[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D728-D729]
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 Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill (S. 4678) entitled, ``Legislative Branch 
Appropriations Act, 2025'';
  An original bill (S. 4690) entitled, ``Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2025'';
  An original bill (S. 4677) entitled, ``Military Construction, 
Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025''; and
  The 302(b) Subcommittee allocations.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Tonya Parran Wilkerson, of Maryland, to be Under 
Secretary for Intelligence and Security, and Michael Louis Sulmeyer, of 
California, to be an Assistant Secretary, who was introduced by Senator 
Rounds, both of the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Christy Goldsmith Romero, of 
Virginia, to be Chairperson and Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, who was introduced by Senator 
Warner, Caroline A. Crenshaw, of the District of Columbia, to be a 
Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Kristin N. Johnson, 
of Georgia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Gordon I. 
Ito, of Hawaii, to be a Member of the Financial Stability Oversight 
Council, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
PRIVACY AND AI
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the need to protect Americans' privacy and the AI 
Accelerant, after receiving testimony from Ryan Calo, University of 
Washington, Seattle; Amba Kak, AI Now Institute, New York, New York; 
Udbhav Tiwari, Mozilla, San Francisco, California; and Morgan Reed, ACT 
The App Association, Washington, D.C.
HIGH-RISK VIRUS RESEARCH OVERSIGHT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded an oversight hearing to examine the U.S. taxpayer funded 
high-risk virus research, including S.4667, to amend title 31, United

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States Code, to establish the Life Sciences Research Security Board, 
after receiving testimony from Gerald Parker, Texas A and M University, 
Bryan, Texas; Carrie D. Wolinetz, Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC, 
Washington, D.C.; Robert R. Redfield, former Director of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human 
Services, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the Heritage Foundation; 
and Kevin M. Esvelt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Newton, 
Massachusetts.
MEDICAL DEBT CRISIS IN AMERICA
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine what Congress can do to end the medical 
debt crisis in America, after receiving testimony from Abdul El-Sayed, 
Wayne County Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services, 
Detroit, Michigan; Luke Messac, Brigham and Women's Hospital and 
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Allyson Ward, The 
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Fumiko Chino, Memorial Sloan 
Kettering Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology, New York, New 
York; and Ge Bai, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, and 
Benedic N. Ippolito, American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, 
D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Embry J. Kidd, of Florida, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, Adam B. Abelson, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Maryland, Michelle Williams Court, 
Anne Hwang, and Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon, each to be United States 
District Judge for the Central District of California, Stacey D. 
Neumann, to be United States District Judge for the District of Maine, 
Joseph Francis Saporito, Jr., to be United States District Judge for 
the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and Meredith A. Vacca, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of New York.
HEALTH CARE TRANSPARENCY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
health care transparency, focusing on lowering costs and empowering 
patients, after receiving testimony from Christopher M. Whaley, Brown 
University School of Public Health Center for Advancing Health Policy 
Through Research, Providence, Rhode Island; Christin E. Deacon, VerSan 
Consulting, LLC, Moorestown, New Jersey; Cora Opsahl, 32BJ Health Fund, 
New York, New York; and Sophia Tripoli, Families USA, Washington, D.C.