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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1172-D1173 on Nov. 14, 2018.
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)
DOD CYBERSECURITY ACQUISITION AND PRACTICES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Defense's cybersecurity acquisition and practices from the private sector, after receiving testimony from Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike Inc.; Major General John Davis, USA (Ret.), Palo Alto Networks; Francis Landolf, Core Consulting, LLC; and Ronald Nielsen, Parsons Corporation.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Patricia Mahoney, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Richard Carlton Paschall III, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia, and Susan N. Stevenson, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1942, to direct the Attorney General to review, revise, and develop law enforcement and justice protocols appropriate to address missing and murdered Indians, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 2788, to repeal the Act entitled ``An Act to confer jurisdiction on the State of North Dakota over offenses committed by or against Indians on the Devils Lake Indian Reservation'', H.R. 2606, to amend the Act of August 4, 1947 (commonly known as the Stigler Act), with respect to restrictions applicable to Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma, and H.R. 4032, to confirm undocumented Federal rights-of-way or easements on the Gila River Indian Reservation, clarify the northern boundary of the Gila River Indian Community's Reservation, to take certain land located in Maricopa County and Pinal County, Arizona, into trust for the benefit of the Gila River Indian Community, after receiving testimony from Darryl LaCounte, Acting Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; James R. Floyd, Muscogee
(Creek) Nation, Okmulgee, Oklahoma; Douglas Yankton, Spirit Lake Tribe, Fort Totten, North Dakota; and Barney B. Enos, Jr., Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona.
