[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 160 (Tuesday, September 30, 2025)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D981-D982]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GOLDEN DOME
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
Golden Dome for America from General Michael A. Guetlein, USSF, Direct 
Reporting Program Manager, Golden Dome for America.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Benjamin Hobbs, of Ohio, and 
Ronald Kurtz, of Georgia, both to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development, and Chris Pilkerton, of Maryland, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Investment Security, and Jonathan Burke, of 
Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, both of the 
Department of the Treasury.
UNITED STATES BLACK SEA STRATEGY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Europe and Regional 
Security Cooperation conclude a hearing to examine the future of United 
States Black Sea strategy, after receiving testimony from Matthew

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Boyse, Hudson Institute, S. Frederick Starr, American Foreign Policy 
Council, and Catherine Sendak, Center for European Policy Analysis, all 
of Washington, D.C.
QUIET SKIES PROGRAM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the weaponization of the Quiet Skies 
Program, after receiving testimony from Mark Crowder, Senior Federal 
Air Marshal, Transportation Security Administration; Tristan Leavitt, 
Empower Oversight, Charleston, West Virginia; Matt Taibbi, Racket News, 
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey; and Jim Harper, American Enterprise 
Institute, and Abed Ayoub, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, 
both of Washington, D.C.
CRIME POLICIES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
how the Trump Administration is addressing the human cost of soft on 
crime policies, after receiving testimony from former Representative 
William L. Enyart; Christopher Goumenis, Special Agent in Charge, 
Washington Division, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Peter D. 
Marketos, Acting Associate Director for Investigations, Marshals 
Service, both of the Department of Justice; Gregory Jackson, Jr., 
former Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence 
Prevention, and Special Assistant to the President; Tennessee State 
Senator Brent Taylor, Nashville; and Greggory Pemberton, D.C. Police 
Union, and Forlesia Cook, both of Washington, D.C.
COMPETITION IN AMERICA'S SKIES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy, and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine competition 
in America's skies, after receiving testimony from Greg Anderson, 
Allegiant Travel Company, Las Vegas, Nevada; Barry Biffle, Frontier 
Airlines, Denver, Colorado; William J. McGee, American Economic 
Liberties Project, and Sharon Pinkerton, Airlines for America, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Ganesh Sitaraman, Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, Tennessee.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.