[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 178 (Thursday, November 7, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1220]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM BILL IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill, focusing on 
rural development and energy programs, after receiving testimony from 
Bette Brand, Administrator for Rural Business-Cooperative Service, 
Bruce Lammers, Administrator for Rural Housing Service, and Chad Rupe, 
Administrator for Rural Utilities Service, all of the Department of 
Agriculture; Keith Hayward, North East Mississippi Electric Power 
Association, Oxford; Bryan Sievers, AgriReNew JV, Stockton, Iowa, on 
behalf of the American Biogas Council; Michael Stanley, Grace Health, 
Corbin, Kentucky; and Jeffrey W. Dwyer, Michigan State University 
Extension, East Lansing.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING LEGISLATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine bipartisan bills to promote affordable housing 
access and safety, including S. 2160, to require carbon monoxide alarms 
in certain federally assisted housing, S. 1804, to require the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to issue guidelines relating 
to the appropriate inclusion of residential manufactured homes in 
Consolidated Plans, and S. 2801, to strengthen the United States 
Interagency Council on Homelessness, after receiving testimony from 
Ivory N. Mathews, Columbia Housing Authority, Columbia, South Carolina; 
Mark Yost, Skyline Champion Corporation, Troy, Michigan, on behalf of 
the Manufactured Housing Institute; and Peggy Bailey, Center on Budget 
and Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C.
FEDERAL REVENUES DERIVED FROM ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine federal revenues derived from energy 
development on Federal and Indian lands as well as Federal offshore 
areas and programs that share those revenues with state, local, and 
tribal governments, including S. 2418, to amend the Gulf of Mexico 
Energy Security Act of 2006 to modify a definition and the disposition 
and authorized uses of qualified outer Continental Shelf revenues under 
that Act and to exempt State and county payments under that Act from 
sequestration, to provide for the distribution of certain outer 
Continental Shelf revenues to the State of Alaska, and S. 2666, to 
promote the development of renewable energy on public land, after 
receiving testimony from Gregory J. Gould, Director for the Office of 
Natural Resources Revenue, Department of the Interior; Laura B. Comay, 
Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Congressional Research Service, 
Library of Congress; Mayor Harry Brower, Jr., North Slope Borough, 
Alaska; Kyle R. Kline, Jr., Office of the Governor of Louisiana, Baton 
Rouge; and Randall Luthi, Office of the Governor of Wyoming, Cheyenne.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
Afghanistan, focusing on the way ahead, from Zalmay Khalilzad, Special 
Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Department of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Steven J. Menashi, of New York, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Barbara Lagoa and Robert J. Luck, 
both of Florida, both to be a United States Circuit Judge for the 
Eleventh Circuit, Sylvia Carreno-Coll, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, John M. Gallagher, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and 
Sherri A. Lydon, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
South Carolina.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MODERNIZATION OVERSIGHT
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine Library of Congress modernization, after receiving 
testimony from Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, Bernard A. Barton, 
Jr., Chief Information Officer, and Karyn A. Temple, Register of 
Copyrights and Director of the Copyright Office, all of the Library of 
Congress.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.