[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 15, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D51-D52]
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 announced 
the following subcommittee assignments for the 116th Congress:
Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade: Senators 
Boozman (Chair), McConnell, Hoeven, Hyde-Smith, Grassley, Loeffler, 
Brown, Bennet, Gillibrand, Smith, and Durbin.
Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy: Senators Ernst (Chair), 
McConnell, Hoeven, Braun, Thune, Fischer, Smith, Brown, Klobuchar, 
Bennet, and Durbin.
Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, and Natural Resources: Senators 
Braun (Chair), Boozman, Hyde-Smith, Grassley, Thune, Loeffler, Bennet, 
Leahy, Klobuchar, Casey, and Durbin.
Subcommittee on Nutrition, Agricultural Research, and Specialty Crops: 
Senators Fischer (Chair), McConnell, Boozman, Hoeven, Ernst, Thune, 
Casey, Leahy, Brown, Klobuchar, and Gillibrand.
Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing, and Agriculture Security: 
Senators Hyde-Smith (Chair), Ernst, Braun, Grassley, Fischer, Loeffler, 
Gillibrand, Leahy, Klobuchar, Casey, and Smith.
Senators Roberts and Stabenow are ex-officio members of each 
subcommittee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 
5430, to implement the Agreement between the United States of America, 
the United Mexican States, and Canada attached as an Annex to the 
Protocol Replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported H.R. 5430, to

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implement the Agreement between the United States of America, the 
United Mexican States, and Canada attached as an Annex to the Protocol 
Replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement.
INDUSTRIES OF THE FUTURE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine industries of the future, after receiving 
testimony from Walter Copan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards 
and Technology, and Director, National Institute of Standards and 
Technology; France Cordova, Director, National Science Foundation; 
Michael Kratsios, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, White 
House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Michael O'Rielly, 
and Jessica Rosenworcel, both a Commissioner, Federal Communications 
Commission.
NUCLEAR ENERGY INNOVATION AND MODERNIZATION ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine an update on implementation of the Nuclear Energy 
Innovation and Modernization Act, after receiving testimony from 
Margaret Doane, Executive Director for Operations, and Ben Ficks, 
Deputy Chief Financial Officer, both of the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  H.R. 5430, to implement the Agreement between the United States of 
America, the United Mexican States, and Canada attached as an Annex to 
the Protocol Replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement; and
  The nominations of Todd C. Chapman, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the 
Federative Republic of Brazil, 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, and Donald Wright, 
of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania, all 
of the Department of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported H.R. 5430, to implement the Agreement between the 
United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada 
attached as an Annex to the Protocol Replacing the North American Free 
Trade Agreement.