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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D230-D231 on March 11.
The State Department is responsibly for international relations with a budget of more than $50 billion. Tenure at the State Dept. is increasingly tenuous and it's seen as an extension of the President's will, ambitions and flaws.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARMERS AND FORESTERS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine farmers and foresters, focusing on opportunities to lead in tackling climate change, after receiving testimony from Clay Pope, National Farmers Union, Loyal, Oklahoma; Mark Isbell, USA Rice, England, Arkansas; John Reifsteck, GROWMARK cooperative, Bloomington, Illinois, on behalf of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Stefanie Smallhouse, Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, Gilbert; and Cori Wittman Stitt, Environmental Defense Fund, Lapwai, Idaho.
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON MILITARY, NATIONAL, AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the final recommendations and report of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, after receiving testimony from former Representative Joseph J. Heck, Chairman, Debra S. Wada, Vice Chair, Military Service, and Alan Khazei, Commissioner, all of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of David Turk, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of Energy.
ELECTRIC SERVICE AND EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the reliability, resiliency, and affordability of electric service in the United States amid the changing energy mix and extreme weather events, after receiving testimony from Mark A. Gabriel, Administrator, Western Area Power Administration, Department of Energy; James B. Robb, North American Electric Reliability Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia; Pat Wood, III, Hunt Energy Network, former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Houston, Texas; Michael D. Shellenberger, Environmental Progress, Berkeley, California; and Manu Asthana, PJM Interconnection, Audubon, Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Wendy Ruth Sherman, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary, and Brian P. McKeon, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, both of the Department of State.
U.S. OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES AROUND THE WORLD
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on opportunities and challenges for the United States around the world from Antony Blinken, Secretary of State.
COMPETITION POLICY AND ANTITRUST REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine competition policy for the twenty-first century, focusing on the case for antitrust reform, after receiving testimony from George P. Slover, Consumer Reports, Ashley Baker, The Committee for Justice, Barry C. Lynn, Open Markets Institute, and Jan M. Rybnicek, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, all of Washington, D.C.; and Nancy L. Rose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
