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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,986 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force, and the nominations of Carlos Del Toro, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Navy, Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr., of California, to be Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, Kathleen S. Miller, of Virginia, to be a Deputy Under Secretary, Mara Elizabeth Karlin, of Wisconsin, to be an Assistant Secretary, and Michael Lee Connor, of Colorado, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army, all of the Department of Defense.
CRYPTOCURRENCIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine cryptocurrencies, after receiving testimony from Angela Walch, St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas; Jerry Brito, Coin Center, Washington, D.C.; and Marta Belcher, Filecoin Foundation, San Francisco, California.
PROTECTING STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic Policy concluded a hearing to examine protecting student loan borrowers and the economy in the upcoming transitions, after receiving testimony from New York State Attorney General Letitia James, New York, New York; Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, Washington, D.C.; and Persis SiChing Yu, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
PIPELINE CYBERSECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine pipeline cybersecurity, focusing on protecting critical infrastructure, after receiving testimony from Polly Trottenberg, Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Leslie V. Gordon, Acting Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office; and David P. Pekoske, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2022 for the Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony from Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO-CANADA AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine implementation and enforcement of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, after receiving testimony from Benjamin Davis, United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Allan Huttema, Northwest Dairy Association/Darigold, Parma, Idaho; and Michelle McMurry-Heath, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and Beth Lowell, Oceana, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Rufus Gifford, of Massachusetts, to be Chief of Protocol, and to have the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service, who was introduced by Senator Markey, Lee Satterfield, of South Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary (Educational and Cultural Affairs), who was introduced by Senator Graham, Christopher P. Lu, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during his tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, who was introduced by Senator Van Hollen, all of the Department of State, Isobel Coleman, of New York, to be a Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PROTECTING AND SECURING THE HOMELAND
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine resources and authorities needed to protect and secure the homeland, after receiving testimony from Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security.
LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine building on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the path forward, after receiving testimony from Les Becker, State of Washington Department of Health, Olympia; Phyllis Arthur, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Washington, D.C.; David R. Janz, University Medical Center New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Anita Cicero, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
AMERICA UNDER CYBER SIEGE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine America under cyber siege, focusing on preventing and responding to ransomware attacks, after receiving testimony from Richard W. Downing, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, and Bryan A. Vorndran, Assistant Director, Cyber Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; and Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Jeremy Sheridan, Assistant Director, Office of Investigations, United States Secret Service, both of the Department of Homeland Security.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 131
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