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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Homer L. Wilkes, of Mississippi, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of General Jacqueline D. Van Ovost, USAF, for reappointment to the grade of general and to be Commander, United States Transportation Command, Department of Defense, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine national cybersecurity strategy, focusing on protection of Federal and critical infrastructure systems, after receiving testimony from J. Chris Inglis, National Cyber Director; Jen Easterly, Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security; and Christopher J. DeRusha, Federal Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Management and Budget.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1787, to amend title 28 of the United States Code to prevent the transfer of actions arising under the antitrust laws in which a State is a complainant;
S. 2502, to provide first-time, low-level, nonviolent simple possession offenders an opportunity to expunge that conviction after successful completion of court-imposed probation; and
The nominations of Toby J. Heytens, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Patricia Tolliver Giles, and Michael S. Nachmanoff, both to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Sarala Vidya Nagala, and Omar Antonio Williams, both to be a United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and Hampton Y. Dellinger, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Erek L. Barron, to be United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, Nicholas W. Brown, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, Matthew M. Graves, to be United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Clifford D. Johnson, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Zachary A. Myers, of Maryland, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, Trini E. Ross, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, and Vanessa Waldref, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, all of the Department of Justice.
FRAUD, SCAMS, AND COVID-19
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine fraud, scams, and COVID-19, focusing on how older Americans have been targeted during the pandemic, after receiving testimony from Lois Greisman, Associate Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Odette Williamson, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Vee Daniel, Better Business Bureau Serving Upstate South Carolina, Greenville; and Kate Kleinert, Glenolden, Pennsylvania.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 165
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