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## Story Lineup From Last Night’s Network News:

ABC: Coronavirus-Rising Cases; Coronavirus-Vaccine; National Security Adviser-Coronavirus; John Lewis Tribute; Congress-Relief Bill; Hurricane Hanna; FDA-Hand Sanitizers; Violent Protests; California-Pilot Makes Emergency Landing; New York-Changes to 9/11 Commemoration; Remembering Regis Philbin.

CBS: Coronavirus-Vaccine; Coronavirus-Rising Cases; National Security Adviser-Coronavirus; Trump-Racial Issues; Congress-Relief Bill; John Lewis Tribute; Violent Protests; Hurricane Hanna; FDA-Hand Sanitizers; Louisiana-Mom & Daughter Graduate Med School Together; Alabama-Edmund Pettus Bridge.

NBC: Coronavirus-Vaccine; Coronavirus-Rising Cases; John Lewis Tribute; National Security Adviser-Coronavirus; Congress-Relief Bill; Coronavirus-Sports; Coronavirus-Schools; Violent Protests; Remembering Regis Philbin; Alabama-Edmund Pettus Bridge.

## Network TV At A Glance:

Coronavirus – 19 minutes, 40 seconds

John Lewis Tribute – 7 minutes, 50 seconds

National Security Adviser-Coronavirus – 5 minutes, 30 seconds

Congress-Relief Bill – 3 minutes, 50 seconds

Violent Protests – 3 minutes, 20 seconds

## Story Lineup From This Morning’s Radio News Broadcasts:

ABC: Coronavirus-Rising Cases; Trump-FBI Headquarters; LAPD-New Bureau; John Lewis Tribute; Hurricane Douglas.

CBS: GOP-Relief Bill; Coronavirus-Vaccine; Brian Kemp-Atlanta Lawsuit Dropped; John Lewis Tribute; Unsolicited Foreign Seeds Shipments; Stocks.

FOX: Coronavirus-Vaccine; Congress-Relief Bill; Smithsonian Museum for Latinos.

NPR: Portland-Federal Agents; Coronavirus-California; Coronavirus-Kentucky; GOP-Relief Bill.

## WASHINGTON'S SCHEDULE

## Today's Events In Washington.

## White House:

- President Trump — Has no public events scheduled

- Vice President Pence — Has no public schedule released

## US Senate:

<ul><li>Dem Rep. John Lewis continues to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol – Democratic Rep. John Lewis continues to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, following his death 17 Jul, from pancreatic cancer, aged 80 * Agenda includes second day of public viewing at the top of the East Front Steps (8:00 AM EDT – 10:00 PM EDT) * Lewis died on the same day as late civil rights leader Rev. C.T. Vivian, whose funeral was held last week * He is the second Black lawmaker to lie in state, alongside late Rep. Elijah Cummings, who died in October 2019</li></ul>

- Senate Natural Resources Committee hearing on large-scale carbon dioxide management technologies – Hearing ‘To Examine Development and Deployment of Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Management Technologies’, with testimony from Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg; Energy Futures Initiative President and CEO Ernest Moniz and Principal Joseph Hezir; Carbon Utilization Research Council Executive Director Shannon

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Angielski; Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy’s Dr S. Julio Friedmann; and Bipartisan Policy Center Director of The Energy Project Sasha Mackler

Location: Rm 366, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC; 10:00 AM

- Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on the PACT Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act – Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet Subcommittee hearing on ‘The PACT Act and Section 230: The Impact of the Law that Helped Create the Internet and an Examination of Proposed Reforms for Today’s Online World’, with testimony from NetChoice director Christopher Cox; U.S. Naval Academy Cyber Science Department assistant professor Jeff Kosseff; Fordham University professor of law Olivier Sylvain; and Internet Association deputy general counsel Elizabeth Banker

Location: Rm 106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC; 10:00 AM

- Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on ‘How Does the DMCA Contemplate Limitations and Exceptions Like Fair Use?’ – Intellectual Property Subcommittee hearing on ‘How Does the DMCA Contemplate Limitations and Exceptions Like Fair Use?’, with testimony from Wikimedia Foundation Lead Public Policy Manager Sherwin Siy; National Press Photographers Association General Counsel Mickey Osterreicher; Columbia University School of Law Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law Jane Ginsburg; Software and Information Industry Association Vice President for Intellectual Property and General Counsel Christopher Mohr; songwriter, producer, engineer, and educator Rick Beato; GRAMMY Award winner Yolanda Adams; Durie Tangri partner Joseph Gratz; Caplin & Drysdale Political Law Group Co-lead Matthew Sanderson; and Alter, Kendrick & Baron partner Jacqueline Charlesworth

