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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1191-D1192 on Nov. 8, 2017.
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.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1693, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230 of that Act does not prohibit the enforcement against providers and users of interactive computer services of Federal and State criminal and civil law relating to sex trafficking, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1668, to rename a waterway in the State of New York as the
``Joseph Sanford Jr. Channel''; and
The nominations of Dana Baiocco, of Ohio, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, James Bridenstine, of Oklahoma, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Neil Jacobs, of North Carolina, and Nazakhtar Nikakhtar, of Maryland, both to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Bruce Landsberg, of South Carolina, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, Raymond Martinez, of New Jersey, to be Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and Diana Furchtgott-Roth, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Transportation, and Leon A. Westmoreland, of Georgia, to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors.
DATA BREACHES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine protecting consumers in the era of major data breaches, after receiving testimony from Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia, and Richard F. Smith, Los Angeles, California, both of Equifax; Marissa Mayer, Yahoo, San Francisco, California; Karen Zacharia, Verizon, New York, New York; and Todd Wilkinson, Entrust Datacard, Shakopee, Minnesota.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Kathleen Hartnett White, of Texas, to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality, and Andrew Wheeler, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who was introduced by Representative Stivers, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy received a closed briefing on a readout of Ambassador Haley's recent trip to Africa from Nikki R. Haley, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Department of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Kirstjen Nielsen, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Homeland Security, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Portman and Rubio, testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 1400, to amend title 18, United States Code, to enhance protections of Native American tangible cultural heritage, and S. 465, to provide for an independent outside audit of the Indian Health Service, after receiving testimony from John Tahsuda III, Acting Assistant Secretary--
Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Elizabeth A. Fowler, Deputy Director for Management Operations, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; David Flute, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, Agency Village, South Dakota; and Kurt Riley, Pueblo of Acoma, Acoma, New Mexico.
LAWSUIT ABUSE ON AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESSES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the impact of lawsuit abuse on American small businesses and job creators, including S. 237, to amend Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to improve attorney accountability, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth Milito, National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center, and John H. Beisner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, both of Washington, D.C.; and Myriam Gilles, Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York.
