[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 5, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D116-D118]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
VETERANS AFFAIRS' ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD MODERNIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine 
an implementation update on the Department of Veterans Affairs' 
electronic health record modernization, after receiving testimony from 
James Byrne, General Counsel, performing the duties of Deputy 
Secretary, and John Windom, Executive Director, Laura Kroupa, Chief 
Medical Officer (Acting), and John Short, Chief Technology Integration 
Officer, each of the Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization, 
all of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the United States Central Command in review of the 
Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2020 and the Future Years 
Defense Program, after receiving testimony from General Joseph L. 
Votel, USA, Commander, United States Central Command, Department of 
Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 42) authorizing expenditures by the 
committee for the 116th Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 45) authorizing expenditures 
by the committee for the 116th Congress.
  Also, Committee adopted its rules of procedure, and announced the 
following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Energy: Senators Cassidy (Chair), Risch, Lee, Daines, 
Gardner, Hyde-Smith, McSally, Alexander, Hoeven, Heinrich, Wyden, 
Cantwell, Sanders, Stabenow, Hirono, King, and Cortez Masto.

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Subcommittee on National Parks: Senators Daines (Chair), Barrasso, Lee, 
Gardner, Hyde-Smith, Alexander, Hoeven, King, Sanders, Stabenow, 
Heinrich, and Hirono.
Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining: Senators Lee 
(Chair), Barrasso, Risch, Daines, Cassidy, Gardner, Hyde-Smith, 
McSally, Hoeven, Wyden, Cantwell, Stabenow, Heinrich, Hirono, King, and 
Cortez Masto.
Subcommittee on Water and Power: Senators McSally (Chair), Barrasso, 
Risch, Cassidy, Gardner, Alexander, Cortez Masto, Wyden, Cantwell, and 
Sanders.
Senators Murkowski and Manchin are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
ENERGY AND MINERALS MARKETS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the outlook for energy and minerals markets in the 
116th Congress, after receiving testimony from Linda Capuano, 
Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy; 
Kevin Book, ClearView Energy Partners, LLC, and Travis Kavulla, R 
Street Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Simon Moores, Benchmark 
Mineral Intelligence, London, United Kingdom; and Ethan Zindler, 
BloombergNEF, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee adopted its rules 
of procedure, and ordered favorably reported the following business 
items:
  An original resolution (S. Res. 41) authorizing expenditures by the 
committee for the 116th Congress;
  S. 268, to reauthorize the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and 
certain wildlife conservation funds, to establish prize competitions 
relating to the prevention of wildlife poaching and trafficking, 
wildlife conservation, the management of invasive species, and the 
protection of endangered species, to amend the Marine Turtle 
Conservation Act of 2004 to modify the protections provided by that 
Act;
  S. 163, to prevent catastrophic failure or shutdown of remote diesel 
power engines due to emission control devices;
  S. 94, to amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to 
facilitate the establishment of additional or expanded public target 
ranges in certain States;
  S. 310, to amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to 
reauthorize the Act;
  The nominations of Andrew Wheeler, of Virginia, to be Administrator, 
and Peter C. Wright, of Michigan, to be Assistant Administrator, Office 
of Solid Waste, both of the Environmental Protection Agency, Nicole R. 
Nason, of New York, to be Administrator of the Federal Highway 
Administration, Department of Transportation, John Fleming, of 
Louisiana, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic 
Development, John L. Ryder, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board 
of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority; and
  6 General Services Administration resolutions.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
   An original resolution (S. Res. 40) authorizing expenditures by the 
committee for the 116th Congress; and
  The nominations of Michael Faulkender, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Secretary, and Michael J. Desmond, of California, to be Chief 
Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General 
Counsel, both of the Department of the Treasury, Jeffrey Kessler, of 
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and Elizabeth 
Darling, of Texas, to be Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families, 
Department of Health and Human Services.
  Also, Committee adopted its rules of procedure, announced the 
designation of members to serve on the Joint Committee on Taxation, 
designation of members to serve as Congressional Trade Advisors on 
Trade Policy and Negotiations, and the following subcommittee 
assignments for the 116th Congress:
  Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global 
Competitiveness: Senators Cornyn (Chair), Crapo, Roberts, Thune, 
Isakson, Portman, Toomey, Scott (SC), Cassidy, Daines, Young, Casey, 
Wyden, Stabenow, Cantwell, Menendez, Cardin, Brown, Warner, and Cortez 
Masto.
  Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight: Senators Thune (Chair), 
Crapo, Enzi, Cornyn, Burr, Isakson, Portman, Toomey, Warner, Menendez, 
Carper, Cardin, Bennet, and Whitehouse.
  Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy: 
Senators Portman (Chair), Grassley, Cassidy, Lankford, Young, Brown, 
Bennet, Casey, and Cortez Masto.
  Subcommittee on Health Care: Senators Toomey (Chair), Grassley, 
Roberts, Enzi, Thune, Burr, Isakson, Scott (SC), Cassidy, Lankford, 
Daines, Young, Stabenow, Cantwell, Menendez, Carper, Cardin, Brown, 
Casey, Warner, Whitehouse, Hassan, and Cortez Masto.
  Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure: 
Senators Scott (SC) (Chair), Grassley, Crapo, Roberts, Enzi, Cornyn, 
Burr, Daines, Bennet, Wyden, Cantwell, Carper, Whitehouse, and Hassan.
  Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth: Senators 
Cassidy (Chair), Scott (SC), Lankford, Hassan, and Wyden.

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  Senators Grassley and Wyden are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
PRIMARY CARE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine how primary care affects health care 
costs and outcomes, after receiving testimony from Joshua J. Umbehr, 
Atlas MD, Wichita, Kansas; Sapna Kripalani, Vanderbilt University 
Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Katherine Bennett, University of 
Washington, Seattle, on behalf of the National Association for 
Geriatric Education; and Tracy Watts, Mercer, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Neomi J. Rao, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the District of Columbia Circuit, and Aditya Bamzai, of Virginia, and 
Travis LeBlanc, of Maryland, both to be a Member of the Privacy and 
Civil Liberties Oversight Board, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee for 
the 116th Congress.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.