Location: Rm 226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC; 10:00 AM

- Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on coronavirus financial relief packages – Hearing on ‘Oversight of COVID-19 Financial Relief Packages’, held via videoconference, with testimony from former Sen. Phil Gramm; Project on Government Oversight Executive Director Danielle Brian; Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas; George Mason University Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow Dr Veronique De Rugy; and former Troubled Asset Relief Program Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky; 10:00 AM

- Senate Finance Committee first hearing on protecting the reliability of the medical supply chain during coronavirus – Hearing on ‘Part 1: Protecting the Reliability of the U.S. Medical Supply Chain During the COVID-19 Pandemic’, with testimony from Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations Executive Director of Cargo and Conveyance Security Thomas Overacker; Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations Global Trade Investigations Division Assistant Director Steve Francis; and Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa

Location: Rm 215, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington. DC: 10:15 AM

- Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing on telework and coronavirus – Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management Subcommittee hearing on ‘Modernizing Telework: Review of Private Sector Telework Policies during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, held via videoconference, with testimony from Deloitte Consulting Principal Sean Morris; The Williams Companies Senior Vice President and General Counsel T. Lane Wilson; Reconciled CEO Michael Ly; and Acronis SCS CEO John Zanni; 2:30 PM

- Senate Armed Services Committee nominations hearing – Nominations hearing considers Lt. Gen. Glen VanHerck to be a general and U.S. Northern Command Commander and North American Aerospace Defense Command Commander; and Lt. Gen. James Dickinson to be a general and U.S. Space Command Commander

Location: Rm 106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC; 2:30 PM

- Closed Briefing: Intelligence Matters

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Location: CVC 217, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC; 2:30 PM

## US House:

<ul><li>Dem Rep. John Lewis continues to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol – Democratic Rep. John Lewis continues to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, following his death 17 Jul, from pancreatic cancer, aged 80 * Agenda includes second day of public viewing at the top of the East Front Steps (8:00 AM EDT – 10:00 PM EDT) * Lewis died on the same day as late civil rights leader Rev. C.T. Vivian, whose funeral was held last week * He is the second Black lawmaker to lie in state, alongside late Rep. Elijah Cummings, who died in October 2019</li></ul>Location: U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC; 8:00 AM

- House Infrastructure subcommittee hearing on experiences of vulnerable populations during disaster – Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee hearing on ‘Experiences of Vulnerable Populations During Disaster’, with testimony from Virginia State Coordinator of Emergency Management Curtis Brown (on behalf of Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management); Second Harvest Community Food Bank CEO Chad Higdon; World Institute on Disability Executive Director and CEO Marcie Roth; and National Low Income Housing Coalition President and CEO Diane Yentel; 10:00 AM

- House Technology subcommittees joint online hearing on countering people trafficking – Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee and Research and Technology Subcommittee joint online hearing on ‘The Role of Technology in Countering Trafficking in Persons’, held via Cisco Webex, with testimony from Polaris CTO Anjana Rajan; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Systems Group Technical Staff Dr Matthew Daggett; Marinus Analytics President and co-founder Emily Kennedy; and Business for Social Responsibility Associate Director of Ethics, Technology, and Human Rights Hannah Darnton; 10:00 AM

- House Administration subcommittee virtual hearing on voting rights and election administration in the U.S. territories – Elections Subcommittee hearing on ‘Voting Rights and Election Administration in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Other Territories’, held via Cisco Webex; 10:00 AM

- AG Barr testifies to House Judiciary Committee on DoJ oversight – Hearing on ‘Oversight of the Department of Justice’, with testimony from Attorney General William Barr * Committee follows guidelines including maintaining six-foot social distance spacing as much as practicable, use of a face covering required for all attendees, and no allowance for the general public to attend in person * AG Barr agreed to testify after Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler threatened to subpoena him to appear, amid accusations that he has ‘politicized’ the DoJ, over cases including those of Roger Stone and Michael Flynn plus the removal from office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman

Location: CVC 200, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC; 10:00 AM

- <ul><li>House Natural Resources Committee hearing on U.S. Park Police response to Lafayette Square protests – Hearing on ‘Unanswered Questions About the US Park Police’s June 1 Attack on Peaceful Protesters at Lafayette Square’, with testimony from U.S. Park Police Acting Chief Gregory Monahan; and District of Columbia National Guard Major Adam DeMarco * Held via Cisco Webex and in Rm 1324, Longworth House Office Building; 10:00 AM</li></ul>

- House Commerce subcommittee remote hearing on reforming the nation’s drinking water standards – Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee remote hearing on ‘There’s Something in the Water: Reforming Our Nation’s Drinking Water Standards’, held via Cisco Webex, with testimony from Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality Water Quality Division Director Shellie Chard (on behalf of Association of State Drinking Water Administrators); Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) CEO Diane VanDe Hei;

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and Natural Resources Defense Council Healthy People and Thriving Communities Program Senior Director of Health and Food Mae Wu; 11:00 AM

