Executive Session

Open Executive Session to Consider Favorably Reporting the Nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services; James Gadwood, of Maryland, to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury; Ge Bai, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Andrew A. De Mello, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years


Date: Thursday, September 24, 2026 Time: 10:00 AM Location: 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building

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Member Statements


  1.  Mike Crapo (R - ID)
  2.  Ron Wyden (D - OR)

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