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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1071-D1072 on Dec. 10, 2020.
The State Department is responsibly for international relations with a budget of more than $50 billion. Tenure at the State Dept. is increasingly tenuous and it's seen as an extension of the President's will, ambitions and flaws.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COVID-19 VACCINE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety concluded a hearing to examine the logistics of transporting a COVID-19 vaccine, after receiving testimony from Rachel L. Levine, Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary, Harrisburg, on behalf of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; Richard W. Smith, FedEx Express, Memphis, Tennessee; and Wes Wheeler, UPS Healthcare, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
STOP ACT OVERSIGHT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine combatting the opioid crisis, focusing on oversight of the implementation of the STOP Act, after receiving testimony from Eric Green, Director, Office of Specialized and Technical Agencies, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State; Robert Cintron, Vice President, Logistics, United States Postal Service; and Thomas F. Overacker, Executive Director, Cargo and Conveyance Security, Office of Field Operations, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Thomas L. Kirsch II, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, Charles Edward Atchley, Jr., and Katherine A. Crytzer, both to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Joseph Dawson III, to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, and Zachary N. Somers, of the District of Columbia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a hearing to examine small business in crisis, focusing on the 2020 Paycheck Protection Program and its future, including S. 4818, to provide assistance to small businesses affected by COVID-19, S. 3814, to establish a loan program for businesses affected by COVID-19 and to extend the loan forgiveness period for paycheck protection program loans made to the hardest hit businesses, and S. 4227, to improve access to economic injury disaster loans and emergency advances under the CARES Act, after receiving testimony from Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, and Dafina Williams, Opportunity Finance Network, both of Washington, D.C.; Thomas G. Zernick, First Home Bank, St. Petersburg, Florida; and Iman McFarland, 21st Century Expo Group, Inc., Capitol Heights, Maryland.
