[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 84 (Tuesday, May 16, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D531]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Sigal Mandelker, of New York, to 
be Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, Marshall 
Billingslea, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Terrorist 
Financing, and Heath P. Tarbert, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, all of the Department of the Treasury, and Mira Radielovic 
Ricardel, of California, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export 
Administration, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
LEVERAGING FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded a hearing to examine 
leveraging Federal funding, focusing on innovative solutions for 
infrastructure, after receiving testimony from Aubrey L. Layne, 
Commonwealth of Virginia Secretary of Transportation, Richmond; Tim 
Gatz, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, Oklahoma City; Mayor Eric Garcetti, 
and Geoffrey S. Yarema, Nossaman LLP, on behalf of the National Surface 
Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, both of Los 
Angeles, California; and Kevin DeGood, Center for American Progress, 
Washington, D.C.
BIPARTISAN MEDICARE POLICIES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
bipartisan Medicare policies that improve care for patients with 
chronic conditions, after receiving testimony from Senators Schatz and 
Wicker; Katherine Hayes, Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, D.C.; 
Lee Schwamm, Harvard Medical School, Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the 
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association; John G. 
Lovelace, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania; and Stephen Rosenthal, Montefiore Health System, Yonkers, 
New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of John J. Sullivan, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary 
of State, and routine lists in the Foreign Service.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.