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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a hearing to examine the intelligence community, after receiving testimony from Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence; William
J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; and General Paul M.
Nakasone, USA, Director, National Security Agency, Department of
Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2022 for the National Institutes of Health, and the state of medical research, after receiving testimony from Francis S. Collins, Director, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Diana W. Bianchi, Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Norman E.
Sharpless, Director, National Cancer Institute, Gary H. Gibbons,
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Eliseo J. Perez-
Stable, Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health
Disparities Institute, and Bruce J. Tromberg, Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
THE FUTURE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine budgeting for the future of forest management, focusing on rethinking resiliency, after receiving testimony from Victoria Christiansen, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2022 for the Department of Commerce, after receiving testimony from Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce.
APPROPRIATIONS: DHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2022 for the Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony from Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security.
APPROPRIATIONS: USAID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2022 for the United States Agency for International Development, after receiving testimony from Samantha Power, Administrator, United States Agency for International Development.
SPACE FORCE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded a hearing to examine space force, military space operations, policy and programs, after receiving testimony from Darlene J. Costello, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, John D. Hill, performing the duties of Assistant Secretary for Space Policy, and General David D. Thompson, USSF, Vice Chief of Space Operations, all of the Department of Defense.
WALL STREET FIRMS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine annual oversight of Wall Street firms, after receiving testimony from Charles W. Scharf, Wells Fargo and Company, and Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase and Co., both of New York, New York; David M. Solomon, Goldman Sachs, Hartsdale, New York; Jane Fraser, Citi, St. Andrews, United Kingdom; Brian Moynihan, Bank of America, Marietta, Ohio; and James P. Gorman, Morgan Stanley, Melbourne, Australia.
NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks concluded a hearing to examine the current state of the National Park System, focusing on the impacts of COVID-19 on National Park Service operations, staff, visitation and facilities, after receiving testimony from Shawn Benge, Deputy Director for Operations, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Ken Burns, Florentine Films, Walpole, New Hampshire; David MacDonald, Friends of Acadia, Bar Harbor, Maine; and Scott Socha, National Park Hospitality Association, Buffalo, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
An original bill entitled, ``Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021'';
10 General Services Administration resolutions; and
The nominations of Shannon Aneal Estenoz, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, Department of the Interior, and Radhika Fox, of California, to be an Assistant Administrator, and Michal Ilana Freedhoff, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances, both of the Environmental Protection Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1471, to enhance protections of Native American tangible cultural heritage.
COVID-19 RESPONSE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the COVID-19 response in Native communities, focusing on Native languages one year later, including S. 989, to establish a Native American language resource center in furtherance of the policy set forth in the Native American Languages Act, and S. 1402, to amend the Native American Languages Act to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages, after receiving testimony from Michelle Sauve, Acting Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services; Chuck Hoskin Jr., Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Leslie Harper, National Coalition of Native American Language Schools and Programs, Cass Lake, Minnesota; Ka'iulani J. K. N. Laeha, `Aha Punana Leo, Inc., Hilo, Hawaii; and B. Yaayuk Alvanna-Stimpfle, ANLPAC, Nome, Alaska.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Tiffany P. Cunningham, of Illinois, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, Margaret Irene Strickland, to be United States District Judge for the District of New Mexico, who was introduced by Senators Heinrich and Lujan, Ur Mendoza Jaddou, of California, to be Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, who was introduced by Senator Padilla, and David H. Chipman, of Virginia, to be Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Anne Milgram, of New Jersey, to be Administrator of Drug Enforcement, who was introduced by Senators Menendez and Booker, and Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr., of Louisiana, to be an Assistant Attorney General, who was introduced by Senator Cassidy, all of the Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PANDEMIC RESPONSE
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the pandemic response and the small business economy, focusing on an update from the Small Business Administration, after receiving testimony from Isabel Guzman, Administrator, Small Business Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 89, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to secure medical opinions for veterans with service-connected disabilities who die from COVID-19 to determine whether their service-connected disabilities were the principal or contributory causes of death;
S. 189, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for annual cost-of-living adjustments to be made automatically by law each year in the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-
connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain service-connected disabled veterans;
S. 894, to identify and refer members of the Armed Forces with a health care occupation who are separating from the Armed Forces for potential employment with the Department of Veterans Affairs;
S. 1031, to require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on disparities associated with race and ethnicity with respect to certain benefits administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;
S. 1095, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the disapproval by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of courses of education offered by public institutions of higher learning that do not charge veterans the in-State tuition rate for purposes of Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program;
An original bill entitled, ``The COST of War Act of 2021''; and
The nominations of Donald Michael Remy, of Louisiana, to be Deputy Secretary, Matthew T. Quinn, of Montana, to be Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs, Maryanne T. Donaghy, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary (Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection), and Patricia L. Ross, of Ohio, to be an Assistant Secretary (Congressional and Legislative Affairs), all of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Christopher Charles Fonzone, of Pennsylvania, to be General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Brett M. Holmgren, of Minnesota, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Intelligence and Research).
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 92
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