[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 25, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D868]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RACE TO 5G
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the race to 5G, focusing on exploring spectrum 
needs to maintain United States global leadership, after receiving 
testimony from Meredith Attwell Baker, CTIA, Dean R. Brenner, Qualcomm 
Incorporated, and Tom Stroup, Satellite Industry Association, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Craig Cowden, Charter Communications, Denver, 
Colorado.
MARS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Space, Science, and Competiveness concluded a hearing to examine 
destination Mars, focusing on putting American boots on the surface of 
the red planet, after receiving testimony from Salvatore T. Bruno, 
United Launch Alliance, LLC, Centennial, Colorado; Chris Carberry, 
Explore Mars, Inc., Stafford, Virginia; Dava J. Newman, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Peggy Whitson, Spicewood, 
Texas.
AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine American diplomacy to advance our national security strategy, 
after receiving testimony from Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2554, to ensure that health insurance issuers and group health 
plans do not prohibit pharmacy providers from providing certain 
information to enrollees, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 1222, to amend the Public Health Service Act to coordinate 
Federal congenital heart disease research efforts and to improve public 
education and awareness of congenital heart disease, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2465, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize a 
sickle cell disease prevention and treatment demonstration program and 
to provide for sickle cell disease research, surveillance, prevention, 
and treatment, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 3016, to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve essential 
oral health care for low-income and other underserved individuals by 
breaking down barriers to care, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Joseph Maguire, of Florida, to be Director 
of the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence, and Ellen E. McCarthy, of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of State (Intelligence and Research), after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.