[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 24, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D437-D438]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RURAL AMERICA
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the state of rural America, after receiving 
testimony from Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee announced 
the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade: Senators 
Boozman (Chair), Hoeven, Grassley, Thune, Daines, Perdue, Hyde-Smith, 
Heitkamp, Brown, Bennet, Gillibrand, Donnelly, and Smith.
Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy: Senators Ernst (Chair), 
Boozman, Hoeven, Thune, Daines, Fischer, Hyde-Smith, Smith, Brown, 
Klobuchar, Bennet, Donnelly, and Heitkamp.
Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, and Natural Resources: Senators 
Daines (Chair), McConnell, Boozman, Grassley, Perdue, Hyde-Smith, 
Bennet, Leahy, Klobuchar, Donnelly, and Casey.
Subcommittee on Nutrition, Agricultural Research, and Specialty Crops: 
Senators Perdue (Chair), McConnell, Boozman, Hoeven, Ernst, Fischer, 
Casey, Leahy, Brown, Gillibrand, and Smith.
Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing, and Agriculture Security: 
Senators Fischer (Chair), McConnell, Ernst, Grassley, Thune, Daines, 
Gillibrand, Leahy, Klobuchar, Heitkamp, and Casey.
Senators Roberts and Stabenow are ex-officio members of each 
subcommittee.
APPROPRIATIONS: NAVY AND MARINE CORPS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Defense 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2019 for the Navy and Marine Corps, after 
receiving testimony from Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy, 
Admiral John M. Richardson, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, and General 
Robert B. Neller, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps, all of the 
Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: FDA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2019 for the Food and Drug 
Administration, after receiving testimony from Scott Gottlieb, 
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and 
Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS: USAID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2019 for the United States 
Agency for International Development, after receiving testimony from 
Mark Green, Administrator, United States Agency for International 
Development.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 256 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the posture of the Department of

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the Air Force in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal 
year 2019 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving 
testimony from Heather A. Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force, and 
General David L. Goldfein, USAF, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, both 
of the Department of Defense.
MARITIME TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to 
examine maritime transportation, focusing on opportunities and 
challenges, after receiving testimony from Michael A. Khouri, Acting 
Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission; Mark. H. Buzby, USN (Ret.), 
Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation; 
Rear Admiral James Helis, USMS, Superintendent, Merchant Marine 
Academy; and Craig H. Middlebrook, Deputy Administrator, Saint Lawrence 
Seaway Development Corporation, Department of Transportation.
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 
2019 for the Forest Service, after receiving testimony from Victoria 
Christiansen, Interim Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
NEW TAX LAW
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine early 
impressions of the new tax law, after receiving testimony from David K. 
Cranston, Jr., Cranston Material Handling Equipment Corp., McKees 
Rocks, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Federation of 
Independent Business; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, 
Washington, D.C.; and David Kamin, New York University School of Law, 
and Rebecca M. Kysar, Brooklyn Law School, both of New York, New York.
CYBERSECURITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine mitigating America's cybersecurity risk, 
including the need for the Department of Homeland Security to improve 
and promote the security of Federal and private-sector networks, after 
receiving testimony from Jeanette Manfra, Assistant Secretary, Office 
of Cybersecurity and Communications, National Protection and Programs 
Directorate, Department of Homeland Security; Gregory C. Wilshusen, 
Director, Information Security Issues, Government Accountability 
Office; and Eric Rosenbach, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for 
Science and International Affairs, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2680, to address the opioid crisis, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2315, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify 
the regulatory framework with respect to certain nonprescription drugs 
that are marketed without an approved new drug application, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2597, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the 
program of payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate 
medical education programs, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 382, to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 
develop a voluntary registry to collect data on cancer incidence among 
firefighters; and
  The nomination of Jon Parrish Peede, of Mississippi, to be 
Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
INTERNATIONAL PARENTAL CHILD ABDUCTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the plight of international parental child abduction and its effect on 
American families, after receiving testimony from Carl C. Risch, 
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs; Donald E. 
Conroy, Director, Passenger Division, National Targeting Center, Office 
of Field Operations, Customs and Border Protection, Department of 
Homeland Security; Noelle Hunter, iStand Parent Network Inc., Morehead, 
Kentucky; John F. Clark, National Center for Missing and Exploited 
Children, Alexandria, Virginia; and Christopher S. Brann, Houston, 
Texas.
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.