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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimate and justification for fiscal year 2023 for the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of Reclamation, after receiving testimony from Michael L. Connor, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, and Lieutenant General Scott A. Spellmon, Chief of Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers, both of the Department of Defense; and David Palumbo, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.
SUICIDE PREVENTION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a hearing to examine suicide prevention and related behavioral health interventions in the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from Karin A. Orvis, Director, Defense Suicide Prevention Office, Richard Mooney, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Services Policy and Oversight, and Michael J. Roark, Deputy Inspector General, Evaluations Component, all of the Department of Defense; Brenda S. Farrell, Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, Government Accountability Office; Chris Ford, Stop Soldier Suicide, and P. Murali Doraiswamy, Duke University School of Medicine, both of Durham, North Carolina; Craig J. Bryan, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus; and Beth Zimmer Carter.
INNOVATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Defense's posture for supporting and fostering innovation, after receiving testimony from Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary for Research and Engineering; Stefanie Tompkins, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Michael Brown, Director, Defense Innovation Unit, all of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Ventris C. Gibson, of Virginia, to be Director of the Mint, and Paul M. Rosen, of California, to be Assistant Secretary for Investment Security, both of the Department of the Treasury, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development concluded a hearing to examine advancing public transportation in small cities and rural places under the bipartisan infrastructure law, including S. 267, to increase the Federal share of operating costs for certain projects that receive grants under the Formula Grants to Rural Areas Program of the Federal Transit Administration, and S. 2365, to amend title 49, United States Code, to modify the Government share of the cost of certain planning activities, after receiving testimony from Ryan Daniel, St. Cloud Metro Bus, St. Cloud, Minnesota; Scott Bogren, Community Transportation Association of America, Washington, D.C.; and Baruch Feigenbaum, Reason Foundation, Los Angeles, California.
EPA BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2023 for the Environmental Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from Michael S Regan, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Beth Pritchard Geer, Robert P. Klein, both of Tennessee, and L. Michelle Moore, of Georgia, all to be a Member of the Board of Directors, and Benny R. Wagner, of Tennessee, to be Inspector General, all of the Tennessee Valley Authority, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine amendments to the Treaty on Fisheries between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States of America (Treaty Doc.115-3), agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Croatia comprising the instrument as contemplated by Article 3(2) of the Agreement on Extradition between the United States of America and the European Union, signed June 25, 2003, as to the Application of the Treaty on Extradition signed on October 25, 1901
(the ``U.S.-Croatia Extradition Agreement''), and the Agreement between the Government of the United States and the Government of the Republic of Croatia comprising the Instrument as contemplated by Article 3(3) of the Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance between the United States of America and the European Union signed at Washington on June 25, 2003
(the ``U.S.-Croatia Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement''), both signed at Washington on December 10, 2019 (Treaty Doc.116-2), and amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the
``Montreal Protocol''), adopted at Kigali on October 15, 2016, by the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (the
``Kigali Amendment'') (Treaty Doc.117-1), after receiving testimony from Richard C. Visek, Acting Legal Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, and John Thompson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, both of the Department of State; Vaughn A. Ary, Director, Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; James Sousa, American Tunaboat Association, San Diego, California; and Stephen R. Yurek, Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute, Arlington, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Derek Kan, of California, and Daniel Mark Tangherlini, of the District of Columbia, both to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following bills:
S. 3123, to amend the Siletz Reservation Act to address the hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians;
S. 3126, to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to address the hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community;
S. 3273, to take certain land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians;
H.R. 1975, to take certain land located in San Diego County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Pala Band of Mission Indians; and
H.R. 4881, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona certain land in Pima County, Arizona.
NOMINATION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Dara Lindenbaum, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Kate Elizabeth Heinzelman, of New York, to be General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Bennet, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
