[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.