September 22,2026

Crapo Announces Executive Session to Consider HHS, IRS, Tax Court Nominations

Washington, D.C.—U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) announced the Committee will mark up the nominations of Gerard “Chris” Klomp to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, James Gadwood to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury, Ge Bai to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services and Andrew De Mello to be a Judge of the U.S. Tax Court during an executive session on Thursday, September 24 at 10:00 AM.

Title: Executive session to consider nominations

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2026

Time: 10:00 AM ET

Location: 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Opening statements and a live video of the hearing will be available on www.finance.senate.gov. An additional live video will be streamed on https://x.com/MikeCrapo.

Members of the press interested in covering this hearing in person should RSVP to the appropriate Senate press gallery.

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