[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 29, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D324-D325]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine the Defense Health Program, after receiving 
testimony from David Smith, performing the duties of Assistant 
Secretary for Health Affairs, Lieutenant General Ronald Place, 
Director, Defense Health Agency, Lieutenant General R. Scott Dingle, 
Surgeon General of the Army, Lieutenant General Robert Miller, Surgeon 
General of the Air Force, and Rear Admiral Bruce L. Gillingham, Surgeon 
General of the Navy, all of the Department of Defense.
U.S. EUROPEAN AND TRANSPORTATION COMMANDS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the posture of United States European Command and 
United States Transportation Command, after receiving testimony from 
General Tod D. Wolters, USAF, Commander, United States European 
Command/North Atlantic Treaty Organization Supreme Allied Commander 
Europe, and General Jacqueline D. Van Ovost, USAF, Commander, United 
States Transportation Command, both of the Department of Defense.
MEDICAL DEBT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the economic impact of the growing burden of medical 
debt, after receiving testimony from Emily Stewart, Community Catalyst, 
Boston, Massachusetts; Benedic N. Ippolito, American Enterprise 
Institute, and David A. Hyman, Georgetown University Law Center, both 
of Washington, D.C.; Berneta L. Haynes,

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National Consumer Law Center, Atlanta, Georgia; and Robyn King, 
Cleveland, Ohio.
THE FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the strategic importance of the Freely Associated 
States to the United States and our allies in the Indo-Pacific region, 
including the Compacts of Free Association with the Federated States of 
Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of 
Palau, after receiving testimony from Mark Lambert, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, Bureau 
of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State; Siddharth 
Mohandas, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia, 
Department of Defense; and Keone Nakoa, Deputy Assistant Secretary, 
Insular and International Affairs, Department of the Interior.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S.J. Res. 17, requiring the advice and consent of the Senate or an 
Act of Congress to suspend, terminate, or withdraw the United States 
from the North Atlantic Treaty and authorizing related litigation, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3199, to promote peace and democracy in Ethiopia, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  The Convention between the Government of the United States of America 
and the Government of the Republic of Chile for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on 
Income and Capital, signed in Washington on February 4, 2010, with a 
Protocol signed the same day, as corrected by exchanges of notes 
effected February 25, 2011, and February 10 and 21, 2012, and a related 
agreement effected by exchange of notes (the ``related Agreement'') on 
February 4, 2010 (Treaty Doc. 112-8); and
  The nominations of Maria Fabiana Jorge, of the District of Columbia, 
to be United States Alternate Executive Director, Inter-American 
Development Bank, and Deborah E. Lipstadt, of Georgia, to be Special 
Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, with the rank of Ambassador, 
and Barbara A. Leaf, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary (Near 
Eastern Affairs), both of the Department of State.
RETIREMENT AND SAVINGS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine improving retirement and enhancing 
savings, after receiving testimony from Ida Rademacher, The Aspen 
Institute, and Cindy Hounsell, Women's Institute for a Secure 
Retirement, both of Washington, D.C.; Petros Koumantaros, Spectrum 
Pension Consultants, Inc., Seattle, Washington; and Doug Chittenden, 
TIAA, Charlotte, North Carolina.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Freedom of Information Act, focusing on improving transparency and 
the American public's right to know for the 21st century, after 
receiving testimony from Bobak Talebian, Director, Office of 
Information Policy, Department of Justice; Alina M. Semo, Director, 
Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and 
Records Administration; and James R. McTigue, Jr., Director, Strategic 
Issues, Government Accountability Office.
HONORING OUR PROMISE TO ADDRESS COMPREHENSIVE TOXICS ACT
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 
2021, after receiving testimony from Denis McDonough, Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs; and Kristina Keenan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 
United States, Shane L. Liermann, Disabled American Veterans, and 
Christopher J. Slawinski, Fleet Reserve Association, all of Washington, 
D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.