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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1040-D1041 on Oct. 3, 2017.
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)
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the political and security situation in Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from James N. Mattis, Secretary, and General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., USMC, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of the Department of Defense.
WELLS FARGO
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Wells Fargo one year later, after receiving testimony from Tim Sloan, Wells Fargo and Co., San Marino, California.
ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the status of energy storage technologies, reviewing today's technologies, and understanding innovation in tomorrow's technologies, after receiving testimony from Vincent Sprenkle, Manager, Electrochemical Materials and Systems Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Department of Energy; Praveen Kathpal, AES Energy Storage, Arlington, Virginia; Simon Moores, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, London, United Kingdom; and John Seifarth, Voith, York, Pennsylvania.
ENERGY LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy concluded a hearing to examine S. 186, to amend the Federal Power Act to provide that any inacation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that allows a rate change to go into effect shall be treated as an order by the Commission for purposes of rehearing and court review, S. 1059, to extend the authorization of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 relating to the disposal site in Mesa County, Colorado, S. 1337, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to make certain strategic energy infrastructure projects eligible for certain loan guarantees, S. 1457, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to direct the Secretary of Energy to carry out demonstration projects relating to advanced nuclear reactor technologies to support domestic energy needs, S. 1799, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to facilitate the commercialization of energy and related technologies developed at Department of Energy facilities with promising commercial potential, and S. 1860 and H.R. 1109, bills to amend section 203 of the Federal Power Act, after receiving testimony from James Danly, General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and Bernard McNamee, Deputy General Counsel, Department of Energy.
INTERNATIONAL TAX REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine international tax reform, after receiving testimony from Bret Wells, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas; Kimberly A. Clausing, Reed College, Portland, Oregon; Stephen E. Shay, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Itai Grinberg, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Kenneth Ian Juster, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of India, Department of State, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Larry Edward Andre, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti, Peter Henry Barlerin, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, Eric P. Whitaker, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, 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, and 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, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of John Marshall Mitnick, of Virginia, to be General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Every Student Succeeds Act, focusing on unleashing State innovation, after receiving testimony from Candice McQueen, Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner, Nashville; John White, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education, Baton Rouge; Christopher Ruszkowski, New Mexico Secretary of Education, Santa Fe; and David M. Steiner, Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, Annapolis, Maryland.
DACA OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Administration's decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, after receiving testimony from Chad Readler, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice; Michael Dougherty, Assistant Secretary, Border, Immigration, and Trade, Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, and James McCament, Acting Director, Citizenship and Immigration Services, both of the Department of Homeland Security; Jessica M. Vaughan, Center for Immigration Studies, Washington, D.C.; Denisse Rojas Marquez, Pre-Health Dreamers, New York, New York; and Bill Hartzell, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed sessions to receive briefings on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
