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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D682 on July 30, 2020.
The State Department is responsibly for international relations with a budget of more than $50 billion. Tenure at the State Dept. is increasingly tenuous and it's seen as an extension of the President's will, ambitions and flaws.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. ECONOMIC POLICIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Security concluded a hearing to examine the China challenge, focusing on realignment of United States economic policies to build resiliency and competitiveness, after receiving testimony from Michael Wessel, Commissioner, United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission; Keith Krach, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment; Nazak Nikakhtar, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Industry and Analysis; and Rush Doshi, Brookings Institution China Strategy Initiative, Washington, D.C.
U.S. MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAIN
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine protecting the reliability of the United States medical supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic, after receiving testimony from Cathy Denning, Vizient, Irving, Texas; Robert J. Wiehe, UC Health, Cincinnati, Ohio; Charles Johnson, International Safety Equipment Association, Arlington, Virginia; and Ernest Grant, American Nurses Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2021 for the Department of State, after receiving testimony from Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 4212, to amend title 28, United States Code, to strip foreign sovereign immunity of certain foreign states to secure justice for victims of novel coronavirus in the United States; and
The nominations of David W. Dugan, and Stephen P. McGlynn, both to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of Illinois, Hala Y. Jarbou, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan, Iain D. Johnston, and Franklin Ulyses Valderrama, both to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Roderick C. Young, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia.
