[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 190 (Thursday, October 28, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1203-D1204]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of John Bradley Sherman, of Texas, to be Chief 
Information Officer, Ashish S. Vazirani, of Maryland, to be a Deputy 
Under Secretary, and Carrie Frances Ricci, of Virginia, to be General 
Counsel of the Department of the Army, all of the Department of 
Defense, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Nickolas Guertin, of Virginia, to be Director of 
Operational Test and Evaluation, Alexandra Baker, of New Jersey, to be 
a Deputy Under Secretary, John Patrick Coffey, of New York, to be 
General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, Douglas R. Bush, of 
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army, and 1,382 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space 
Force, all of the Department of Defense.
CFPB SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Semi-
Annual Report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Rohit Chopra, 
Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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SOCIAL MEDIA AND DOMESTIC EXTREMISM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine social media platforms and the 
amplification of domestic extremism and other harmful content, after 
receiving testimony from Karen Kornbluh, German Marshall Fund of the 
U.S., Washington, D.C.; David L. Sifry, Anti-Defamation League, New 
York, New York; Cathy O'Neil, O'Neil Risk Consulting and Algorithmic 
Auditing, Brooklyn, New York; Nathaniel Persily, Stanford Cyber Policy 
Center and Stanford Law School, Stanford, California; and Mary Anne 
Franks, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2428, to amend title 31, United States Code, to modify False 
Claims Act procedures, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 998, to provide grants to States that do not suspend, revoke, or 
refuse to renew a driver's license of a person or refuse to renew a 
registration of a motor vehicle for failure to pay a civil or criminal 
fine or fee, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  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 the District of Columbia, 
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, Michael F. Easley, Jr., to be United 
States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Sandra J. 
Hairston, to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of North 
Carolina, and Dena J. King, to be United States Attorney for the 
Western District of North Carolina, all of the Department of Justice.
RETIREMENT
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
building a stronger retirement system for all Americans, focusing on a 
financially secure future, after receiving testimony from John Scott, 
The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Shai Akabas, Bipartisan Policy Center, 
both of Washington, D.C.; Nari Rhee, University of California Center 
for Labor Research and Education, Berkeley; and J. Spencer Williams, 
Retirement Clearinghouse, Greenville, South Carolina.