[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 155 (Wednesday, September 9, 2020)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D770-D771]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL RESERVE EMERGENCY LENDING FACILITIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the status of the Federal Reserve emergency lending 
facilities, after receiving testimony from Hal Scott, Committee on 
Capital Markets Regulation, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Jeffrey D. 
DeBoer, The Real Estate Roundtable, and William Spriggs, AFL-CIO, both 
of Washington, D.C.
THE GRIZZLY BEAR STATE MANAGEMENT ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 614, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
reissue a final rule relating to removing the Greater Yellowstone 
Ecosystem population of grizzly bears from the Federal list of 
endangered and threatened wildlife, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Enzi and Daines; Patrick Crank, Crank Legal Group, P.C., 
Cheyenne, on behalf of the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission; Chuck 
Roady, F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Company, Columbia Falls, Montana; 
and John D. Leshy, University of California Hastings College of Law, 
San Francisco.
EASTERN EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
Eastern Europe from Stephen E. Biegun, Deputy Secretary of State.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of John Gibbs, of 
Michigan, to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and 
John M. Barger, of California, Christopher Bancroft Burnham, of 
Connecticut, and Frank Dunlevy, of California, each to be a Member of 
the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
VACCINES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine vaccines, focusing on saving lives, 
ensuring confidence, and protecting public health, after receiving 
testimony from Francis S. Collins, Director, National Institutes of 
Health, and Vice Admiral Jerome M. Adams, Surgeon General of the Public 
Health Service, both of the Department of Health and Human Services.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Benjamin Joel Beaton, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Kentucky, Kristi Haskins Johnson, and 
Taylor B. McNeel, both to be a United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Mississippi, who were introduced by Senators 
Wicker and Hyde-Smith, Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, to be United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, and Thompson Michael 
Dietz, of New Jersey, to be a Judge of the United States Court of 
Federal Claims, who was introduced by Senator Cassidy, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR VETERANS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine S. 785, to improve mental health care provided by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, after receiving testimony from Katie 
Purswell, The American Legion, Washington, D.C.; Jeremy Butler, Iraq 
and Afghanistan Veterans of America, New York, New York; Lieutenant 
Colonel James Lorraine, USAF (Ret.), America's Warrior Partnership, 
Aiken, South Carolina; and Matt Kuntz, National Alliance on Mental 
Illness, Helena, Montana.

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DECLASSIFICATION POLICY
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine declassification policy and prospects for reform, after 
receiving testimony from former Congressman John F. Tierney; and 
Gregory M. Koch, Acting Director, Information Management Office, Office 
of the Director of National Intelligence.