[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 142 (Tuesday, September 20, 2016)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D947]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of General John E. Hyten, USAF, for reappointment to the 
grade of general and to be Commander, United States Strategic Command, 
Department of Defense, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
WELLS FARGO
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Wells Fargo's unauthorized accounts and the 
regulatory response, after receiving testimony from Thomas J. Curry, 
Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury; Richard 
Cordray, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; John Stumpf, 
Wells Fargo and Co., San Francisco, California; and James Clark, Office 
of the Los Angeles City Attorney, Los Angeles, California.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of W. Stuart Symington, of Missouri, to be 
Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Andrew Robert Young, of 
California, to be Ambassador to Burkina Faso, and Joseph R. Donovan 
Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, all of 
the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
SOUTH SUDAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine South Sudan, focusing on options in crisis, after receiving 
testimony from Kate Almquist Knopf, Director, Africa Center for 
Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Department of Defense; 
Jok Madut Jok, The Sudd Institute, Los Angeles, California; Luka Biong 
Deng KUOL, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Oslo, Norway; and Peter Yeo, 
United Nations Foundation, Washington, D.C.
LABORATORY TESTING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine laboratory testing in the era of 
precision medicine, after receiving testimony from David S. Klimstra, 
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; Brad 
Spring, BD Life Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland; Jeff Allen, Friends of 
Cancer Research, Washington, D.C.; and Karen Kaul, NorthShore 
University HealthSystem Department of Pathology and Laboratory 
Medicine, Evanston, Illinois.
U.S. SEED AND AGROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
consolidation and competition in the United States seed and 
agrochemical industry, after receiving testimony from James C. Collins, 
Jr., DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware; Tim Hassinger, Dow AgroSciences, 
Indianapolis, Indiana; Erik Fyrwald, Syngenta AG, Basel, Switzerland; 
Jim Blome, Bayer CropScience LP, Research Triangle Park, North 
Carolina; Robert T. Fraley, Monsanto, St. Louis, Missouri; Diana L. 
Moss, American Antitrust Institute, Bob Young, American Farm Bureau 
Federation, and Roger Johnson, National Farmers Union, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Christopher Novak, National Corn Growers 
Association, Chesterfield, Missouri, on behalf of the American Soybean 
Association.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.