[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 11, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D500-D502]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and 
Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2023 for the Indian Health 
Service, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth A. Fowler, Acting 
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human 
Services.
APPROPRIATIONS: AOC, SAA, CBO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2023 for the Architect of the Capitol, 
the Senate Sergeant at Arms, and the Congressional Budget Office, after 
receiving testimony from, J. Brett Blanton, Architect of the Capitol; 
Karen Gibson, Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate; and 
Phillip Swagel, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2023 for the 
Department of Commerce, after receiving testimony from Gina Raimondo, 
Secretary of Commerce.
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY AND COVID-19 CRISES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine the global food 
security and COVID-19 crises, focusing on the U.S. response and policy 
options, after receiving testimony from Atul Gawande, Assistant 
Administrator for Global

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Health, U.S. Agency for International Development; David Beasley, UN 
World Food Programme, Rome, Italy; Tjada D'Oyen McKenna, Mercy Corps, 
Washington, D.C.; Akinwumi A. Adesina, African Development Bank, 
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Tom Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives, New York, 
New York; and Michael Ryan, World Health Organization, Geneva, 
Switzerland.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded 
a hearing to examine Space Force programs in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2023 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from John F. Plumb, Assistant 
Secretary for Space Policy, Frank Calvelli, Assistant Secretary of the 
Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration, and General David D. 
Thompson, USSF, Vice Chief of Space Operations, all of the Department 
of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2427, to require the Federal Communications Commission to conduct 
a study and submit to Congress a report examining the feasibility of 
funding the Universal Service Fund through contributions supplied by 
edge providers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3053, to amend the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act 
of 2017 to require the Administrator of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration to develop a plan and national guidance 
document to improve precipitation estimates, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 3232, to require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to 
promulgate a consumer product safety rule for freestanding clothing 
storage units to protect children from tip-over related death or 
injury, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3278, to protect children and other consumers against hazards 
associated with the accidental ingestion of button cell or coin 
batteries by requiring the Consumer Product Safety Commission to 
promulgate a consumer product safety standard to require child-
resistant closures on consumer products that use such batteries, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3290, to establish a National Manufacturing Extension Partnership 
Supply Chain Database, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3429, to establish an Alaska Salmon Research Task Force, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3533, to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, 
and Recreation Act to improve the National Volcano Early Warning and 
Monitoring System, with an amendment;
  S. 3692, to direct the Federal Communications Commission to evaluate 
and consider the impact of the telecommunications network equipment 
supply chain on the deployment of universal service, with an amendment;
  S. 4145, to amend section 13 of the Federal Trade Commission Act to 
provide equitable relief, with an amendment: and
  The nomination of Linda L. Fagan, to be Commandant, and promotion 
lists, both of the Coast Guard.
NATIONAL PARKS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 557, to establish a pilot 
program for native plant species, S. 1344, to redesignate the Pullman 
National Monument in the State of Illinois as the Pullman National 
Historical Park, S. 1718, to amend the Rosie the Riveter/World War II 
Home Front National Historical Park Establishment Act of 200 to provide 
for additional areas to be added to the park, S. 1814 and H.R. 3531, 
bills to authorize the Women Who Worked on the Home Front Foundation to 
establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its 
environs, S. 2367, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
acquire land in Frederick County, Maryland, for the Historic 
Preservation Training Center of the National Park Service, S. 2964, to 
clarify the status of the North Country, Ice Age, and New England 
National Scenic Trails as units of the National Park System, S. 3141, 
to establish the New Philadelphia National Historical Park in the State 
of Illinois as a unit of the National Park System, S. 3185, to amend 
the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Improvement Act to 
extend the exception to the closure of certain roads within the 
Recreation Area for local businesses, S. 3240, to waive the application 
fee for applications for special use permits for veterans' special 
events at war memorials on land administered by the National Park 
Service in the District of Columbia and its environs, S. 3307, to 
modify the boundary of the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in the 
State of Missouri, S. 3334, to extend the authority for the 
establishment of a commemorative work to honor enslaved and free black 
persons who served in the American Revolution, S. 3338, to revise the 
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the State of Missouri, S. 3519, to amend the National Trails System Act 
to designate the Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail, S. 3551, 
to require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the 
Interior to carry out certain activities to enhance recreational 
opportunities for gateway communities, S. 3667, to amend title 54, 
United States Code, to establish within the National Park Service the 
United States African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Program, S. 
3685, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of 
establishing the John P. Parker House in Ripley, Ohio, as a unit of the 
National Park System, S. 4114, to amend Public Law 99-420 to provide 
for the conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Maine for 
use for affordable workforce housing, S. 4121, to designate the Kol 
Israel Foundation Holocaust Memorial in Bedford Heights, Ohio, as a 
national memorial, H.R. 268, to provide for the boundary of the Palo 
Alto Battlefield National Historic Park to be adjusted, to authorize 
the donation of land to the United States for addition to that historic 
park, and H.R. 1931, to provide competitive grants for the promotion of 
Japanese American confinement education as a means to understand the 
importance of democratic principles, use and abuse of power, and to 
raise awareness about the importance of cultural tolerance toward 
Japanese Americans, after receiving testimony from Michael A. Caldwell, 
Associate Director, Park Planning, Facilities, and Lands, National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior.
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the Council on Environmental Quality, 
after receiving testimony from Brenda Mallory, Chair, Council on 
Environmental Quality.
USAID BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2023 
for the United States Agency for International Development, after 
receiving testimony from Samantha Power, Administrator, United States 
Agency for International Development.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of John Z. Lee, of Illinois, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, who was introduced by Senator 
Durbin, Salvador Mendoza, Jr., of Washington, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, who was introduced by Senator 
Murray, Stephen Henley Locher, to be United States District Judge for 
the Southern District of Iowa, who was introduced by Senator Grassley, 
Nancy L. Maldonado, to be United States Judge for the Northern District 
of Iowa, who was introduced by Senator Durbin, and Gregory Brian 
Williams, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Delaware, who was introduced by Senators Carper and Coons, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
VA AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the quality of care in the VA and the private sector, after 
receiving testimony from Carolyn Clancy, Assistant Under Secretary for 
Health for Discovery, Education, and Affiliate Networks, Erica 
Scavella, Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Clinical Services, 
and Kristine Groves, Executive Director, Office of Quality Management, 
each of the Veterans Health Administration, and Michael J. Missal, 
Inspector General, and Julie Kroviak, Deputy Assistant Inspector 
General, Office of Healthcare Inspections, all of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs; Jonathan Perlin, The Joint Commission, Oakbrook 
Terrace, Illinois; and Gregg S. Meyer, Mass General Brigham, Boston, 
Massachusetts.
CHINA
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine countering the People's Republic of China's economic and 
technological plan for dominance, after receiving testimony from Dewey 
Murdick, Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging 
Technology, Beltsville, Maryland; Nazak Nikakhtar, Wiley Rein LLP, 
Potomac, Maryland; and James Mulvenon, Burke, Virginia.