[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 109 (Thursday, June 28, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D758-D759]
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 (S. 3158) making appropriations for the Departments 
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019; and
  An original bill (S. 3159) making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,737 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine legislative proposals to examine corporate 
governance, including S. 2756, to amend the Securities Act of 1933 to 
direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise the regulations 
of the Commission regarding the qualifications of natural persons as 
accredited investors, S. 1744, to require the Securities and Exchange 
Commission to amend certain regulations, S. 2499, to require the 
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to establish a relief fund to 
provide investors with the full value of unpaid arbitration awards 
issued against brokerage firms or brokers regulated by the Authority, 
S. 536, to promote transparency in the oversight of cybersecurity risks 
at publicly traded companies, S. 3004, to amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 
of 2002 to exclude privately held, non-custody brokers and dealers that 
are in good standing from certain requirements under title I of that 
Act, and H.R. 4015, to improve the quality of proxy advisory firms for 
the protection of investors and the U.S. economy, and in the public 
interest, by fostering accountability, transparency, responsiveness, 
and competition in the proxy advisory firm industry, after receiving 
testimony from Thomas Quaadman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Damon A. 
Silvers, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.; Darla C. Stuckey, Society 
for Corporate Governance, London, United Kingdom; and John C. Coates 
IV, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of Charles P. Rettig, of California, to be Commissioner of 
Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury, after the nominee 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Jeffrey Kessler, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce, Lynn A. Johnson, of Colorado, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Family Support, Department of Health and Human Services, 
and Elizabeth Ann Copeland, of Texas, and Patrick J. Urda, of Indiana, 
both to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Randy W. Berry, of Colorado, to be 
Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, and Alaina B. 
Teplitz, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the

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Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently 
and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Maldives, who were both introduced by Senator Gardner, and Donald Lu, 
of California, to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, all of the 
Department of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2823, to modernize copyright law, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Holly A. Brady, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Indiana, Andrew Lynn Brasher, to be United 
States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, James Patrick 
Hanlon, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Indiana, David Steven Morales, to be United States District Judge for 
the Southern District of Texas, Lance E. Walker, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Maine, and John D. Jordan, to be 
United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri, Nick 
Willard, to be United States Marshal for the District of New Hampshire, 
and Mark F. Sloke, to be United States Marshal for the Southern 
District of Alabama, all of the Department of Justice.