[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 145 (Wednesday, September 11, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D995-D996]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TSA OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine protecting the nation's transportation systems, 
focusing on oversight of the Transportation Security Administration, 
after receiving testimony from Patricia F. S. Cogswell, Acting Deputy 
Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, Department of 
Homeland Security.
ENERGY LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
concluded a hearing to examine S. 607, to amend the Department of 
Energy Organization Act to address insufficient compensation of 
employees and other personnel of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, S. 1739, to enable projects that will aid in the 
development and delivery of related instruction associated with 
apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs that are focused on 
serving the skilled technical workforce at the National Laboratories 
and certain facilities of the National Nuclear Security Administration, 
S. 1821, to amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to 
provide for research on, and the development and deployment of, marine 
energy, S. 2094, to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to 
provide Federal financial assistance to States to implement State 
energy security plans, S. 2095, to provide for certain programs and 
developments in the Department of Energy concerning the cybersecurity 
and vulnerabilities of, and physical threat to, the electric grid, S. 
2137, to promote energy savings in residential buildings and industry, 
S. 2300, to amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to 
establish a program to incentivize innovation and to enhance the 
industrial competitiveness of the United States by developing 
technologies to reduce emissions of nonpower industrial sectors, S. 
2368, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Energy Policy Act 
of 2005 to support licensing and relicensing of certain nuclear 
facilities and nuclear energy research, demonstration, and development, 
and S. 2393, to promote a 21st century energy workforce, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Portman, Shaheen, and Whitehouse; 
Mark W. Menezes, Under Secretary of Energy; and Anton C. Porter, 
Executive Director, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Aurelia Skipwith, of Indiana, to 
be Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department 
of the Interior, who was introduced by Representative Clay, and 
Katherine Andrea Lemos, of California, to be Chairperson and Member of 
the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Steven J. Menashi, of New York, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Karen Spencer Marston, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 
who was introduced by Senators Casey and Toomey, Richard Earnest Myers 
II, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
North Carolina, who was introduced by Senator Burr, and Anuraag 
Singhal, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District 
of Florida, who was introduced by Senator Rick Scott, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
MAKING OUR PATENT SYSTEM STRONGER
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Intellectual Property 
concluded a hearing to examine innovation in America, focusing on how 
Congress can make our patent system stronger, after receiving testimony 
from Tom Cotter, University of Minnesota School of Law, Minneapolis; 
Bradley N. Ditty, InterDigital Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; 
Dan Lang, Cisco Systems, San Francisco, California; Adam Mossoff, 
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, Virginia; 
Josh Landau, Computer and Communications Industry Association, 
Washington, D.C.; and Earl Bright II, ExploraMed, Mountain View, 
California.