[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 86 (Thursday, May 18, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D548]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Kari A. Bingen, of Virginia, to be a Principal 
Deputy Under Secretary, and Robert Story Karem, of the District of 
Columbia, who was introduced by Senator McConnell, and Kenneth P. 
Rapuano, of Virginia, who was introduced by Representative Comstock, 
both to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of Defense, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine domestic and international policy, including S. 
1002, to enhance the ability of community financial institutions to 
foster economic growth and serve their communities, boost small 
businesses, increase individual savings, S. 976, to restore States' 
sovereign rights to enforce State and local sales and use tax laws, S. 
881, to reduce risks to the financial system by limiting banks' ability 
to engage in certain risky activities and limiting conflicts of 
interest, to reinstate certain Glass-Steagall Act protections that were 
repealed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, after receiving testimony from 
Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1129, to authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 118, to make exclusive the authority of the Federal Government to 
regulate the labeling of products made in the United States and 
introduced in interstate or foreign commerce, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 396, to make technical amendments to certain marine fish 
conservation statutes;
  S. 793, to prohibit sale of shark fins, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1057, to amend the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and 
Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal blooms, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1096, to amend and enhance certain maritime programs of the 
Department of Transportation, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of David Bernhardt, of Virginia, to 
be Deputy Secretary of the Interior, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Gardner, testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
bill entitled, ``The Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes 
Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017''.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of William Francis Hagerty IV, of Tennessee, to 
be Ambassador to Japan, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senator Alexander, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Amul R. Thapar, of Kentucky, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Sixth Circuit.