[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 18 (Thursday, January 25, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D90-D91]
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 Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,056 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
global challenges and United States national security strategy, after 
receiving testimony from Henry A. Kissinger, Kissinger Associates, and 
George P. Shultz, Stanford University Hoover Institution, both a former 
Secretary of State, and Richard L. Armitage, Armitage International, 
former Deputy Secretary of State, all of Washington, D.C.
CFIUS REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States 
reform, focusing on Administration perspectives on the essential 
elements, including S. 2098, to modernize and strengthen the Committee 
on Foreign Investment in the United States to more effectively guard 
against the risk to the national security of the United States posed by 
certain types of foreign investment, and S. 1983, to establish a 
process to review foreign investment to determine the economic effect 
of the investment on the United States, after receiving testimony from 
Heath P. Tarbert, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Richard E. 
Ashooh, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; and 
Eric D. Chewning, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy.
WIRELESS EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the Wireless Emergency Alert system, after 
receiving testimony from Lisa M. Fowlkes, Chief, Public Safety and 
Homeland Security Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; Scott 
Bergmann, CTIA, and Sam Matheny, National Association of Broadcasters, 
both of Washington, D.C.; and Michael Lisenco, ARRL, Newington, 
Connecticut.
COMBATING THE OPIOID CRISIS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine combating 
the opioid crisis, focusing on exploiting vulnerabilities in 
international mail, after receiving testimony from Joseph Murphy, 
International Postal Policy Unit Chief, Bureau of International 
Organizations, Department of State; Robert Cintron, Vice President, 
Network Operations, William Siemer, Acting Deputy Inspector General, 
and Guy Cottrell, Chief Postal Inspector, Postal Inspection Service, 
all of the United States Postal Service; Todd C. Owen, Executive 
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, Customs and Border 
Protection, and Gregory C. Nevano, Deputy Assistant Director, Illicit 
Trade, Travel, and Finance Division, Homeland Security Investigations, 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, both of the Department of Homeland 
Security; and Daniel D. Baldwin, Section Chief, Office of Global 
Enforcement, Asia and Africa, Operations Division, Drug Enforcement 
Administration, Department of Justice.
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, 
focusing on access and innovation, after receiving testimony from Joe 
May, Dallas County Community College District, Dallas, Texas; Donna 
Linderman, City University of New York, New York; Barbara Brittingham, 
Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, Burlington, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the New England Association of Schools and 
Colleges; Deborah Bushway, Northwestern Health Sciences University, 
Bloomington, Minnesota; and Mike Larsson, Match Beyond, Boston, 
Massachusetts.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Frank T. Brogan, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary 
Education, Department of Education, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Nelson, testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights: 
Senators Lee (Chair),Grassley, Hatch, Graham, Tillis, Klobuchar, Leahy, 
Blumenthal, and Booker.
Subcommittee on the Constitution: Senators Cruz (Chair), Cornyn, Crapo, 
Sasse, Graham, Kennedy, Hirono, Durbin, Whitehouse, Coons, and Harris.
Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism: Senators Graham (Chair), Grassley, 
Hatch, Cornyn, Cruz, Sasse, Kennedy, Whitehouse, Feinstein, Durbin, 
Klobuchar, Coons, and Booker.

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Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration: Senators Cornyn 
(Chair), Tillis, Kennedy, Grassley, Cruz, Flake, Crapo, Lee, Durbin, 
Feinstein, Leahy, Klobuchar, Blumenthal, Hirono, and Booker.
Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal 
Courts: Senators Sasse (Chair), Grassley, Crapo, Kennedy, Hatch, Lee, 
Flake, Tillis, Blumenthal, Leahy, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, Hirono, 
and Harris.
Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law: Senators Flake 
(Chair), Hatch, Lee, Tillis, Crapo, Sasse, Kennedy, Coons, Leahy, 
Whitehouse, Blumenthal, Hirono, and Harris.