[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 100 (Friday, June 15, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D683]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies held a markup on the FY 2019 
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Bill. The FY 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, 
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill was forwarded to 
the full Committee, without amendment.
THE STATE OF U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH BIOPREPAREDNESS: RESPONDING TO 
BIOLOGICAL ATTACKS, PANDEMICS, AND EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE 
OUTBREAKS
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations held a hearing entitled ``The State of U.S. Public 
Health Biopreparedness: Responding to Biological Attacks, Pandemics, 
and Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks''. Testimony was heard from 
the following Department of Health and Human Services officials: Rick 
A. Bright, Director, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development 
Authority, and Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Preparedness and Response; Anthony Fauci, Director, 
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National 
Institutes of Health; Rear Admiral Denise Hinton, Chief Scientist, U.S. 
Food and Drug Administration; and Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Joint Meetings
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S RUSSIA POLICY
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission received a 
briefing on the Trump Administration's Russia policy from Herman 
Pirchner, Jr., American Foreign Policy Council, and Alina Polyakova, 
Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.; and Yulia Latynina, 
Echo Moskvy and Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, Russia.