[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 9 (Thursday, January 13, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D44]
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 Celeste Ann Wallander, of Maryland, Melissa Griffin 
Dalton, of Virginia, and John F. Plumb, of New York, each to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Defense, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Lael Brainard, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System, and Sandra L. Thompson, of Maryland, to be Director of 
the Federal Housing Finance Agency, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Margaret A. Burnham, 
of Massachusetts, Gabrielle M. Dudley, of Georgia, Henry Klibanoff, of 
Georgia, and Brenda E. Stevenson, of California, each to be a Member of 
the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, after the nominees, 
who were all introduced by former Senator Doug Jones, testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Robert McKinnon Califf, of North 
Carolina, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health 
and Human Services, Jose Javier Rodriguez, of Florida, and Lisa M. 
Gomez, of New Jersey, both to be an Assistant Secretary, and David 
Weil, of Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the Wage and Hour 
Division, all of the Department of Labor, Amy Loyd, of New Mexico, to 
be Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and Adult Education, 
Department of Education, Javier Ramirez, of Illinois, to be Federal 
Mediation and Conciliation Director, Linda A. Puchala, of Maryland, to 
be Member of the National Mediation Board, and Susan Harthill, of 
Maryland, to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review 
Commission.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Leonard Philip Stark, of Delaware, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, Jaqueline Scott Corley, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, 
Bridget Meehan Brennan, Charles Esque Fleming, and David Augustin Ruiz, 
each to be a United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Ohio, Katherine Vidal, of California, to be Under Secretary of Commerce 
for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office, and Ryan K. Buchanan, to be United States Attorney 
for the Northern District of Georgia, Andrew M. Luger, to be United 
States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, Mark A. Totten, to be 
United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, and Jason 
M. Frierson, to be United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, 
all of the Department of Justice.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
financial literacy, focusing on addressing the unique just-in-time 
decisions older Americans and people with disabilities face, after 
receiving testimony from Gerri Walsh, FINRA Investor Education 
Foundation, and Cindy Hounsell, Women's Institute for a Secure 
Retirement, both of Washington, D.C.; Dorothea Bernique, Increasing 
HOPE Financial Training Center, Charleston, South Carolina; and Patti 
Szarowicz, Atlanta Regional Commission Area Agency on Aging, Atlanta, 
Georgia.