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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Xochitl Torres Small, of New Mexico, to be Under Secretary for Rural Development, who was introduced by Senator Lujan, and Robert Farrell Bonnie, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation, both of the Department of Agriculture, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
KOREAN PENINSULA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on the security situation on the Korean Peninsula from national security briefers.
PROTECTING AMERICANS FROM DEBT TRAPS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine protecting Americans from debt traps by extending the military's 36% interest rate cap to everyone, including S. 2508, to amend the Truth in Lending Act to extend the consumer credit protections provided to members of the Armed Forces and their dependents under title 10, United States Code, to all consumers, after receiving testimony from Representatives Grothman, Garcia (IL), and Loudermilk; Hollister K. Petraeus, former Assistant Director for Servicemember Affairs, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, William M. Himpler, American Financial Services Association, and David Pommerehn, Consumer Bankers Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Ashley C. Harrington, Center for Responsible Lending, Durham, North Carolina; Richard Williams, Essential Federal Credit Union, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Thomas Miller, Jr., Mississippi State University, Mississippi.
PROMESA
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 375 and H.R. 1192, bills to impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as ``PROMESA''), after receiving testimony from Senator Menendez; Arthur J. Gonzalez, New York University School of Law, New York, New York; Stephen J. Lubben, Seton Hall Law School, Newark, New Jersey; and Anthony Suarez, Suarez Law Group, Orlando, Florida.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Stephen A. Owens, of Arizona, Jennifer Beth Sass, of Maryland, and Sylvia E. Johnson, of North Carolina, each to be a Member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1425, to enable the Federal Trade Commission to deter filing of sham citizen petitions to cover an attempt to interfere with approval of a competing generic drug or biosimilar, to foster competition, and facilitate the efficient review of petitions filed in good faith to raise legitimate public health concerns;
S. 1428, to prohibit brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of a generic drug into the market, and to prohibit biological product manufacturers from compensating biosimilar and interchangeable companies to delay the entry of biosimilar biological products and interchangeable biological products, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1388, to require the Federal Trade Commission to study the role of intermediaries in the pharmaceutical supply chain and provide Congress with appropriate policy recommendations; and
S. 1435, to amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to prohibit product hopping, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 133
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