[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 81 (Thursday, May 17, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D542-D543]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: AIR FORCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2019 for the Department of the Air Force, 
after receiving testimony from Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air 
Force, and General David L. Goldfein, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, 
both of the Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2019 for the National Institutes of 
Health, after receiving testimony from Francis S. Collins, Director, 
Norman Sharpless, Director, National Cancer Institute, Walter 
Koroshetz, Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and 
Stroke, Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and 
Infectious Diseases, Richard Hodes, Director, National Institute on 
Aging, and Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, all 
of the National Institutes of Health.
APPROPRIATIONS: FCC AND FTC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2019 for the Federal 
Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, after 
receiving testimony from Ajit Pai, Chairman, Federal Communications 
Commission; and Joseph Simons, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:

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  S. 436, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal 
preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an 
affirmative commercial quantities determination, to substitute certain 
land selections of the Navajo Nation, to designate certain wilderness 
areas, with an amendment;
  S. 440, to establish a procedure for the conveyance of certain 
Federal property around the Dickinson Reservoir in the State of North 
Dakota, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 612, and H.R. 1547, bills to provide for the unencumbering of 
title to non-Federal land owned by the city of Tucson, Arizona, for 
purposes of economic development by conveyance of the Federal 
reversionary interest to the City;
  S. 930, to require the Administrator of the Western Area Power 
Administration to establish a pilot project to provide increased 
transparency for customers, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1030, to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to 
submit to Congress a report on certain hydropower projects, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1142, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of 
certain hydroelectric projects, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1459, to establish Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Park in 
the State of South Carolina, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  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'', with an amendment;
  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, Maryland, 
with an amendment;
  S. 2074, to establish a procedure for the conveyance of certain 
Federal property around the Jamestown Reservoir in the State of North 
Dakota, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2102, to clarify the boundary of Acadia National Park, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 4609, to provide for the conveyance of a Forest Service site in 
Dolores County, Colorado, to be used for a fire station;
  S. 2857, to designate the Nordic Museum in Seattle, Washington, as 
the ``National Nordic Museum'';
  H.R. 497, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
Federal lands in San Bernardino County, California, to the San 
Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District, and to accept in return 
certain non-Federal lands;
  H.R. 965, to redesignate the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site as 
the ``Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park'';
  H.R. 995, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of 
the Interior to modernize terms in certain regulations, with 
amendments;
  H.R. 1900, to designate the Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, 
Ohio, as the National Veterans Memorial and Museum;
  H.R. 2582, to authorize the State of Utah to select certain lands 
that are available for disposal under the Pony Express Resource 
Management Plan to be used for the support and benefit of State 
institutions;
  H.R. 2768, to designate certain mountain peaks in the State of 
Colorado as ``Fowler Peak'' and ``Boskoff Peak'';
  H.R. 2786, to amend the Federal Power Act with respect to the 
criteria and process to qualify as a qualifying conduit hydropower 
facility, with an amendment;
  H.R. 2897, 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, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nomination of Aimee Kathryn Jorjani, of Wisconsin, to be Chairman 
of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
AMERICA'S WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 2800, to provide for the conservation and 
development of water and related resources, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers 
and harbors of the United States, after receiving testimony from R.D. 
James, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Department of 
Defense.