[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 16, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D50-D51]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ADVANCED NUCLEAR REACTORS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine the future of nuclear power, 
focusing on advanced reactors, after receiving testimony from Edward 
McGinnis, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Nuclear Energy, and 
Thomas Zacharia, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, both of the 
Department of Energy; and Christina Back, General Atomics, San Diego, 
California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee adopted 
its rules of procedure and subcommittee structure for the 116th 
Congress.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Andrew Wheeler, of Virginia, to be 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Inhofe, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
announced the following subcommittee assignments for the 116th 
Congress:
Subcommittee on Children and Families: Senators Paul (Chair), 
Murkowski, Burr, Cassidy, Roberts, Scott (SC), Romney, Casey, Sanders, 
Murphy, Kaine, Hassan, and Smith.
Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety: Senators Isakson 
(Chair), Scott (SC), Paul, Romney, Braun, Burr, Cassidy, Baldwin, 
Casey, Warren, Smith, Jones, and Rosen.
Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security: Senators Enzi 
(Chair), Burr, Collins, Cassidy, Roberts, Romney, Braun, Murkowski, 
Scott (SC), Sanders, Baldwin, Murphy, Warren, Kaine, Hassan, Jones, and 
Rosen.
  Senators Alexander and Murray are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.

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NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of William Pelham Barr, of Virginia, to be Attorney 
General, Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from former 
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, Debevoise and Plimpton LLP, and 
Marc H. Morial, National Urban League, both of New York, New York; 
Derrick Johnson, National Association for the Advancement of Colored 
People (NAACP), Baltimore, Maryland; former Deputy Attorney General 
Larry Thompson, Finch McCrannie LLP, and Neil J. Kinkopf, Georgia State 
University College of Law, both of Atlanta, Georgia; Mary Kate Cary, 
University of Virginia Miller Center, Jonathan Turley, George 
Washington University Law School, and Chuck Canterbury, Fraternal Order 
of Police, all of Washington, D.C; and Reverend Sharon Risher, 
Charlotte, North Carolina.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
   Committee recessed subject to the call.
FIGHTING ELDER FRAUD
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
fighting elder fraud, focusing on progress made and work to be done, 
after receiving testimony from Derek Schmidt, Kansas Attorney General, 
Topeka; Candice Simeoni, Kennebunk Police Department, Kennebunk, Maine, 
on behalf of the York County Elder Abuse Task Force; Erika Flavin, 
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania; and Judith Kozlowski, Washington, D.C.