[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 23, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D66]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Melissa Griffin Dalton, of Virginia, to be Under 
Secretary of the Air Force, Douglas Craig Schmidt, of Tennessee, to be 
Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, and Aprille Joy Ericsson, 
of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of 
Defense, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
PATENT ELIGIBILITY RESTORATION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Intellectual Property 
concluded a hearing to examine the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, 
focusing on restoring clarity, certainty, and predictability to the 
United States patent system, after receiving testimony from Philip S. 
Johnson, Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform, Courtenay C. 
Brinckerhoff, Foley and Lardner LLP, and David W. Jones, High Tech 
Inventors Alliance, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard L. Blaylock, 
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Diego, California; Andrei 
Iancu, Sullivan and Cromwell LLP, Los Angeles, California; David J. 
Kappos, Cravath, Swain and Moore LLP, New York, New York; Mark Deem, 
Lightstone Ventures, Menlo Park, California; and Adam Mossoff, George 
Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, Virginia.
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.