[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 27, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D434-D435]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a closed 
hearing to examine the Missile Defense Agency, focusing on a program 
update, after receiving testimony from Vice Admiral Jon A. Hill, USN, 
Director, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 
routine lists in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space 
Force.
DOD MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Department of Defense's management challenges and opportunities, 
after receiving testimony from Elizabeth A. Field, Director, Defense 
Capabilities and Management, Government Accountability Office; Peter 
Levine, Institute for Defense Analyses, former Deputy Chief Management 
Officer for the Department Of Defense, Alexandria, Virginia; and Adam 
Grant, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, 
Philadelphia.
CURBING COVID CONS
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product 
Safety, and Data Security concluded a hearing to examine curbing COVID 
cons, focusing on warning consumers about pandemic frauds, scams, and 
swindles, after receiving testimony from Daniel Kaufman, Acting 
Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; 
Cynthia L. Alexander, Washington Attorney General's Office Consumer 
Protection Division, Seattle; William E. Kovacic, The George Washington 
University Law School, Washington, D.C.; Kevin H. Rhodes, 3M Company, 
Saint Paul, Minnesota; and Bonnie Patten, Truth in Advertising, Inc., 
Madison, Connecticut.
FUTURE OF AUTOMOBILES
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, 
Maritime, Freight, and Ports concluded a hearing to examine the future 
of automotive mobility, safety, and technology, after receiving 
testimony from John Bozzella, Alliance for Automotive Innovation, and 
Ann Wilson, Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Rana Abbas Taylor, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, 
Northville, Michigan; and Reuben Sarkar, American Center for Mobility, 
Ypsilanti, Michigan.
ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ON FEDERAL LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine energy development on federal lands, focusing on the 
current status of the Department of the Interior's onshore oil and gas 
leasing program, after receiving testimony from Nada Wolff Culver, 
Deputy Director, Policy and Programs, Bureau of Land Management, 
Department of the Interior; Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon, Cheyenne; 
Governor Brian Vallo, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico; Vicki Hollub, 
Occidental, Washington, D.C.; and Kathleen Sgamma, Western Energy 
Alliance, Denver, Colorado.
NATIONAL CLIMATE BANK ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Climate, and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine S. 283, to 
establish a National Climate Bank, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Van Hollen; Rusty Bell, Campbell County Commissioner, Gillette, 
Wyoming; Reed Hundt, Coalition for Green Capital, Chevy Chase, 
Maryland; Duanne Andrade, Solar and Energy Loan Fund, Fort Pierce, 
Florida; and Jason Isaac, Life: Powered, Austin, Texas.
CLIMATE CHALLENGES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine climate 
challenges, focusing on the tax code's role in creating American jobs, 
achieving energy independence, and providing consumers with affordable, 
clean energy, after receiving testimony

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from Jason Walsh, BlueGreen Alliance, and Alex Brill, American 
Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Maria M. Pope, Portland 
General Electric, Portland, Oregon; and Kevin Sunday, Pennsylvania 
Chamber of Business and Industry, Harrisburg.
FAIRER TAX SYSTEM
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and 
Economic Growth concluded a hearing to examine creating opportunity 
through a fairer tax system, after receiving testimony from Abigail E. 
Disney, Fork Films, New York, New York; Cheryl Straughter, Soleil, 
Boston, Massachusetts; David Gamage, Indiana University Maurer School 
of Law, Bloomington; Scott A. Hodge, Tax Foundation, and Kyle 
Pomerleau, American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Jeff Hoopes, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business 
School, Chapel Hill.
U.S. POLICY ON AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine United States policy on Afghanistan, after receiving testimony 
from Zalmay Khalilzad, Special Representative for Afghanistan 
Reconciliation, Department of State.
21ST CENTURY IT MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine controlling Federal legacy IT costs and crafting 
21st century IT management solutions, after receiving testimony from 
Kevin Walsh, Director, Information Technology and Cybersecurity, 
Government Accountability Office; Renee P. Wynn, former Chief 
Information Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
Annandale, Virginia; Max Everett, former Chief Information Officer, 
Department of Energy, Charlotte, North Carolina; and Casey Coleman, 
Salesforce Global Public Sector, Cookville, Texas.
STRENGTHENING AMERICA'S CHILD CARE SECTOR
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine supporting children, workers and 
families by strengthening America's child care sector, after receiving 
testimony from Susan Gayle Perry, North Carolina Department of Health 
and Human Services, Raleigh; Myra Jones-Taylor, ZERO TO THREE, 
Washington, D.C.; Khadija Lewis Khan, Beautiful Beginnings Child Care 
Center, Providence, Rhode Island, on behalf of the Rhode Island 
Association for the Education of Young Children; and Dasja Reed, New 
Orleans, Louisiana.
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and 
the Law concluded a hearing to examine how social media platforms' 
design choices shape our discourse and our minds, focusing on 
algorithms and amplification, after receiving testimony from Monika 
Bickert, Facebook, Menlo Park, California; Lauren Culbertson, Twitter, 
Inc., and Tristan Harris, Center for Humane Technology, both of San 
Francisco, California; Alexandra N. Veitch, YouTube, LLC, San Bruno, 
California; and Joan Donovan, Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein 
Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
SUPREME COURT FACT-FINDING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, 
Agency Action, and Federal Rights concluded a hearing to examine 
Supreme Court fact-finding and the distortion of American democracy, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas M. Fisher, Indiana Solicitor 
General, Indianapolis; Allison Orr Larsen, William and Mary Law School, 
Williamsburg, Virginia; Theodore M. Shaw, University of North Carolina 
Center for Civil Rights, Chapel Hill; and Paul M. Smith, Campaign Legal 
Center, and Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute Robert A. Levy Center for 
Constitutional Studies, both of Washington, D.C.