[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 177 (Wednesday, November 6, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1212-D1215]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 2765, 
to improve Federal fiscal controls and the congressional budget 
process, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.

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ENERGY LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
concluded a hearing to examine S. 876, to amend the Energy Policy Act 
of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to 
prepare veterans for careers in the energy industry, including the 
solar, wind, cybersecurity, and other low-carbon emissions sectors or 
zero-emissions sectors of the energy industry, S. 1890, to provide for 
grants for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy 
improvements at public school facilities, S. 2425, to amend the Energy 
Policy and Conservation Act to establish the CHP Technical Assistance 
Partnership Program, S. 2508, to require the Secretary of Energy to 
establish a council to conduct a survey and analysis of the employment 
figures and demographics in the energy, energy efficiency, and motor 
vehicle sectors of the United States, S. 2556, to amend the Federal 
Power Act to provide energy cybersecurity investment incentives, to 
establish a grant and technical assistance program for cybersecurity 
investments, S. 2657, to support innovation in advanced geothermal 
research and development, S. 2660, to establish a grant program for 
wind energy research, development, and demonstration, S. 2668, to 
establish a program for research, development, and demonstration of 
solar energy technologies, S. 2688, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 
2005 to establish an Office of Technology Transitions, S. 2702, to 
require the Secretary of Energy to establish an integrated energy 
systems research, development, and demonstration, and S. 2714, to amend 
the America COMPETES Act to reauthorize the ARPA-E program, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Smith; and Daniel Simmons, Assistant 
Secretary of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
GROWING AMERICAN INNOVATION NOW ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 2662, to amend sections 111, 169, and 171 of the 
Clean Air Act to clarify when a physical change in, or change in the 
method of operation of, a stationary source constitutes a modification 
or construction, after receiving testimony from Sean Alteri, Kentucky 
Department for Environmental Protection, Frankfort; and Jeffrey R. 
Holmstead, Bracewell LLC, and John D. Walke, Natural Resources Defense 
Council, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2779, to establish the Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety Best 
Practices, with amendments;
   S. 2162, to require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection to annually hire at least 600 new Border Patrol agents, to 
report quarterly to Congress on the status of the Border Patrol 
workforce, and to conduct a comprehensive staffing analysis, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
   S. 2769, to eliminate or modify certain Federal agency reporting 
requirements, with an amendment;
   S. 1363, to authorize an AI Center of Excellence within the General 
Services Administration, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
   S. 2618, to strengthen employee cost savings suggestions programs 
within the Federal Government;
   S. 2560, to amend the Federal Funding Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2006, to require the budget justifications and 
appropriation requests of agencies be made publicly available;
   S. 2353, to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency to develop guidance for firefighters and other 
emergency response personnel on best practices to protect them from 
exposure to PFAS and to limit and prevent the release of PFAS into the 
environment;
   S. 2749, to provide requirements for the .gov domain, with 
amendments;
   S. 2513, to provide for joint reports by relevant Federal agencies 
to Congress regarding incidents of terrorism, with an amendment;
   S. 565, to require the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget to submit to Congress an annual report on projects that are over 
budget and behind schedule, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
   S. 2750, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the 
Operation Stonegarden grant program, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute;
   H.R. 1589, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 
chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear intelligence and 
information sharing functions of the Office of Intelligence and 
Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security and to require 
dissemination of information analyzed by the Department to entities 
with responsibilities relating to homeland security, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
   H.R. 2066, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish 
the Intelligence Rotational Assignment Program in the Department of 
Homeland Security, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
   H.R. 495, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require an 
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State and Local Law Enforcement, with an amendment;
   H.R. 135, to amend the Notification and Federal Employee 
Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 to strengthen Federal 
antidiscrimination laws enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission and expand accountability within the Federal Government, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
   S. 2712, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 430 South Knowles Avenue in New Richmond, Wisconsin, 
as the ``Captain Robert C. Harmon and Private John R. Peirson Post 
Office Building'';
   H.R. 887, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 877 East 1200 South in Orem, Utah, as the ``Jerry C. 
Washburn Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 1252, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 6531 Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys, California, as 
the ``Marilyn Monroe Post Office'';
   H.R. 1253, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 13507 Van Nuys Boulevard in Pacoima, California, as 
the ``Ritchie Valens Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 1526, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 200 Israel Road Southeast in Tumwater, Washington, 
as the ``Eva G. Hewitt Post Office'';
   H.R. 1844, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 66 Grove Court in Elgin, Illinois, as the ``Corporal 
Alex Martinez Memorial Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 1972, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1100 West Kent Avenue in Missoula, Montana, as the 
``Jeannette Rankin Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 2151, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 7722 South Main Street in Pine Plains, New York, as 
the ``Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon M. Kent Post Office'';
   H.R. 2325, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 100 Calle Alondra in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as the 
``65th Infantry Regiment Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 3144, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 8520 Michigan Avenue in Whittier, California, as the 
``Jose Ramos Post Office Building'';
   H.R. 3314, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1750 McCulloch Boulevard North in Lake Havasu City, 
Arizona, as the ``Lake Havasu City Combat Veterans Memorial Post Office 
Building''; and
   The nominations of Joshua A. Deahl, to be an Associate Judge of the 
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Deborah J. Israel, and Andrea L. 
Hertzfeld, both to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia, and Robert Anthony Dixon, to be United States 
Marshal for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Department 
of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 
317, to reaffirm the action of the Secretary of the Interior to take 
land into trust for the benefit of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash 
Mission Indians, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
477 PROGRAM OVERSIGHT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the 477 program, focusing on reducing red tape while 
promoting employment and training opportunities in Indian country, 
after receiving testimony from Spike Bighorn, Acting Deputy Bureau 
Director, Office of Indian Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
Department of the Interior; Chuck Hoskin Jr., Cherokee Nation, 
Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Ralph Andersen, Bristol Bay Native Association, 
Dillingham, Alaska; and Margaret Zientek, 477 Tribal Work Group, 
Shawnee, Oklahoma.
USA FREEDOM ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
reauthorizing the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, after receiving testimony 
from J. Bradford Wiegmann, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and 
Michael J. Orlando, Deputy Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; Susan Morgan, 
National Security Agency; Adam I. Klein, Privacy and Civil Liberties 
Oversight Board, and Elizabeth Goitein, New York University School of 
Law Brennan Center for Justice, both of Washington, D.C.; and Jamil N. 
Jaffer, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, 
Virginia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Grant C. Jaquith, of New York, and Scott J. 
Laurer, of Virginia, both to be a Judge of the United States Court of 
Appeals for Veterans Claims, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.

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VETERAN SCAMS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
veteran scams, focusing on protecting those who protected us, after 
receiving testimony from Carroll Harris, Acting Inspector in Charge, 
Communications, Governance and Strategy Group, Postal Inspection 
Service; W. Dewayne Richardson, District Attorney, Fourth Judicial 
District of Mississippi, Indianola; Ben Wells, Vet2Vet Maine, Portland; 
and LaVerne Foreman, Herndon, Pennsylvania.