[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 181 (Tuesday, November 7, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1183]
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 Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Mark T. Esper, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Army, 
Robert L. Wilkie, of North Carolina, to be Under Secretary for 
Personnel and Readiness, Joseph Kernan, of Florida, to be Under 
Secretary for Intelligence, and Guy B. Roberts, of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Robert Behler, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of 
Operational Test and Evaluation, Dean L. Winslow, of Delaware, to be an 
Assistant Secretary, Thomas B. Modly, of Maryland, to be Under 
Secretary of the Navy, and James F. Geurts, of Pennsylvania, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, all of the Department of Defense, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 1591, to impose sanctions with respect to the 
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
INTERNET OF THINGS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet concluded a 
hearing to examine advancing the Internet of Things in rural America, 
after receiving testimony from Michael P. Adcock, University of 
Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson; David Armitage, Cartasite, Denver, 
Colorado; Timothy Hassinger, Lindsay Corporation, Omaha, Nebraska; 
Michael Terzich, Zebra Technologies, Lincolnshire, Illinois; and Angela 
Siefer, National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Columbus, Ohio.
NORTH KOREA'S CYBER CAPABILITIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
North Korea's cyber capabilities and United States policy response from 
Robert L. Strayer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cyber and 
International Communications and Information Policy; and an official of 
the intelligence community.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Ernest W. Dubester, 
of Virginia, Colleen Kiko, of North Dakota, who was introduced by 
Representative Sensenbrenner, and James Thomas Abbott, of Virginia, 
each to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of John C. Demers, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Attorney General.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
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.