[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 141 (Thursday, August 23, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D946-D947]
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 Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,246 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Kathleen Laura Kraninger, of 
Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, Kimberly 
A. Reed, of West Virginia, to be President of the Export-Import Bank of 
the United States,

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Elad L. Roisman, of Maine, to be a Member of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission, Michael R. Bright, of the District of Columbia, to 
be President, Government National Mortgage Association, and Rae Oliver, 
of Virginia, to be Inspector General, both of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development, and Dino Falaschetti, of Montana, to be 
Director, Office of Financial Research, Department of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Kelvin Droegemeier, of 
Oklahoma, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology 
Policy, who was introduced by Senators Inhofe and Lankford, James 
Morhard, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration, who was introduced by Senator 
McConnell, and Joel Szabat, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary 
of Transportation, who was introduced by former Representative Ray 
LaHood, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of William Cooper, of Maryland, to be General 
Counsel, and Lane Genatowski, of New York, to be Director of the 
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, both of the Department of 
Energy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of David T. Fischer, of Michigan, to be 
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, who was introduced by Senator 
Peters, Earl Robert Miller, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the 
People's Republic of Bangladesh, Daniel N. Rosenblum, of Maryland, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Uzbekistan, who was introduced by 
Senator Flake, Kip Tom, of Indiana, for the rank of Ambassador during 
his tenure of service as U.S. Representative to the United Nations 
Agencies for Food and Agriculture, who was introduced by Senator 
Donnelly, and Donald Y. Yamamoto, of Washington, to be Ambassador to 
the Federal Republic of Somalia, all of the Department of State, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine prioritizing cures, focusing on science 
and stewardship at the National Institutes of Health, after receiving 
testimony from Francis S. Collins, Director, Diana W. Bianchi, 
Director, Eunice Kennedy Schriver National Institute of Child Health 
and Human Development, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute 
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Richard Hodes, Director, National 
Institute on Aging, and Norman E. Sharpless, Director, National Cancer 
Institute, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations Ariana Fajardo Orshan, to be United States Attorney for the 
Southern District of Florida, Peter G. Strasser, to be United States 
Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and G. Zachary 
Terwilliger, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of 
Virginia, all of the Department of Justice.