[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 139 (Tuesday, August 21, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D932-D933]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            AUGUST 22, 2018

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining, to hold hearings to examine S. 483, to 
designate and expand wilderness areas in Olympic National Forest in 
the State of Washington, and to designate certain rivers in Olympic 
National Forest and Olympic National Park as wild and scenic rivers, 
S. 1572, to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide that extraction 
of helium from gas produced under a Federal mineral lease shall 
maintain the lease as if the helium were oil and gas, S. 1787, to 
reauthorize the National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992, S. 1959, to 
designate certain Federal land in the State of California as 
wilderness, S. 2078, to maximize land management efficiencies, 
promote land conservation, generate education funding, S. 2160, to 
establish a pilot program under the Chief of the Forest Service may 
use alternative dispute resolution in lieu of judicial review of 
certain projects, S. 2297, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to 
transfer certain National Forest System land to Custer County, South 
Dakota, S. 2721, to designate certain land in San Miguel, Ouray, and 
San Juan Counties, Colorado, as wilderness, to designate certain 
special management areas in the State of Colorado, S. 2809, to 
establish the San Rafael Swell Western Heritage and Historic Mining 
National Conservation Area in the State of Utah, to designate 
wilderness areas in the State, to provide for certain land 
conveyances, S. 2907, to provide for the withdrawal and protection 
of certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico, S. 3245, to 
require the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain National 
Forest System land in the State of Texas, S. 3297, to provide for 
the expansion of the Desert Tortoise Habitat Conservation Plan, 
Washington County, Utah, S. 3325, to amend the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976 to provide for the eligibility of 
national grasslands for grazing leases and permits, and H.R. 2075, 
to adjust the eastern boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead 
Falls and Deschutes Canyon Wilderness Study Areas in the State of 
Oregon to facilitate fire prevention and response activities to 
protect private property, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the nominations 
of Michael Faulkender, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury, and Elizabeth Darling, of Texas, to be Commissioner on 
Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health and Human 
Services, 9:30 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Michael A. Hammer, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, John Cotton Richmond, of 
Virginia, to be Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat 
Trafficking, with the rank of Ambassador at Large, Stephanie Sanders 
Sullivan, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana, 
Donald R. Tapia, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to Jamaica, David 
Hale, of New Jersey, to be an Under Secretary (Political Affairs), 
Dereck J. Hogan, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Moldova, Philip S. Kosnett, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Kosovo, and Judy Rising Reinke, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to Montenegro, all of the Department of State, and a 
routine list in the Foreign Service; to be immediately followed by a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Kevin K. Sullivan, of Ohio, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, Francisco Luis Palmieri, 
of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, and 
Karen L. Williams, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Suriname, all of the Department of State, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: to hold 
hearings to examine the nominations of William

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Bryan, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Science and 
Technology, and Peter Gaynor, of Rhode Island, to be Deputy 
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, both of the 
Department of Homeland Security, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine cultural sovereignty, focusing on efforts to maintain and 
revitalize Native languages for future generations, 2:15 p.m., SD-
628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Jonathan A. Kobes, of South Dakota, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Kenneth D. Bell, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of North 
Carolina, Carl J. Nichols, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Columbia, and Martha Maria Pacold, Mary M. Rowland, 
and Steven C. Seeger, each to be a United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Illinois, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: business meeting to 
consider S. 2593, to protect the administration of Federal elections 
against cybersecurity threats, 10:30 a.m., SR-301.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.