[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 140 (Wednesday, August 22, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D939-D941]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PUBLIC LANDS, FORESTS, AND MINING LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded a hearing 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,

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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, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Bennet; Glenn Casamassa, Associate Deputy Chief, National 
Forest System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Christopher 
McAlear, Assistant Director, National Conservation Lands and Community 
Partnerships, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; 
and Marilynne Keyser, Friends and Neighbors of the Deschutes Canyon 
Area, Terrebonne, Oregon.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing 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, who was introduced by Senator Cornyn, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
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.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded 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, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of William 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, who was introduced by Senator Reed, both of the 
Department of Homeland Security, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NATIVE LANGUAGES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine cultural sovereignty, focusing on efforts to maintain and 
revitalize Native languages for future generations, after receiving 
testimony from Jean Hovland, Commissioner, Administration for Native 
Americans, Administration for Children and Families, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Jessie Little Doe Baird, Mashpee Wampanoag 
Tribe, Mashpee, Massachusetts; Namaka Rawlins, `Aha Punana Leo, Inc., 
Hilo, Hawaii; Christine P. Sims, University of New Mexico American 
Indian Language Policy Research and Teacher Training Center, 
Albuquerque; and Lauren Hummingbird, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, 
Oklahoma.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Jonathan A. Kobes, of South Dakota, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senator Rounds, Kenneth D. Bell, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of North Carolina, who was introduced by Senator 
Burr, 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

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the Northern District of Illinois, who were introduced by Senator 
Duckworth, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.