[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 28, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D207]
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 Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1520, to expand recreational fishing opportunities through 
enhanced marine fishery conservation and management, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Joseph Simons, of Virginia, Noah Joshua Phillips, 
of Maryland, Christine S. Wilson, of Virginia, and Rohit Chopra, of New 
York, each to be a Federal Trade Commissioner.
WATER AND POWER LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 1142 and H.R. 2457, bills to 
extend the deadline for commencement of construction of certain 
hydroelectric projects, S. 1556, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to use designated funding to pay for construction of 
authorized rural water projects, S. 2074, to establish a procedure for 
the conveyance of certain Federal property around the Jamestown 
Reservoir in the State of North Dakota, S. 2166, to maintain annual 
base funding for the Upper Colorado and San Juan fish recovery programs 
through fiscal year 2023, to require a report on the implementation of 
those programs, and H.R. 2786, to amend the Federal Power Act with 
respect to the criteria and process to qualify as a qualifying conduit 
hydropower facility, after receiving testimony from Alan Mikkelsen, 
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior for Water and Western 
Resource Issues.
FBI HEADQUARTERS CONSOLIDATION PROJECT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
headquarters consolidation project, after receiving testimony from 
Richard L. Haley II, Assistant Director, Finance, Facilities and Real 
Property Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; and Daniel Mathews, Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, 
General Services Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the nomination of Michael K. Atkinson, of 
Maryland, to be Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Office 
of the Director of National Intelligence.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2434, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to 
reauthorize user fee programs relating to new animal drugs and generic 
new animal drugs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 292, to maximize discovery, and accelerate development and 
availability, of promising childhood cancer treatments, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2278, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants to 
improve health care in rural areas, with an amendment; and
  S. 1091, to establish a Federal Task Force to Support Grandparents 
Raising Grandchildren, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.