[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 177 (Wednesday, November 1, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1153-D1154]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of David J. Ryder, of New Jersey, to 
be Director of the Mint, Department of the Treasury, and Hester Maria 
Peirce, of Ohio, and Robert J. Jackson, Jr., of New York, both to be a 
Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Scott Garrett, of New Jersey, to 
be President, Kimberly A. Reed, of West Virginia, to be First Vice 
President, Mark L. Greenblatt, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, 
and Spencer Bachus III, of Alabama, Judith Delzoppo Pryor, of Ohio, and 
Claudia Slacik, of New York, each to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors, all of the Export-Import Bank, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of James Bridenstine, of Oklahoma, 
to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, who was introduced by Senator Inhofe, Dana Baiocco, of 
Ohio, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 
and Nazakhtar Nikakhtar, of Maryland, who was introduced by Senator 
Wicker, and Neil Jacobs, of North Carolina, both to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Irwin Steven Goldstein, of New York, to be 
Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Rebecca Eliza Gonzales, of Texas, 
to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho, Lisa A. Johnson, of 
Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, James Randolph 
Evans, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, who was introduced 
by Senator Isakson, and Sean P. Lawler, of Maryland, to be Chief of 
Protocol, and to have the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of 
service, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
ENERGY AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Multilateral 
International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International 
Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy concluded a hearing to 
examine energy and international development, after receiving testimony 
from Rachel Kyte, Sustainable Energy for All, Washington, D.C.; Todd J. 
Moss, Center for Global Development, Bethesda, Maryland; Joao Talocchi, 
Purpose Climate Lab, New York, New York; and Paul J. Mitchell, Energy 
Systems Network, Indianapolis, Indiana.
MODERNIZING TAX POLICIES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine building tribal economies, focusing on modernizing tax 
policies that work for Indian country, after receiving testimony from 
Carl Marrs, Old Harbor Native Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska; Liana 
Onnen, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Mayetta, Kansas; and Dante 
Desiderio, Nafoa, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Leonard Steven Grasz, of Nebraska, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senator Fischer, Terry A. Doughty, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Louisiana, who was introduced by Senator 
Cassidy, Terry Fitzgerald Moorer, to be United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of Alabama, who was introduced by Senator 
Shelby, and Mark Saalfield Norris, Sr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, who was introduced by 
Senators Alexander and Corker, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.

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SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE IN 2016 ELECTIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine social media influence in the 2016 United States elections, 
after receiving testimony from Colin Stretch, Facebook, Menlo Park, 
California; Sean J. Edgett, Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, California; 
and Kent Walker, Google, Mountain View, California.