[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 143 (Wednesday, September 6, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D923-D924]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies approved 
for full committee consideration an original bill entitled, 
``Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018''.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs approved for full committee consideration an 
original bill entitled, ``Department of State, Foreign Operations, and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2018''.
FCC LIFELINE PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine addressing the risk of waste, fraud, and abuse in 
the Federal Communications Commission's Lifeline Program, after 
receiving testimony from Seto Bagdoyan, Director, Forensic Audits and 
Investigative Service, Government Accountability Office; Chris Nelson, 
South Dakota Public Utilities Commissioner, Pierre; and Deborah 
Collier, Citizens Against Government Waste, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, 
American Enterprise Institute, and Jessica J. Gonzalez, Free Press and 
Free Press Action Fund, all of Washington, D.C.
U.S.-TURKEY RELATIONSHIP
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine priorities and challenges in the United States-Turkey 
relationship, after receiving testimony from Steven A. Cook, Council on 
Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.; and Amanda Sloat, Harvard Kennedy 
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the history and current reality of the 
United States health care system, after receiving testimony from 
Melissa Thomasson, Miami University Farmer School of Business, Oxford, 
Ohio; Katherine Baicker, University of Chicago Harris School of Public 
Policy, Chicago, Illinois; and Sabrina Corlette, Georgetown University 
Health Policy Institute Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Washington, 
D.C.
STABILIZING INSURANCE PREMIUMS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine stabilizing premiums and helping 
individuals on the individual insurance market for 2018, focusing on 
state insurance commissioners, after receiving testimony from John D. 
Doak, Oklahoma Department of Insurance, Tulsa; Mike Kreidler, 
Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner, Olympia; Julie 
Mix McPeak, Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, Nashville; 
Teresa Miller, Pennsylvania Insurance Department, Harrisburg; and Lori 
Wing-Heier, Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic 
Development, Anchorage.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Amy Coney Barrett, of Indiana, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, who was introduced by Senator 
Young, Joan Louise Larsen, of Michigan, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Sixth Circuit, William L. Campbell, Jr., to be United 
States District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, and Thomas 
Lee Robinson Parker, to be United

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States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, who were 
both introduced by Senator Corker, and Eric S. Dreiband, of Maryland, 
to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.