[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 14, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D529-D531]
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 ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of

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Mindy Brashears, of Texas, to be Under Secretary for Food Safety, Naomi 
C. Earp, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary, and Scott Hutchins, 
of Indiana, to be Under Secretary for Research, Education, and 
Economics, all of the Department of Agriculture.
BUDGET AND SPENDING PROCESS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
fixing a broken budget and spending process, focusing on the 
perspectives of two former Chairmen, after receiving testimony from 
former Senators Judd Gregg and Kent Conrad.
THE EMERGING SPACE ENVIRONMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation and Space concluded a hearing to examine the emerging space 
environment, focusing on operational, technical, and policy challenges, 
after receiving testimony from James F. Bridenstine, Administrator, and 
Pamela A. Melroy, Astronaut (Ret.), both of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration; Kevin M. O'Connell, Director, Office of Space 
Commerce, Department of Commerce; Lieutenant General David D. Thompson, 
Vice Commander, Air Force Space Command, Department of Defense; and 
Robert Cardillo, former Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence 
Agency, Alexandria, Virginia.
ACHIEVING MINERAL SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the importance of and path to achieving mineral 
security, including S. 1052, to authorize the Office of Fossil Energy 
to develop advanced separation technologies for the extraction and 
recovery of rare earth elements and minerals from coal and coal 
byproducts, and S. 1317, to facilitate the availability, development, 
and environmentally responsible production of domestic resources to 
meet national material or critical mineral needs, after receiving 
testimony from Joseph Balash, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals 
Management, Department of the Interior; David Solan, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Renewable Power, Office of Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, Department of Energy; Jonathan Evans, Lithium 
Americas, Reno, Nevada; John Warner, American Battery Solutions, Holly, 
Michigan, on behalf of the National Alliance for Advanced Technology 
Batteries; and Paul F. Ziemkiewicz, West Virginia University Water 
Research Institute, Morgantown.
PUBLIC LANDS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded a hearing to examine S. 242, to 
require the Secretary of Agriculture to release reversionary and 
reserved interests in certain land in the Coconino National Forest in 
the State of Arizona, S. 258, to prohibit oil and gas leasing on the 
National Forest System land in the Ruby Mountains Ranger District 
located in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Elko and White Pine 
Counties, Nevada, S. 434, to provide for a report on the maintenance of 
Federal land holdings under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 
Interior, S. 490, to designate a mountain ridge in the State of Montana 
as ``B-47 Ridge'', S. 499, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act to apply to territories of the United States, to establish offshore 
wind lease sale requirements, to provide dedicated funding for coral 
reef conservation, S. 526, to withdraw certain Bureau of Land 
Management land from mineral development, S. 1079, to provide for the 
withdrawal and protection of certain Federal land in the State of New 
Mexico, and S. 1262, 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, to withdraw certain land 
located in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of 
entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, location, 
entry, and patent under the mining laws, and operation under the 
mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, after receiving testimony 
from Senators Braun and Udall; Frank R. Beum, Acting Associate Deputy 
Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; and Michael Nedd, Deputy Director for Operations, Bureau 
of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
RETIREMENT SYSTEM CHALLENGES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
challenges in the retirement system, after receiving testimony from 
Tobias Read, Oregon State Treasurer, Salem; Joni Tibbetts, Principal 
Financial Group, Des Moines, Iowa; and Joan Ruff, AARP, and Lynn D. 
Dudley, American Benefits Council, both of Washington, D.C.
5G
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
5G, focusing on national security concerns, intellectual property 
issues, and the impact on competition and innovation, after receiving 
testimony from Christopher Krebs, Director, Cybersecurity and 
Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security; Robert 
L. Strayer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cyber and 
International Communications and Information Policy, Bureau of Economic 
and Business Affairs; James Andrew Lewis, Center for Strategic and 
International Studies, and Peter Harrell, Center for a New American 
Security,

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both of Washington, D.C.; and Charles Clancy, Virginia Tech Hume Center 
for National Security and Technology, Arlington, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
an original bill entitled, ``Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young 
Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Year 2020''.