[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 127 (Tuesday, August 4, 2026)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D808]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
REALITY OF MEDICAID
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
reality of Medicaid, after receiving testimony from Brian C. Blase, 
Paragon Health Institute, Arlington, Virginia; Jonathan Ingram, 
Foundation for Government Accountability, Naples, Florida; and Andy 
Schneider, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, 
Washington D.C.
HEALTH CARE WITH BIOTECHNOLOGY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health Care concluded a hearing 
to examine building a resilient health care future with biotechnology, 
after receiving testimony from Michelle Rozo, Vice Chair, National 
Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB); Alan D. 
Palkowitz, Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, Indianapolis; Vera 
P. Luther, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Lebanon, New 
Hampshire; and Kevin Outterson, Boston University School of Law, 
Boston, Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
AI SURVEILLANCE PRICING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism 
concluded a hearing to examine data and profit, focusing on the 
consumer cost of AI surveillance pricing, after receiving testimony 
from Hillary Caron, United Food and Commercial Workers International 
Union, Lee A. Hepner, American Economic Liberties Project, and Lindsay 
Owens, Groundwork Collaborative, all of Washington, D.C.; Robert B. 
Hedges, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford, New 
Hampshire; and Z. John Zhang, University of Pennsylvania Wharton 
School, Philadelphia.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.