[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 61 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D374-D375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimate and 
justification for fiscal year 2023 for the Army Corps of Engineers, and 
the Bureau of Reclamation, after receiving testimony from Michael L. 
Connor, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, and Lieutenant 
General Scott A. Spellmon, Chief of Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers, 
both of the Department of Defense; and David Palumbo, Acting 
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.
SUICIDE PREVENTION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a 
hearing to examine suicide prevention and related behavioral health 
interventions in the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony 
from Karin A. Orvis, Director, Defense Suicide Prevention Office, 
Richard Mooney, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Services 
Policy and Oversight, and Michael J. Roark, Deputy Inspector General, 
Evaluations Component, all of the Department of Defense; Brenda S. 
Farrell, Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, Government 
Accountability Office; Chris Ford, Stop Soldier Suicide, and P. Murali 
Doraiswamy, Duke University School of Medicine, both of Durham, North 
Carolina; Craig J. Bryan, The Ohio State University College of 
Medicine, Columbus; and Beth Zimmer Carter.
INNOVATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Defense's 
posture for supporting and fostering innovation, after receiving 
testimony from Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary for Research and 
Engineering; Stefanie Tompkins, Director, Defense Advanced Research 
Projects Agency, and Michael Brown, Director, Defense Innovation Unit, 
all of the Department of Defense.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Ventris C. Gibson, of Virginia, 
to be Director of the Mint, and Paul M. Rosen, of California, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Investment Security, both of the Department of 
the Treasury, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation, and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine advancing public transportation in small cities and rural 
places under the bipartisan infrastructure law, including S. 267, to 
increase the Federal share of operating costs for certain projects that 
receive grants under the Formula Grants to Rural Areas Program of the 
Federal Transit Administration, and S. 2365, to amend title 49, United 
States Code, to modify the Government share of the cost of certain 
planning activities, after receiving testimony from Ryan Daniel, St. 
Cloud Metro Bus, St. Cloud, Minnesota; Scott Bogren, Community 
Transportation Association of America, Washington, D.C.; and Baruch 
Feigenbaum, Reason Foundation, Los Angeles, California.
EPA BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2023 for the Environmental Protection Agency, after receiving 
testimony from Michael S Regan, Administrator, Environmental Protection 
Agency.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Climate, and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Beth Pritchard Geer, Robert P. Klein, both of Tennessee, 
and L. Michelle Moore, of Georgia, all to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors, and Benny R. Wagner, of Tennessee, to be Inspector General, 
all of the Tennessee Valley Authority, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine amendments to the Treaty on Fisheries between the Governments 
of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United 
States of America (Treaty Doc.115-3), agreement between the Government 
of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of 
Croatia comprising the instrument as contemplated

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by Article 3(2) of the Agreement on Extradition between the United 
States of America and the European Union, signed June 25, 2003, as to 
the Application of the Treaty on Extradition signed on October 25, 1901 
(the ``U.S.-Croatia Extradition Agreement''), and the Agreement between 
the Government of the United States and the Government of the Republic 
of Croatia comprising the Instrument as contemplated by Article 3(3) of 
the Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance between the United States of 
America and the European Union signed at Washington on June 25, 2003 
(the ``U.S.-Croatia Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement''), both signed 
at Washington on December 10, 2019 (Treaty Doc.116-2), and amendment to 
the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the 
``Montreal Protocol''), adopted at Kigali on October 15, 2016, by the 
Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (the 
``Kigali Amendment'') (Treaty Doc.117-1), after receiving testimony 
from Richard C. Visek, Acting Legal Adviser, Office of the Legal 
Adviser, and John Thompson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, 
both of the Department of State; Vaughn A. Ary, Director, Office of 
International Affairs, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; James 
Sousa, American Tunaboat Association, San Diego, California; and 
Stephen R. Yurek, Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration 
Institute, Arlington, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the nominations of Derek Kan, of California, 
and Daniel Mark Tangherlini, of the District of Columbia, both to be a 
Governor of the United States Postal Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 3123, to amend the Siletz Reservation Act to address the hunting, 
fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated 
Tribes of Siletz Indians;
  S. 3126, to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to address the 
hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the 
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community;
  S. 3273, to take certain land in the State of California into trust 
for the benefit of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians;
  H.R. 1975, to take certain land located in San Diego County, 
California, into trust for the benefit of the Pala Band of Mission 
Indians; and
  H.R. 4881, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust 
for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona certain land in Pima County, 
Arizona.
NOMINATION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Dara Lindenbaum, of Virginia, to be a Member 
of the Federal Election Commission, after the nominee testified and 
answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Kate Elizabeth Heinzelman, of New York, to be 
General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, after the nominee, 
who was introduced by Senator Bennet, testified and answered questions 
in her own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.