[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 140 (Thursday, August 5, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D904-D905]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nomination of Homer L. Wilkes, of Mississippi, 
to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and 
Environment, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Wicker 
and Hyde-Smith, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Julia Ruth Gordon, of Maryland, 
David Uejio, of California, and Solomon Jeffrey Greene, of the District 
of Columbia, each to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
DOE'S OFFICE OF SCIENCE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the role of and programs within the Department of 
Energy's Office of Science, after receiving testimony from J. Stephen 
Binkley, Acting Director, Office of Science, and Thomas Zacharia, 
Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, both of the Department of 
Energy; and Edward Seidel, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Michael Raynor, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Guinea-Bissau, Marc Ostfield, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Paraguay, and Troy Damian Fitrell, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea, all of the Department of State, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND VIOLENT EXTREMISM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine domestic terrorism and violent extremism, 
focusing on

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the threat of racially, ethnically, religiously, and politically 
motivated attacks, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth Neumann, 
former Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention, 
Department of Homeland Security, and Maya M. Berry, Arab American 
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Jonathan Greenblatt, Anti-
Defamation League, New York, New York; and Brian Levin, California 
State University Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, San 
Bernardino.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Myrna Perez, of New York, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Second Circuit, Jia M. Cobb, of Virginia, and Florence Y. 
Pan, both to be a United States District Judge for the District of 
Columbia, Sarah A.L. Merriam, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Connecticut, Karen McGlashan Williams, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, and Matthew G. 
Olsen, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of 
Justice.