[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 201 (Thursday, November 18, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1289-D1291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Saule T. Omarova, of New York, to 
be Comptroller of the Currency, after the nominee testified and 
answered questions in her own behalf.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 172 and H.R. 1664, bills to authorize the National Medal of Honor 
Museum Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of 
Columbia and its environs;
  S. 180, to withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from 
mineral development;
  S. 270, to amend the Act entitled ``Act to provide for the 
establishment of the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site 
in the State of Kansas'' to provide for inclusion of additional related 
sites in the National Park System, with an amendment;
  S. 491, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain 
river segments in the York River watershed in the State of Maine as 
components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
  S. 535, to authorize the location of a memorial on the National Mall 
to commemorate and honor the members of the Armed Forces that served on 
active duty in support of the Global War on Terrorism, with an 
amendment;
  H.R. 297, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study 
on the establishment of, and the potential land that could be included 
in, a unit of the National Forest System in the State of Hawaii;
  S. 569, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain 
National Forest System land to the State of South Dakota, with an 
amendment;
  S. 609, to withdraw the National Forest System land in the Ruby 
Mountains subdistrict of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and the 
National Wildlife Refuge System land in Ruby Lake National Wildlife 
Refuge, Elko and White Pine Counties, Nevada, from operation under the 
mineral leasing laws;
  S. 753, to reauthorize the Highlands Conservation Act, to authorize 
States to use funds from that Act for administrative purposes, with an 
amendment;
  S. 904, to require the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of 
Agriculture, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to 
digitize and make publicly available geographic information system 
mapping data relating to public access to Federal land and waters for 
outdoor recreation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1317, to modify the boundary of the Sunset Crater Volcano National 
Monument in the State of Arizona;
  S. 1320, to establish the Chiricahua National Park in the State of 
Arizona as a unit of the National Park System, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1354, to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the 
Chilkoot National Historic Trail and to provide for a study of the 
Alaska Long Trail, with amendments;
  S. 1583, to reauthorize the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act;
  S. 1589, to designate certain land administered by the Bureau of Land 
Management and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness 
and national recreation areas, to withdraw certain land located in 
Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, 
appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, location, entry, 
and patent under the mining laws, and operation under the mineral 
leasing and geothermal leasing laws;
  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. 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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2158, to extend the authorization for the Cape Cod National 
Seashore Advisory Commission, with an amendment;
  S. 2433, to require the Secretary of the Interior to develop and 
maintain a cadastre of Federal real property, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2490, to establish the Blackwell School National Historic Site in 
Marfa, Texas;
  S. 2524, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude 
certain payments to aged, blind, or disabled Alaska Natives or 
descendants of Alaska Natives from being used to determine eligibility 
or certain programs;
  H.R. 1192, to impose requirements on the payment of compensation to 
professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title 
III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act 
(commonly known as ``PROMESA''), with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 2497, to establish the Amache National Historic Site in the 
State of Colorado as a Unit of the National Park System, with 
amendments;
  An original bill to reauthorize funding for certain National Heritage 
Areas; and
  The nomination of Sara C. Bronin, of Connecticut, to be Chairman of 
the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
VACCINE DIPLOMACY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and 
Global

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Women's Issues concluded a hearing to examine vaccine diplomacy in 
Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on the importance of United 
States engagement, after receiving testimony from Kevin O'Reilly, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere 
Affairs; Peter Natiello, Acting Assistant Administrator for Latin 
America and the Caribbean, United States Agency for International 
Development; Arachu Castro, Tulane University School of Public Health 
and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Daniel A. Restrepo, 
Center for American Progress, and Daniel F. Runde, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Erik Adrian Hooks, of 
North Carolina, to be Deputy Administrator, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Michael Kubayanda, 
of Ohio, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, 
Laurel A. Blatchford, of the District of Columbia, to be Controller, 
Office of Federal Financial Management, Office of Management and 
Budget, and Ebony M. Scott, and Donald Walker Tunnage, both to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, who 
were introduced by Representative Holmes Norton, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2629, to establish cybercrime reporting mechanisms; and
  The nominations Cindy K. Chung, to be United States Attorney for the 
Western District of Pennsylvania, and Gary M. Restaino, to be United 
States Attorney for the District of Arizona, both of the Department of 
Justice.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
inclusive disaster management, focusing on improving preparedness, 
response, and recovery, after receiving testimony from Danielle 
Koerner, Delaware County Department of Emergency Services, Rutledge, 
Pennsylvania; Sue Anne Bell, University of Michigan Institute for 
Healthcare Policy and Innovation and School of Nursing, Ann Arbor; 
Wanda Raby Spurlock, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, 
Louisiana; and Randy Creamer, South Carolina Voluntary Organizations 
Active in Disaster, Columbia.