[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 164 (Tuesday, September 22, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D831]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OFFSHORE AND MARINE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine emerging offshore and marine energy technologies in 
the United States, including offshore wind, marine and hydrokinetic 
energy, and alternative fuels for maritime shipping, after receiving 
testimony from Daniel R. Simmons, Assistant Secretary of Energy for 
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Walter Cruickshank, Acting 
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the 
Interior; Stuart Davies, ORPC, Inc., Portland, Maine; Siri Kindem, 
Equinor Wind U.S., Stamford, Connecticut; and Jonathan F. Lewis, Clean 
Air Task Force, Boston, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Erik Paul Bethel, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Panama, Keith W. Dayton, of Washington, to be 
Ambassador to Ukraine, William A. Douglass, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Julie D. Fisher, of 
Tennessee, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus, Melanie Harris 
Higgins, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, 
Jeanne Marie Maloney, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of 
Eswatini, Michael A. McCarthy, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Liberia, Jonathan Pratt, of California, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Djibouti, Manisha Singh, of Florida, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for 
Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador, 
James Broward Story, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to the 
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Barbera Hale Thornhill, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, Thomas 
Laszlo Vajda, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Union of Burma, 
Kenneth R. Weinstein, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to 
Japan, and Alex Nelson Wong, of New Jersey, to be Alternate 
Representative of the United States of America for Special Political 
Affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be 
an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the 
Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during his 
tenure of service as Alternate Representative of the United States of 
America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, all of the 
Department of State, and Edward A. Burrier, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the United States 
International Development Finance Corporation.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Ashok Michael Pinto, of Illinois, to be 
United States Alternate Executive Director of the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development, who was introduced by Senator 
Thune, and William E. Todd, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and Eric M. Ueland, of Oregon, to be an 
Under Secretary (Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights), both 
of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.