[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 174 (Monday, October 4, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1092-D1095]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

               Week of October 5 through October 8, 2021

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will resume consideration of the nomination of 
Paloma Adams-Allen, of the District of Columbia, to be a Deputy 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, with a vote on the motion to invoke cloture thereon at 
11:30 a.m.
  At 2:15 p.m., cloture having been invoked, Senate will vote on the 
confirmation of the nomination of Paloma Adams-Allen, of the District 
of Columbia, to be a Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development. Following which, Senate will vote on the 
motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Lauren J. King, of 
Washington, to be United States District Judge for the Western District 
of Washington, and after up to two hours of debate, confirmation 
thereon.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Armed Services: October 5, to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Gabriel Camarillo, of Texas, to be Under 
Secretary of the Army, Rachel Jacobson, of the District of Columbia, 
to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army, and Alex Wagner, of the 
District of Columbia, and Andrew Philip Hunter, of Virginia, both to 
be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, all of the Department of 
Defense, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  October 7, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of David A. Honey, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under 
Secretary, and Brenda Sue Fulton, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant 
Secretary, both of the Department of Defense, and Corey Hinderstein, 
of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear 
Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, 
Department of Energy, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: October 5, 
business meeting to consider the nominations of Brian Eddie Nelson, 
of California, to be Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial 
Crimes, Elizabeth Rosenberg, of Vermont, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Terrorist Financing, and Alexia Marie Gabrielle Latortue, of the 
District of Columbia, and Graham Scott Steele, of California, both 
to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of the Treasury, 
Julia Ruth Gordon, of Maryland, David Uejio, of California, and 
Solomon Jeffrey Greene, of the District of Columbia, each to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Alan F. 
Estevez, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary for Industry and 
Security, and Thea D. Rozman Kendler, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Commerce; to be 
immediately followed by a hearing to examine Afghanistan's future, 
focusing on assessing the national security, humanitarian, and 
economic implications of the Taliban takeover, 9:45 a.m., SD-538.
  October 7, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Matthew S. Axelrod, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce, and Alanna McCargo, of Virginia, to be 
President, Government National Mortgage Association, and James 
Arthur Jemison II, of Michigan, and Mark Colon, of New York, both to 
be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, 10 a.m., SD-538.

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  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: October 5, 
Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data 
Security, to hold hearings to examine protecting kids online, 
focusing on testimony from a Facebook whistleblower, 10 a.m., SR-
253.
  October 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine enhancing 
data security, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  October 7, Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, 
to hold hearings to examine the state of telehealth, focusing on 
removing barriers to access and improving patient outcomes, 10 a.m., 
SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: October 5, to hold 
hearings to examine and consider updates to the Mining Law of 1872, 
10 a.m., SD-366.
  October 6, Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 336, to amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands 
Management Act of 1996 to reauthorize the Ohio & Erie National 
Heritage Canalway, S. 378, to reauthorize the Rivers of Steel 
National Heritage Area, the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage 
Area, the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, the 
Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area, and the Oil Region 
National Heritage Area, S. 511, to establish the Bronzeville-Black 
Metropolis National Heritage Area in the State of Illinois, S. 635, 
to reauthorize The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor and 
the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, S. 654, to 
reauthorize the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, S. 787, to amend 
the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area Act to extend the authority 
of the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to the local 
coordinating entity for the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area under 
that Act, S. 825, to establish the Southern Maryland National 
Heritage Area, S. 972, to reauthorize the Essex National Heritage 
Area, S. 990, to reauthorize the Northern Rio Grande National 
Heritage Area, S. 1004, to extend the authorization of the Mormon 
Pioneer National Heritage Area, to designate the Great Basin 
National Heritage Route in the State of Nevada as the ``Great Basin 
National Heritage Area'', to designate the Great Basin Heritage 
Route Partnership as the ``Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership'', 
to extend the authorization of the Great Basin National Heritage 
Area, S. 1112, to amend the National Trails System Act to designate 
the Chisholm National Historic Trail and the Western National 
Historic Trail, S. 1224, to reauthorize, and increase the total 
funding cap for, the America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership, to 
redesignate the America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership as the 
``Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area'', S. 1258, to extend 
the authorization of each of the National Coal Heritage Area and the 
Wheeling National Heritage Area in the State of West Virginia, S. 
1284 and H.R. 2497, bills to establish the Amache National Historic 
Site in the State of Colorado as a Unit of the National Park System, 
S. 1318, to reauthorize the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area, S. 
1329, to amend the National Aviation Heritage Area Act to 
reauthorize the National Aviation Heritage Area, S. 1620, to direct 
the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the city of Eunice, 
Louisiana, certain Federal land in the State of Louisiana, S. 1643, 
to establish the Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area, S. 1942, 
to standardize the designation of National Heritage Areas, S. 1954, 
to reauthorize the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National 
Heritage Corridor, S. 2158, to extend the authorization for the Cape 
Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission, S. 2296, establish the 
Northern Neck National Heritage Area, S. 2438, to modify the 
boundary of the Cane River Creole National Historical Park in the 
State of Louisiana, S. 2441, to establish in the States of North 
Carolina and South Carolina the Southern Campaign of the Revolution 
National Heritage Corridor, S. 2482, to amend the Champlain Valley 
National Heritage Partnership Act of 2006 to reauthorize the 
Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership, S. 2490, to 
establish the Blackwell School National Historic Site in Marfa, 
Texas, S. 2580, to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture to make free National Parks and Federal 
Recreational Lands Passes available to members of the Armed Forces, 
S. 2648, to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to 
reauthorize the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area 
in the State of Alaska, and S. 2763, to extend the authorization for 
the MotorCities National Heritage Area in the State of Michigan, 10 
a.m., SD-366.
  October 6, Subcommittee on Water and Power, to hold hearings to 
examine the status and management of drought in the western United 
States, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: October 6, to hold an 
oversight hearing to examine the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
emergency response to Hurricane Ida, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: October 5, to hold hearings to 
examine the nominations of Lisa A. Carty, of Maryland, to be 
Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and 
Social Council of the United Nations, 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 her tenure of service as Representative of the 
United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the 
United Nations, Mallory A. Stewart, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Assistant Secretary (Verification and Compliance), and Steven C. 
Bondy, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, 
all of the Department of State, and other pending nominations, 10:15 
a.m., SD-106/VTC.
  October 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Jeffrey M. Hovenier, of Washington, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Kosovo, Michael J. Murphy, of New York, to be 
Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Julissa Reynoso Pantaleon, of 
New York, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
the Principality of Andorra, and Victoria Reggie Kennedy, of 
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Austria, all of 
the Department of State, and other pending nominations, 2:30 p.m., 
SH-216/VTC.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: October 7, to 
hold hearings to examine the nominations of

