[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 17, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D822]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SEMIANNUAL MONETARY POLICY REPORT TO THE CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the 
Congress, after receiving testimony from Jerome H. Powell, Chairman, 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
DOI CRITICAL MINERALS LIST
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Department of the Interior's final list of 
critical minerals for 2018 and opportunities to strengthen the United 
States' mineral security, after receiving testimony from Steven M. 
Fortier, Director, National Minerals Information Center, Geological 
Survey, Department of the Interior; Roderick G. Eggert, Deputy 
Director, Advanced Manufacturing Office, Critical Materials Institute, 
The Ames Laboratory, Department of Energy; Greg Gregory, Materion 
Natural Resources, Delta, Utah; Aaron Mintzes, Eathworks, Washington, 
D.C.; Laurel Sayer, Midas Gold Idaho, Inc., Boise; and Jim Sims, 
NioCorp Developments Ltd., Centennial, Colorado.
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine an original bill entitled, ``Endangered Species Act 
Amendments of 2018'', after receiving testimony from Wyoming Governor 
Matthew H. Mead, Cheyenne; Bob Broscheid, Colorado Division of Parks 
and Wildlife, Denver; and Matthew J. Strickler, Virginia Secretary of 
Natural Resources, Richmond.
REDUCING HEALTH CARE COSTS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine reducing health care costs, focusing on 
eliminating excess health care spending and improving quality and value 
for patients, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey R. Balser, 
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Steven M. 
Safyer, Montefiore Medicine, New York, New York; David Lansky, Pacific 
Business Group on Health, San Francisco, California; and Brent C. 
James, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.
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.