[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 30, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D101-D102]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INDO-PACIFIC REGION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the situation on the Korean Peninsula and United States strategy in the 
Indo-Pacific region, after receiving testimony from Admiral Dennis C. 
Blair, USN (Ret.), Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Michael J. Green, Center 
for Strategic and International Studies, and Kelly E. Magsamen, Center 
for American Progress.
FINANCIAL STABILITY OVERSIGHT COUNCIL
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council Annual 
Report to Congress, 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. 2155, to 
promote economic growth, provide tailored regulatory relief, and 
enhance consumer protections, S. 2147, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to create a Pension Rehabilitation Trust Fund to establish 
a Pension Rehabilitation Administration within the Department of the 
Treasury to make loans to multiemployer defined benefit plans, and S. 
1591, to impose sanctions with respect to the Democratic People's 
Republic of Korea, after receiving testimony from Steven T. Mnuchin, 
Secretary of the Treasury.
DOMESTIC SEAFOOD AMD AQUACULTURE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine opportunities to support domestic seafood through 
aquaculture, after receiving testimony from Mark Luecke, Prairie 
AquaTech, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Kelly Lucas, University of 
Southern Mississippi Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center, Ocean 
Springs; Barton Seaver, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 
South Freeport, Maine; and Donald B. Kent, Hubbs-Sea World Research 
Institute, San Diego, California.
AMERICAN INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act 
one year later, after receiving testimony from France Cordova, 
Director, National Science Foundation; and Walter Copan, Under 
Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, and Director, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
NATURAL HAZARD EVENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the role of the Geological Survey and the 
Forest Service in preparing for and responding to natural hazard 
events, as well as the current status of mapping and monitoring 
systems, after receiving testimony from David Applegate, Associate 
Director for Natural Hazards, Geological Survey; Glenn Casamassa, 
Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; David K. Norman, Washington Department of 
Natural Resources Geological Survey State Geologist, Olympia; Karen 
Berry, Colorado State Geologist and Colorado School of Mines Geological 
Survey Director, Golden, on behalf of the Association of American State 
Geologists; Michael West, Alaska Earthquake Center State Seismologist 
and University of Alaska Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks; and Mayor 
Pat Branson, Kodiak, Alaska.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Melissa F. Burnison, of Kentucky, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Energy (Congressional and Intergovernmental 
Affairs), Susan Combs, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior, Ryan Douglas Nelson, of Idaho, to be Solicitor of the 
Department of the Interior, and Anne Marie White, of Michigan, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Energy (Environmental Management).
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
   Subcommittee on Energy: Senators Gardner (Chair), Risch, Flake, 
Daines, Alexander, Hoeven, Cassidy, Portman, Capito, Manchin, Wyden, 
Sanders, Heinrich, King, Duckworth, and Smith.
  Subcommittee on National Parks: Senators Daines (Chair), Barrasso, 
Lee, Gardner, Alexander, Hoeven,

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Portman, King, Sanders, Stabenow, Heinrich, Hirono, and Duckworth.
   Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining: Senators Lee 
(Chair), Barrasso, Risch, Flake, Daines, Gardner, Alexander, Hoeven, 
Cassidy, Capito, Wyden, Stabenow, Manchin, Heinrich, Hirono, Cortez 
Masto, and Smith.
   Subcommittee on Water and Power: Senators Flake (Chair), Barrasso, 
Risch, Lee, Cassidy, Portman, Capito, Cortez Masto, Wyden, Sanders, 
Manchin, Duckworth, and Smith.
   Senators Murkowski and Cantwell are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
EPA OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine testimony from the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from Scott 
Pruitt, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE U.S., CANADA, AND MEXICO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the economic relationship between the United States, Canada, 
and Mexico, after receiving testimony from Brian Mulroney, former Prime 
Minister of Canada, Montreal, Quebec; Earl Anthony Wayne, Woodrow 
Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.; and Jaime Serra, former Secretary of 
Commerce and Industry of Mexico, Mexico City.
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, 
focusing on accountability and risk to taxpayers, after receiving 
testimony from Anthony P. Carnevale, Georgetown University McCourt 
School of Public Policy Center on Education and Workforce, Ben Miller, 
Center for American Progress, Jason D. Delisle, American Enterprise 
Institute, and Mamie Voight, Institute for Higher Education Policy, all 
of Washington, D.C.; and Jose Luis Cruz, City University of New York 
Lehman College, New York, New York.
SMALL BUSINESS HEALTH PLANS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Retirement Security concluded a hearing to examine 
small business health plans, after receiving testimony from Brad E. 
Johnson, Covenant Insurance Group, Inc., Casper, Wyoming; Mike Sturm, 
Milliman, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Christopher E. Condeluci, CC Law 
and Policy PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Jen Kimmich, The Alchemist, Stowe, 
Vermont; and Tess Kuenning, Bi-State Primary Care Association, 
Montpelier, Vermont.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.