[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 164 (Wednesday, October 3, 2018)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1103-D1104]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine implementation of positive train control, 
including passenger railroad extension requests and substantial work 
remaining beyond 2018, after receiving testimony from Ronald L. Batory, 
Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Susan Fleming, Director, Physical Infrastructure, 
Government Accountability Office; Kevin Corbett, NJ TRANSIT, Newark, 
New Jersey; and Scot Naparstek, Amtrak, Washington, D.C.
OLYMPIC ABUSE PREVENTION EFFORTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security 
concluded a hearing to examine protecting United States amateur 
athletes, focusing on examining abuse prevention efforts across the 
Olympic movement, after receiving testimony from Phil Andrews, USA 
Weightlifting, Anne Cammett, U.S. Figure Skating, Timothy Hinchey III, 
USA Swimming, Darrin Steele, USA Bobsled and Skeleton, and Stephen 
McNally, USA Taekwondo, all of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
REGULATORY OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's implementation 
of sound and transparent science in regulation, after receiving 
testimony from former Representative Rush D. Holt; Edward J. Calabrese, 
University of Massachusetts School of Public Health Sciences, Amherst; 
and Robert Hahn, Oxford University Smith School, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Steven Dillingham, of 
Virginia, to be Director of the Census, and Michael Kubayanda, of Ohio, 
to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
RARE DISEASES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded a

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hearing to examine rare diseases, focusing on expediting treatments for 
patients, after receiving testimony from Mark Dant, EveryLife 
Foundation for Rare Diseases, Louisville, Kentucky; Marc C. Patterson, 
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota; Michael Strupp, 
University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Lincoln Tsang, Arnold and 
Porter, London, United Kingdom; and Mallory Factor, IntraBio, Inc., 
Oxford, United Kingdom.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 664, to approve the settlement of the water rights claims of the 
Navajo in Utah, to authorize construction of projects in connection 
therewith, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  H.R. 5317, to repeal section 2141 of the Revised Statutes to remove 
the prohibition on certain alcohol manufacturing on Indian lands.
BROADBAND INTERNET AVAILABILITY ON TRIBAL LANDS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Government Accountability Office reports relating to 
broadband internet availability on tribal lands, after receiving 
testimony from Mark Goldstein, Director, Physical Infrastructure 
Issues, Government Accountability Office; Patrick Webre, Chief, 
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications 
Commission; Godfrey Enjady, Mescalero Apache Telecommunications, Inc., 
Mescalero, New Mexico, on behalf of the National Tribal 
Telecommunications Association; and Geoffrey C. Blackwell, AMERIND Risk 
Management Corporation, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.
ANTITRUST LAW ENFORCEMENT OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded an oversight hearing to examine 
the enforcement of the antitrust laws, after receiving testimony from 
Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, 
Department of Justice; and Joe Simons, Chairman, Federal Trade 
Commission.
EXPANDING SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine expanding opportunities for small businesses through 
the tax code, including S. 293, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to provide for the deferral of inclusion in gross income for 
capital gains reinvested in opportunity zones, and S. 3278, to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional protections to 
taxpayers, after receiving testimony from Christel Slaughter, U.S. 
Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and 
John W. Lettieri, Economic Innovation Group, John Arensmeyer, Small 
Business Majority, and Caroline Bruckner, American University Kogod 
School of Business Tax Policy Center, all of Washington, D.C.
PATIENT-FOCUSED CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
patient-focused care, focusing on a prescription to reduce health care 
costs, after receiving testimony from Sean Cavanaugh, Aledade, 
Bethesda, Maryland; David Howes, Martin's Point Health Care, Portland, 
Maine; Jeff Micklos, Health Care Transformation Task Force, Washington, 
D.C.; and Sally Jo Snyder, Consumer Health Coalition, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania.