[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 163 (Tuesday, October 2, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1095-D1097]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ECONOMIC GROWTH, REGULATORY RELIEF, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine implementation of the Economic Growth, Regulatory 
Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, including S. 2405, to amend the 
Federal Deposit Insurance Act to clarify capital requirements for 
certain acquisition, development, or construction loans, after 
receiving testimony from Joseph M. Otting, Comptroller of the Currency, 
Department of the Treasury; Randal K. Quarles, Vice Chairman for 
Supervision, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Jelena 
McWilliams, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and J. 
Mark McWatters, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 32 and H.R. 857, bills to provide for conservation and enhanced 
recreation activities in the California Desert Conservation Area, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 90, to survey the gradient boundary along the Red River in the 
States of Oklahoma and Texas;
  S. 414, to promote conservation, improve public land management, and 
provide for sensible development in Pershing County, Nevada;
  S. 441, to designate the Organ Mountains and other public land as 
components of the National Wilderness Preservation System in the State 
of New Mexico, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 569, to amend title 54, United States Code, to provide consistent 
and reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund to maximize the effectiveness of the Fund for future 
generations, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 685, to authorize the Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System 
and the Musselshell-Judith Rural Water System in the States of Montana 
and North Dakota, S. 785, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
Act to provide for equitable allotment of land to Alaska Native 
veterans, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 785, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide 
for equitable allotment of land to Alaska Native veterans, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 884, to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to 
require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant of a small 
miner waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 days after 
written receipt of 1 or more defects is provided to the claimant by 
registered mail to cure the 1 or more defects or pay the claim 
maintenance fee, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 941, to withdraw certain National Forest System land in the 
Emigrant Crevice area located in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, 
Park County, Montana, from the mining and mineral leasing laws of the 
United States;
  S. 1012, to provide for drought preparedness measures in the State of 
New Mexico, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1149, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to repeal a 
provision limiting the export of timber harvested from land conveyed to 
the Kake Tribal Corporation under that Act;
  S. 1219, to provide for stability of title to certain land in the 
State of Louisiana, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1403, to amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to establish the 
21st Century Conservation Service Corps to place youth and veterans in 
national service positions to conserve, restore, and enhance the great 
outdoors of the United States, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 3186, to establish an Every Kid Outdoors program;
  S. 1548, to designate certain land administered by the Bureau of Land 
Management and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness 
and national recreation areas and to make additional wild and scenic 
river designations in the State of Oregon, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 3279, 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;
  H.R. 2156, to provide for the establishment of a national memorial 
and national monument to commemorate those killed by the collapse of 
the Saint Francis Dam on March 12, 1928, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2062, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey at market 
value certain National Forest System land in the State of Arizona, with 
an amendment;
  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

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projects, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2249, to permanently reauthorize the Rio Puerco Management 
Committee and the Rio Puerco Watershed Management Program, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2290, to improve wildfire management operations and the safety of 
firefighters and communities with the best available technology, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2297, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain 
National Forest System land to Custer County, South Dakota, with an 
amendment;
  S. 2560, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a 
program to facilitate the transfer to non-Federal ownership of 
appropriate reclamation projects or facilities, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2831, to redesignate Golden Spike National Historic Site and to 
establish the Transcontinental Railroad Network, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2870, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
special resource study of the site known as ``Amache'' in the State of 
Colorado;
  S. 2876, to amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the 
study of the Pike National Historic Trail;
  H.R. 4895, to establish the Medgar Evers Home National Monument in 
the State of Mississippi, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 3001 and H.R. 6040, bills to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain land and facilities of the Central Valley 
Project, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3172, to amend title 54, United States Code, to establish, fund, 
and provide for the use of amounts in a National Park Service Legacy 
Restoration Fund to address the maintenance backlog of the National 
Park Service, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 5979, to establish the Mill Springs Battlefield National 
Monument in the State of Kentucky as a unit of the National Park 
System, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3245, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain 
National Forest System land in the State of Texas, with an amendment;
  H.R. 5655, to establish the Camp Nelson Heritage National Monument in 
the State of Kentucky as a unit of the National Park System, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 132, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain land and appurtenances of the Arbuckle Project, Oklahoma, to 
the Arbuckle Master Conservancy District;
  H.R. 1967, to amend the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to authorize 
pumped storage hydropower development utilizing multiple Bureau of 
Reclamation reservoirs, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 2630, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain land to La Paz County, Arizona, with an amendment; and
  H.R. 4446, to amend the Virgin Islands of the United States 
Centennial Commission Act to extend the expiration date of the 
Commission.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of Andrew M. Saul, of New York, to be Commissioner of Social 
Security, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
a hearing to examine threats to religious liberty around the world, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas F. Farr, Religious Freedom 
Institute, and Amanda Tyler, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious 
Liberty, both of Washington, D.C.; and Bob Fu, ChinaAid, Midland, 
Texas.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.
TRAFFICKING OF FENTANYL FROM CHINA
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine combating the trafficking of illegal 
fentanyl from China, after receiving testimony from Kirsten D. Madison,

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Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs; Paul E. Knierim, Deputy Chief of Operations, 
Office of Global Enforcement, Drug Enforcement Administration, 
Department of Justice; Matthew C. Allen, Assistant Director, Domestic 
Operations, Homeland Security Investigations, Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security; Daniel G. Burke, Senior 
Operations Manager, Cybercrime Investigations Unit, Office of Criminal 
Investigations, Office of Regulatory Affairs, Food and Drug 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Derek 
Scissors, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.; Michael 
Frunzi, Smiths Detection Inc., Edgewood, Maryland; and Matthew Nice, 
United Nations International Narcotics Control Board, Vienna, Austria.