[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 133 (Tuesday, July 28, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D667-D668]
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 3,475 
nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Lieutenant General D. VanHerck, USAF, to be general 
and Commander, United States Northern Command/Commander, North American 
Aerospace Defense Command, and General James H. Dickinson, USA, to be 
general and Commander, United States Space Command, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PACT ACT AND SECTION 230
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet concluded a 
hearing to examine the PACT Act and Section 230, focusing on the impact 
of the law that helped create the internet and an examination of 
proposed reforms for today's online world, after receiving testimony 
from former Representative Chris Cox; Jeff Kosseff, Assistant 
Professor, Cyber Science Department, United States Naval Academy; 
Olivier Sylvain, Fordham Law School, New York, New York; and Elizabeth 
Banker, Internet Association, Washington, D.C.
CARBON DIOXIDE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the development and deployment of large-scale carbon 
dioxide management technologies in the United States, including 
technological and natural carbon removal, carbon utilization, and 
carbon storage, after receiving testimony from Steven E. Winberg, 
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; Ernest J. Moniz, and 
Joseph Hezir, both of the Energy Futures Initiative, Shannon Angielski, 
Carbon Utilization Research Council, and Sasha Mackler, Bipartisan 
Policy Center, all of Washington, D.C.; and S. Julio Friedmann, 
Columbia University Center on Global Energy, Livermore, California.
COVID-19 MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAIN
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
protecting the reliability of the United States medical supply chain 
during the COVID-19 pandemic, after receiving testimony from Soraya 
Correa, Chief Procurement Officer, Thomas F. Overacker, Executive 
Director, Cargo and Conveyance Security, Customs and Border Protection, 
and Steve Francis, Assistant Director for Global Trade Investigations 
Division, and Director of the National Intellectual Property Rights 
Coordination Center, Homeland Security Investigations, Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement, all of the Department of Homeland Security.
COVID-19 FINANCIAL RELIEF
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded an oversight hearing to examine COVID-19 financial relief 
packages, after receiving testimony from former Senator Phil Gramm; 
Danielle Brian, Project on Government Oversight, and Maya MacGuineas, 
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Veronique de Rugy, George Mason University Mercatus Center, Arlington, 
Virginia; and Neil M. Barofsky, Jenner and Block, LLP, New York, New 
York.
MODERNIZING TELEWORK
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management concluded a hearing to 
examine modernizing telework, focusing on a review of private sector 
telework policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, after receiving 
testimony from Sean Morris, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Roslyn, Virginia; 
T. Lane Wilson, The Williams Companies, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Michael Ly, 
Reconciled, Burlington, Vermont; and John Zanni, Acronis SCS, 
Scottsdale, Arizona.
DMCA
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Intellectual Property 
concluded a hearing to examine how the DMCA contemplates limitations 
and exceptions like fair use, after receiving testimony from Sherwin 
Siy, Wikimedia Foundation, Christopher A. Mohr, Software and 
Information Industry Association, and Matthew T. Sanderson, Caplin and 
Drysdale, all of

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Washington, D.C.; Mickey H. Osterreicher, National Press Photographers 
Association, Buffalo, New York; Jane C. Ginsburg, Columbia Law School, 
and Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, Songwriters of North America, both of 
New York, New York; Yolanda Adams, Recording Academy, Houston, Texas; 
Joseph C. Gratz, Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco, California; and Rick 
Beato, Atlanta, Georgia.
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.