[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D550-D551]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CLIMATE CHANGE AND FORESTLANDS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine Federal, state, and private forestlands, focusing 
on opportunities for addressing climate change, after receiving 
testimony from Joe Fox, Arkansas Department of Agriculture, on behalf 
of the National Association of State Foresters, and Jessica Orrego, 
American Carbon Registry at Winrock International, both of Little Rock, 
Arkansas; Kedren Dillard, Sustainable Forestry and African American 
Land Retention Network, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American 
Forest Foundation; Troy Harris, Jamestown, Atlanta, Georgia; and Tony 
Cheng, Colorado State University Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, 
Fort Collins.
TRANSITION OF FORCES FROM AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the transition of all United States and Coalition 
forces from Afghanistan and its implications, after receiving testimony 
from David F. Helvey, Acting Assistant Secretary for Indo-Pacific 
Security Affairs, and Brigadier General Matthew G. Trollinger, USMC, 
Deputy Director, Politico-Military Affairs (Middle East), J-5, Joint 
Staff.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Michael J. McCord, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of 
Defense (Comptroller), and Ronald S. Moultrie, of Maryland, to be Under 
Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
21ST CENTURY COMMUNITIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine 21st century communities, focusing on expanding 
opportunity through infrastructure investments, after receiving 
testimony from Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of

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Housing and Urban Development; and Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of 
Transportation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Eric S. Lander, of Massachusetts, 
to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Pamela A. Melroy, of New York, to be Deputy 
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who 
was introduced by Senator Kelly, Carlos Alberto Monje, Jr., of 
Louisiana, to be Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, and 
Richard W. Spinrad, of Oregon, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for 
Oceans and Atmosphere, who was introduced by Representative Bonamici, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
FOREST MANAGEMENT, FOREST PRODUCTS, AND CARBON
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the role of reforestation, active forest management, 
and carbon storage in fostering resiliency, after receiving testimony 
from Jennifer S. Cover, WoodWorks, San Marcos, California; Thomas W. 
Crowther, United Nations Trillion Trees Initiative, Zurich, 
Switzerland; James D. Irving, J.D. Irving, Limited, Saint John, New 
Brunswick, Canada; Mary Mitsos, National Forest Foundation, Missoula, 
Montana; and Ben Wudtke, Intermountain Forest Association, Rapid City, 
South Dakota.
HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Retirement Security concluded a hearing to examine 
solving the crisis in the health care workforce, after receiving 
testimony from David J. Skorton, Association of American Medical 
Colleges, Washington, D.C.; Leon McDougle, National Medical 
Association, Columbus, Ohio; Shelley Spires, Albany Area Primary Health 
Care, Albany, Georgia; and James D. Herbert, University of New England, 
Biddeford, Maine.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Ketanji Brown Jackson, to be United States Circuit Judge 
for the District of Columbia Circuit, Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, of 
Illinois, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, 
Julien Xavier Neals, and Zahid N. Quraishi, both to be a United States 
District Judge for the District of New Jersey, and Regina M. Rodriguez, 
to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
taking aim at Alzheimer's, focusing on frontline perspectives and 
caregiver challenges, after receiving testimony from Mark A. Supiano, 
University of Utah Center on Aging, Salt Lake City; Jennifer Manly, 
Columbia University Taub Institute for Research in Aging and 
Alzheimer's Disease, New York, New York; Peg Lahmeyer, The Ark of SC, 
Summerville, South Carolina; and Katelyn Montanez, Ephrata, 
Pennsylvania.