- House Rules Committee hearing – Hearing on `H.R. 7617` – Defense, Commerce, Justice, Science, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2021’, held via Cisco Webex; 11:00 AM

- House Homeland Security Committee hearing on ‘Protecting the Integrity of the 2020 Elections’ – NO LONGER ON CALENDAR: Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, & Innovation Subcommittee hearing on ‘Secure, Safe, and Auditable: Protecting the Integrity of the 2020 Elections’, with testimony from German Marshall Fund of the United States Alliance for Securing Democracy Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine; Common Cause Director of Voting and Elections Sylvia Albert; National Vote at Home Institute CEO Amber McReynolds; and Center for Internet Security President and CEO John Gilligan

Location: Rm 310, Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC; 12:00 PM



• House Climate Crisis Committee remote hearing on ‘Building a Vibrant and Just Clean Energy Economy’ – Remote hearing on ‘Solving the Climate Crisis: Building a Vibrant and Just Clean Energy Economy’, held via Cisco Webex, with testimony from The New School Tishman Environment and Design Center Associate Director Dr Ana Baptista; BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh; Clean Grid Alliance Executive Director Beth Soholt; and Environmental Progress founder and President Michael Shellenberger; 2:00 PM



## Cabinet Officers:

<table border="1"><tr><td>• Annual Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations in the U.S. conclude-Annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations(AUSMIN2020),with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper co-hosting Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds,conclude</td></tr></table>

Location: State Department, Washington, DC

- AG Barr testifies to House Judiciary Committee on DoJ oversight – Hearing on `Oversight of the Department of Justice’, with testimony from Attorney General William Barr * Committee follows guidelines including maintaining six-foot social distance spacing as much as practicable, use of a face covering required for all attendees, and no allowance for the general public to attend in person * AG Barr agreed to testify after Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler threatened to subpoena him to appear, amid accusations that he has `politicized’ the DoJ, over cases including those of Roger Stone and Michael Flynn plus the removal from office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman

Location: CVC 200, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC; 10:00 AM

## Visitors:

<table border="1"><tr><td>• Annual Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations in the U.S. conclude-Annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations(AUSMIN2020),with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper co-hosting Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds,conclude</td></tr></table>

Location: State Department, Washington, DC

## This Town:

<ul><li>Dem Rep. John Lewis continues to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol – Democratic Rep. John Lewis continues to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, following his death 17 Jul, from pancreatic cancer, aged 80 * Agenda includes second day of public viewing at the top of the East Front Steps (8:00 AM EDT – 10:00 PM EDT) * Lewis died on the same day as late civil rights leader Rev. C.T. Vivian, whose funeral was held last week * He is the second Black lawmaker to lie in state, alongside late Rep. Elijah Cummings, who died in October 2019</li></ul>Location: U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC; 8:00 AM

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- USIP Bipartisan Congressional Dialogue on ‘Advancing International Religious Freedom’ – ‘Advancing International Religious Freedom’ online Bipartisan Congressional Dialogue hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace, with National Prayer Breakfast honorary co-chairs Republican Rep. John Moolenaar and Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi sharing their experiences advancing issues of international religious freedom in Congress and abroad, and how international religious freedom impacts fragile states, from violent extremism to human rights to the protection of vulnerable communities; 9:00 AM

- DoJ virtual public workshop on competition in the licensing of public performance rights in the music industry – Department of Justice holds virtual public workshop on competition in the licensing of public performance rights in the music industry, to `provide a further venue for industry stakeholders to weigh in on the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) consent decrees and their implications for antitrust law enforcement and policy as we enter the third decade of the 21st century and as music distribution continues to evolve through technological innovation’. Day one speakers include LeAnn Rimes and Pharrell, National Music Publishers’ Association President and CEO David Israelite, Songwriters of North America Executive Director Michelle Lewis, ASCAP CEO Elizabeth Matthews, BMI President and CEO Michael O’Neill, National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO Gordon Smith, Universal Music Publishing Group Chief Counsel David Kokakis, and Nashville Songwriters Association International Executive Director Bart Herbison: 12:30 PM

- CFA Virtual National Food Policy Conference – Consumer Federation of America Virtual National Food Policy Conference, focusing on how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting the food system, with day one keynote from Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr Stephen Hahn; 1:00 PM

- <table border="1"><tr><td>• Chilean president speaks as part of Washington Conference on the Americas Virtual Series- Washington Conference on the Americas Virtual Series-‘After the Pandemic: Restoring Hope and Growth in the Americas’- continues with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera * Event held in partnership with the State Department Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs * Virtual series replaces in-person conference, originally scheduled for May, due to the coronavirus(COVID-19) pandemic</td></tr></table>

- U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting – Federal Open Market Committee meeting, first day of two-day meeting, with interest rates decision tomorrow * The FOMC decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0-0.25% at its last meeting in June as it continued to deal with the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the U.S. economy

Location: Washington, DC

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