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Lisa M. Gomez, of New Jersey, and Jose Javier Rodriguez, of Florida, 
both to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: October 
6, business meeting to consider S. 587, to amend the Inspector 
General Act of 1978 to provide that the President or certain agency 
heads may remove the Inspector General, or place an Inspector 
General on non-duty status, only if certain conditions are 
satisfied, S. 1794, to amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 to 
provide testimonial subpoena authority, H.R. 2662, to amend the 
Inspector General Act of 1978, S. 2875, to amend the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 to establish the Cyber Incident Review Office 
in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the 
Department of Homeland Security, S. 2902, to modernize Federal 
information security management, and the nominations of Cathy Ann 
Harris, of Maryland, to be a Member, and to be Chairman, and Tristan 
Lynn Leavitt, of Idaho, and Raymond A. Limon, of Nevada, both to be 
a Member, all of the Merit Systems Protection Board, Tovah R. 
Calderon, to be an Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court 
of Appeals, and Kenia Seoane Lopez, Rupa Ranga Puttagunta, and Sean 
C. Staples, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of 
the District of Columbia, 10:15 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: October 6, to hold hearings to 
examine S. 648, to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 
2009 to make a technical correction to the water rights settlement 
for Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, and S. 
1911, to provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of 
the Fort Belknap Indian Community, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: October 5, to hold hearings to examine 
renewing and strengthening the Violence Against Women Act, 10 a.m., 
SD-226.
  October 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Lucy Haeran Koh, of California, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Jane M. Beckering, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan, Shalina 
D. Kumar, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Michigan, Armando O. Bonilla, of Virginia, and Carolyn 
N. Lerner, of Maryland, both to be a Judge of the United States 
Court of Federal Claims, and Jonathan Kanter, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  October 6, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the John R. 
Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, 2 p.m., SD-G50.
  October 7, Full Committee, business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Beth Robinson, of Vermont, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Jennifer Sung, of Oregon, to 
be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Rahul Gupta, 
of West Virginia, to be Director of National Drug Control Policy, 
and Elizabeth Prelogar, of Idaho, to be Solicitor General of the 
United States, Department of Justice, 9 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: October 6, to hold an 
oversight hearing to examine Library of Congress modernization 
efforts, 3 p.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: October 6, to hold hearings to 
examine pending nominations, 3 p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: October 5, to receive a closed 
briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
  October 6, Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on certain 
intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, October 7, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``A Hearing to Review the State of the Livestock 
Industry'', 12 p.m., 1300 Longworth and Zoom.
  Committee on Education and Labor, October 6, Subcommittee on 
Higher Education and Workforce Investment, hearing entitled 
``Homecoming: The Historical Roots and Continued Contributions of 
HBCUs'', 12 p.m., Zoom.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, October 6, Subcommittee on 
Communications and Technology, hearing entitled ``Strengthening Our 
Communications Networks to Meet the Needs of Consumers'', 12 p.m., 
2123 Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, October 6, Subcommittee on 
International Development, International Organizations and Global 
Corporate Social Impact, hearing entitled ``Development Assistance 
During Conflict: Lessons from Afghanistan'', 1 p.m., Webex.
  Committee on Homeland Security, October 7, Subcommittee on 
Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery, hearing entitled 
``20 Years After 9/11: Examining Emergency Communications'', 12 
p.m., Webex.
  Committee on Natural Resources, October 6, Office of Insular 
Affairs Full Committee, hearing entitled ``PREPA Post Implementation 
of the LUMA Transmission and Distribution Contract'', 1 p.m., Webex.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, October 7, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Assessing the Election 'Audit' in Arizona and 
Threats to American Democracy'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Small Business, October 6, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``SBA's Entrepreneurial Development Programs'', 10 a.m., 
2360 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, October 6, 
Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing entitled 
``Emerging Contaminants, Forever Chemicals, and More: Challenges to 
Water Quality, Public Health, and Communities'', 11 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, October 7, Subcommittee on 
Technology Modernization, hearing entitled ``Legislative Hearing on 
the VA Electronic Health Record Transparency Act of 2021 and IT 
Reform and Data Collection Bills'', 10 a.m., Zoom.

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                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: October 6, to hold hearings to examine 
building back better, focusing on raising revenue to invest in 
shared prosperity, 2:30 p.m., VTC.