[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 25, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D749-D751]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
STATE OF THE DERIVATIVES MARKET AND CFTC REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the state of the derivatives market and 
perspectives for Commodity Futures Trading Commission reauthorization, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas W. Sexton,

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National Futures Association, Chicago, Illinois; Walter L. Lukken, 
Futures Industry Association, and Dennis M. Kelleher, Better Markets, 
Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; and Joe Barker, CHS Hedging, St. Paul, 
Minnesota.
FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be 
designated as systematically important financial institutions, after 
receiving testimony from Alex J. Pollock, R Street Institute, and 
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, both of Washington, D.C.; 
and Susan M. Wachter, The Wharton School at the University of 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY ON INTERNET PLATFORMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet concluded a 
hearing to examine the use of persuasive technology on internet 
platforms, focusing on optimizing for engagement, after receiving 
testimony from Tristan Harris, Center for Humane Technology, San 
Francisco, California; Maggie Stanphill, Google, Mountain View, 
California; Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research, Inc., Champaign, 
Illinois; and Rashida Richardson, New York University AI Now Institute, 
New York, New York.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Safety concluded a hearing to examine technological 
innovations in transportation, after receiving testimony from Ann 
Schlenker, Director, Center for Transportation Research, Argonne 
National Laboratory, Department of Energy; Steve Ingracia, Nebraska 
Department of Transportation Deputy Director, Lincoln; Shailen P. 
Bhatt, Intelligent Transportation Society of America, Washington, D.C.; 
Patrick Duffy, Blockchain in Transport Alliance, Chattanooga, 
Tennessee; and Brent Hutto, Truckstop.com, Plymouth, Idaho.
LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the implementation of the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund program, after receiving testimony from Susan Combs, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management and Budget; 
Chris French, Acting Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture; Lauren S. Imgrund, National 
Association of State Outdoor Recreation Liaison Officers, Harrisburg, 
Pennsylvania; Collin O'Mara, National Wildlife Federation, Reston, 
Virginia; and Brian Yablonski, Property and Environment Research 
Center, Bozeman, Montana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 727, to combat international extremism by addressing global 
fragility and violence and stabilizing conflict-affected areas, with an 
amendment;
  S. 1102, to promote security and energy partnerships in the Eastern 
Mediterranean, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1309, to identify and combat corruption in countries, to establish 
a tiered system of countries with respect to levels of corruption by 
their governments and their efforts to combat such corruption, and to 
assess United States assistance to designated countries in order to 
advance anti-corruption efforts in those countries and better serve 
United States taxpayers, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1945, to amend section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 
U.S.C. 2776) to preserve congressional review and oversight of foreign 
arms sales;
  S. Res. 34, expressing the sense of the Senate that the Governments 
of Burma and Bangladesh ensure the safe, dignified, voluntary, and 
sustainable return of the Rohingya refugees who have been displaced by 
the campaign of ethnic cleansing conducted by the Burmese military and 
to immediately release unjustly imprisoned journalists, Wa Lone and 
Kyaw Soe Oo, with an amendment;
  S. Res. 198, condemning Brunei's dramatic human rights backsliding, 
with an amendment;
  S. Res. 206, marking the 70th anniversary of the four Geneva 
Conventions of 1949, expressing concern about significant violations of 
international humanitarian law on contemporary battlefields, and 
encouraging United States leadership in ensuring greater respect for 
international humanitarian law in current conflicts, particularly with 
its security partners, with an amendment;
  S. Con. Res. 10, recognizing that Chinese telecommunications 
companies such as Huawei and ZTE pose serious threats to the national 
security of the United States and its allies, with an amendment;
  The Protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of 
America and the Kingdom of Spain for the Avoidance of Double Taxation 
and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income 
and its Protocol, signed at Madrid on February 22, 1990 (Treaty Doc. 
113-4);

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  Protocol Amending the Convention between the United States of America 
and the Swiss Confederation for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with 
Respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on October 2, 1996, 
signed on September 23, 2009, at Washington, as corrected by an 
exchange of notes effected November 16, 2010 and a related agreement 
effected by an exchange of notes on September 23, 2009 (Treaty Doc. 
112-1);
  The Protocol Amending the Convention between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of Japan for the Avoidance 
of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to 
Taxes on Income and a related agreement entered into by an exchange of 
notes (together the ``proposed Protocol''), both signed on January 24, 
2013, at Washington, together with correcting notes exchanged March 9 
and March 29, 2013 (Treaty Doc. 114-1);
  Protocol Amending the Convention between the Government of the United 
States of America and the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 
for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal 
Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and Capital, signed on May 20, 
2009, at Luxembourg (the ``proposed Protocol'') and a related agreement 
effected by the exchange of notes also signed on May 20, 2009 (Treaty 
Doc. 111-8); and
  The nomination of Eliot Pedrosa, of Florida, to be United States 
Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank.
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.