[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 187 (Thursday, November 21, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1292-D1293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FCC SPECTRUM AUCTIONS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded an oversight hearing examine the Federal 
Communications Commission, focusing on the spectrum auctions program, 
after receiving testimony from Julius Knapp, Chief, Office of 
Engineering and Technology, and Giulia McHenry, Acting Chief, Office of 
Economics and Analytics, both of the Federal Communications Commission.

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FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Federal payments to local governments provided 
through the Secure Rural Schools and Payments in Lieu of Taxes 
programs, including S. 430, to extend the Secure Rural Schools and 
Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, S. 1643, to amend title 36, 
United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Forest and Refuge 
County Foundation, to provide for the establishment of the Natural 
Resources Permanent Fund, and S. 2108, to amend section 6903 of title 
31, United States Code, to provide for additional population tiers, 
after receiving testimony from Denise Flanagan, Director of Budget, 
Department of the Interior; Allen Rowley, Associate Deputy Chief, 
National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; 
Mayor Stephen Prysunka, Wrangell, Alaska; and Justin M. Dilley, 
Pocahontas County Board of Education, Dunmore, West Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Patrick J. Bumatay, of California, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Lawrence VanDyke, of Nevada, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Philip M. Halpern, 
to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New 
York, Bernard Maurice Jones II, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Oklahoma, Barbara Bailey Jongbloed, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and 
Thomas Michael O'Connor, to be United States Marshal for the Southern 
District of Texas, and Ralph Ignatius Sozio, to be United States 
Marshal for the Southern District of New York, both of the Department 
of Justice.