[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 149 (Thursday, September 14, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D981]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM BILL NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine nutrition programs, focusing on perspectives for 
the 2018 Farm Bill, after receiving testimony from Brandon Lipps, 
Acting Deputy Under Secretary, Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services 
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service, and Gil Harden, Assistant 
Inspector General for Audit, and Ann M. Coffey, Assistant Inspector 
General of Investigations, both of the Office of the Inspector General, 
all of the Department of Agriculture; Sam Schaeffer, Center for 
Employment Opportunities, New York, New York; Bryan Parker, Community 
Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma, Tulsa; Jimmy Wright, Wright's Market, 
Opelika, Alabama, on behalf of the National Grocers Association; Diane 
Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University Institute for Policy 
Research, Evanston, Illinois; and Brian Riendeau, Dare to Care Food 
Bank, Louisville, Kentucky.
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United 
States, after receiving testimony from Clay Lowery, Rock Creek Global 
Advisors LLC, and Kevin J. Wolf, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP, 
both of Arlington, Virginia; and James A. Lewis, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, Alexandria, Virginia.
INDIVIDUAL TAX REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
individual tax reform, after receiving testimony from Lily L. 
Batchelder, New York University School of Law, New York; Alex M. Brill, 
and Ramesh Ponnuru, both of the American Enterprise Institute, 
Washington, D.C.; and Iona Harrison, Pioneer Realty, Upper Marlboro, 
Maryland, on behalf of the National Association of Realtors.
FCC LIFELINE PROGRAM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine Federal Communications Commission's 
Lifeline Program, focusing on a case study of government waste and 
mismanagement, after receiving testimony from Seto Bagdoyan, Director, 
Forensic Audits and Investigative Service, Government Accountability 
Office; Ajit Pai, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; and 
Vickie S. Robinson, Universal Service Administrative Company, 
Washington, D.C.
INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MARKET
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine stabilizing premiums and helping 
individuals in the individual insurance market for 2018, focusing on 
health care stakeholders, after receiving testimony from Raymond G. 
Farmer, South Carolina Department of Insurance Director, Columbia, on 
behalf of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Manny K. 
Sethi, Healthy Tennessee, Nashville; Susan Turney, Marshfield Clinic 
Health System, Marshfield, Wisconsin; and Robert Ruiz-Moss, Anthem, 
Inc., and Christina Postolowski, Young Invincibles, both of Denver, 
Colorado.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Ralph R. Erickson, of North Dakota, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Donald C. Coggins, Jr., to be 
United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Dabney 
Langhorne Friedrich, of California, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Columbia, Stephen S. Schwartz, of Virginia, to be a 
Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, Robert J. Higdon, 
Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North 
Carolina, J. Cody Hiland, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Arkansas, Joshua J. Minkler, to be United States Attorney 
for the Southern District of Indiana, and Byung J. Pak, to be United 
States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.