[Daily Digest]
[Pages D648-D649]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DATA BROKERS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine data brokers and the impact on financial data 
privacy, credit, insurance, employment, and housing, including S. 592, 
to amend the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 to promote 
transparency in the oversight of cybersecurity risks at publicly traded 
companies, after receiving testimony from Alicia Puente Cackley, 
Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, Government 
Accountability Office; and Pam Dixon, World Privacy Forum, Portland, 
Oregon.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air 
and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of 
William B. Kilbride, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, after the nominee 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Amy Karpel, of Washington, and Randolph J. Stayin, of 
Virginia, both to be a Member of the United States International Trade 
Commission.
CRISIS AT THE SOUTHWEST BORDER
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the crisis at the southwest border, including S. 1494, to amend the 
William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act 
of 2008 to protect alien minors and to amend the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to end abuse of the asylum system and establish refugee 
application and processing centers outside the United States, after 
receiving testimony from Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland 
Security.
PATENT ELIGIBILITY IN AMERICA
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Intellectual Property 
concluded a hearing to examine the state of patent eligibility in 
America, after receiving testimony from Manny Schecter, International 
Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, New York; Laurie C. Self, 
Qualcomm, Inc., Kimberly Chotkowski, InterDigital, and Corey Salsberg, 
Novartis, all of Washington, D.C.; Byron R. Holz, Nokia, Snellville, 
Georgia; Sean Reilly, The Clearing House Payments Company LLC, Gonzalo 
Merino, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, and Nicolas Dupont, Cyborg Inc., all 
of New York, New York; Laurie Hill, Genentech, Inc., and Sean George, 
Invitae Corporation, both of San Francisco, California; Peter O'Neill, 
Cleveland Clinic Innovations, Cleveland, Ohio; David Spetzler, Caris 
Life Sciences, Irving, Texas; Michael Blankstein, Scientific Games, Las 
Vegas, Nevada; Robert Deberardine, Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, 
New Jersey; and John D. Vandenberg, Klarquist Sparkman, LLP, Sherwood, 
Oregon.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
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.

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THE UNITED STATES' COUNTERNARCOTICS STRATEGY
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine the global narcotics epidemic and the 
United States' strategy to confront the rising epidemic, after 
receiving testimony from Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State; Rand 
Beers, former Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau for International 
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, and Under Secretary of Homeland 
Security for National Protection and Programs Directorate; Roger 
Noriega, American Enterprise Institute, former Ambassador to the 
Organization of American States and Assistant Secretary of State for 
Western Hemisphere Affairs; and Earl Wayne, The Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars, former Ambassador to Mexico and 
Argentina, Deputy Ambassador in Afghanistan, Assistant Secretary of 
State for Economic and Business Affairs, and Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for Europe.