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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D957-D958 on Sept. 12, 2017.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FINTECH LANDSCAPE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Fintech landscape, including S. 536, to promote transparency in the oversight of cybersecurity risks at publicly traded companies, after receiving testimony from Lawrance L. Evans, Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, Government Accountability Office; Eric W. Turner, S&P Global Market Intelligence, Princeton, New Jersey; and Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore.
MAGNUSON-STEVENS FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to examine reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, focusing on oversight of fisheries management successes and challenges, after receiving testimony from Phil Faulkner, Nauticstar Boats, Amory, Mississippi; James A. Donofrio, Recreational Fishing Alliance, New Gretna, New Jersey; Chris Horton, Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Lori Steele, West Coast Seafood Processors Association, Portland, Oregon; Peter Andrew, Jr., Bristol Bay Native Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska; Gregory P. DiDomenico, Garden State Seafood Association, Cape May, New Jersey; William Cochrane II, Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance, Galveston, Texas; and Tony Friedrich, Granville, Maryland.
FOSTERING INNOVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy concluded a hearing to examine fostering innovation, focusing on contributions of the Department of Energy's national laboratories, including 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, after receiving testimony from Paul Kearns, Interim Laboratory Director, Argonne National Laboratory, and Bill Tumas, Associate Lab Director, Materials and Chemical Science and Technology, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, both of the Department of Energy; Brian J. Anderson, West Virginia University Energy Institute, Morgantown; and Anuja Ratnayake, Duke Energy Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina.
HEALTH CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine health care, focusing on issues impacting cost and coverage, after receiving testimony from Avik S. A. Roy, The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, Austin, Texas; Edmund F. Haislmaier, The Heritage Foundation, and Aviva Aron-Dine, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, both of Washington, D.C.; and Andy Slavitt, Bipartisan Policy Center, Edina, Minnesota.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Eric M. Ueland, of Oregon, to be an Under Secretary (Management), who was introduced by Senator Enzi, John R. Bass, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and Justin Hicks Siberell, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, all of the Department of State, and J. Steven Dowd, of Florida, to be United States Director of the African Development Bank, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Daniel J. Kaniewski, of Minnesota, to be Deputy Administrator for National Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, and Jonathan H. Pittman, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
STABILIZING HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine stabilizing premiums and helping individuals in the individual insurance market for 2018, focusing on state flexibility, after receiving testimony from Michael O. Leavitt, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Salt Lake City, Utah; Allison O'Toole, MNsure, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Tarren Bragdon, The Foundation for Government Accountability, Naples, Florida; Bernard J. Tyson, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., and Hospitals, Pleasanton, California; and Tammy Tomczyk, Oliver Wyman, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
U.S. COUNTERNARCOTICS EFFORTS IN COLOMBIA
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus concluded a hearing to examine adapting United States counternarcotics efforts in Colombia, including interdiction and eradication, given the increased availability of cocaine in the United States following years of decline, after receiving testimony from William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Brigadier General Joseph J. McMenamin, USMC
(Ret.), Principal Director for Counternarcotics and Global Threats, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Vice Admiral Charles W. Ray, Deputy Commandant for Operations, Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security; Anthony D. Williams, Assistant Administrator, Chief of Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; and Douglas Farah, IBI Consultants LLC, and Roger F. Noriega, American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
