[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 86 (Thursday, May 24, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D596-D597]
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: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill entitled, ``Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations Act, 2019'';
  An original bill entitled, ``Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019''; 
and
  Committee completed its review of 302(b) subcommittee allocations of 
budget outlays and new budget authority allocated to the committee in 
H. Con. Res. 71, establishing the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027.
CYBERSECURITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine cybersecurity, focusing on risks to the financial 
services industry and its preparedness, including S. 536, to promote 
transparency in the oversight of cybersecurity risks at publicly traded 
companies, after receiving testimony from Bill Nelson, Financial 
Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, Leesburg, Virginia; 
Michael Daniel, Cyber Threat Alliance, Arlington, Virginia; Phil 
Venables, Goldman Sachs, Jersey City, New Jersey; Carl A. Kessler III, 
First Mutual Holding Co., Avon, Ohio; and Bob Sydow, Ernst and Young 
LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio.
RURAL HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine rural 
health care in America, focusing on challenges and opportunities, after 
receiving testimony from George H. Pink, University of North Carolina 
Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill; Keith J. Mueller, 
University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City; Konnie Martin, 
San Luis Valley Health, Alamosa, Colorado; Susan K. Thompson, 
UnityPoint Health, West Des Moines, Iowa; and Karen M. Murphy, 
Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of John J. Bartrum, of Indiana, to be an Assistant Secretary 
of Health and Human Services.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2019 
for the Department of State, after receiving testimony from Mike 
Pompeo, Secretary of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2645, to establish a demonstration program under which the Drug 
Enforcement Administration provides grants to certain States to enable 
those States to increase participation in drug take-back programs;
  S. 2535, to amend the Controlled Substances Act to strengthen Drug 
Enforcement Administration discretion in setting opioid quotas, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2789, to prevent substance abuse and reduce demand for illicit 
narcotics, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 207, to amend the Controlled Substances Act relating to controlled 
substance analogues;
  S. 2838, to amend the Controlled Substances Act to require the Drug 
Enforcement Administration to report certain information on 
distribution of opioids, with an amendment; and
  The nominations of Andrew S. Oldham, of Texas, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Alan D. Albright, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, Thomas S. 
Kleeh, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
West Virginia, Peter J. Phipps, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Pennsylvania, Michael J. Truncale, to be a 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, Wendy 
Vitter, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Louisiana, and Erica H. MacDonald, to be United States Attorney for the 
District of Minnesota, and Scott Patrick Illing, to be United States 
Marshal for the Eastern District of Louisiana, both of the Department 
of Justice.