[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 26, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D183-D184]
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 1,818 
nominations in the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
United States Strategic Command and United States Northern Command in 
review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2020 and 
the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from 
General John E. Hyten, USAF, Commander, United States Strategic 
Command, and General Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy, USAF, Commander, United 
States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Command, both of 
the Department of Defense.
B-21 ``RAIDER''
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland received a closed 
briefing on the B-21 ``Raider''

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from General Stephen W. Wilson, USAF, Vice Chief of Staff, and Randall 
G. Walden, Director, Rapid Capabilities Office, both of the Air Force, 
Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Mark Anthony Calabria, of 
Virginia, to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bimal 
Patel, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Secretary, and Dino Falaschetti, 
of Montana, to be Director, Office of Financial Research, both of the 
Department of the Treasury, Todd M. Harper, of Virginia, and Rodney 
Hood, of North Carolina, both to be a Member of the National Credit 
Union Administration Board, Spencer Bachus III, of Alabama, and Judith 
DelZoppo Pryor, of Ohio, both to be a Member of the Board of Directors, 
and Kimberly A. Reed, of West Virginia, to be President, all of the 
Export-Import Bank of the United States, and Seth Daniel Appleton, of 
Missouri, and Robert Hunter Kurtz, of Virginia, both to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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.
CONNECTING AMERICA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Safety concluded a hearing to examine connecting 
America, focusing on intermodal connections across our surface 
transportation network, after receiving testimony from Chuck Baker, 
American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, Washington, 
D.C.; Noel Hacegaba, Port of Long Beach, Long Beach, California, on 
behalf of the Intermodal Association of North America; Donna Lemm, IMC 
Companies, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee, on behalf of the Agriculture 
Transportation Coalition; and Joseph Szabo, Chicago Metropolitan Agency 
for Planning, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the Coalition for 
America's Gateways and Trade Corridors.
UNITED STATES TERRITORIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the state of the United States territories, after 
receiving testimony from Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello, San 
Juan; Guam Governor Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero, Adelup; United States 
Virgin Islands Governor Albert Bryan, Jr., St. Thomas; and Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands Governor Ralph Deleon Guerrero Torres, 
Saipan.
DRUG PRICING
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine drug 
pricing in America, after receiving testimony from Richard A. Gonzalez, 
AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, Illinois; Pascal Soriot, AstraZeneca, 
Wilmington, Delaware; Giovanni Caforio, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and 
Albert Bourla, Pfizer, both of New York, New York; Jennifer Taubert, 
Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Kenneth C. Frazier, 
Merck and Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey; and Olivier Brandicourt, 
Sanofi, Bridgewater, New Jersey.
YEMEN
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Monday, February 25, 2019, Committee 
received a closed briefing on the conflict in Yemen from Timothy A. 
Lenderking, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arabian Gulf Affairs, Bureau 
of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State; and Michael P. Mulroy, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Middle East, Department of Defense.
2019 ANNUAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Intellectual Property 
concluded a hearing to examine the 2019 Annual Intellectual Property 
Report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Vishal Amin, 
Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Executive Office of the 
President.