[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 26, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D761-D762]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUDGET AND SPENDING PROCESS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
fixing a broken budget and spending process, focusing on securing the 
nation's fiscal future, after receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, 
Comptroller General of the United States, Government Accountability 
Office.
AMTRAK
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine Amtrak, focusing on next steps for passenger rail, 
after receiving testimony from Jennifer Homendy, Member, National 
Transportation Safety Board; Richard Anderson, President and Chief 
Executive Officer, National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Amtrak; Ian 
Jefferies, Association of American Railroads, Washington, D.C.; and 
James M. Souby, Colorado Rail Passenger Association, Denver.

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WATER AND POWER LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 325, to require the Secretary 
of the Interior to convey the Garrison Diversion Unit Project Oakes 
Test Area in Dickey County, North Dakota, to the Dickey-Sargent 
Irrigation District, S. 860, to amend the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 to modify the terms of the Jackson Gulch 
rehabilitation project in Colorado, S. 990, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to participate in the implementation of the Platte 
River Recovery Implementation Program First Increment Extension for 
threatened and endangered species in the Central and Lower Platte River 
Basin, S. 1305, to establish a Federal cost share percentage for the 
Milk River Project in the State of Montana, S. 1758, to extend a 
repayment contract relating to the Purgatoire River Water Conservancy 
District and to authorize the District to develop an excess capacity 
contract to offset repayment costs, and S. 1882, to make available the 
continued use of Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program project use power by 
the Kinsey Irrigation Company and the Sidney Water Users Irrigation 
District, after receiving testimony from Kiel Weaver, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, Department of the Interior.
MIGRATION AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine unprecedented migration at the United 
States southern border, focusing on the exploitation of migrants 
through smuggling, trafficking, and involuntary servitude, after 
receiving testimony from Brian S. Hastings, Chief, Law Enforcement 
Operations, Border Patrol, and Randy Howe, Executive Director for 
Operations, Office of Field Operations, both of Customs and Border 
Protection, and Gregory C. Nevano, Assistant Director, Investigative 
Programs, Homeland Security Investigations, all of the Department of 
Homeland Security.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1199, to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend 
the poison center network program, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1173, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the 
Emergency Medical Services for Children program; and
  S. 1895, to lower health care costs, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Douglas Russell Cole, and Matthew Walden McFarland, 
both to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Ohio, who were both introduced by Senator Portman, Robert Anthony 
Molloy, to be Judge for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, who 
was introduced by Representative Plaskett, and Kea Whetzal Riggs, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of New Mexico, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
SBA SBIC PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine reauthorization of the Small Business 
Administration's Small Business Investment Company program, after 
receiving testimony from Joseph Shepard, Associate Administrator, 
Office of Investment and Innovation, Small Business Administration; 
Brett Palmer, Small Business Investor Alliance, and Mark Muro, 
Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.; and Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, 
Brown University Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and University of 
Massachusetts, Boston.