[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 185 (Thursday, October 21, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1168-D1169]
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 38 
nominations in the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force.
HOUSING MARKET
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine how private equity landlords are changing the 
housing market, after receiving testimony from Sofia Lopez, Action 
Center on Race and the Economy, Los Angeles, California; Holly Hook, 
MHAction, Detroit, Michigan; Norbert J. Michel, Cato Institute Center 
for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Washington, D.C.; Michael 
Hendrix, Manhattan Institute, New York, New York; and Desiree Fields, 
University of California, Berkeley.
NASA OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Space and Science concluded a hearing to examine international 
collaboration and competition in space, focusing on oversight of NASA's 
role and programs, after receiving testimony from Patricia Sanders, 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Aerospace Safety 
Advisory Panel; Jim Bridenstine, former NASA Administrator, Oklahoma 
City, Oklahoma; Mary Lynne Dittmar, Axiom Space, Inc., Houston, Texas; 
and Mike Gold, Redwire Space, Washington, D.C.
NATURAL RESOURCES LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 1734, to direct the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of 
prescribed fire on land managed by the Department of the Interior or 
the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest 
System in the western United States, S. 1964, to amend the Omnibus 
Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to provide for the 
establishment of a Ski Area Fee Retention Account, S. 2404, to improve 
Federal activities relating to wildfires, S. 2436, to amend the Healthy 
Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to establish emergency fireshed 
management areas, S. 2561, to amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable 
Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 to provide that a land resource management plan 
or land use plan approved, amended, or revised under those Acts shall 
not be considered to be a continuing Federal agency action or 
constitute a discretionary Federal involvement or control for a 
distinct Federal purpose, S. 2564, to establish a pilot program under 
which the Chief of the Forest Service may use alternative dispute 
resolution in lieu of judicial review for certain projects, S. 2650, to 
provide mandatory funding for hazardous fuels reduction projects on 
certain Federal land, S. 2806, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture 
to select and implement landscape-scale forest restoration projects, to 
assist communities in increasing their resilience to wildfire, and S. 
2836, to improve revegetation and carbon sequestration activities in 
the United States, after receiving testimony from Senator Bennet; 
Christopher B. French, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture; Jeffery Rupert, Director, Office of 
Wildland Fire, Department of the Interior; Bill Crapser, Wyoming State 
Forestry Division, Cheyenne, on behalf of the National Association of 
State Foresters; Paul Johansen, West Virginia Division of Natural 
Resources, South Charleston; and Tyson Bertone-Riggs, Rural Voices for 
Conservation Coalition, Portland, Oregon.
INSPECTOR GENERAL INDEPENDENCE AND INTEGRITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine safeguarding inspector general 
independence and integrity, including H.R. 2662, to amend the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, 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, and S. 426, to amend the Inspector General Act of 1978 
relative to the powers of the Department of Justice Inspector General, 
after receiving testimony from Allison C. Lerner, Inspector General, 
National Science Foundation, and Kevin H. Winters, Inspector General, 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), both on behalf of the 
Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency; and 
Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:

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  S. 2429, to amend chapter 38 of title 31, United States Code, 
relating to civil remedies; and
  The nomination of Beth Robinson, of Vermont, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit.