[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 5, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D214-D215]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine United States European Command and United States 
Transportation Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request 
for fiscal year 2020 and the Future Years Defense Program, after 
receiving testimony from General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, USA, Commander, 
United States European Command and North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and General Stephen R. Lyons, USA, 
Commander, United States Transportation Command, both of the Department 
of Defense.
ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the electricity sector in a changing climate, after 
receiving testimony from Lisa Jacobson, Business Council for 
Sustainable Energy, and Joseph T. Kelliher, NextEra Energy, Inc., both 
of Washington, D.C.; Kenneth B. Medlock III, Rice University James A. 
Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas; Ethan Schutt, 
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage; and Susan F. 
Tierney, Analysis Group, Inc., Denver, Colorado.
AIR QUALITY AND COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine states' role in 
protecting air quality, focusing on principles of cooperative 
federalism, after receiving testimony from L. David Glatt, North Dakota 
Department of Health, Bismarck; Becky W. Keogh, Arkansas Department of 
Environmental Quality, Little Rock; and Craig Holt Segall, California 
Air Resources Board, Sacramento.
NORTH KOREA DENUCLEARIZATION EFFORTS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
the status of the North Korea denuclearization effort post-Hanoi from 
Stephen E. Biegun, Special Representative for North Korea, Department 
of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Joseph V. Cuffari, of 
Arizona, to be Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security, 
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator McSally, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
VACCINES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine vaccines, focusing on preventable 
disease outbreaks, after receiving testimony from John Wiesman, 
Washington State Secretary of Health, Olympia; Saad B. Omer, Emory 
University, Atlanta, Georgia; Jonathan A. McCullers, University of 
Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Pediatrics, Memphis; John 
G. Boyle, Immune Deficiency Foundation, Towson, Maryland; and Ethan 
Lindenberger, Norwalk, Ohio.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Sean D. Jordan, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of Texas, and Mark T. Pittman, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
CONCENTRATION AND COMPETITION IN THE U.S. ECONOMY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine concentration 
and competition in the United States economy, after receiving testimony 
from Robert B. Reich, University of California, Berkeley; Joshua D. 
Wright, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University Global 
Antitrust Institute, Arlington, Virginia; John E.

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Kwoka, Jr., Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; and A. 
Douglas Melamed, Stanford Law School, Stanford, California.
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.