[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 11 (Thursday, January 18, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D56-D58]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Michael D. Griffin, of Alabama, to be Under 
Secretary for Research and Engineering, Phyllis L. Bayer, of 
Mississippi, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and John 
Henderson, of South Dakota, who was introduced by Senator Rounds, and 
William Roper, of Georgia, each to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air 
Force, all of the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
CFIUS REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States 
reform, focusing on examining the essential elements, including S. 
2098, to modernize and strengthen the Committee on Foreign Investment 
in the United States to more effectively guard against the risk to the 
national security of the United States posed by certain types of 
foreign investment, S.

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1983, to establish a process to review foreign investment to determine 
the economic effect of the investment on the United States, S. 1591, to 
impose sanctions with respect to the Democratic People's Republic of 
Korea, after receiving testimony from Senator Cornyn; Christopher 
Padilla, IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York; Scott Kupor, Andreessen 
Horowitz, Menlo Park, California, on behalf of the National Venture 
Capital Association; Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Peterson Institute for 
International Economics, Washington, D.C.; and James Mulvenon, SOS 
International, Burke, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Leon A. Westmoreland, of Georgia, 
to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors, Barry Lee Myers, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and 
Atmosphere, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Transportation, Brendan Carr, of Virginia, to be a Member 
of the Federal Communications Commission, James Bridenstine, of 
Oklahoma, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, and Ann Marie Buerkle, of New York, to be a 
Commissioner, and to be Chairman, and Dana Baiocco, of Ohio, to be a 
Commissioner, both of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Melissa F. Burnison, of Kentucky, 
to be an Assistant Secretary (Congressional and Intergovernmental 
Affairs), and Anne Marie White, of Michigan, to be an Assistant 
Secretary (Environmental Management), both of the Department of Energy, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Samuel Dale Brownback, of Kansas, to be Ambassador 
at Large for International Religious Freedom, Richard Grenell, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Yleem 
D. S. Poblete, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary (Verification 
and Compliance), James Randolph Evans, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to 
Luxembourg, Joel Danies, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Gabonese 
Republic, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, 
Carlos Trujillo, of Florida, to be Permanent Representative of the 
United States of America to the Organization of American States, with 
the rank of Ambassador, and routine lists in the Foreign Service, all 
of the Department of State.
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, 
focusing on financial aid simplification and transparency, after 
receiving testimony from Matthew M. Chingos, Urban Institute, 
Washington, D.C.; Joanna K. Darcus, National Consumer Law Center, 
Boston, Massachusetts; Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan Gerald R. 
Ford School of Public Policy, Ann Arbor; Laura Keane, uAspire, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Russell Lowery-Hart, Amarillo College, 
Amarillo, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Mitchell Zais, of South Carolina, 
to be Deputy Secretary, Kenneth L. Marcus, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Civil Rights, and James Blew, of California, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, 
all of the Department of Education, Patrick Pizzella, of Virginia, to 
be Deputy Secretary, Scott A. Mugno, of Pennsylvania, to be an 
Assistant Secretary, Cheryl Marie Stanton, of South Carolina, to be 
Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, and William Beach, of 
Kansas, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, all of the Department 
of Labor, Brett Giroir, of Texas, to be Medical Director in the Regular 
Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, Barbara Stewart, of Illinois, to be Chief 
Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community 
Service.
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Children and Families: Senators Paul (Chair), 
Murkowski, Burr, Cassidy, Young, Hatch, Roberts, Casey, Sanders, 
Bennet, Kaine, Hassan, and Smith.
Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety: Senators Isakson 
(Chair), Roberts, Scott, Burr, Paul, Cassidy, Young, Baldwin, Casey, 
Murphy, Warren, Smith, and Jones.
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security: Senators Enzi 
(Chair), Burr, Collins, Cassidy, Young, Hatch, Roberts, Scott, 
Murkowski, Sanders, Bennet, Baldwin, Murphy, Warren, Kaine, Hassan, and 
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Senators Alexander and Murray are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Elizabeth L. Branch, of Georgia, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Stuart Kyle Duncan, of 
Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, 
David Ryan Stras, of Minnesota, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Eighth Circuit, Annemarie Carney Axon, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, R. Stan Baker, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, Jeffrey 
Uhlman Beaverstock, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of Alabama, Liles Clifton Burke, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, Thomas Alvin Farr, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North 
Carolina, Charles Barnes Goodwin, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Oklahoma, Michael Joseph Juneau, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, 
Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Texas, Emily Coody Marks, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, Terry Fitzgerald 
Moorer, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Alabama, Mark Saalfield Norris, Sr., to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Tennessee, William M. Ray II, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Eli Jeremy 
Richardson, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District 
of Tennessee, Holly Lou Teeter, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Kansas, and Brian Allen Benczkowski, of Virginia, 
Jeffrey Bossert Clark, of Virginia, and Eric S. Dreiband, of Maryland, 
each to be an Assistant Attorney General, John H. Durham, to be United 
States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Michael T. Baylous, to 
be United States Marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia, 
and Daniel R. McKittrick, to be United States Marshal for the Northern 
District of Mississippi, all of the Department of Justice.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.