[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 164 (Thursday, October 17, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1123-D1124]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine implementing the 2018 Farm Bill, after receiving 
testimony from Stephen Censky, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.
FCC OVERSIGHT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded an oversight hearing to examine the 
Federal Communications Commission, focusing on the spectrum auctions 
program, after receiving testimony from Ajit Pai, Chairman, Federal 
Communications Commission; and Tom Schatz, Citizens Against Government 
Waste, and David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance, both of 
Washington, D.C.
SYRIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a closed hearing to 
examine the situation in Syria and the wider region, after receiving 
testimony from Mark T. Esper, Secretary, and General Mark A. Milley, 
USA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of the Department of 
Defense.
CFPB SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's semi-
annual report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Kathleen L. 
Kraninger, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
IMPROVING SECURITY AT AMERICA'S AIRPORTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Security concluded a hearing to examine improving security at America's 
airports, focusing on stakeholder perspectives, after receiving 
testimony from Tori Emerson Barnes, U.S. Travel Association, Lauren 
Beyer, Airlines for America, and Sara Nelson, Association of Flight 
Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C.; Chris McLaughlin, 
Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado; and Ken Cornick, CLEAR, 
New York, New York.
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE STATUS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the status of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and 
related energy security issues, after receiving testimony from Linda 
Capuano, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Department 
of Energy; Steven E. Winberg, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil 
Energy; Phillip Brown, Specialist in Energy Policy, Congressional 
Research Service, Library of Congress; Jason E. Bordoff, Columbia 
University School of International and Public Affairs Center on Global 
Energy Policy, New York, New York; and Keisuke Sadamori, International 
Energy Agency, Paris, France.
REDUCING EMISSIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine reducing emissions 
while driving economic growth, focusing on industry-led initiatives, 
after receiving testimony from Todd Wilkinson, Redstone Feeders, LLC, 
on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Frank 
Macchiarola, American Petroleum Institute, Marty Durbin, U.S. Chamber 
of Commerce Global Energy

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Institute, and John K. S. Wilson, Calvert Research and Management, all 
of Washington, D.C.; and Andrea Dutton, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Gainesville, Florida.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2132, to promote security and provide justice for United States 
victims of international terrorism, with an amendment; and
  The nominations of David B. Barlow, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Utah, John Fitzgerald Kness, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, R. Austin 
Huffaker, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Alabama, Lee Philip Rudofsky, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Justin Reed Walker, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky, and 
Eleni Maria Roumel, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States 
Court of Federal Claims.