[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 185 (Tuesday, November 19, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1268-D1269]
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 Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Lisa W. Hershman, of Indiana, to be Chief Management 
Officer, Dana S. Deasy, of Virginia, to be Chief Information Officer, 
and Robert John Sander, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the 
Department of the Navy, all of the Department of Defense, Joseph Bruce 
Hamilton, of Texas, Jessie Hill Roberson, of Virginia, and Thomas A. 
Summers, of Pennsylvania, each to be a Member of the Defense Nuclear 
Facilities Safety Board, and 181 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air 
Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 500, to amend title 54, United States Code, to establish, fund, 
and provide for the use of amounts in a National Park Service Legacy 
Restoration Fund to address the maintenance backlog of the National 
Park Service, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with amendments;
  S. 1081, to amend title 54, United States Code, to provide permanent, 
dedicated funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, with an 
amendment;
  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. 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, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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

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from sequestration, to provide for the distribution of certain outer 
Continental Shelf revenues to the State of Alaska, with amendments;
  S. 2425, to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to establish 
the CHP Technical Assistance Partnership Program, with an amendment;
  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, with amendments;
  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, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2657, to support innovation in advanced geothermal research and 
development, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2668, to establish a program for research, development, and 
demonstration of solar energy technologies, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2688, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to establish an 
Office of Technology Transitions, with an amendment;
  S. 2702, to require the Secretary of Energy to establish an 
integrated energy systems research, development, and demonstration, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2714, to amend the America COMPETES Act to reauthorize the ARPA-E 
program, with an amendment;
  S. 2799, to require the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of the 
Interior to establish a joint Nexus of Energy and Water Sustainability 
Office, with an amendment; and
  The nominations of Dan R. Brouillette, of Texas, to be Secretary of 
Energy, James P. Danly, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, and Katharine MacGregor, of Pennsylvania, 
to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior.
CLEAN WATER ACT SECTION 401
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1087, to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act to make changes with respect to water quality 
certification, and state perspectives on other potential reforms to the 
implementation of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, after receiving 
testimony from Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon, Cheyenne; Oklahoma 
Governor J. Kevin Stitt, Oklahoma City; and Laura Watson, Washington 
State Office of the Attorney General, Seattle.
SECURING U.S. RESEARCH ENTERPRISE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine securing 
the United States research enterprise from China's talent recruitment 
plans, after receiving testimony from John Brown, Assistant Director, 
Counterintelligence Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
Department of Justice; Rebecca Keiser, Office Head, Office of 
International Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation; 
Michael S. Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National 
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Chris 
Fall, Director, Office of Science, Department of Energy; and Edward J. 
Ramotowski, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Consular 
Affairs.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Federal Bureau of Prisons, after receiving testimony from 
Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department 
of Justice.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.