[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 21, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D806-D807]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NAVY AND AIR FORCE WEAPONS SYSTEMS DIVESTMENTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine Navy and Air Force weapons systems divestments, 
after receiving testimony from Vice Admiral Randy B. Crites, USN, 
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Integration of Capabilities and 
Resources, Vice Admiral James W. Kilby, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval 
Operations, Warfighting Requirements and Capabilities, and Lieutenant 
General David S. Nahom, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and 
Programs, all of the Department of Defense.
CYBERSECURITY VULNERABILITIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine cybersecurity vulnerabilities facing our nation's 
physical infrastructure, after receiving testimony from Senator King; 
Representative Gallagher; Sophia Oberton, Delmar Public Works 
Department, Delmar, Maryland; John P. Sullivan, Boston Water and Sewer 
Commission, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Association of 
Metropolitan Water Agencies; Shailen P. Bhatt, Intelligent 
Transportation Society of America, Washington, D.C.; and Evan Pratt, 
American Public Works Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
U.S. POLICY ON TURKEY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine United States Policy on Turkey, after receiving testimony from 
Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
COMBATTING CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, 
and International Cybersecurity Policy concluded a hearing to examine 
combatting climate change in East Asia and the Pacific, after receiving 
testimony from Jonathan Pershing, Senior Advisor to the Special 
Presidential Envoy for Climate, and Richard Buangan, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, both of the 
Department of State; Craig Hart, Asia Deputy Assistant Administrator 
for the Indo-Pacific, United States Agency for International 
Development; Melissa Dalton, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities; Marinel Ubaldo, Living Laudato Si' 
Philippines, Matarinao; and Richard J. Powell, ClearPath Inc., and 
Sherri Goodman, International Military Council on Climate and Security, 
both of Washington, D.C.
LIFE EXPECTANCY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Primary Health and Retirement Security concluded a hearing to examine 
disparities in life expectancy, after receiving testimony from Kathleen 
Mullan Harris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; William E. 
Cooke, Foundations Family Medicine, Austin, Indiana; and Bob MacKenzie, 
Kennebunk Police Department, Kennebunk, Maine.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S.1275, to amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to 
make improvements, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Elizabeth Merrill Brown, of Maryland, to be 
General Counsel, and Roberto Josue Rodriguez, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and 
Policy Development, all of the Department of Education,

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and Gwynne A. Wilcox, of New York, and David M. Prouty, of Maryland, 
both to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 1797, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to expand the 
funding authority for renovating, constructing, and expanding certain 
facilities, S. 1895, to require the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to award additional funding through the Sanitation Facilities 
Construction Program of the Indian Health Service, and H.R. 1688, to 
amend the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act, 
after receiving testimony from Randy Grinnell, Deputy Director for 
Management Operations, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Heidi Todacheene, Senior Advisor, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; 
Jonathan M. Nez, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Gil Vigil, 
National Indian Child Welfare Association, Portland, Oregon; and Robyn 
Sunday-Allen, National Council of Urban Indian Health, Washington, D.C.
IMMIGRANT FARMWORKERS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
immigrant farmworkers and feeding America, after receiving testimony 
from Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture; Leon R. Sequeira, 
former Assistant Secretary of Labor, Arlington, Virginia; Arturo S. 
Rodriguez, United Farm Workers, San Antonio, Texas; Linnea Kooistra, 
Kooistra Farms, Woodstock, Illinois; Shay Myers, Owyhee Produce, 
Ontario, Oregon; and Jen Sorenson, National Pork Producers Council, 
Urbandale, Iowa.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.