[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 186 (Wednesday, November 20, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1279-D1280]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUDIT
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Defense audit, 
after receiving testimony from David L. Norquist, Deputy Secretary Of 
Defense.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CYBER STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity concluded a 
closed hearing to examine implementation of the 2018 Department of 
Defense Cyber Strategy, after receiving testimony from John W. Wilmer, 
Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity, Vice Admiral Ross 
A. Myers, USN, Deputy Commander, United States Cyber Command, 
Lieutenant General Mary F. O'Brien, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for 
Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Cyber Effects 
Operations, Air Force, and Major General Dennis A. Crall, USMC, Deputy 
Principal Cyber Advisor and Senior Military Advisor for Cyber Policy, 
all of the Department of Defense.
BIOLOGICAL THREATS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine biological threats to 
United States national security, after receiving testimony from Thomas 
V. Inglesby, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for 
Health Security; Tara J. O'Toole, In-Q-Tel; and Julie L. Gerberding, 
Center for Strategic and International Studies.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 2877, to reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance 
Act of 2002.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Mitchell A. Silk, of New York, to 
be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Brian D. Montgomery, of 
Texas, to be Deputy Secretary, and David Carey Woll, Jr., of 
Connecticut, and John Bobbitt, of Texas, both to be an Assistant 
Secretary, all of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and 
Peter J. Coniglio, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Export-Import, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
HIGHLY AUTOMATED VEHICLES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine highly automated vehicles, focusing on Federal 
perspectives on the deployment of safety technology, after receiving 
testimony from Joel Szabat, Acting Under Secretary for Policy, and 
James C. Owens, Acting Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; and Robert L. 
Sumwalt, III, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of Sean O'Donnell, of Maryland, to be Inspector 
General, Environmental Protection Agency.
ALZHEIMER'S AWARENESS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health Care concluded a hearing 
to examine Alzheimer's awareness, focusing on barriers to diagnosis, 
treatment, and care coordination, after receiving testimony from Jason 
Karlawish, University of Pennsylvania Penn Memory Center, Philadelphia; 
Janet Tomcavage, Geisinger, Winfield, Pennsylvania; Marc A. Cohen, 
UMass Boston LeadingAge LTSS Center, Newton, Massachusetts; and Lauren 
Kovach, Brighton, Michigan.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Stephen E. Biegun, of Michigan, to be Deputy 
Secretary of State, after the nominee testified and answered questions 
in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Roxanne Cabral, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of the Marshall Islands, Carmen G. Cantor, of Puerto Rico, to 
be Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, Kelley Eckels 
Currie, of Georgia, to be Ambassador at Large for Global Women's 
Issues, Kelly C. Degnan, of California, to be Ambassador to Georgia, 
Michael George DeSombre, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom 
of Thailand, David T. Fischer, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Morocco, Robert S. Gilchrist, of Florida, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Lithuania, Peter M. Haymond, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Yuri Kim, of Guam, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, Alina L. Romanowski, of 
Illinois, to be Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, John Joseph 
Sullivan,

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of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Morse H. Tan, 
of Illinois, to be Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice, and 
Leslie Meredith Tsou, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Sultanate of 
Oman, all of the Department of State, Andeliz N. Castillo, of New York, 
to be United States Alternate Executive Director of the Inter-American 
Development Bank, Alma L. Golden, of Texas, to be an Assistant 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, and routine lists in the Foreign Service.
ADVANCING U.S. INTERESTS IN THE UN SYSTEM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Multilateral 
International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International 
Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy concluded a hearing to 
examine challenges and opportunities for advancing United States 
interests in the United Nations system, after receiving testimony from 
Kip Tom, Permanent Representative, U.S. Mission to the United Nations 
Agencies in Rome, Jonathan Moore, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, 
Bureau of International Organization Affairs, and Scott Busby, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, all 
of the Department of State; and Brett D. Schaefer, Heritage Foundation, 
Peter Yeo, Better World Campaign, and Amy K. Lehr, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, all of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Stephen Hahn, of 
Texas, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and 
Human Services, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator 
Cornyn, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 227, to direct the Attorney General to review, revise, and develop 
law enforcement and justice protocols appropriate to address missing 
and murdered Indians, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 
and
  S. 982, to increase intergovernmental coordination to identify and 
combat violent crime within Indian lands and of Indians, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
HONORING NATIVE VETERANS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
honoring a nation's promise to Native veterans, including S. 1001, to 
amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to allow the Indian Health 
Service to cover the cost of a copayment of an Indian or Alaska Native 
veteran receiving medical care or services from the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, and S. 2365, to amend the Indian Health Care 
Improvement Act to authorize urban Indian organizations to enter into 
arrangements for the sharing of medical services and facilities, after 
receiving testimony from Robert L. Wilkie, Secretary, Richard Stone, 
Executive in Charge, Veterans Health Administration, and Kameron 
Matthews, Deputy Under Secretary for Community Care, all of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs; Rear Admiral Chris Buchanan, Deputy 
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Mark N. Fox, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of the Fort 
Berthold Indian Reservation, New Town, North Dakota; and Jestin Dupree, 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 
Poplar, Montana.