[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 8, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D235-D236]
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 the 
nominations of Robert Phillip Storch, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Inspector General, Lester Martinez-Lopez, of Florida, and 
Christopher Joseph Lowman, of Virginia, both to be an Assistant 
Secretary, Peter J. Beshar, of New York, to be General Counsel of the 
Department of the Air Force, Franklin R. Parker, of the District of 
Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Agnes Schaefer, of 
Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army, and Frank 
Calvelli, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, 
all of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine United States Strategic Command and United States 
Space Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal 
year 2023 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving 
testimony from Admiral Charles A. Richard, Commander, United States 
Strategic Command, and General James H. Dickinson, Commander, United 
States Space Command, both of the Department of Defense.
DOD CYBER OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity received a 
closed briefing on Department of Defense cyber operations from Mieke 
Eoyang, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cyber Policy, Office of the 
Under Secretary for Policy, Rear Admiral Ronald A. Foy, USN, Deputy 
Director for Global Operations, J39, Joint Staff, and Major General 
Kevin B. Kennedy, USAF, Director of Operations, United States Cyber 
Command, all of the Department of Defense.
MANDATORY ARBITRATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine mandatory arbitration in financial service products, 
including S. 3577, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
eliminate the tax exemption of the International Olympic Committee and 
similar organizations, after receiving testimony from Paul Bland, 
Public Justice, Baltimore, Maryland; Remington A. Gregg, Public 
Citizen, and Steven P. Lehotsky, U.S.

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Chamber of Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.; Todd Zywicki, George 
Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, Arlington, Virginia; and 
Myriam Gilles, Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 
New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Shalanda H. Baker, of Texas, to be Director 
of the Office of Minority Economic Impact, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, of 
California, to be Director of the Office of Science, and Joseph F. 
DeCarolis, of North Carolina, to be Administrator of the Energy 
Information Administration, all of the Department of Energy, and Sara 
C. Bronin, of Connecticut, to be Chairman of the Advisory Council on 
Historic Preservation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of C.S. Eliot Kang, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant 
Secretary (International Security and Non-Proliferation), George J. 
Tsunis, of New York, to be Ambassador to Greece, James C. O'Brien, of 
Nebraska, to be Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination, with the 
rank of Ambassador, Beth Van Schaack, of California, to be Ambassador 
at Large for Global Criminal Justice, Randi Charno Levine, of New York, 
to be Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic, Laura Farnsworth Dogu, of 
Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, N. Nickolas Perry, 
of New York, to be Ambassador to Jamaica, and Mallory A. Stewart, of 
the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary (Verification 
and Compliance), all of the Department of State, Adriana Debora Kugler, 
of Maryland, to be United States Executive Director of the 
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Erin Elizabeth 
McKee, of California, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, and routine lists in the 
Foreign Service.
RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Russia's invasion of Ukraine, focusing on assessing the United 
States and international response, after receiving testimony from 
Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
HATE CRIMES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
combating the rise in hate crimes, after receiving testimony from 
Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, 
Department of Justice; Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, Congregation Beth 
Israel, Colleyville, Texas; Walter M. Kimbrough, Dillard University, 
New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of the United Negro College Fund; 
Orlando Martinez, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, 
California; and Elan S. Carr, The Heritage Foundation, and Maya M. 
Berry, Arab American Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Kenneth L. Wainstein, of Virginia, to be Under 
Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland 
Security.