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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TYPE 1 DIABETES
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine a 
future without Type 1 Diabetes, focusing on accelerating breakthroughs 
and creating hope, after receiving testimony from Griffin P. Rodgers, 
Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney 
Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Ruby Whitmore, Old Town, Maine, and Rachel White, North 
Hampton, New Hampshire, both of Breakthrough T1D 2025 Children's 
Congress Delegate; and Katie Bone, Bernalillo, New Mexico.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies approved for full committee consideration 
an original bill entitled, ``Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026''.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities approved for full committee consideration those provisions 
which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026.
AUTHORIZATION: NATIONAL DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill entitled, ``National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 
year 2026''.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Hung Cao, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of the 
Navy, and Michael Dodd, of Indiana, Jules Hurst III, of Virginia, Brent 
Ingraham, of Virginia, and William Gillis, of Virginia, each to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Army, all of the Department of Defense, and 
30 military nominations in the Air Force and Space Force.
WALL STREET TO WEB3
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine from Wall Street to Web3, focusing on tomorrow's 
digital asset markets, including S. 1492, to require the Secretary of 
Commerce support the leadership of the United States with respect to 
the deployment, use, application, and competitiveness of blockchain 
technology, after receiving testimony from Summer Mersinger, Blockchain 
Association, Washington, D.C.; Jonathan Levin, Chainalysis, Inc., New 
York, New York; Daniel Robinson, Paradigm, and Brad Garlinghouse, 
Ripple, both of San Francisco, California; Timothy G. Massad, Harvard 
University Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and 
Richard W. Painter, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Neil Jacobs, of North Carolina, 
to be Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Taylor Jordan, of 
the District of Columbia, and Harry Kumar, of New York, both to be an 
Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of Commerce, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Lanny Erdos, of Ohio, to be 
Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, 
and Audrey Robertson, of Colorado, to be an Assistant Secretary (Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy), Timothy John Walsh, of Colorado, to 
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Assistant Secretary (Environmental Management), who was introduced by 
Senator McCormick, and David Eisner, of New York, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, all of the Department of Energy, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Usha-Maria Turner, of Oklahoma, to be an 
Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and 
David Wright, of South Carolina, to be a Member of the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, and 32 General Services Administration 
resolutions.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Jeffrey Bartos, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations 
for U.N. Management and Reform, with the Rank of Ambassador, and to 
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as an Alternate 
Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the 
General Assembly of the United Nations, who was introduced by Senators 
Fetterman and McCormick, Lynda Blanchard, of Alabama, to be U.S. 
Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, 
with the rank of Ambassador, who was introduced by Senator Britt, 
Jennifer Locetta, of Florida, to be Alternate Representative of the 
United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United 
Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as an Alternate Representative of the 
United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the 
United Nations, who was introduced by Senator Moody, Anjani Sinha, of 
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, who was 
introduced by Senator Graham, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to Greece, who was introduced by Senator Hagerty, all of the 
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Susan Monarez, of Wisconsin, to be 
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department 
of Health and Human Services.
SECURING THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine securing the future of health care, 
focusing on enhancing cybersecurity and protecting Americans' privacy, 
after receiving testimony from Greg Garcia, Healthcare and Public 
Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, and 
Robert Weissman, Public Citizen, both of Washington, D.C.; Rene 
Quashie, Consumer Technology Association, Arlington, Virginia; Linda 
Stevenson, Fisher-Titus Medical Center, Norwalk, Ohio; and Alison 
Galvani, Yale School of Public Health Center for Infectious Disease 
Modeling and Analysis, New Haven, Connecticut.
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.