[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D524-D525]
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 an original bill entitled, ``United States Grain 
Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020''.
AGRICULTURE LEGISLATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine S. 3894, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture 
to develop a program to reduce barriers to entry for farmers, ranchers, 
and private forest landowners in certain private markets, after 
receiving testimony from Brent Bible, Environmental Defense Fund, 
Lafayette, Indiana; Zippy Duvall, American Farm Bureau Federation, 
Greensboro, Georgia; Rob Larew, National Farmers Union, Greenville, 
West Virginia; and Jason Weller, Truterra LLC, Land O'Lakes, Inc., 
Arden Hills, Minnesota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Joyce Louise Connery, of Virginia, and Thomas A. 
Summers, of Pennsylvania, both to be a Member of the Defense Nuclear 
Facilities Safety Board, and 1,285 military nominations in the Army, 
Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, all of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of Derek Kan, of California, to be Deputy Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget, after the nominee testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
FCC OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission, 
after receiving testimony from Ajit Pai, Chairman, and Jessica 
Rosenworcel, Michael O'Rielly, Brendan Carr, and Geoffrey Starks, each 
a Commissioner, all of the Federal Communications Commission.
COVID-19 AND MINERAL SUPPLY CHAINS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the impact of COVID-19 on mineral supply chains, 
focusing on the role of those supply chains in economic and national 
security, and challenges and opportunities to rebuild America's supply 
chains, after receiving testimony from Nedal T. Nassar, Section Chief, 
National Minerals Information Center, Geological Survey, Department of 
the Interior; Joe Bryan, Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, 
Hyattsville, Maryland; Mark Caffarey, Umicore USA, Raleigh, North 
Carolina; Thomas J. Duesterberg, Hudson Institute, Aspen, Colorado; and 
Simon Moores, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, London, United Kingdom.
STRATEGIC NATIONAL STOCKPILE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the role of the Strategic National 
Stockpile in pandemic response, after receiving testimony from Gregory 
Burel, former Director, Strategic National Stockpile, Department of 
Health and Human Services, Alpharetta, Georgia; Andrew Phelps, Oregon 
Office of Emergency Management Director, Salem, on behalf of the 
National Emergency Management Association; Julie Gerberding, Center for 
Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.; and Daniel M. 
Gerstein, RAND Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 2165, to enhance protections of Native American tangible cultural 
heritage, S. 2716, to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act, S. 2912, 
to direct the Secretary of the Interior to take certain land located in 
Pinal County, Arizona, into trust for the benefit of the Gila River 
Indian Community, S. 3019, to protect access to water for all 
Montanans, S. 3044, to amend the American's Water Infrastructure Act of 
2018 to expand the Indian reservation drinking water program, S. 3099, 
to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Southeast 
Alaska Regional Health Consortium located in Sitka, Alaska, and S. 
3100, to convey land in Anchorage, Alaska, to the Alaska Native Tribal 
Health Consortium, after receiving testimony from Timothy R. Petty, 
Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, and Darryl LaCounte, 
Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, both of the Department of the 
Interior.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of David W.

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Dugan and Stephen P. McGlynn, both to be a to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Illinois, Hala Y. Jarbou, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan, Iain 
D. Johnston and Franklin Ulyses Valderrama, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Roderick C. 
Young, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Virginia, who was introduced by Senator Kaine, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Peter Michael Thomson, of Louisiana, to be 
Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency, after the nominee, who 
was introduced by Senator Kennedy, testified and answered questions in 
his own behalf.