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“Senate Committee Meetings.....” published by Congressional Record in the Daily Digest section on Oct. 28, 2021

was mentioned in Senate Committee Meetings..... on pages D1203-D1204 covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress published on Oct. 28, 2021 in the Congressional Record.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet)

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of John Bradley Sherman, of Texas, to be Chief Information Officer, Ashish S. Vazirani, of Maryland, to be a Deputy Under Secretary, and Carrie Frances Ricci, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Army, all of the Department of Defense, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Nickolas Guertin, of Virginia, to be Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Alexandra Baker, of New Jersey, to be a Deputy Under Secretary, John Patrick Coffey, of New York, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, Douglas R. Bush, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army, and 1,382 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force, all of the Department of Defense.

CFPB SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Semi-

Annual Report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Rohit Chopra, Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND DOMESTIC EXTREMISM

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine social media platforms and the amplification of domestic extremism and other harmful content, after receiving testimony from Karen Kornbluh, German Marshall Fund of the U.S., Washington, D.C.; David L. Sifry, Anti-Defamation League, New York, New York; Cathy O'Neil, O'Neil Risk Consulting and Algorithmic Auditing, Brooklyn, New York; Nathaniel Persily, Stanford Cyber Policy Center and Stanford Law School, Stanford, California; and Mary Anne Franks, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:

S. 2428, to amend title 31, United States Code, to modify False Claims Act procedures, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

S. 998, to provide grants to States that do not suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a driver's license of a person or refuse to renew a registration of a motor vehicle for failure to pay a civil or criminal fine or fee, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and

The nominations of Lucy Haeran Koh, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Jane M. Beckering, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan, Shalina D. Kumar, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Armando O. Bonilla, of the District of Columbia, and Carolyn N. Lerner, of Maryland, both to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, and Jonathan Kanter, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Michael F. Easley, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Sandra J. Hairston, to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, and Dena J. King, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, all of the Department of Justice.

RETIREMENT

Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine building a stronger retirement system for all Americans, focusing on a financially secure future, after receiving testimony from John Scott, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Shai Akabas, Bipartisan Policy Center, both of Washington, D.C.; Nari Rhee, University of California Center for Labor Research and Education, Berkeley; and J. Spencer Williams, Retirement Clearinghouse, Greenville, South Carolina.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 190

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