[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 98 (Thursday, June 8, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D626-D627]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2018 for the 
Department of Commerce, after receiving testimony from Wilbur Ross, 
Secretary of Commerce.
FOSTERING ECONOMIC GROWTH
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine fostering economic growth, focusing on the role of 
financial institutions in local communities, including S. 366, to 
require the Federal financial institutions regulatory agencies to take 
risk profiles and business models of institutions into account when 
taking regulatory actions, S. 1002, to enhance the ability of community 
financial institutions to foster economic

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growth and serve their communities, boost small businesses, increase 
individual savings, S. 1152, to create protections for depository 
institutions that provide financial services to cannabis-related 
businesses, and S. 1310, to amend the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 
1975 to specify which depository institutions are subject to the 
maintenance of records and disclosure requirements of such Act, after 
receiving testimony from Dorothy A. Savarese, American Bankers 
Association, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Steve Grooms, 1st Liberty Federal 
Credit Union, Great Falls, Montana, on behalf of the National 
Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions; R. Scott Heitkamp, 
Value Bank, Corpus Christi, Texas, on behalf of the Independent 
Community Bankers of America; Dallas Bergl, Inova Federal Credit Union, 
Elkhart, Indiana, on behalf of the Credit Union National Association; 
John Bissell, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; 
and Adam J. Levitin, Georgetown University Law Center, Somerset, 
Massachusetts.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Derek Kan, of California, to be 
Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, David J. Redl, of New 
York, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
Information, and Robert L. Sumwalt III, of South Carolina, to be a 
Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, after the nominees, 
who were all introduced by Senator Gardner, testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
EMERGING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine cost reductions in emerging energy technologies with 
a specific focus on how recent trends may affect today's energy 
landscape, after receiving testimony from Lily Donge, Rocky Mountain 
Institute Business Renewables Center, and Kevin Yates, Siemens Energy 
Management Division, both of Washington, D.C.; Greg Merritt, Cree, 
Inc., Durham, North Carolina; David Greeson, NRG Energy, Houston, 
Texas; Steve Simonton, Cimarex Energy Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Russell 
Vare, Mercedes-Benz Energy Americas, LLC, Sunnyvale, California.
DEPARTMENT OF HHS BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2018 for the 
Department of Health and Human Services, after receiving testimony from 
Thomas Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
ISIS'S GLOBAL REACH
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine ISIS's global reach beyond Iraq and Syria, after receiving 
testimony from Lorenzo Vidino, The George Washington University Program 
on Extremism, and Daniel Byman, Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh 
School of Foreign Service, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 782, to reauthorize the National Internet Crimes Against Children 
Task Force Program; and
  The nominations of Noel J. Francisco, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Solicitor General of the United States, and Makan Delrahim, of 
California, and Steven Andrew Engel, of the District of Columbia, each 
to be an Assistant Attorney General, all of the Department of Justice.
FBI INTELLIGENCE MATTERS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine certain intelligence matters relating to the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, after receiving testimony from James B. Comey, former 
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
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.