[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 10, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D223-D224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CHALLENGES FACING THE FBI
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a closed hearing to examine 
domestic and foreign threats and other challenges facing the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, after receiving testimony from Christopher A. 
Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be a 
Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments for 
the 117th Congress:
  Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment: Senators 
Menendez (Chair), Reed, Warner, Warren, Cortez Masto, Smith, Sinema, 
Warnock, Scott (SC), Shelby, Crapo, Rounds, Tillis, Kennedy, Lummis, 
and Moran.
  Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and 
Finance: Senators Warner (Chair), Tester, Sinema, Ossoff, Hagerty, 
Crapo, Kennedy, and Daines.
  Subcommittee on Economic Policy: Senators Warren (Chair), Reed, Van 
Hollen, Smith, Ossoff, Kennedy, Scott (SC), Tillis, Cramer, and Daines.
  Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development: 
Senators Smith (Chair), Reed, Menendez, Tester, Cortez Masto, Van 
Hollen, Ossoff, Warnock, Rounds, Shelby, Crapo, Hagerty, Lummis, Moran, 
Cramer, and Daines.
  Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection: 
Senators Warnock (Chair), Menendez, Tester, Warner, Warren, Cortez 
Masto, Van Hollen, Sinema, Tillis, Shelby, Scott (SC), Rounds, Hagerty, 
Lummis, Moran, and Cramer.
  Senators Brown and Toomey are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Shalanda D. Young, of Louisiana, to be Deputy Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nomination of Donet Dominic Graves, Jr., of 
Ohio, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, after the nominee testified 
and answered questions in his own behalf.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine climate change in the electricity sector and 
fostering economic growth, including electricity grid resilience and 
actions that should be undertaken by the Department of Energy and 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, after receiving testimony from 
Frank Rusco, Director of Natural Resources and Environment, Government 
Accountability Office; Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles, California; 
Ben Fowke, Xcel Energy, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Sandra Snyder, 
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, Washington, D.C.; and 
Jim Wood, West Virginia University Energy Institute, Morgantown.
DEMOCRACY AROUND THE WORLD
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the state of democracy around the world, after receiving 
testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, former Secretary of State, Paula 
J. Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, and 
Peter Biar Ajak, National Endowment for Democracy, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, Burma Campaign UK, Geneva, Switzerland; and 
Nathan Law, former Hong

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Kong Legislative Council Member, London, United Kingdom.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the nomination of Shalanda D. Young, of 
Louisiana, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S.325, to amend the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission 
on Native Children Act to extend the deadline for a report by the Alyce 
Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children;
  S.314, to repeal the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act;
  S.144, to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
acting through the Director of the Indian Health Service, to acquire 
private land to facilitate access to the Desert Sage Youth Wellness 
Center in Hemet, California;
  S.371, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to take certain land 
located in Pinal County, Arizona, into trust for the benefit of the 
Gila River Indian Community;
  S.108, to authorize the Seminole Tribe of Florida to lease or 
transfer certain land;
  S.548, to convey land in Anchorage, Alaska, to the Alaska Native 
Tribal Health Consortium;
  S.549, to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the 
Tanana Tribal Council located in Tanana, Alaska;
  S.550, to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the 
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium located in Sitka, Alaska; 
and
  S.559, to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act.
NATIVE COMMUNITIES AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a roundtable 
discussion to examine Native communities and the climate crisis from 
Charlene Nelson, Shoalwater Bay Tribe, Tokeland, Washington; Timothy 
Davis, Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana; Amber Torres, Walker River 
Paiute Tribe, Schurz, Nevada; Shelley Buck, Prairie Island Indian 
Community, St. Paul, Minnesota; Craig Quanchello, Picuris Pueblo, 
Penasco, New Mexico; Livingston Wong, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, 
Hawaii; and Nikoosh Carlo, CNC North Consulting, Seattle, Washington.
SUPREME COURT AND THE JUDICIARY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, 
Agency Action, and Federal Rights concluded a hearing to examine the 
Supreme Court and the Judiciary, after receiving testimony from Michael 
Klarman, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Lisa Graves, 
Center for Media and Democracy, Madison, Wisconsin; Benjamin Todd 
Jealous, People for the American Way, and Scott Walter, Capital 
Research Center, both of Washington, D.C.; and Jonathan H. Adler, Case 
Western Reserve University School of Law Coleman P. Burke Center for 
Environmental Law, Cleveland, Ohio.
MILITARY TOXIC EXPOSURES
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine military toxic exposures, focusing on the human consequences of 
war, after receiving testimony from Anthony Szema, Donald and Barbara 
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, South Setaucket, New 
York; Karl Kelsey, Brown University School of Public Health, 
Providence, Rhode Island; Shane Liermann, Disabled American Veterans, 
and Aleks Morosky, Wounded Warrior Project, both of Washington, D.C.; 
William Thompson, Princeton, West Virginia; and Jeffrey O'Malley, 
Houston, Texas.
INTELLIGENCE
  Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.