[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 109 (Thursday, June 27, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D773]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine reauthorization of the Export-Import 
Bank of the United States, after receiving testimony from Kimberly 
Reed, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States.
NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine options for the interim and long-term storage of 
nuclear waste, including S. 1234, to establish a new organization to 
manage nuclear waste, provide a consensual process for siting nuclear 
waste facilities, ensure adequate funding for managing nuclear waste, 
after receiving testimony from John Wagner, Associate Laboratory 
Director, Nuclear Science and Technology Directorate, Idaho National 
Laboratory, Department of Energy; Geoffrey H. Fettus, Natural Resources 
Defense Council, Inc., and Maria Korsnick, Nuclear Energy Institute, 
both of Washington, D.C.; Steven P. Nesbit, American Nuclear Society 
Nuclear Waste Policy Task Force, Charlotte, North Carolina; and Wayne 
Norton, Yankee Atomic Electric Company, East Hampton, Connecticut, on 
behalf of the Decommissioning Plant Coalition Steering Committee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Daniel Habib Jorjani, of Kentucky, to be 
Solicitor, and Mark Lee Greenblatt, of Maryland, to be Inspector 
General, both of the Department of the Interior.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1227, to require the Federal Trade Commission to study the role of 
intermediaries in the pharmaceutical supply chain and provide Congress 
with appropriate policy recommendations, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 440, to amend title 35, United States Code, to provide that a 
patent owner may not assert sovereign immunity as a defense in certain 
actions before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1224, to enable the Federal Trade Commission to deter filing of 
sham citizen petitions to cover an attempt to interfere with approval 
of a competing generic drug or biosimilar, to foster competition, and 
facilitate the efficient review of petitions filed in good faith to 
raise legitimate public health concerns, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1416, to amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to prohibit 
anticompetitive behaviors by drug product manufacturers, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Peter Joseph Phipps, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Third Circuit, Charles R. Eskridge III, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, William Shaw 
Stickman IV, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Philpott Wilson, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and Wilmer 
Ocasio, to be United States Marshal for the District of Puerto Rico, 
Department of Justice.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.