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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1292-D1293 on Nov. 21, 2019.
The Department oversees more than 500 million acres of land. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the department has contributed to a growing water crisis and holds many lands which could be better managed.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FCC SPECTRUM AUCTIONS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government concluded an oversight hearing examine the Federal Communications Commission, focusing on the spectrum auctions program, after receiving testimony from Julius Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, and Giulia McHenry, Acting Chief, Office of Economics and Analytics, both of the Federal Communications Commission.
FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Federal payments to local governments provided through the Secure Rural Schools and Payments in Lieu of Taxes programs, including S. 430, to extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, S. 1643, to amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Forest and Refuge County Foundation, to provide for the establishment of the Natural Resources Permanent Fund, and S. 2108, to amend section 6903 of title 31, United States Code, to provide for additional population tiers, after receiving testimony from Denise Flanagan, Director of Budget, Department of the Interior; Allen Rowley, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Mayor Stephen Prysunka, Wrangell, Alaska; and Justin M. Dilley, Pocahontas County Board of Education, Dunmore, West Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Patrick J. Bumatay, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Lawrence VanDyke, of Nevada, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Philip M. Halpern, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Bernard Maurice Jones II, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, Barbara Bailey Jongbloed, to be United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and Thomas Michael O'Connor, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Texas, and Ralph Ignatius Sozio, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York, both of the Department of Justice.
