[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 27, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D831-D832]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,986 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and 
Space Force, and the nominations of Carlos Del Toro, of Virginia, to be 
Secretary of the Navy, Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr., of California, to be 
Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, Kathleen S. Miller, of 
Virginia, to be a Deputy Under Secretary, Mara Elizabeth Karlin, of 
Wisconsin, to be an Assistant Secretary, and Michael Lee Connor, of 
Colorado, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army, all of the 
Department of Defense.
CRYPTOCURRENCIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine cryptocurrencies, after receiving testimony from 
Angela Walch, St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas; 
Jerry Brito, Coin Center, Washington, D.C.; and Marta Belcher, Filecoin 
Foundation, San Francisco, California.

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PROTECTING STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Economic Policy concluded a hearing to examine protecting student loan 
borrowers and the economy in the upcoming transitions, after receiving 
testimony from New York State Attorney General Letitia James, New York, 
New York; Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, 
Washington, D.C.; and Persis SiChing Yu, National Consumer Law Center, 
Boston, Massachusetts.
PIPELINE CYBERSECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine pipeline cybersecurity, focusing on protecting 
critical infrastructure, after receiving testimony from Polly 
Trottenberg, Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Leslie V. Gordon, 
Acting Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government 
Accountability Office; and David P. Pekoske, Administrator, 
Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland 
Security.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2022 for the Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony 
from Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior.
UNITED STATES-MEXICO-CANADA AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
implementation and enforcement of the United States-Mexico-Canada 
Agreement, after receiving testimony from Benjamin Davis, United Steel, 
Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial 
and Service Workers International Union, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 
Allan Huttema, Northwest Dairy Association/Darigold, Parma, Idaho; and 
Michelle McMurry-Heath, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and Beth 
Lowell, Oceana, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Rufus Gifford, of Massachusetts, to be Chief 
of Protocol, and to have the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of 
service, who was introduced by Senator Markey, Lee Satterfield, of 
South Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary (Educational and Cultural 
Affairs), who was introduced by Senator Graham, Christopher P. Lu, of 
Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the 
United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of 
Ambassador, and to be an Alternate Representative of the United States 
of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United 
Nations, during his tenure of service as Representative of the United 
States of America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, 
who was introduced by Senator Van Hollen, all of the Department of 
State, Isobel Coleman, of New York, to be a Deputy Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PROTECTING AND SECURING THE HOMELAND
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine resources and authorities needed to 
protect and secure the homeland, after receiving testimony from 
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security.
LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine building on lessons learned from the 
COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the path forward, after receiving 
testimony from Les Becker, State of Washington Department of Health, 
Olympia; Phyllis Arthur, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, 
Washington, D.C.; David R. Janz, University Medical Center New Orleans, 
New Orleans, Louisiana; and Anita Cicero, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg 
School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
AMERICA UNDER CYBER SIEGE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
America under cyber siege, focusing on preventing and responding to 
ransomware attacks, after receiving testimony from Richard W. Downing, 
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, and Bryan A. 
Vorndran, Assistant Director, Cyber Division, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; and Eric Goldstein, 
Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity and 
Infrastructure Security Agency, and Jeremy Sheridan, Assistant 
Director, Office of Investigations, United States Secret Service, both 
of the Department of Homeland Security.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.