[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 159 (Wednesday, September 15, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D976-D977]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILK PRICING
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, 
Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security concluded a hearing to 
examine milk pricing, focusing on areas for improvement and reform, 
after receiving testimony from Jim Davenport, Ancramdale, New York, and 
Catherine H. de Ronde, Andover, Massachusetts, both of Agri-Mark Dairy 
Cooperative; Christina Zuiderveen, Black Soil Dairy, LLC, Granville, 
Iowa; Mike Ferguson, Ferguson Dairy Farm, Senatobia, Mississippi; 
Robert L. Wills, Clock Shadow Creamery, Plain, Wisconsin; and 
Christopher A. Wolf, Cornell University Charles H. Dyson School of 
Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Amanda Howe, of Virginia, to be 
an Assistant Administrator, and Carlton Waterhouse, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste, who were both 
introduced by Senator Warner, and David M. Uhlmann, of Michigan, to be 
an Assistant Administrator, who was introduced by Senator Stabenow, all 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Julieta Valls Noyes, of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary (Population, Refugees, and Migration), Denise 
Campbell Bauer, of California, to be Ambassador to the French Republic, 
and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as 
Ambassador to the Principality of Monaco, and Barbara A. Leaf, of 
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary (Near Eastern Affairs), all who 
were introduced by Senator Kaine, and Julianne Smith, of Michigan, to 
be United States Permanent Representative on the Council of

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the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of 
Ambassador, who was introduced by Senator Shaheen, all of the 
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of C.S. Eliot Kang, of New Jersey, to be an 
Assistant Secretary (International Security and Non-Proliferation), 
Adam Scheinman, of Virginia, to be Special Representative of the 
President for Nuclear Nonproliferation, with the rank of Ambassador, 
Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, of New Jersey, to be Director General 
of the Foreign Service, Bathsheba Nell Crocker, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the 
Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in 
Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador, and Michael Carpenter, of the 
District of Columbia, to be U.S. Representative to the Organization for 
Security and Cooperation in Europe, all of the Department of State, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
LARRY NASSAR INVESTIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Inspector General's report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 
handling of the Larry Nassar investigation, after receiving testimony 
from Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, and Christopher A. Wray, 
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of 
Justice; Simone Biles, Houston, Texas; McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, 
California; Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minnesota; and Aly Raisman, 
Boston, Massachusetts.