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Congressional Daily Record
This section tracks committee work such as meetings, reports, or referrals. It mentions committees such as Committee on Appropriations.
Official title: Daily Digest/Senate Committee Meetings
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July 14, 2026
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Download official Daily Digest PDFReturn to issue context(Committees not listed did not meet) APPROPRIATIONS: SUPREME COURT Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Supreme Court of the United States, after receiving testimony from Amy Coney Barrett, and Elena Kagan, both an Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. NOMINATIONS Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Jules Hurst III, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary (Comptroller), Richard O'Malley, of Wisconsin, to be a Deputy Under Secretary, Roger Mason, of Virginia, to be Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, and Erich Hernandez-Baquero, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, all of the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,274 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Brett Doyle, of Connecticut, David Foley, Jr., of Virginia, Samuel Negatu, of the District of Columbia, Peter-Anthony Pappas, of New Jersey, and Bartholomew Thanhauser, of New York, all to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission. NATIONAL SECURITY Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues concluded a hearing to examine the national security strategy and the western hemisphere, after receiving testimony from Michael Kozak, Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State. PATENT ELIGIBILITY Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine genes to machines, focusing on the patent eligibility debate, after receiving testimony from Andrei Iancu, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Los Angeles, California; J. John Lee, Computer and Communications Industry Association, and Sue Peschin, Alliance for Aging Research, both of Washington, D.C.; and Debra Leonard, Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at University of Vermont, Burlington. INTELLIGENCE Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.