[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D656-D657]
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 3,293 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
FCC OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission, 
after receiving testimony from Ajit Pai, Chairman, and Michael 
O'Rielly, Brendan Carr, Jessica Rosenworcel, and Geoffrey Starks, each 
a Commissioner, all of the Federal Communications Commission.
WOTUS REGULATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a joint 
hearing with the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife to 
examine Waters of the United States regulations, focusing on their 
impact on states and the American people, after receiving testimony 
from Todd Fornstrom, Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, Pine Bluffs, on 
behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Doug Goehring, North 
Dakota Agriculture Commissioner, Bismarck; and Richard Elias, Pima 
County Board of Supervisors, Tucson, Arizona.
CHINA'S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and 
Global Competitiveness concluded a hearing to examine China's belt and 
road initiative, after receiving testimony from Carolyn Bartholomew, 
Chairman, and Roy D. Kamphausen, Commissioner, both of the United 
States-China Economic and Security Review Commission; and Daniel 
Kliman, Center for a New American Security, and Derek Scissors, 
American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
NATO EXPANSION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine NATO expansion, focusing on examining the accession of North 
Macedonia, after receiving testimony from Philip T. Reeker, Acting 
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs; 
and Kathryn Wheelbarger, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
International Security Affairs.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Chad F. Wolf, of 
Virginia, to be

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Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans, Jeffrey Byard, of 
Alabama, to be Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, who was introduced by Senator Shelby, and Troy D. Edgar, of 
California, to be Chief Financial Officer, all of the Department of 
Homeland Security, John McLeod Barger, of California, to be a Governor 
of the United States Postal Service, and B. Chad Bungard, of Maryland, 
to be a Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
VERTICAL CONSOLIDATION IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine competitive 
implications of vertical consolidation in the healthcare industry, 
after receiving testimony from Craig L. Garthwaite, Northwestern 
University Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, Illinois; Thomas L. 
Greaney, University of California Hastings College of Law, San 
Francisco; Cory S. Capps, Bates White Economic Consulting, Washington, 
D.C.; and Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management, New Haven, 
Connecticut.
SBA CONTRACTING PROGRAMS
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine reauthorization of the Small Business 
Administration's contracting programs, including S. 673, to amend the 
Small Business Act to eliminate the inclusion of option years in the 
award price for sole source contracts, after receiving testimony from 
Robb Wong, Associate Administrator, Office of Government Contracting 
and Business Development, Small Business Administration; William B. 
Shear, Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, Government 
Accountability Office; Vicki Marino, Kenmar General Contracting, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of Women Impacting Public Policy; Delali 
Dzirasa, Fearless Solutions, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the 
HUBZone Contractors National Council; and Laurie Sayles, Civility 
Management Solutions, Greenbelt, Maryland.