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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D572-D573 on May 21, 2019.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine climate change and the agriculture sector, after receiving testimony from Debbie Lyons-Blythe, Blythe Family Farms, LLC, White City, Kansas, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association; Frank Mitloehner, University of California Department of Animal Science, Davis; Matt Rezac, Rezac Farms, Weston, Nebraska; and former Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack, United States Dairy Export Council, Arlington, Virginia.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity met in closed session and approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower met in closed session and approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities met in closed session and approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020.
COMBATING ILLICIT FINANCING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine combating illicit financing by anonymous shell companies through the collection of beneficial ownership information, after receiving testimony from Kenneth A. Blanco, Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Grovetta N. Gardineer, Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy and Community Affairs, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, both of the Department of the Treasury; and Steven M. D'Antuono, Acting Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine opportunities to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts in the United States, after receiving testimony from Daniel R. Simmons, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and Martin Keller, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, both of the Department of Energy; Dan Conant, Solar Holler, Shepherdstown, West Virginia; Jason Hartke, Alliance to Save Energy, Washington, D.C.; and Bruno C. Grunau, Cold Climate Housing Research Center, Fairbanks, Alaska.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Pamela Bates, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador, and Christopher Landau, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the United Mexican States, both of the Department of State, Jennifer D. Nordquist, of Virginia, to be United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Eliot Pedrosa, of Florida, to be United States Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
GAO ANNUAL DUPLICATION REPORT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management concluded a hearing to examine the Government Accountability Office's annual duplication report, after receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, Government Accountability Office.
DIGITAL ADVERTISING ECOSYSTEM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the digital advertising ecosystem and the impact of data privacy and competition policy, after receiving testimony from Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada; Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut; Brian O'Kelley, AppNexus Inc., New York, New York; Johnny Ryan, Brave, London, United Kingdom; and Jan M. Rybnicek, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to consider pending intelligence matters.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
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.
