[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 14, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D163-D165]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
READINESS OF U.S. FORCES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the current readiness of United 
States forces, after receiving testimony from General James C. 
McConville, USA, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Admiral William F. 
Moran, USN, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, General Glenn M. Walters, 
USMC, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, and General Stephen W. 
Wilson, USAF, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, all of the 
Department of Defense.
MILITARY FAMILY READINESS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a 
hearing to examine military and civilian personnel programs and 
military family readiness, including S. 2379, to improve and expand 
authorities, programs, services, and benefits for military spouses and 
military families, after receiving testimony from Robert L. Wilkie, 
Jr., Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, Lieutenant General 
Thomas C. Seamands, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, Vice Admiral 
Robert P. Burke, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, N-1, Lieutenant 
General Gina M. Grosso, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, 
Personnel and Services, and Lieutenant General Michael A. Rocco, USMC, 
Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, all of the 
Department of Defense; Kathy Roth-Douquet, Blue Star Families, and 
Kelly B. Hruska, National Military Family Association, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and J. Michael Haynie, Syracuse University Institute 
for Veterans and Military Families, Syracuse, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Joseph Simons, of Virginia, who 
was introduced by Senator Hatch, Christine S. Wilson, of Virginia, who 
was introduced by Senator Capito, Noah Joshua Phillips, of Maryland, 
who was introduced by Senator Cornyn, and Rohit Chopra, of New York, 
each to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
NATIONAL PARKS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 400, to establish the 
Susquehanna National Heritage Area in the State of Pennsylvania, S. 
966, to establish a program to accurately document vehicles that were 
significant in the history of the United States, S. 1160, to include 
Livingston County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County, and the city 
of Freeport in Stephenson County, Illinois, to the Lincoln National 
Heritage Area, S. 1260 and H.R. 2615, bills to authorize the exchange 
of certain land located in Gulf Islands National Seashore, Jackson 
County, Mississippi, between the National Park Service and the Veterans 
of Foreign Wars, S. 1335, to establish the Ste. Genevieve National 
Historic Site in the State of Missouri, S. 1446 and H.R. 1135, bills to 
reauthorize the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic 
Preservation program, S. 1472, to reauthorize the Tennessee Civil War 
Heritage Area, S. 1573, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Secretary of Agriculture to place signage on Federal land along the 
trail known as the ``American Discovery Trail'', S. 1602, to authorize 
the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the 
suitability and feasibility of designating certain land as the Finger 
Lakes National Heritage Area, S. 1645, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to conduct a special resource study of P.S. 103 in West 
Baltimore, Maryland, S. 1646, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a special resource study of President Station in 
Baltimore,

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Maryland, S. 1692, to authorize the National Emergency Medical Services 
Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District 
of Columbia and its environs, S. 1956 and H.R. 2897, bills to authorize 
the Mayor of the District of Columbia and the Director of the National 
Park Service to enter into cooperative management agreements for the 
operation, maintenance, and management of units of the National Park 
System in the District of Columbia, S. 2102, to clarify the boundary of 
Acadia National Park, S. 2213 and H.R. 4300, bills to authorize Pacific 
Historic Parks to establish a commemorative display to honor members of 
the United States Armed Forces who served in the Pacific Theater of 
World War II, S. 2225, to reauthorize the Blue Ridge National Heritage 
Area, S. 2238, to amend the Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage 
Canalway Act of 1996 to repeal the funding limitation, H.R. 1397, to 
authorize, direct, facilitate, and expedite the transfer of 
administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal land, and H.R. 1500, to 
redesignate the small triangular property located in Washington, DC, 
and designated by the National Park Service as reservation 302 as 
``Robert Emmet Park'', after receiving testimony from P. Daniel Smith, 
Deputy Director, Exercising the Authority of the Director of the 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2019, after 
receiving testimony from Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury.
BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2019, after 
receiving testimony from David J. Kautter, Acting Commissioner, 
Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2221, to repeal the multi-State plan program, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2296, to increase access to agency guidance documents, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2400, to eliminate or modify certain audit mandates of the 
Government Accountability Office;
  S. 2113, to amend title 41, United States Code, to improve the manner 
in which Federal contracts for design and construction services are 
awarded, to prohibit the use of reverse auctions for design and 
construction services procurements;
  S. 2349, to direct the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget to establish an interagency working group to study Federal 
efforts to collect data on sexual violence and to make recommendations 
on the harmonization of such efforts;
  S. 2413, to provide for the appropriate use of bridge contracts in 
Federal procurement, with an amendment;
  S. 2178, to require the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity 
and Efficiency to make open recommendations of Inspectors General 
publicly available, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 2229, to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide permanent 
authority for judicial review of certain Merit Systems Protection Board 
decisions relating to whistleblowers, with an amendment;
  S. 931, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 4910 Brighton Boulevard in Denver, Colorado, as the ``George 
Sakato Post Office'';
  S. 2040, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 621 Kansas Avenue in Atchison, Kansas, as the 
``Amelia Earhart Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 294, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2700 Cullen Boulevard in Pearland, Texas, as the 
``Endy Nddiobong Ekpanya Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 452, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 324 West Saint Louis Street in Pacific, Missouri, as 
the ``Specialist Jeffrey L. White, Jr. Post Office'';
  H.R. 1207, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 306 River Street in Tilden, Texas, as the ``Tilden 
Veterans Post Office'';
  H.R. 1208, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 9155 Schaefer Road, Converse, Texas, as the 
``Converse Veterans Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1858, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 4514 Williamson Trail in Liberty, Pennsylvania, as 
the ``Staff Sergeant Ryan Scott Ostrom Post Office'';
  H.R. 1988, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1730 18th Street in Bakersfield, California, as the 
``Merle Haggard Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2254, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2635 Napa Street in Vallejo, California, as the 
``Janet Capello Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2302, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 259 Nassau Street,

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Suite 2 in Princeton, New Jersey, as the ``Dr. John F. Nash, Jr. Post 
Office'';
  H.R. 2464, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 25 New Chardon Street Lobby in Boston, 
Massachusetts, as the ``John Fitzgerald Kennedy Post Office'';
  H.R. 2672, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 520 Carter Street in Fairview, Illinois, as the 
``Sgt. Douglas J. Riney Post Office'';
  H.R. 2815, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 30 East Somerset Street in Raritan, New Jersey, as 
the ``Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone Post Office'';
  H.R. 2873, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 207 Glenside Avenue in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, as the 
``Staff Sergeant Peter Taub Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3109, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1114 North 2nd Street in Chillicothe, Illinois, as 
the ``Sr. Chief Ryan Owens Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3369, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 225 North Main Street in Spring Lake, North 
Carolina, as the ``Howard B. Pate, Jr. Post Office'';
  H.R. 3638, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1100 Kings Road in Jacksonville, Florida, as the 
``Rutledge Pearson Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3655, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1300 Main Street in Belmar, New Jersey, as the ``Dr. 
Walter S. McAfee Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3821, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 430 Main Street in Clermont, Georgia, as the ``Zach 
T. Addington Post Office'';
  H.R. 3893, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 100 Mathe Avenue in Interlachen, Florida, as the 
``Robert H. Jenkins, Jr. Post Office'';
  H.R. 4042, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1415 West Oak Street, in Kissimmee, Florida, as the 
``Borinqueneers Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4285, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 123 Bridgeton Pike in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, as 
the ``James C. `Billy' Johnson Post Office Building''; and
  The nominations of Jeff Tien Han Pon, of Virginia, to be Director, 
and Michael Rigas, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Director, both of the 
Office of Personnel Management.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 995, to provide for equitable compensation to the Spokane Tribe of 
Indians of the Spokane Reservation for the use of tribal land for the 
production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam, with an amendment; 
and
  S. 1953, to amend the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 and the Indian 
Law Enforcement Reform Act to provide for advancements in public safety 
services to Indian communities, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE 2020 CENSUS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Native Americans and the 2020 Census, after receiving 
testimony from Ron Jarmin, Performing the Non-Exclusive Functions and 
Duties of the Director, Census Bureau; Carol Gore, Cook Inlet Housing 
Authority, Anchorage, Alaska; Jefferson Keel, National Congress of 
American Indians, Washington, D.C.; and James Thomas Tucker, Native 
American Rights Fund, Las Vegas, Nevada.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Joel M. Carson III, of New Mexico, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senator Udall, Colm F. Connolly, and Maryellen Noreika, both to be a 
United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, who were 
introduced by Senator Carper, William F. Jung, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, who was introduced 
by Senator Nelson, and Ryan T. Holte, of Ohio, to be a Judge of the 
United States Court of Federal Claims, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of David Christian Tryon, of Ohio, 
to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, who was introduced by Representative 
Chabot, and Hannibal Ware, of the Virgin Islands, to be Inspector 
General, both of the Small Business Administration, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.