[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 158 (Tuesday, September 25, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1045]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of General Robert B. Abrams, USA, to be General, and to 
be Commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/United 
States Forces Korea, and Vice Admiral Craig S. Faller, USN, to be 
Admiral, and to be Commander, United States Southern Command, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Alan Ray Shaffer, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under 
Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment, Veronica Daigle, of 
Virginia, and Robert H. McMahon, of Georgia, both to be an Assistant 
Secretary, Casey Wardynski, of Alabama, and Alex A. Beehler, of 
Maryland, both to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army, and 2,781 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, all of the 
Department of Defense.
QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Department of Energy's efforts in the field of 
quantum information science, after receiving testimony from Paul M. 
Dabbar, Under Secretary for Science, Supratik Guha, Director, Center 
for Nanoscale Materials and Senior Science Advisor, Argonne National 
Laboratory, and Irfan Siddiqi, Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley 
National Laboratory, all of the Department of Energy; and Todd 
Holmdahl, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Bonnie Glick, of Maryland, to be Deputy 
Administrator, and Michael T. Harvey, of Texas, and Mark Montgomery, of 
Virginia, both to be an Assistant Administrator, all of the United 
States Agency for International Development, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the Every Student Succeeds Act, focusing 
on states leading the way, after receiving testimony from Matthew L. 
Blomstedt, Nebraska Commissioner of Education, Lincoln; Susan S. 
Bunting, Delaware Secretary of Education, Dover; Molly Spearman, South 
Carolina Superintendent of Education, Columbia; and Shavar Jeffries, 
Education Reform Now, Newark, New Jersey.
HEALTH CARE IN RURAL AMERICA
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Retirement Security concluded a hearing to examine 
health care in rural America, focusing on experiences and costs, after 
receiving testimony from Tom Glause, Wyoming Insurance Commissioner, 
Cheyenne; Morgan Reed, Connected Health Initiative, Washington, D.C.; 
Alan M. Levine, Ballad Health, Johnson City, Tennessee; and Deborah 
Richter, Vermont Healthcare for All, Cambridge.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.