[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 23, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D582-D584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of the 
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 
2019 for the Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health 
Service, after receiving testimony from Rear Admiral Michael D. 
Weahkee, Assistant Surgeon General, Public Health Service, Acting 
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human 
Services.

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APPROPRIATIONS: NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2019 for the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, after receiving 
testimony from James F. Bridenstine, Administrator, National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Lisa Porter, of Virginia, to be a Deputy Under 
Secretary, James N. Stewart, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, James H. Anderson, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, Gregory J. Slavonic, of Oklahoma, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of the Navy, and Charles Douglas Stimson, of Virginia, to be 
General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, all of the Department of 
Defense, Charles P. Verdon, of California, to be Deputy Administrator 
for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, 
Department of Energy, and 280 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, 
and Marine Corps.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill entitled, ``National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2019''.
HOUSING FINANCE SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the status of the housing finance system, after 
receiving testimony from Melvin L. Watt, Director, Federal Housing 
Finance Agency.
FRAGMENTATION, OVERLAP, AND DUPLICATION IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
Government Accountability Office's annual report on additional 
opportunities to reduce fragmentation, overlap, and duplication in the 
Federal government, after receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, 
Comptroller General, Government Accountability Office.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Emory A. Rounds III, 
of Maine, to be Director of the Office of Government Ethics, who was 
introduced by Senator King, Kelly Higashi, to be an Associate Judge of 
the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, who was introduced by 
Representative Norton, and Frederick M. Nutt, of Virginia, to be 
Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, Office of 
Management and Budget, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 2852, to reauthorize certain programs under the 
Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Britt Cagle Grant, of Georgia, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, who was introduced by Senators 
Isakson and Perdue, Allen Cothrel Winsor, to be United States District 
Judge for the Northern District of Florida, Patrick R. Wyrick, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, who 
was introduced by Senator Lankford, and Edward W. Felten, of New 
Jersey, and Jane Nitze, of the District of Columbia, both to be a 
Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Border Security and 
Immigration concluded a hearing to examine the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Reauthorization Act and exploited loopholes affecting 
unaccompanied alien children, after receiving testimony from Senators 
Menendez and Heller; Alysa Erichs, Acting Deputy Executive Associate 
Director, Homeland Security Investigations, and Matthew Albence, 
Executive Associate Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, both 
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Richard M. Hudson, Deputy 
Chief, Operational Programs, Law Enforcement Operations Directorate, 
Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, all of the Department of 
Homeland Security; and Steven Wagner, Acting Assistant Secretary, 
Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and 
Human Services.
OPIOID MISUSE AMONG OLDER AMERICANS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
preventing and treating opioid misuse among older Americans, after 
receiving testimony from Gary Cantrell, Deputy Inspector General for 
Investigations, Office of Investigations, Office of Inspector General, 
Department of Health and

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Human Services; Charles F. Pattavina, St. Joseph Hospital, Bangor, 
Maine; William B. Stauffer, Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations 
Alliance, Harrisburg; and Nicholas Terry, Indiana University Robert H. 
McKinney School of Law Hall Center for Law and Health, Bloomington.