[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 213 (Thursday, December 9, 2021)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1361-D1362]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DISRUPTING DANGEROUS ALGORITHMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Media, and Broadband concluded a hearing to examine 
disrupting dangerous algorithms, focusing on addressing the harms of 
persuasive technology, after receiving testimony from Jessica J. 
Gonzalez, Free Press Action, and James Poulos, Claremont Institute, 
both of Los Angeles, California; Rose Jackson, Atlantic Council, San 
Francisco, California; and Dean Eckles,

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MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
PFAS CONTAMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine Federal efforts to address PFAS 
contamination, after receiving testimony from Sean W. O'Donnell, 
Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency and Acting 
Inspector General, Michael J. Roark, Deputy Inspector General for 
Evaluations, Office of Inspector General, Richard Kidd, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary (Environment and Energy Resilience), and Laura A. 
Macaluso, Director, Force Safety and Occupational Health, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary (Readiness), all of the Department of Defense; Mark 
Johnson, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Columbus; Anthony M. 
Spaniola, Great Lakes PFAS Action Network, Troy, Michigan; and Andrea 
Amico, Testing for Pease, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2614, to provide for the modernization of electronic case 
management systems, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 
and
  The nomination of Dawn N. Ison, to be United States Attorney for the 
Eastern District of Michigan, Department of Justice.