[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 21, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D572-D573]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine climate change and the agriculture sector, after 
receiving testimony from Debbie Lyons-Blythe, Blythe Family Farms, LLC, 
White City, Kansas, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Beef 
Association; Frank Mitloehner, University of California Department of 
Animal Science, Davis; Matt Rezac, Rezac Farms, Weston, Nebraska; and 
former Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack, United States Dairy 
Export Council, Arlington, Virginia.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity met in 
closed session and approved for full committee consideration those 
provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the 
proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower met in closed 
session and approved for full committee consideration those provisions 
which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel approved for 
full committee consideration

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those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of 
the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities met in closed session and approved for full committee 
consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's 
jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for 
fiscal year 2020.
COMBATING ILLICIT FINANCING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine combating illicit financing by anonymous shell 
companies through the collection of beneficial ownership information, 
after receiving testimony from Kenneth A. Blanco, Director, Financial 
Crimes Enforcement Network, and Grovetta N. Gardineer, Senior Deputy 
Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy and Community Affairs, Office 
of the Comptroller of the Currency, both of the Department of the 
Treasury; and Steven M. D'Antuono, Acting Deputy Assistant Director, 
Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
Department of Justice.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine opportunities to advance renewable energy and energy 
efficiency efforts in the United States, after receiving testimony from 
Daniel R. Simmons, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, and Martin Keller, Director, National Renewable 
Energy Laboratory, both of the Department of Energy; Dan Conant, Solar 
Holler, Shepherdstown, West Virginia; Jason Hartke, Alliance to Save 
Energy, Washington, D.C.; and Bruno C. Grunau, Cold Climate Housing 
Research Center, Fairbanks, Alaska.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Pamela Bates, of Virginia, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for 
Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador, and 
Christopher Landau, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the United Mexican 
States, both of the Department of State, Jennifer D. Nordquist, of 
Virginia, to be United States Executive Director of the International 
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Eliot Pedrosa, of Florida, 
to be United States Executive Director of the Inter-American 
Development Bank, after the nominees testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf.
GAO ANNUAL DUPLICATION REPORT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management concluded a 
hearing to examine the Government Accountability Office's annual 
duplication report, after receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, 
Comptroller General of the United States, Government Accountability 
Office.
DIGITAL ADVERTISING ECOSYSTEM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the digital advertising ecosystem and the impact of data privacy and 
competition policy, after receiving testimony from Avi Goldfarb, 
University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada; 
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut; 
Brian O'Kelley, AppNexus Inc., New York, New York; Johnny Ryan, Brave, 
London, United Kingdom; and Jan M. Rybnicek, Freshfields Bruckhaus 
Deringer, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
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.