[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 20, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D797-D798]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support approved for full committee consideration, those provisions 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel approved for 
full committee consideration, those provisions which fall within the 
jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland met in closed 
session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities met in closed session and approved for full committee 
consideration, those provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of 
the subcommittee, of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act 
for fiscal year 2022.
AUTHORIZATION: DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower met in closed 
session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022.
21ST CENTURY COMMUNITIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine 21st century communities, focusing on climate 
change, resilience, and reinsurance, after receiving testimony from 
Abdollah Shafieezadeh, The Ohio State University, Columbus; Rachel 
Cleetus, Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 
Franklin W. Nutter, Reinsurance Association of America, and Jerry 
Theodorou, R Street Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Roger 
Pielke, Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder.

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FEDERALLY ASSISTED HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation, and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine preserving and improving Federally assisted housing, 
including S. 265, to establish a grant program to provide amounts to 
public housing agencies to install automatic sprinkler systems in 
public housing, and S. 2092, to permanently authorize the Native 
Community Development Financial Institutions lending program of the 
Department of Agriculture, after receiving testimony from Dave Jacobs, 
National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, Maryland; Jennifer 
Keogh, Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 
and Sharon Vogel, Cheyenne River Housing Authority, Eagle Butte, South 
Dakota.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Karen Erika Donfried, of the District of 
Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary (European Affairs and Eurasian 
Affairs), Mary Catherine Phee, of Illinois, to be an Assistant 
Secretary (African Affairs), and to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the African Development Foundation, and Anne A. Witkowsky, 
of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary (Conflict and Stabilization 
Operations), and to be Coordinator for Reconstruction and 
Stabilization, all of the Department of State, and Paloma Adams-Allen, 
of the District of Columbia, to be a Deputy Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
MODERNIZING THE STATE DEPARTMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on State Department and 
USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International 
Development concluded a hearing to examine modernizing the State 
Department for the 21st century, after receiving testimony from Stephen 
E. Biegun, former Deputy Secretary of State, Marcie Ries, former United 
States Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of 
Albania, and Annie-Marie Slaughter, New America, all of Washington, 
D.C.
COVID-19 RESPONSE: A FEDERAL PERSPECTIVE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine a Federal perspective on the COVID-19 
response, focusing on the path forward, after receiving testimony from 
Rochelle P. Walensky, Director, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy 
and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Janet Woodcock, 
Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, 
and Dawn O'Connell, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, 
all of the Department of Health and Human Services.
NOMINATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Stacey A. Dixon, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, 
Matthew G. Olsen, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, 
Department of Justice, and Thomas Andrew Monheim, of Virginia, to be 
Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Office of the Director 
of National Intelligence, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
DRUG OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine the Federal response to the drug 
overdose epidemic, after receiving testimony from Regina LaBelle, 
Acting Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Tom Coderre, 
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and Nora 
Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, both of the 
Department of Health and Human Services; Nicole Alexander-Scott, Rhode 
Island Department of Health, Providence; Keith Humphreys, Stanford 
University, Stanford, California; and Steve Gurdak, Washington/
Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program, Annandale, 
Virginia.