[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 93 (Tuesday, June 4, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D619-D620]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Christopher J. Scolese, to be Director of the 
National Reconnaissance Office, who was introduced by Senator Van 
Hollen, and General John W. Raymond, USAF, for reappointment to the 
grade of general and to be Commander, United States Space Command and 
Commander, Air Force Space Command, who was introduced by Senator 
Gardner, both of the Department of Defense, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
THREATS FROM CHINA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine confronting threats from China, focusing on 
assessing controls on technology and investment and measures to combat 
opioid trafficking, including S. 846, to amend title 49, United States 
Code, to limit certain rolling stock procurements, S. 937, to direct 
the Secretary of Commerce to require institutions of higher education 
and other research facilities to obtain deemed export licenses for 
foreign nationals conducting scientific research at such institutions 
and facilities, S. 945, to amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to 
require certain issuers to disclose to the Securities and Exchange 
Commission information regarding foreign jurisdictions that prevent the 
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board from performing inspections 
under that Act, and S. 1044, to impose sanctions with respect to 
foreign traffickers of illicit opioids, after receiving testimony from 
Kevin Wolf, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP, Washington, D.C.; 
Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Falls 
Church, Virginia; and Richard Nephew, Columbia Center on Global Energy 
Policy, New York, New York.
GRID-SCALE ENERGY STORAGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine opportunities for the expanded deployment of grid-
scale energy storage in the United States, after receiving testimony 
from George Crabtree, Director, Argonne National Laboratory Joint 
Center for Energy Storage Research, Department of Energy; F. Mitchell 
Davidson, Brookfield Renewable, New York, New York; Ben Fowke, Xcel 
Energy Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kiran Kumaraswamy, Fluence, 
Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the Energy Storage Association; and 
Andrew

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L. Ott, PJM Interconnection, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Robert Wallace, of Wyoming, to be 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Enzi, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
ADVANCED NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine advanced nuclear 
technology, focusing on protecting United States leadership and 
expanding opportunities for licensing new nuclear energy technologies, 
after receiving testimony from William D. Magwood, IV, Organization for 
Economic Cooperation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris, 
France; Chris Levesque, TerraPower, Bellevue, Washington; and Bob 
Perciasepe, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, Arlington, 
Virginia.
CHEMICAL FACILITY ANTI-TERRORISM STANDARDS PROGRAM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine sensibly reforming the Chemical Facility 
Anti-Terrorism Standards Program, after receiving testimony from Brian 
Harrell, Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security, Cybersecurity 
and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security; 
Nathan Anderson, Acting Director, Government Accountability Office; 
Matthew Fridley, Brenntag North America, Inc., Reading, Pennsylvania, 
on behalf of the National Association of Chemical Distributors; Tim 
O'Brien, Detotec North America, Sterling, Connecticut; William Erny, 
American Chemistry Council, and John S. Morawetz, United Food and 
Commerical Workers International Union International Chemical Workers 
Union Council, both of Washington, D.C.; and Andrew S. Wright, 
International Liquid Terminals Association, Arlington, Virginia.
FENTANYL ANALOGUES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
fentanyl analogues and the expiring emergency scheduling order, after 
receiving testimony from Kemp L. Chester, Assistant Director of the 
National Opioids and Synthetics Coordination Group, Office of National 
Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President; and Amanda 
Liskamm, Director, Opioid Enforcement and Prevention Efforts, Office of 
the Deputy Attorney General, and Greg Cherundolo, Chief of Operations, 
Office of Global Enforcement, Drug Enforcement Administration, both of 
the Department of Justice.
STATE OF PATENT ELIGIBILITY IN AMERICA
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Intellectual Property 
concluded a hearing to examine the state of patent eligibility in 
America, after receiving testimony from Paul R. Michel, former Judge, 
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; Q. Todd 
Dickinson, Polsinelli, PC, Charles Duan, R Street Institute, Michael M. 
Rosen, American Enterprise Institute, and Patrick Kilbride, United 
States Chamber of Commerce, all of Washington, D.C.; David J. Kappos, 
Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP, New York, New York; Jeffrey A. Lefstin, 
University of California Hastings College of the Law, and Alex H. Moss, 
Electronic Frontier Foundation, both of San Francisco, California; 
Robert A. Armitage, IP Strategy and Policy, McLean, Virginia; David O. 
Taylor, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, Dallas, 
Texas; Sherry M. Knowles, Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies, 
LLC, Atlanta, Georgia; Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School, Stanford, 
California; Paul R. Gugliuzza, Boston University School of Law, Boston, 
Massachusetts; Joshua D. Sarnoff, DePaul University College of Law, 
Chicago, Illinois; and Adam Mossoff, George Mason University Antonin 
Scalia Law School, Arlington, Virginia.
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.