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Congressional Daily Record
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Download official Daily Digest PDFReturn to issue context(Committees not listed did not meet) APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, after receiving testimony from Douglas A. Collins, Secretary, and Richard F. Topping, Assistant Secretary for Management and Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of Veterans Affairs. APPROPRIATIONS: FOREST SERVICE Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Forest Service, after receiving testimony from Tom Schultz, Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BUDGET Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to examine the Department of Defense budget request for Fiscal Year 2027 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary, Jules W. Hurst III, performing the duties of the Under Secretary (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, and General Dan Caine, USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of the Department of Defense. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of John Breslow, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, Fleet White, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Political-Military Affairs), Todd Steggerda, of Virginia, to be Representative to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador, Preston Wells Griffith III, of Virginia, to be Representative to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador and to
rank of Ambassador, and Adam Cassady, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy. BALTIC SEA Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Baltic Sea, focusing on implications for European Security and lessons from the Indo-Pacific, after receiving testimony from Benjamin L. Schmitt, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and James C. O'Brien, European Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1572, to amend title 18, United States Code, to improve the Federal carjacking statute, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 3062, to require artificial intelligence chatbots to implement age verification measures and make certain disclosures, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
Judge for the District of South Carolina, Kathleen S. Lane, to be United States District Judge for the District of Montana, Evan Rikhye, to be Judge for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, Kara Marie Westercamp, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, Kenneth Sorenson, to be United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, and Johnson TeeHee II, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, Department of Justice.