[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 104 (Thursday, June 20, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D721-D722]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COLLECTION OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP INFORMATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine outside perspectives on the collection of beneficial 
ownership information, after receiving testimony from Greg Baer, Bank 
Policy Institute, Karen Harned, National Federation of Independent 
Business Small Business Legal Center, and Gary Kalman, Financial 
Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition, all of Washington, 
D.C.
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer Protection concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine the Consumer Product Safety Commission, after 
receiving testimony from Ann Marie Buerkle, Acting Chairman, and Robert 
S. Adler, Dana Baiocco, Peter A. Feldman, and Elliot F. Kaye, each a 
Commissioner, all of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of Robert Wallace, of Wyoming, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, Department of the Interior.
ADVANCED GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine opportunities and challenges for advanced geothermal 
energy development in the United States, after receiving testimony from 
Daniel R. Simmons, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, and Katherine R. Young, Geothermal Program Manager, 
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, both of the Department of Energy; 
Tim Spisak, State Director for New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, 
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Tim Latimer, 
Fervo Energy, San Francisco, California; and Paul A. Thomsen, ORMAT 
Technologies, Reno, Nevada, on behalf of the Geothermal Resource 
Council.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Andrew P. Bremberg, of Virginia, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the 
United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, with 
the rank of Ambassador, Philip S. Goldberg, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, Doug 
Manchester, of California, to be Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The 
Bahamas, Adrian Zuckerman, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to Romania, 
Richard B. Norland, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to Libya, Jonathan R. 
Cohen, of California, to be Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt, 
and John Rakolta, Jr., of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the United Arab 
Emirates, 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 
nominations of Daniel Aaron Bress, of California, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Mary S. McElroy, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Rhode Island, Gary Richard 
Brown, Diane Gujarati, Eric

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Ross Komitee, and Rachel P. Kovner, each to be a United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of New York, Stephanie Dawkins Davis, to 
be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, 
Stephanie A. Gallagher, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Maryland, Lewis J. Liman, and Mary Kay Vyskocil, both to be 
a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 
Martha Maria Pacold, Mary M. Rowland, and Steven C. Seeger, each to be 
a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, 
Jason K. Pulliam, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Texas, John L. Sinatra, Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of New York, Frank William Volk, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of West 
Virginia, David Austin Tapp, of Kentucky, to be a Judge of the United 
States Court of Federal Claims, and Edward W. Felten, of New Jersey, to 
be a Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
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.