[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 122 (Thursday, July 19, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D843]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Kathleen Laura Kraninger, of 
Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, and 
Kimberly A. Reed, of West Virginia, to be President of the Export-
Import Bank of the United States, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
DEPARTMENTS OF THE INTERIOR AND ENERGY MODERNIZATION OVERSIGHT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine Administration reorganization and 
modernization proposals related to the Department of Energy and the 
Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony from Susan Combs, 
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior; and Bernard L. McNamee 
II, Executive Director of the Office of Policy, Department of Energy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Mary Bridget Neumayr, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality, who 
was introduced by Representative Upton, and John Fleming, of Louisiana, 
to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, who was 
introduced by Senator Cassidy, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Charles P. Rettig, of California, to be Commissioner of 
Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Dennis Dean Kirk, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, and to 
be Chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board, Julia Akins Clark, 
of Maryland, and Andrew F. Maunz, of Ohio, both to be a Member of the 
Merit Systems Protection Board, and Carmen Guerricagoitia McLean, to be 
an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Britt Cagle Grant, of Georgia, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, David James Porter, of 
Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, 
A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr., of South Carolina, and Julius Ness 
Richardson, of South Carolina, both to be a United States Circuit Judge 
for the Fourth Circuit, Roy Kalman Altman, and Rodolfo Armando Ruiz II, 
both to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Florida, and Raul M. Arias-Marxuach, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Puerto Rico.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.