[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 14, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D651-D652]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a closed 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for 
fiscal year 2023 for the Intelligence Community, after receiving 
testimony from Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence; William 
J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; and General Paul M. 
Nakasone, Director, National Security Agency, Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: TREASURY TFI AND FINCEN
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Financial Services and 
General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2023 for the Treasury 
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and the Treasury 
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, after receiving testimony from 
Wally Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support approved for full committee consideration those provisions 
which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities approved for full committee consideration those provisions 
which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower approved for full 
committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland approved for full 
committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023.
INDEX FUND VOTING PROCESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the index fund voting process, including S. 4241, to 
amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to require investment 
advisers for passively managed funds to arrange for pass-through voting 
of proxies for certain securities, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Sullivan; John C. Coates IV, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; and Caleb N. Griffin, University of Arkansas School of 
Law, Fayetteville.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of David Applegate, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Director of the United States Geological Survey, and Carmen G. Cantor, 
of Puerto Rico, to be an Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of 
the Interior, and Evelyn Wang, of Massachusetts, to be Director of the 
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Department of Energy.
EXTREME DROUGHT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine short term and long term solutions to extreme 
drought in the western United States, after receiving testimony from

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Camille Calimlim Touton, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, 
Department of the Interior; Charles V. Stern, Specialist in Natural 
Resources Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; 
John J. Entsminger, Southern Nevada Water Authority, Las Vegas; Maurice 
Hall, Environmental Defense Fund, Sacramento, California; and Patrick 
O'Toole, Family Farm Alliance, Savery, Wyoming.
SOUTH DAKOTA V. WAYFAIR
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
impact of South Dakota v. Wayfair on small businesses and remote sales, 
after receiving testimony from James R. McTigue, Jr., Director, Tax 
Policy and Administration, Government Accountability Office; John E. 
Hennessey, Littleton Coin Company, Inc., Littleton, New Hampshire; 
Michelle Huie, VIM and VIGR Compression Legwear, Missoula, Montana; 
Craig Johnson, Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board, Westby, 
Wisconsin; and Diane L. Yetter, Sales Tax Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine the findings and recommendations of GAO's 2022 
report on duplication, overlap, fragmentation and opportunities to 
achieve financial benefits, after receiving testimony from Gene L. 
Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, Government 
Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 4348, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise 
and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs, medical 
devices, generic drugs, and biosimilar biological products, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 958, to amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the 
allowable use criteria for new access points grants for community 
health centers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4353, to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve retirement plan 
provisions, with amendments;
  H.R. 1193, to amend title IV of the Public Health Service Act to 
direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health, in 
consultation with the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood 
Institute, to establish a program under which the Director of the 
National Institutes of Health shall support or conduct research on 
valvular heart disease; and
  S. 4052, to reauthorize a program for early detection, diagnosis, and 
treatment regarding deaf and hard-of-hearing newborns, infants, and 
young children, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
WORKFORCE AND ECONOMY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, 
and Border Safety concluded a hearing to examine strengthening our 
workforce and economy through higher education and immigration, after 
receiving testimony from former Representative Mia Love, Utah State 
University Center for Growth and Opportunity, Logan; Bernard A. 
Burrola, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, Washington, 
D.C.; and Dalia Larios, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS BUDGET
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2023 
and proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2024 for the Department 
of Veterans Affairs, after receiving testimony from Denis McDonough, 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and Roscoe Butler, Paralyzed Veterans of 
America, Shane Liermann, Disabled American Veterans, and Patrick 
Murray, Veterans of Foreign Wars, all of Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.