[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 83 (Thursday, May 13, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D513-D514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DISASTER RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine rethinking disaster recovery and resiliency, focusing on 
protecting our nation's transportation systems, including preliminary 
observations on options for improving climate resilience of 
transportation infrastructure, after receiving testimony from Polly 
Trottenberg, Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Elizabeth Repko, 
Acting Director, Physical Infrastructure, Government Accountability 
Office; Edwin H. Sniffen, Hawaii Department of Transportation, 
Honolulu, on behalf of the American Association of State Highway and 
Transportation Officials Committee on Transportation System Security 
and Resilience; and Habib Joseph Dagher, University of Maine Advanced 
Structures and Composites Center, Orono.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of Christine Elizabeth Wormuth, of Virginia, to be 
Secretary of the Army, Department of Defense, after the nominee, who 
was introduced by former Senator Chuck Hagel, testified and answered 
questions in her own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of Tommy P. Beaudreau, of Alaska, to be Deputy 
Secretary of the Interior.
OFFSHORE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine offshore energy development in federal waters and 
leasing under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, after receiving 
testimony from Amanda Lefton, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 
Management, Department of the Interior; Louisiana Governor John Bel 
Edwards, Baton Rouge; Russell Holmes, Center for Offshore Safety, 
Houston, Texas; and Mike Minarovic, Arena Energy, The Woodlands, Texas.
UNACCOMPANIED MINORS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine Department of Homeland Security actions 
to address unaccompanied minors at the southern border, after receiving 
testimony from Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security.
RETIREMENT SECURITY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine retirement security, focusing on 
building a better future, after receiving testimony from Lori Lucas, 
Employee Benefit Research Institute, Shai Akabas, Bipartisan Policy 
Center, and Deva A. Kyle, Bredhoff and Kaiser, P.L.L.C., all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Dave Gray, Fidelity Investments, Boston, 
Massachusetts.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 228, to promote antitrust enforcement and protect competition 
through adjusting premerger filing fees, and increasing antitrust 
enforcement resources;
  S. 1511, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 with respect to payments to certain public safety officers who 
have become permanently and totally disabled as a result of personal 
injuries sustain in the line of duty;
  S. 921, to amend title 18, United States Code, to further protect 
officers and employees of the United States, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1502, to make Federal law enforcement officer peer support 
communications confidential, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and

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  The nomination of Todd Sunhwae Kim, of the District of Columbia, to 
be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice.