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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1132-D1134 on Oct. 26, 2017.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NIGER
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on Niger from Robert S. Karem, Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, and Major General Albert M. Elton II, USAF, Deputy Director for Special Operations and Counterterrorism, Joint Staff, both of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Brian D. Montgomery, of Texas, Robert Hunter Kurtz, of Virginia, and Suzanne Israel Tufts, of New York, each to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
ADVANCED CYBER TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine advanced cyber technologies that could be used to help protect electric grids and other energy infrastructure from cyberattacks, after receiving testimony from Carl Imhoff, Manager, Electricity Market Sector, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richard Raines, Director of Electrical and Electronics Systems Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Zachary D. Tudor, Associate Laboratory Director, National and Homeland Security, Idaho National Laboratory, all of the Department of Energy; Duncan Earl, Qubitekk, Inc., Vista, California; and Daniel Riedel, New Context Services, Inc., San Francisco, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. Res. 279, reaffirming the commitment of the United States to promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in Cambodia, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Michele Jeanne Sison, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti, Peter Hoekstra, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kenneth Ian Juster, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of India, Larry Edward Andre, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti, Daniel J. Kritenbrink, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Kathleen M. Fitzpatrick, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Richard Duke Buchan III, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to Andorra, Richard Grenell, of California, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Jamie McCourt, of California, to be Ambassador to the French Republic, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of Monaco, Edward T. McMullen, Jr., of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of Liechtenstein, Peter Henry Barlerin, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, Michael James Dodman, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Nina Maria Fite, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola, Daniel L. Foote, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, David Dale Reimer, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles, Eric P. Whitaker, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, W. Robert Kohorst, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia, Carla Sands, of California, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark, Thomas L. Carter, of South Carolina, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, Michael T. Evanoff, of Arkansas, to be an Assistant Secretary
(Diplomatic Security), Manisha Singh, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary (Economic and Business Affairs), Samuel Dale Brownback, of Kansas, to be Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Jennifer Gillian Newstead, of New York, to be Legal Adviser, and a routine list in the Foreign Service, all of the Department of State.
IMPROVING OVERSIGHT OF THE REGULATORY PROCESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to examine improving oversight of the regulatory process, focusing on lessons from state legislatures, after receiving testimony from Scott Bedke, Idaho House of Representatives, Oakley; Joshua A. Boschee, North Dakota Legislative Assembly, Fargo; and Arthur J. O'Neill, Connecticut General Assembly, Southbury.
FREE SPEECH ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine free speech on college campuses, after receiving testimony from Robert Zimmer, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Nadine Strossen, New York Law School, New York; Allison Stanger, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont; and J. Richard Cohen, Southern Poverty Law Center, Birmingham, Alabama.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Allison H. Eid, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Stephanos Bibas, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Liles Clifton Burke, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, Walter David Counts III, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, Michael Joseph Juneau, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Karen Gren Scholer, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Tilman Eugene Self III, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, and John F. Bash, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas, Erin Angela Nealy Cox, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and R. Andrew Murray, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, all of the Department of Justice.
ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM FOR WOMEN
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a hearing to examine strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women, including an original bill entitled, ``Prove It Act'', after receiving testimony from Michelle Richards, Great Lakes Women's Business Council, Livonia, Michigan; Tracy Killoren Chadwell, 1843 Capital, Greenwich, Connecticut; and Elizabeth Gore, Dell, Sonoma, California.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
