[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 50 (Thursday, March 19, 2026)]
[Daily Digest]
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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed
hearings to examine the posture of United States Northern Command and
United States Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization
Request for Fiscal Year 2027 and the Future Years Defense Program,
after receiving testimony from General Gregory M. Guillot, USAF,
Commander, United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace
Defense Command, and General Francis L. Donovan, USMC, Commander,
United States Southern Command, Department of Defense.
NUCLEAR ENERGY EXECUTIVE ORDERS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a
hearing to examine Department of Energy's implementation of President
Trump's May 2025 nuclear energy executive orders, after receiving
testimony from Theodore Garrish, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear
Energy, and John C. Wagner, Laboratory Director, Idaho National
Laboratory, Idaho Falls, both of the Department of Energy; and Mike
Laufer, Kairos Power, LLC, Alameda, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee
ordered favorably reported the nomination of Markwayne Mullin, of
Oklahoma, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
MEMBER DAY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee
concluded Member Day to examine legislative priorities, including S.
297, to amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require
group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or
individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for prostate
cancer screenings without the imposition of cost-sharing requirements,
S. 380, to improve obstetric emergency care, S. 547, to require the
Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Labor to
conduct a study and issue a report on grant programs to support the
nursing workforce, S. 846, to implement or strengthen programs that
increase the supply of quality child care services by enhancing the
wages of child care workers, S. 864, to amend title XXVII of the Public
Health Service Act to apply financial assistance towards the cost-
sharing requirements of health insurance plans, S. 880, to amend the
Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of higher
education participating in Federal student assistance programs from
giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to legacy
students or donors, S. 942, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965
to provide for interest-free deferment on student loans for borrowers
serving in a medical or dental internship or residency program, S.
1269, to promote United States leadership in technical standards by
directing the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the
Department of State to take certain actions to encourage and enable
United States participation in developing standards and specifications
for artificial intelligence and other critical and emerging
technologies, S. 1380, to amend the Public Health Service Act to
authorize a loan repayment program to encourage specialty medicine
physicians to serve in rural communities experiencing a shortage of
specialty medicine physicians, S. 1387, to authorize the National
Biotechnology Initiative, S. 1482, to amend the Public Health Service
Act to support and stabilize the existing nursing workforce, establish
programs to increase the number of nurses, S. 1677, to provide health
insurance benefits for outpatient and inpatient items and services
related to the diagnosis and treatment of a congenital anomaly or birth
defect, S. 1756, to amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit
discrimination against health care entities that do not participate in
abortion, and to strengthen implementation and enforcement of Federal
conscience laws, S. 1784, to improve coordination of Federal efforts to
identify and mitigate
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health and national security risks through maintaining a list of
essential medicines, conducting a risk assessment of essential medicine
supply chains, and creating a monitoring system to map essential
medicine supply chains using data analytics, S. 1813, to amend the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against tax for
charitable donations for the creation or expansion of charter schools,
S. 1830, to clarify that agencies of the Department of Health and Human
Services do not have the authority to regulate the practice of
medicine, S. 2287, to amend the Public Health Service Act to increase
the number of permanent faculty in palliative care at accredited
allopathic and osteopathic medical schools, nursing schools, and other
programs, including social work, physician assistant, and chaplaincy
education programs, to promote education and research in palliative
care and hospice, and to support the development of faculty careers in
academic palliative and hospice care, S. 2289, to amend titles XIX and
XXI of the Social Security Act to improve maternal health coverage
under Medicaid and CHIP, S. 2323, to amend the Head Start Act to permit
some teachers in Early Head Start programs to teach while earning a
child development associate credential, S. 2355, to amend the Public
Health Service Act to provide for hospital and insurer price
transparency, S. 2531, to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human
Services to award grants to increase early detection of and
intervention for uterine fibroids, S. 2658, to require sponsors of drug
applications and holders of approved
applications to provide certain submissions and communications to the
Food and Drug Administration and the United States Patent and
Trademark Office, S. 2699, to amend the Public Health Service Act
to reauthorize certain education and training programs relating to
geriatrics, S. 2762, to establish a commission on long-term care,
S. 2826, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to
dedicate sufficient resources for the support of LGBTQ+ youth
seeking help from the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline, S. 2828, to
amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to
reauthorize and update the Act, S. 2833, to amend the Older
Americans Act of 1965 to improve falls prevention research and
activities, S. 2841, to amend the American History and Civics
Education program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
of 1965 to require hands-on civic engagement activities for
teachers and students and programs that educate students about the
history and principles of the Constitution of the United States,
including the Bill of Rights, S. 2855, to direct the Secretary of
Labor to carry out a competitive grant program to support community
colleges and area career and technical education centers in
developing immersive technology education and training services
programs for workforce development, S. 2859, to amend the Higher
Education Act of 1965 to ensure campus access at public
institutions of higher education for religious groups, S. 2903, to
amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to
require a group health plan or health insurance coverage offered in
connection with such a plan to provide an exceptions process for
any medication step therapy protocol, S. 3232, to amend the Older
Americans Act to 1965 to authorize funding for the Research,
Demonstration, and Evaluation Center for the Aging Network to
engage in certain research and evaluation activities with respect
to family caregivers and to revise the definition of the term
``family caregiver'', S. 3245, to require the Department of
Veterans Affairs-Department of Defense Joint Executive Committee to
improve mental health screening conducted under separation health
assessments for members of the Armed Forces, S. 3323, to amend the
Public Health Service Act to codify the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices, S. 3401, to establish, improve, or expand
high-quality workforce development programs at community colleges,
S. 3525, to preserve the franchise business model, S. 3588, to
amend the Public Health Service Act to provide funding for trained
school personnel to administer drugs and devices for emergency
treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose, S. 3788, to amend
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require drug labeling
to include original manufacturer and supply chain information, S.
3812, to require the Secretary of Labor to issue guidance and
regulations regarding opioid overdose reversal medication and
employee training, S. 3944, to amend the Public Health Service Act
to reauthorize the WISEWOMAN program, S. 4097, to establish that a
State-based education loan program is excluded from certain
requirements relating to a preferred lender arrangement, an
original bill entitled, ``The Native Children's Commission
Implementation Act of 2025'', and an original bill entitled,
``Gateway to Careers Act'', after receiving testimony from Senators
Cassidy, Kaine, Murkowski, Hassan, Marshall, Hickenlooper, Blunt
Rochester, Alsobrooks, Baldwin, Ernst, Lankford, Scott (FL),
Warnock, Boozman, Merkley, King, Collins, Shaheen, Rosen, Young,
Johnson, and Fischer.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Colin McDonald, of California, to be an Assistant
Attorney General, James Bishop, to be United States Attorney for the
Middle District of North Carolina, Brian Barber, to
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be United States Marshal for the Western District of Louisiana, Steven
Lewis, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of
Missouri, Priscilla Lopez, to be United States Marshal for the Southern
District of Florida, all of the Department of Justice.