[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 12, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D734-D735]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine public transportation under the Bipartisan 
Infrastructure Law, focusing on an update from the Federal Transit 
Administration, including S. 2261, to amend the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to allow certain alien veterans to be paroled into the 
United States to receive health care furnished by the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs, and S. 2308, to amend title 49, United States Code, 
to modify the threshold for small start projects under the fixed 
guideway capital investment grant program, to allow certain 
environmental review expenditures to count for purposes of non-Federal 
matches, after receiving testimony from Nuria I. Fernandez, 
Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Department of 
Transportation.
TRAVEL AND TOURISM STRATEGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Tourism, Trade, and Export Promotion concluded a hearing to examine the 
2022 national travel and tourism strategy, after receiving testimony 
from Grant T. Harris, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and 
Analysis, International Trade Administration; and William Hornbuckle, 
MGM Resorts International, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Brad Dean, Discover 
Puerto Rico, San Juan, both on behalf of the Travel and Tourism 
Advisory Board.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Jay Curtis Shambaugh, of Maryland, to be an Under 
Secretary of the Treasury, and Rebecca Lee Haffajee, of Massachusetts, 
to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
INSTABILITY IN THE SAHEL
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine instability and the state of democracy in the Sahel and the 
United States policy response, after receiving testimony from Molly 
Phee, Assistant Secretary of St?ate for African Affairs; Robert W. 
Jenkins, Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Conflict 
Prevention and Stabilization, U.S. Agency for International 
Development?; and Chidi Blyden, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 
for African Affairs.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Errol Rajesh Arthur, 
Kendra Davis Briggs, and Carl Ezekiel Ross, all of the District of 
Columbia, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia, after the nominees, who were introduced by 
Representative Norton, testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
POST-ROE AMERICA
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine a 
post-Roe America, focusing on

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the legal consequences of the Dobbs decision, after receiving testimony 
from Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Springfield; Khiara 
M. Bridges, University of California School of Law, Berkeley; Colleen 
McNicholas, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest 
Missouri, St. Louis; Denise Mayo Harle, Alliance Defending Freedom, 
Tallahassee, Florida; and Heidi Matzke, Alternatives Pregnancy Center, 
Sacramento, California.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.
ATTACKING CARTEL FINANCIAL NETWORKS
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine the role of the Federal government in 
attacking the financial networks of cartels, after receiving testimony 
from Brian E. Nelson, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and 
Financial Intelligence; and Todd D. Robinson, Assistant Secretary of 
State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.