[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 51 (Tuesday, March 22, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D296-D298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RURAL QUALITY OF LIFE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine rural quality of life, focusing on opportunities 
and challenges for the rural care economy, after receiving testimony 
from Xochitl Torres Small, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural 
Development; Carrie Henning-Smith, University of Minnesota School of 
Public Health, Minneapolis; Shoshanah Inwood, The Ohio State University 
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, Wooster; 
Joseph Carrica, Southeast Health Group, La Junta, Colorado; and

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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of William A. LaPlante, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be 
Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment, and Erik Kristopher 
Raven, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of the Navy, 
who was introduced by Senator Tester, both of the Department of 
Defense, Musetta Tia Johnson, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United 
States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and Marvin L. Adams, of 
Texas, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, National 
Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
RESILIENT ECONOMY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine building a resilient economy, focusing on shoring up 
supply, including S. 3596, to amend title XXI of the Social Security 
Act to disregard State expenditures on health services initiatives to 
increase access to behavioral health services for children in schools 
for purposes of the reimbursement limitation on expenditures under the 
Children's Health Insurance Program that are not related to Medicaid or 
health insurance assistance, S. 1422, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to provide a credit for employer-provided worker training, 
and S. 3842, to amend title VI of the Social Security Act to permit 
State and local coronavirus fiscal recovery funds to be used to address 
increased costs of essential items, after receiving testimony from 
William E. Spriggs, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; Betsey Stevenson, 
University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann 
Arbor; Erica R.H. Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania; Veronique de Rugy, George Mason University Mercatus 
Center, Fairfax, Virginia; and Phil Levy, Flexport, Atlanta, Georgia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1541, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the 
Federal Communications Commission to ensure just and reasonable charges 
for telephone and advanced communications services in correctional and 
detention facilities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3014, to establish the Next Generation Telecommunications Council, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3262, to improve the efficient movement of freight at ports in the 
United States, with an amendment;
  S. 3296, to require the TSA to develop a plan to ensure that TSA 
material disseminated in major airports can be better understood by 
more people accessing such airports, with an amendment;
  S. 3405, to require the Federal Communications Commission to issue a 
rule providing that certain low power television stations may be 
accorded primary status as Class A television licensees, with an 
amendment;
  S. 3434, to commission a study relating to the manufacturing programs 
of the Department of Commerce, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 3580, to amend title 46, United States Code, with respect to 
prohibited acts by ocean common carriers or marine terminal operators, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3662, to temporarily increase the cost share authority for aqueous 
film forming foam input-based testing equipment, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3664, to assist in the conservation of the North Atlantic right 
whale by supporting and providing financial resources for North 
Atlantic right whale conservation programs and projects of persons with 
expertise required for the conservation of North Atlantic right whales, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3785, to amend title 49, United States Code, to eliminate the 
restriction on veterans concurrently serving in the Offices of 
Administrator and Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration;
  S. 3817, to improve the forecasting and understanding of tornadoes 
and other hazardous weather, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  Routine lists in the Coast Guard.
IRAN NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
the Iran nuclear negotiations from Brett McGurk, Deputy Assistant to 
the President and Middle East and North Africa Coordinator, National 
Security Council; Rob Malley, Special Envoy for Iran, Department of 
State; and an official briefer from the Office of the Director of 
National Intelligence.

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CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOL
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine child care and preschool, focusing on 
cutting costs for working families, after receiving testimony from 
Rhian Evans Allvin, National Association for the Education of Young 
Children, Washington, D.C.; Julie Kashen, Women's Economic Justice, New 
York, New York; Maria-Isabel Ballivian, ACCA Child Development Center, 
Annandale, Virginia; and Ellen Reynolds, Georgia Child Care 
Association, Sandy Springs, Georgia.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings to examine the 
nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the District of Columbia, to be 
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the 
nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call and will meet again on 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.