[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D550-D551]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DIGITIZATION OF MONEY AND PAYMENTS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the digitization of money and payments, including S. 
2563, to improve laws relating to money laundering, and S. 3571, to 
require member banks to maintain pass-through digital dollar wallets 
for certain persons, after receiving testimony from J. Christopher 
Giancarlo, Willkie Farr and Gallagher, and Charles Cascarilla, Paxos, 
both of New York, New York, and Nakita Q. Cuttino, Duke University 
School of Law, Durham, North Carolina.
TRAFFIC SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Safety concluded a hearing to examine safety on our 
roads, focusing on an overview of traffic safety and National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration grant programs, after receiving testimony 
from Chris Peterson, Lincoln Police Department, Lincoln, Nebraska; John 
Saunders, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Arlington, on behalf 
of the Governors Highway Safety Association; and Jane Terry, National 
Safety Council, Washington, D.C.
IMPACTS OF COVID-19 IN THE TERRITORIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the 
territories, after receiving testimony from Representatives Sablan, 
Radewagen, Plaskett, Gonzalez-Colon, and San Nicolas.
IRS COVID-19 RECOVERY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 2020 
filing season and Internal Revenue Service COVID-19 recovery, after 
receiving testimony from Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner, Internal 
Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
CENSORSHIP AND TRADE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and 
Global Competitiveness concluded a hearing to examine censorship as a 
non-tariff barrier to trade, after receiving testimony from Richard 
Gere, International Campaign for Tibet, Nigel Cory, Information 
Technology and Innovation Foundation, Clete R. Williams, Akin Gump 
Strauss Hauer and Feld, and Beth Baltzan, Open Markets Institute, all 
of Washington, D.C.
COVID-19
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine COVID-19 and United States international pandemic preparedness, 
prevention, and response, focusing on additional perspectives, after 
receiving testimony from Mark Dybul, Georgetown University Medical 
Center, Jimmy Kolker, former Department of Health and Human Services 
Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, and Jeremy Konyndyk, Center for 
Global Development, all of Washington, D.C.; and Ashish K. Jha, Harvard 
Global Health Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Derek Kan, of 
California, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
COVID-19: UPDATE ON GETTING BACK TO WORK AND SCHOOL
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine COVID-19, focusing on an update on 
progress toward safely getting back to work and back to school,

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after receiving testimony from Robert R. Redfield, Director, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, and Administrator, Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National 
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of 
Health, Brett P. Giroir, Admiral, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. 
Public Health Service, and Stephen M. Hahn, Commissioner of Food and 
Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, all of the Department of Health 
and Human Services.
JUDGESHIPS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Judicial Conference's recommendation for more judgeships, after 
receiving testimony from Brian Stacy Miller, United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas; and Christian Adams, 
Federal Bar Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.