[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 135 (Thursday, July 30, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. ECONOMIC POLICIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Security concluded a hearing to examine the China challenge, focusing 
on realignment of United States economic policies to build resiliency 
and competitiveness, after receiving testimony from Michael Wessel, 
Commissioner, United States-China Economic and Security Review 
Commission; Keith Krach, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, 
Energy, and Environment; Nazak Nikakhtar, Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce, International Trade Administration, Industry and Analysis; 
and Rush Doshi, Brookings Institution China Strategy Initiative, 
Washington, D.C.
U.S. 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 Cathy 
Denning, Vizient, Irving, Texas; Robert J. Wiehe, UC Health, 
Cincinnati, Ohio; Charles Johnson, International Safety Equipment 
Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Ernest Grant, American Nurses 
Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2021 
for the Department of State, after receiving testimony from Michael R. 
Pompeo, Secretary of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 4212, to amend title 28, United States Code, to strip foreign 
sovereign immunity of certain foreign states to secure justice for 
victims of novel coronavirus in the United States; and
  The nominations of David W. Dugan, and Stephen P. McGlynn, both to be 
a United States District Judge for the Southern District of Illinois, 
Hala Y. Jarbou, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Michigan, Iain D. Johnston, and Franklin Ulyses Valderrama, 
both to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Illinois, and Roderick C. Young, to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of Virginia.