[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 26, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1495-S1496]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET

  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. President, I have 8 requests for committees to meet 
during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the 
Majority and Minority leaders.
  Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the 
Senate, the following committees are authorized to meet during today's 
session of the Senate:


                      Committee on Armed Services

  The Committee on Armed Services is authorized to meet during the 
session of the Senate on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 9.30 a.m., to 
conduct a hearing ``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.''


               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

  The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources is authorized to meet 
during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 10 
a.m., to conduct a hearing.


                          Committee on Finance

  The Committee on Finance is authorized to meet during the session of 
the Senate on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 10:15 a.m., to conduct a 
hearing entitled ``Drug Pricing in America: A prescription for change, 
Part II.''


        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

  The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is 
authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, 
February 26, 2019, at 3:30 p.m., to conduct a hearing entitled 
``Opportunity to SOAR: 15 years of school choice in DC.''

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                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

  The Committee on Veterans' Affairs is authorized to meet during the 
session of the Senate on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 2 p.m., to 
conduct a hearing.


                        Subcommittee on Airland

  The Subcommittee on Airland of the Committee on Armed Services is 
authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, 
February 26, 2019, at 3 p.m., to conduct a closed hearing.


      Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine 
                  Infrastructure, Safety and Security

  The Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine 
Infrastructure, Safely and Security of the Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation is authorized to meet during the session of 
the Senate on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 2:30 p.m., to conduct a 
hearing entitled ``Examining intermodal connections across our surface 
transportation network.''


   Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights

  The Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights 
of the Committee on the Judiciary is authorized to meet during the 
session of the Senate on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 10 a.m., to 
conduct a hearing entitled ``Examining the 2019 annual intellectual 
property report to Congress.''
  Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, I have a request for one committee to meet 
during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the 
Majority and Minority leaders.
  Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the 
Senate, the following committee is authorized to meet during today's 
session of the Senate:


            Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

  The Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs is authorized to 
meet during the session of the Senate on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 
9:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing on the Semiannual Monetary Policy 
Report to the Congress and the following nominations: 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 
Falasrnetti, 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; to be 
immediately followed by a hearing to examine.

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