[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 24 (Thursday, February 7, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D130-D132]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee adopted 
its rules of procedure, and ordered favorably reported an original 
resolution (S. Res. 54) authorizing expenditures by the committee for 
the 116th Congress.
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade: Senators 
Boozman (Chair), McConnell, Hoeven, Hyde-Smith, Perdue, Grassley, 
Brown, Bennet, Gillibrand, Smith, and Durbin.
  Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy: Senators Ernst (Chair), 
McConnell, Hoeven, Braun, Thune, Fischer, Smith, Brown, Klobuchar, 
Bennet, and Durbin.
  Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, and Natural Resources: 
Senators Braun (Chair), Boozman, Hyde-Smith, Perdue, Grassley, Thune, 
Bennet, Leahy, Klobuchar, Casey, and Durbin.
  Subcommittee on Nutrition, Agricultural Research, and Specialty 
Crops: Senators Fischer (Chair), McConnell, Boozman, Hoeven, Ernst, 
Thune, Casey, Leahy, Brown, Klobuchar, and Gillibrand.
  Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing, and Agriculture Security: 
Senators Hyde-Smith (Chair), Ernst, Braun, Perdue, Grassley, Fischer, 
Gillibrand, Leahy, Klobuchar, Casey, and Smith.
  Senators Roberts and Stabenow are ex-officio members of each 
subcommittee.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
United States Africa Command and United States Southern Command in 
review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2020 and 
the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from 
General Thomas D. Waldhauser, USMC, Commander, United States Africa 
Command, and Admiral Craig S. Faller, USN, Commander, United States 
Southern Command, both of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 60) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee for the 116th Congress.
ENERGY INNOVATION IN THE U.S.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the status and outlook of energy innovation in the 
United States, after receiving testimony from Paul M. Dabbar, Under 
Secretary of Energy for Science; Ernest J. Moniz, Energy Futures 
Initiative, Jay Faison, ClearPath, Jason Grumet, Bipartisan Policy 
Center, and Deborah L. Wince-Smith, Council on Competitiveness, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and James F. Wood, West Virginia University Energy 
Institute, Morgantown.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee adopted its rules of 
procedure, and ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. 
Res. 56) authorizing expenditures by the Committee for the 116th 
Congress.
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian 
Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues: Senators 
Rubio (Chair), Portman, Cruz, Gardner, Barrasso, Cardin, Udall, 
Shaheen, and Kaine.
  Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation: Senators 
Johnson (Chair), Barrasso, Portman, Paul, Romney, Shaheen, Murphy, 
Cardin, and Coons.
  Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International 
Cybersecurity Policy: Senators Gardner (Chair), Rubio, Johnson, 
Isakson, Young, Markey, Coons, Merkley, and Udall.
  Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and 
Counterterrorism: Senators Romney (Chair), Cruz, Graham, Gardner, Paul, 
Murphy, Cardin, Shaheen, and Kaine.
  Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy: Senators Graham 
(Chair), Isakson, Portman, Johnson, Cruz, Kaine, Coons, Booker, and 
Murphy.

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  Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International 
Operations, and Bilateral International Development: Senators Isakson 
(Chair), Young, Paul, Portman, Rubio, Booker, Markey, Merkley, and 
Udall.
  Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development, Multilateral 
Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental 
Policy: Senators Young (Chair), Romney, Paul, Barrasso, Graham, 
Merkley, Udall, Markey, and Booker.
  Senators Risch and Menendez are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee adopted its rules of procedure, 
and ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  An original resolution (S. Res. 57) authorizing expenditures by the 
committee for the 116th Congress; and
  The nominations of William Pelham Barr, of Virginia, to be Attorney 
General, and Donald W. Washington, of Texas, to be Director of the 
United States Marshals Service, both of the Department of Justice, 
Bridget S. Bade, of Arizona, and Eric D. Miller, of Washington, both to 
be a United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Paul B. Matey, 
of New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, 
Eric E. Murphy, of Ohio, and Chad A. Readler, of Ohio, both to be a 
United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, Allison Jones 
Rushing, of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Fourth Circuit, Rossie David Alston, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Roy Kalman Altman, Rodolfo 
Armando Ruiz II, and Rodney Smith, each to be a United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Florida, Raul M. Arias-Marxuach, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, Thomas 
P. Barber, and Wendy Williams Berger, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, J. Campbell Barker, 
and Michael J. Truncale, both to be a United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of Texas, Pamela A. Barker, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Kenneth D. Bell, to 
be United States District Judge for the Western District of North 
Carolina, Jean-Paul Boulee, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Georgia, Holly A. Brady, and Damon Ray Leichty, 
both to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Indiana, Andrew Lynn Brasher, to be United States District Judge for 
the Middle District of Alabama, Brian C. Buescher, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Nebraska, James David Cain, Jr., to 
be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, 
Stephen R. Clark, Sr., to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Missouri, Clifton L. Corker, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Daniel Desmond 
Domenico, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Colorado, Karin J. Immergut, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Oregon, Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Corey Landon Maze, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, 
David Steven Morales, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Texas, Sarah Daggett Morrison, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, Carl J. Nichols, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, Howard C. 
Nielson, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Utah, J. Nicholas Ranjan, to be United States District Judge for the 
Western District of Pennsylvania, Wendy Vitter, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, T. Kent Wetherell 
II, and Allen Cothrel Winsor, both to be a United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Florida, Joshua Wolson, and John Milton 
Younge, both to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania, Patrick R. Wyrick, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, M. Miller Baker, 
of Louisiana, and Timothy M. Reif, of the District of Columbia, both to 
be a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, and 
Richard A. Hertling, of Maryland, and Ryan T. Holte, of Ohio, both to 
be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights: 
Senators Lee (Chair), Grassley, Hawley, Crapo, Blackburn, Klobuchar, 
Leahy, Blumenthal, and Booker.
  Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration: Senators Cornyn 
(Chair), Graham, Grassley, Lee, Cruz, Hawley, Tillis, Ernst, Kennedy, 
Durbin, Feinstein, Leahy, Klobuchar, Coons, Blumenthal, Hirono, and 
Booker.
  Subcommittee on The Constitution: Senators Cruz (Chair), Cornyn, Lee, 
Sasse, Crapo, Blackburn, Hirono, Durbin, Whitehouse, Coons, and Harris.
  Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism: Senators Hawley (Chair), Graham, 
Cornyn, Cruz, Tillis, Ernst, Kennedy, Whitehouse, Feinstein, Durbin, 
Klobuchar, Coons, and Booker.
  Subcommittee on Intellectual Property: Senators Tillis (Chair), 
Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Sasse, Crapo,

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Blackburn, Coons, Leahy, Durbin, Whitehouse, Blumenthal, Hirono, and 
Harris.
  Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal 
Courts: Senators Sasse (Chair), Grassley, Tillis, Ernst, Crapo, 
Kennedy, Blumenthal, Leahy, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, and Hirono.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee adopted its 
rules of procedure, and ordered favorably reported an original 
resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee for the 116th 
Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee adopted its rules of 
procedure, and ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. 
Res. 55) 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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee adopted its rules of procedure, 
and ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 58) 
authorizing expenditures by the Committee for the 116th Congress.