[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D168-D169]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
USS GRAVELY AND RED SEA OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
the USS Gravely and operations in the Red Sea from Rear Admiral D. 
Wilson Marks, USN, Commander, Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting 
Development Center, and Rear Admiral Thomas J. Dickinson, USN, Program 
Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems, both of the Department 
of Defense.

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NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nomination of Steven Bradbury, of Virginia, to 
be Deputy Secretary of Transportation, after the nominee testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
RESEARCH SECURITY RISKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine research security risks posed by foreign nationals 
from countries of risk working at the Department of Energy's National 
Laboratories and necessary mitigation steps, after receiving testimony 
from Paul M. Dabbar, Columbia University Center on Global Energy, 
Scarsdale, New York; Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon, Eugene; 
and Anna B. Puglisi, Stanford University Hoover Institution, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Linda McMahon, of Connecticut, to 
be Secretary of Education.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 298, to require the Administrator of the Small Business 
Administration to relocate 30 percent of the employees assigned to 
headquarters to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area, 
with an amendment; and
  S. 300, to improve accountability in the disaster loan program of the 
Small Business Administration, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.