[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 173 (Thursday, October 26, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1132-D1134]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NIGER
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
Niger from Robert S. Karem, Assistant Secretary for International 
Security Affairs, and Major General Albert M. Elton II, USAF, Deputy 
Director for Special Operations and Counterterrorism, Joint Staff, both 
of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Brian D. Montgomery, of Texas, 
Robert Hunter Kurtz, of Virginia, and Suzanne Israel Tufts, of New 
York, each to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
ADVANCED CYBER TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine advanced cyber technologies that could be used to 
help protect electric grids and other energy infrastructure from 
cyberattacks, after receiving testimony from Carl Imhoff, Manager, 
Electricity Market Sector, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 
Richard Raines, Director of Electrical and Electronics Systems 
Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Zachary D.

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Tudor, Associate Laboratory Director, National and Homeland Security, 
Idaho National Laboratory, all of the Department of Energy; Duncan 
Earl, Qubitekk, Inc., Vista, California; and Daniel Riedel, New Context 
Services, Inc., San Francisco, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Res. 279, reaffirming the commitment of the United States to 
promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in Cambodia, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Michele Jeanne Sison, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti, Peter Hoekstra, of Michigan, to be 
Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kenneth Ian Juster, of 
New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of India, Larry Edward 
Andre, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti, 
Daniel J. Kritenbrink, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Socialist 
Republic of Vietnam, Kathleen M. Fitzpatrick, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, 
Richard Duke Buchan III, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of 
Spain, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as 
Ambassador to Andorra, Richard Grenell, of California, to be Ambassador 
to the Federal Republic of Germany, Jamie McCourt, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the French Republic, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of 
Monaco, Edward T. McMullen, Jr., of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to 
the Swiss Confederation, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of 
Liechtenstein, Peter Henry Barlerin, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Cameroon, Michael James Dodman, of New York, to be 
Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Nina Maria Fite, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola, Daniel L. 
Foote, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, David 
Dale Reimer, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mauritius, 
and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as 
Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles, Eric P. Whitaker, of 
Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, W. Robert Kohorst, 
of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia, Carla 
Sands, of California, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark, 
Thomas L. Carter, of South Carolina, for the rank of Ambassador during 
his tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America 
on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, 
Michael T. Evanoff, of Arkansas, to be an Assistant Secretary 
(Diplomatic Security), Manisha Singh, of Florida, to be an Assistant 
Secretary (Economic and Business Affairs), Samuel Dale Brownback, of 
Kansas, to be Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, 
Jennifer Gillian Newstead, of New York, to be Legal Adviser, and a 
routine list in the Foreign Service, all of the Department of State.
IMPROVING OVERSIGHT OF THE REGULATORY PROCESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to 
examine improving oversight of the regulatory process, focusing on 
lessons from state legislatures, after receiving testimony from Scott 
Bedke, Idaho House of Representatives, Oakley; Joshua A. Boschee, North 
Dakota Legislative Assembly, Fargo; and Arthur J. O'Neill, Connecticut 
General Assembly, Southbury.
FREE SPEECH ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine free speech on college campuses, after 
receiving testimony from Robert Zimmer, University of Chicago, Chicago, 
Illinois; Nadine Strossen, New York Law School, New York; Allison 
Stanger, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont; and J. Richard Cohen, 
Southern Poverty Law Center, Birmingham, Alabama.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Allison H. Eid, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Stephanos Bibas, of Pennsylvania, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Liles Clifton Burke, 
to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Alabama, Walter David Counts III, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Texas, Michael Joseph Juneau, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, A. Marvin 
Quattlebaum, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District 
of South Carolina, Karen Gren Scholer, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Tilman Eugene Self III, to be 
United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, and 
John F. Bash, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of 
Texas, Erin Angela Nealy Cox, to be United States Attorney for the 
Northern District of Texas, and R. Andrew Murray, to be United States 
Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, all of the 
Department of Justice.

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ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM FOR WOMEN
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem for 
women, including an original bill entitled, ``Prove It Act'', after 
receiving testimony from Michelle Richards, Great Lakes Women's 
Business Council, Livonia, Michigan; Tracy Killoren Chadwell, 1843 
Capital, Greenwich, Connecticut; and Elizabeth Gore, Dell, Sonoma, 
California.
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.