[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 153 (Thursday, September 18, 2025)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D954]
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 Platte Moring, of South Carolina, to be Inspector 
General, Kirsten Davies, of Tennessee, to be Chief Information Officer, 
James Mazol, of Virginia, to be a Deputy Under Secretary, who was 
introduced by Senator Wicker, and Derrick Anderson, of Virginia, to be 
an Assistant Secretary, who was introduced by Senator Cotton, all of 
the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Michael Powers, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under 
Secretary, Amy Henninger, of Virginia, to be Director of Operational 
Test and Evaluation, David Denton, Jr., of Virginia, to be General 
Counsel of the Department of the Navy, and Benjamin Kohlmann, of Texas, 
to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, all of the Department of 
Defense, and 3,170 pending military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air 
Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force.
K-12 EDUCATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the state of K-12 education, after 
receiving testimony from Katie Jenner, Indiana Secretary of Education 
and Commissioner for Higher Education, Madison; Eric A. Hanushek, 
Stanford University Hoover Institution, Stanford, California; Martin R. 
West, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 
Scott Muri, Ector County Independent School District, Orlando, Florida; 
and Rebecca Winthrop, Brookings Institution Center for Universal 
Education, Washington, D.C.