[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 81 (Wednesday, May 15, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D539-D541]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of the 
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 
2020 for the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, after receiving 
testimony from Vicki Christiansen, Chief, and John Rapp, Director for 
Strategic Planning, Budget and Accountability, both of the Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture.
INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM UPDATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
concluded a closed hearing to examine an intelligence program update 
and global threat assessment, after receiving testimony from Susan M. 
Gordon, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence; Gina C. 
Haspel, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; and General Paul M. 
Nakasone, Director, National Security Agency and Commander, Cyber 
Command, Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2020 for the Department of 
the Treasury, after receiving testimony from Steven T. Mnuchin, 
Secretary, and Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner, Internal Revenue 
Service, both of the Department of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 920 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
FINANCIAL REGULATORS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine financial regulators, after receiving 
testimony from Joseph M. Otting, Comptroller of the Currency; Randal K. 
Quarles, Vice Chair for Supervision, Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System; Jelena McWilliams, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation; and Rodney E. Hood, Chairman, National Credit Union 
Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 737, to direct the National Science Foundation to support STEM 
education research focused on early childhood;
  S. 1228, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for 
enhanced penalties for pirate radio;
  S. 1289, to require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct an 
assessment and analysis of the effects of broadband deployment and 
adoption on the economy of the United States;
  S. 1294, to require Federal agencies with jurisdiction over broadband 
deployment to enter into an interagency agreement related to certain 
types of funding for broadband deployment, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1439, to reauthorize activities of the Maritime Administration, 
with amendments.

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NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nomination of Stephen M. Dickson, of Georgia, 
to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department 
of Transportation, after the nominee testified and answered questions 
in his own behalf.
POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine issues and challenges at the Power 
Marketing Administrations, after receiving testimony from Mark A. 
Gabriel, Administrator, Western Area Power Administration, Daniel M. 
James, Deputy Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, Kenneth 
E. Legg, Administrator, Southeastern Power Administration, and Mike 
Wech, Administrator, Southwestern Power Administration, all of the 
Department of Energy; and Nicki Fuller, Southwestern Power Resources 
Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the Council on Environmental Quality, 
after receiving testimony from Mary B. Neumayr, Chairman, Council on 
Environmental Quality.
THE FUTURE OF ARMS CONTROL POST-INF TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the future of arms control post-Intermediate-Range Nuclear 
Forces Treaty, after receiving testimony from Andrea L. Thompson, Under 
Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security; and 
David J. Trachtenberg, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1378, to repeal the multi-State plan program, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1388, to manage supply chain risk through counterintelligence 
training;
  S. 1434, to prohibit the use of reverse auctions for design and 
construction services procurements;
  S. 1430, to amend title 5, United States Code, to prevent fraud by 
representative payees, with an amendment;
  S. 1333, to amend the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery 
Improvement Act of 2012, including making changes to the Do Not Pay 
Initiative, for improved detection, prevention, and recovery of 
improper payments to deceased individuals;
  S. 411, to establish a Counterterrorism Advisory Board, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1275, to require the collection of voluntary feedback on services 
provided by agencies;
  S. 1420, to amend title 5, United States Code, to improve the 
effectiveness of major rules in accomplishing their regulatory 
objectives by promoting retrospective review;
  S. 580, to amend the Act of August 25, 1958, commonly known as the 
``Former Presidents Act of 1958'', with respect to the monetary 
allowance payable to a former President, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. Con. Res. 15, expressing support for the designation of October 
28, 2019, as ``Honoring the Nation's First Responders Day'';
  H.R. 1079, to require the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget to issue guidance on electronic consent forms;
  H.R. 1654, to amend title 44, United States Code, to modernize the 
Federal Register;
  H.R. 1590, to require an exercise related to terrorist and foreign 
fighter travel;
  S. 347, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 40 Fulton Street in Middletown, New York, as the ``Benjamin 
A. Gilman Post Office Building'';
  S. 1196, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1715 Linnerud Drive in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, as 
the ``Fire Captain Cory Barr Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 540, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 770 Ayrault Road in Fairport, New York, as the 
``Louise and Bob Slaughter Post Office'';
  H.R. 828, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 25 Route 111 in Smithtown, New York, as the 
``Congressman Bill Carney Post Office'';
  H.R. 829, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1450 Montauk Highway in Mastic, New York, as the 
``Army Specialist Thomas J. Wilwerth Post Office Building''; and
  The nominations of James A. Crowell IV, and Jason Park, both to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Ron 
A. Bloom, of New York, and Roman Martinez IV, of Florida, both to be a 
Governor of the United States Postal Service, Dale Cabaniss, of 
Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and 
Michael Eric Wooten, of Virginia, to be Administrator for Federal 
Procurement Policy.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 279, to allow tribal grant schools to participate in the Federal 
Employee Health Benefits Program;
  S. 832, to nullify the Supplemental Treaty Between the United States 
of America and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of Indians of Middle 
Oregon, concluded on November 15, 1865; and
  S. 1207, to approve the settlement of the water rights claims of the 
Navajo Nation in Utah.
INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET OVERSIGHT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the President's fiscal year 2020 budget request for Indian 
Programs, and S. 1211, to provide for improvements to Tribal 
transportation facilities and Tribal transportation safety, after 
receiving testimony from Matt M. Dummermuth, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice; 
John Tahsuda, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, 
Department of the Interior; and Jamie Azure, Turtle Mountain Band of 
Chippewa Indians, Belcourt, North Dakota.
ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Election Assistance Commission, after receiving testimony 
from Christy McCormick, Chairwoman, Ben Hovland, Vice Chair, and Thomas 
Hicks, and Donald Palmer, both a Commissioner, all of the Election 
Assistance Commission.
SBA INNOVATION PROGRAMS
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine reauthorization of the Small Business 
Administration's innovation programs, including S. 118, to require the 
Director of the National Science Foundation to develop an I-Corps 
course to support commercialization-ready innovation companies, after 
receiving testimony from Joseph Shepard, Associate Administrator, 
Office of Investment and Innovation, and John Williams, Director of 
Innovation and Technology, both of the Small Business Administration; 
Stephen J. Ezell, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 
Washington, D.C.; Jere W. Glover, Small Business Technology Council, 
Annapolis, Maryland; Sridhar Kota, FlexSys Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan; 
and Stephen L. Hoffman, Sanaria Inc., Rockville, Maryland.