golden West 
Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc., Wall, South Dakota, on behalf of 
NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association; Brent Shanks, Iowa State 
University NSF Engineering Research Center of Biorenewable Chemicals, 
Ames; and Mark Olinyk, Harvest Energy Solutions, Jackson, Michigan, on 
behalf of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council and the 
Michigan Farm Bureau.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
North Korea from officials of the intelligence community.
NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine evaluating sanctions enforcement and policy options 
on North Korea, focusing on Administration perspectives, including S. 
1591, to impose sanctions with respect to the Democratic People's 
Republic of Korea, after receiving testimony from Sigal Mandelker, 
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial 
Intelligence; and Susan Thornton, Acting Assistant Secretary of State, 
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
TSA MODERNIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security concluded a hearing to 
examine Transportation Security Administration modernization, focusing 
on improvements to aviation security, after receiving testimony from 
Brian C. Weiler, Springfield-Branson National Airport, Springfield, 
Missouri; and Stephen A. Alterman, Cargo Airline Association, on behalf 
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the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, Sissy Pressnell, Security 
Manufacturers Coalition, and Michael White, Cargo Network Services 
Corporation, on behalf of the International Air Transport Association, 
all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1766, to reauthorize the SAFER Act of 2013, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Brian Allen Benczkowski, of Virginia, Assistant 
Attorney General, Halsey B. Frank, to be United States Attorney for the 
District of Maine, D. Michael Hurst, Jr., to be United States Attorney 
for the Southern District of Mississippi, Jeffrey B. Jensen, to be 
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Thomas L. 
Kirsch II, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of 
Indiana, and William J. Powell, to be United States Attorney for the 
Northern District of West Virginia, all of the Department of Justice.