[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 65 (Thursday, April 15, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D354-D355]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FUTURE CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECTURES
Committee on Armed Services: On Wednesday, April 14, 2021, Subcommittee 
on Cybersecurity concluded a hearing to examine future cybersecurity 
architectures, after receiving testimony from David McKeown, Senior 
Information Security Officer/Chief Information Officer for 
Cybersecurity, Department of Defense, and Rear Admiral William E. Chase 
III, USN, Senior Military Advisor for Cyber Policy to the Under 
Secretary for Policy/Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary, 
both of the Department of Defense; and Robert E. Joyce, Director of 
Cybersecurity, National Security Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported one 
nomination in the Navy.
FAST ACT REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine public transportation infrastructure investment and 
FAST Act Reauthorization, including S. 940, to amend title 49, United 
States Code, to establish a National Transit Frontline Workforce 
Training Center, and 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, after 
receiving testimony from Darryl Haley, Southwest Ohio Regional 
Transportation Authority, Cincinnati; John Samuelsen, Transportation 
Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, Beth Osborne, Transportation for 
America, and David Ditch, The Heritage Foundation, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Baruch Feigenbaum, Reason Foundation, Los Angeles, 
California.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
cost of inaction on climate change, after receiving testimony from 
Robert B. Litterman, Chair, Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee, 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; David Wallace-Wells, New York, 
and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, both of New York, New 
York; George Oliver, Johnson Controls, Glendale, Wisconsin; and Richard 
J. Powell, ClearPath Inc., Washington, D.C.
COMMUNICATING TRUSTED VACCINE INFORMATION
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Communication, Media, and 
Broadband concluded a hearing to examine communicating trusted vaccine 
information, after receiving testimony from former Senator Gordon H. 
Smith, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C.; Tracie 
Collins, New Mexico Department of Health Secretary, Santa Fe; and 
Yonaira M. Rivera, Rutgers University School of Communication and 
Information, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
AMERICAN ENERGY INNOVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the leading role of the Department of Energy in 
American energy innovation and how its research, development, 
demonstration, and deployment programs may be enhanced to further boost 
the economic competitiveness of the United States, after receiving 
testimony from Thomas Mason, Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 
Department of Energy; Paul M. Dabbar, Bohr Quantum Technologies, 
Scarsdale, New York; Sarah Ladislaw, RMI, U.S. Program, Washington, 
D.C.; and Lara M. Pierpoint, Actuate, Oakland, California.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Andrea Joan Palm, of Wisconsin, to be Deputy Secretary, 
who was introduced by Senator Baldwin, and Chiquita Brooks-

[[Page D355]]

LaSure, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare 
and Medicaid Service, who was introduced by Senator Menendez, both of 
the Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Samantha Power, of Massachusetts, to be Administrator 
of the United States Agency for International Development.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Victoria Nuland, of Virginia, to be an Under 
Secretary (Political Affairs), and Uzra Zeya, of Virginia, to be an 
Under Secretary (Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights), who 
was introduced by Senator Kaine, both of the Department of State, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of James Richard Kvaal, 
of Massachusetts, to be Under Secretary of Education, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by former Representative George Miller, 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Federal Bureau of Prisons, after receiving testimony from 
Michael D. Carvajal, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of 
Justice.