[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 194 (Thursday, December 5, 2019)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1328-D1329]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL DEFENSE STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
strategic threats, ongoing challenges, and National Defense Strategy 
implementation, after receiving testimony from John C. Rood, Under 
Secretary for Policy, and Lieutenant General David W. Allvin, USAF, 
Director for Strategy, Plans and Policy, Joint Staff, both of the 
Department of Defense.

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FINANCIAL REGULATORS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine financial regulators, including S. 
2563, to improve laws relating to money laundering, and S. 2839, to 
amend the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to regulate industrial bank 
holding companies, after receiving testimony from Randal K. Quarles, 
Vice Chair for Supervision, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System; Jelena McWilliams, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation; and Rodney E. Hood, Chairman, National Credit Union 
Association.
IMPLEMENTING MOBILE NOW
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet concluded a 
hearing to examine the evolution of next-generation technologies, 
focusing on implementing MOBILE NOW, after receiving testimony from 
Mayor Paul TenHaken, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Jonathan Adelstein, 
Wireless Infrastructure Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Scott 
Bergmann, CTIA, Mary Brown, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Sarah Morris, New 
America's Open Technology Institute, all of Washington, D.C.
ILLICIT MINING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and 
Global Women's Issues concluded a hearing to examine illicit mining, 
focusing on threats to United States national security and 
international human rights, after receiving testimony from Patrick J. 
Lechleitner, Assistant Director, International Operations, Homeland 
Security Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 
Department of Homeland Security; Jeffrey Haeni, Acting Deputy Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau of Economic Growth, Education and the 
Environment, United States Agency for International Development; Carrie 
Filipetti, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, 
and Richard H. Glenn, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International 
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, both of the Department of State; 
and Regina E. Thompson, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal 
Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.