Thursday, February 26

Senate Committee on Armed Services
Hearings to examine the nominations of Mark Ditlevson, of Minnesota, and Brian Birdwell, of Texas, both to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense.
Witnesses: Testimony from nominees
9:30 AM – SD-G50

Senate Committee on Aging
Hearings to examine FDA bureaucracy, focusing on regulator to roadblock.
Witnesses: Annie Kennedy, Chief Mission Officer, EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases, Washington, DC; Dr. Jeremy Schmahmann MD, Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Ataxia Center, Boston, MA; Bradley Campbell, President & CEO, Amicus Therapeutics, Princeton, NJ; Dr. Cara O’Neill MD, FAAP, Chief Science Officer, Co-Founder, Cure Sanfilippo Foundation, Columbia, SC
9:30 AM – SH-216

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Business meeting to consider S.1602, to coordinate Federal research and development efforts focused on modernizing mathematics in STEM education through mathematical and statistical modeling, including data-driven and computational thinking, problem, project, and performance-based learning and assessment, interdisciplinary exploration, and career connections, S.1558, to require a standard financial aid offer form, S.3747, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to recognize students who have completed secondary school education in a home school setting as high school graduates, S.1782, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of mental or physical disability in cases of organ transplants, S.1552, to promote and protect from discrimination living organ donors, S.3315, to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to coordinate to improve cybersecurity in the health care and public health sectors, and other pending business.
10:00 AM – SD-430