    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 38 (Wednesday, February 26, 2025)]
    [Daily Digest]
    [Pages D191-D192]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

    Committee Meetings
    (Committees not listed did not meet)
    AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
    Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
    a hearing to examine perspectives from the field, focusing on farmer
    and rancher views on the agricultural economy, after receiving
    testimony from Tim Boring, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural
    Development, Stockbridge; Bret Erickson, J and D Produce Inc.,
    Edinburg, Texas, on behalf of the International Fresh Produce
    Association; Jeremy Hinton, Kentucky Horticulture Council, Hodgenville,
    on behalf of the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation; Anna Murphree
    Rhinewalt, Sandy Ridge Farms, Inc., Senatobia, Mississippi, on behalf
    of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation and the Mississippi Sweet
    Potato Council; and Benjamin Etcheverry, New Mexico Chile Association,
    Deming.
    DIGITAL ASSETS
    Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
    Digital Assets concluded a hearing to examine bipartisan legislative
    frameworks for digital assets, after receiving testimony from Lewis
    Rinaudo Cohen, Cahill Gordon and Reindel LLP, Washington, D.C.;
    Jonathan Jachym, Kraken, San Francisco, California; Jai Massari,
    Lightspark, West Hollywood, California; and Timothy G. Massad, Harvard
    Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government,
    Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING
    Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
    a hearing to examine interdicting illicit drug trafficking, focusing on
    a view from the front lines, after receiving testimony from Shannon
    Kelly, Assistant Director Office of Homeland Interdiction and Supply
    Disruption, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Rear Admiral Adam
    A. Chamie, Assistant Commandant for Response Policy, U.S. Coast Guard,
    and Jonathan P. Miller, Executive Assistant Commissioner, Air and
    Marine Operations, Customs and Border Protection, both of the
    Department of Homeland Security; Kevin Hall, Spokane Police Department,
    Spokane, Washington; and Jena Ehlinger, Texas.
    IIJA IMPLEMENTATION
    Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a
    hearing to examine Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
    implementation and case studies, after receiving testimony from Russell
    R. McMurry, Georgia Department of Transportation, Atlanta, on behalf of
    the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials;
    Gary Johnson, Granite Construction Inc., Cedar Park, Texas; and Michael
    A. Carroll, Philadelphia Office of Transportation and Infrastructure,
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Association of
    City Transportation Officials.
    NOMINATIONS
    Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine
    the nominations of Dean Sauer, of Missouri, to be Solicitor General of
    the United States, and Harmeet Dhillon, of California, and Aaron Reitz,
    of Texas, both to be an Assistant Attorney General, all of the
    Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered
    questions in their own behalf.
    7(A) LOAN PROGRAM
    Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a
    hearing to examine managing risk for the long-term in the 7(a) loan
    program, focusing on hearing from lenders, after receiving testimony
    from Timothy M. Fitzgibbon, First National Bank, West Des Moines, Iowa;
    Raymond Lanza-Weil, Common Capital, Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts;
    Itzel Sims, First Security Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas; and Mayrena
    Guerrero, Colorful Resilience LLC, West Springfield, Massachusetts.

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    BUSINESS MEETING
    Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee adopted its rules of
    procedure for the 119th Congress.
    INTELLIGENCE
    Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to
    receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of
    the intelligence community.
    OPIOID EPIDEMIC
    Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine
    combating the opioid epidemic, after receiving testimony from Sheriff
    Dennis M. Lemma, Seminole County Sheriff's Office, Sanford, Florida;
    Greg Duckworth, Raleigh County Commissioner, Beckley, West Virginia;
    Malik Burnett, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Baltimore,
    Maryland; and Bradley D. Stein, RAND, and Elizabeth Mateer, both of
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.