[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 17, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1392-D1393]
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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2695, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for the 
defense of United States agriculture and food through the National Bio 
and Agro-Defense Facility, with an amendment; and
  An original bill to release a federal reversionary interest in 
Chester County, Tennessee, to manage certain Federal land in Bath 
County, Virginia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Lanny Erdos, of Ohio, to be 
Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 
Department of the Interior, after the nominee, who

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was introduced by Representative Bill Johnson, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 3051, to improve protections for wildlife, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  The nomination of Robert J. Feitel, of Maryland, to be Inspector 
General, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and
  19 General Services Administration resolutions.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of John Hennessey-Niland, of Illinois, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Palau, Dorothy Shea, of North Carolina, 
to be Ambassador to the Lebanese Republic, Todd C. Chapman, of Texas, 
to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, and Donald 
Wright, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of 
Tanzania, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the nomination of Paul J. Ray, of Tennessee, 
to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget.
OPIOID CRISIS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
tackling the opioid crisis, focusing on a whole-of-government approach, 
after receiving testimony from Kemp L. Chester, Assistant Director of 
the National Opioids and Synthetics Coordination Group, Office of 
National Drug Control Policy; Amanda Liskamm, Director, Opioid 
Enforcement and Prevention Efforts, Office of the Deputy Attorney 
General, and Tim McDermott, Assistant Administrator, Diversion Control 
Division, Drug Enforcement Administration, both of the Department of 
Justice; Neeraj Gandotra, Chief Medical Officer, Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Bradley D. Stein, RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 
Patrick M. Kelly, Healthcare Distribution Alliance, Arlington, 
Virginia; and Ronna B. Hauser, National Community Pharmacists 
Association, and Sue R. Thau, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of 
America, both of Alexandria, Virginia.