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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a closed hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2023 for 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, Director, National Security Agency, Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: TREASURY TFI AND FINCEN
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2023 for the Treasury Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, after receiving testimony from Wally Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
INDEX FUND VOTING PROCESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the index fund voting process, including S. 4241, to amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to require investment advisers for passively managed funds to arrange for pass-through voting of proxies for certain securities, after receiving testimony from Senator Sullivan; John C. Coates IV, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Caleb N. Griffin, University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of David Applegate, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the United States Geological Survey, and Carmen G. Cantor, of Puerto Rico, to be an Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of the Interior, and Evelyn Wang, of Massachusetts, to be Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Department of Energy.
EXTREME DROUGHT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine short term and long term solutions to extreme drought in the western United States, after receiving testimony from Camille Calimlim Touton, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Charles V. Stern, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; John J. Entsminger, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas; Maurice Hall, Environmental Defense Fund, Sacramento, California; and Patrick O'Toole, Family Farm Alliance, Savery, Wyoming.
SOUTH DAKOTA V. WAYFAIR
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the impact of South Dakota v. Wayfair on small businesses and remote sales, after receiving testimony from James R. McTigue, Jr., Director, Tax Policy and Administration, Government Accountability Office; John E. Hennessey, Littleton Coin Company, Inc., Littleton, New Hampshire; Michelle Huie, VIM and VIGR Compression Legwear, Missoula, Montana; Craig Johnson, Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board, Westby, Wisconsin; and Diane L. Yetter, Sales Tax Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight concluded an oversight hearing to examine the findings and recommendations of GAO's 2022 report on duplication, overlap, fragmentation and opportunities to achieve financial benefits, after receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, Government Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 4348, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs, medical devices, generic drugs, and biosimilar biological products, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 958, to amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the allowable use criteria for new access points grants for community health centers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 4353, to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve retirement plan provisions, with amendments;
H.R. 1193, to amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health, in consultation with the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, to establish a program under which the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall support or conduct research on valvular heart disease; and
S. 4052, to reauthorize a program for early detection, diagnosis, and treatment regarding deaf and hard-of-hearing newborns, infants, and young children, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
WORKFORCE AND ECONOMY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety concluded a hearing to examine strengthening our workforce and economy through higher education and immigration, after receiving testimony from former Representative Mia Love, Utah State University Center for Growth and Opportunity, Logan; Bernard A. Burrola, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, Washington, D.C.; and Dalia Larios, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS BUDGET
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2023 and proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2024 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, after receiving testimony from Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Roscoe Butler, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Shane Liermann, Disabled American Veterans, and Patrick Murray, Veterans of Foreign Wars, all of Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
