[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 82 (Thursday, May 16, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D549]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE RESEARCH
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather concluded a hearing to examine 
atmospheric science research and forecasting innovation, after 
receiving testimony from Waleed Abdalati, University of Colorado 
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder; 
Deborah A. Bronk, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, 
Maine; Radley Horton, Columbia University, Palisades, New York; and 
Erika Washburn, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve, 
Superior, Wisconsin.
CARBON CAPTURE, UTILIZATION, AND STORAGE PROGRAMS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Department of Energy's carbon capture, 
utilization, and storage programs, including S. 1201, to amend the 
fossil energy research and development provisions of the Energy Policy 
Act of 2005 to enhance fossil fuel technology, after receiving 
testimony from Steven E. Winberg, Assistant Secretary of Energy for 
Fossil Energy; S. Julio Friedmann, Columbia University School of 
International and Public Affairs Center on Global Energy Policy, 
Livermore, California; Adam Goff, 8 Rivers Capital, LLC, Durham, North 
Carolina; John Harju, University of North Dakota Energy and 
Environmental Research Center, Grand Forks; Richard Jackson, Occidental 
Petroleum Low Carbon Ventures, Houston, Texas; and Judith Lagano, NRG 
Energy, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Bridget A. Brink, of Michigan, to be 
Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, Kenneth A. Howery, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden, Matthew S. Klimow, of New York, to 
be Ambassador to Turkmenistan, and John Jefferson Daigle, of Louisiana, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cabo Verde, all of the Department 
of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1328, to designate foreign persons who improperly interfere in 
United States elections as inadmissible aliens; and
  S. 1321, to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit 
interference with voting systems under the Computer Fraud and Abuse 
Act.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of James Byrne, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
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.