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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the in the Daily Digest section section on page D165 on Feb. 28.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CONFLICT IN UKRAINE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the conflict in Ukraine, after receiving testimony from Angela Stent, Georgetown University Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Dara Massicot, RAND Corporation, and Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, USA (Ret.), Center for American Security America First Policy Institute, all of Washington, D.C.
ADVANCING NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine advancing national security and foreign policy through sanctions, export controls, and other economic tools, including S. 168, to amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and require review of certain agricultural transactions, after receiving testimony from Daleep Singh, former Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, Clay Lowery, Institute of International Finance, former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and former Director of International Finance, Department of the Treasury and National Security Council, and Kevin Wolf, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP, former Assistant Secretary of Export Administration, Department of Commerce, all of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Colleen Joy Shogan, of Pennsylvania, to be Archivist of the United States, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Equal Rights Amendment, focusing on how Congress can recognize ratification and enshrine equality in our Constitution, after receiving testimony from Senators Cardin, Murkowski, and Hyde-Smith; Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Springfield; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, California; Thursday Williams, ERA Coalition Board Member, Hartford, Connecticut; Jennifer C. Braceras, Independent Women's Law Center, Concord, Massachusetts; and Elizabeth Price Foley, Florida International University College of Law, Miami.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 118th Congress.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
