[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 118 (Monday, July 18, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D795-D799]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of July 19 through July 22, 2022

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of the nomination of 
Nina Nin-Yuen Wang, of Colorado, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Colorado, post-cloture, and vote on confirmation 
thereon at 11:30 a.m.
   Following disposition of the nomination of Nina Nin-Yuen Wang, 
Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of 
Nancy L. Maldonado, of Illinois, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Illinois. If cloture is invoked on the 
nomination, Senate will vote on confirmation thereon at 2:15 p.m.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Appropriations: July 20, Subcommittee on Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies, to hold hearings to examine food safety and the Food and 
Drug Administration, 10 a.m., SD-124.
  Committee on Armed Services: July 19, to receive a closed briefing 
on Ukraine, 9:30 a.m., SVC-217.
  July 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Lieutenant General Bryan P. Fenton, USA, to be 
general and Commander, United States Special Operations Command, and 
Lieutenant General Michael E. Langley, USMC, to be general and 
Commander, United States Africa Command, both of the Department of 
Defense, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: July 19, 
Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development, 
to hold hearings to examine opportunities and challenges in 
addressing homelessness, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  July 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the state of 
housing in America, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: July 20, to 
hold hearings to examine the nomination of Arati Prabhakar, of 
California, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology 
Policy, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: July 19, to hold 
hearings to examine federal regulatory authorities governing the 
development of interstate hydrogen pipelines, storage, import, and 
export facilities, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  July 21, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 192, to 
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain river 
segments in the State of Oregon as components of the National Wild 
and Scenic Rivers System, S. 387, to protect, for current and future 
generations, the watershed, ecosystem, and cultural heritage of the 
Grand Canyon region in the State of Arizona, to provide for a study 
relating to the uranium stockpile in the United States, S. 557, to 
establish a pilot program for native plant species, S. 567, to 
provide for conservation and economic development in the State of 
Nevada, S. 1344, to redesignate the Pullman National Monument in the 
State of Illinois as the Pullman National Historical Park, S. 1493, 
to sustain economic development and recreational use of National 
Forest System land in the State of Montana, to add certain land to 
the National Wilderness Preservation System, to designate new areas 
for recreation, S. 1538, to amend the Smith River National 
Recreation Area Act to include certain additions to the Smith River 
National Recreation Area, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
designate certain wild rivers in the State of Oregon, 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. 1769, to adjust the boundary of 
the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to include the 
Rim of the Valley Corridor, S. 2130, to modify the disposition of 
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Continental Shelf revenues and to open Federal financial sharing to 
heighten opportunities for renewable energy, 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. 2561, to amend the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976 to provide that a land resource 
management plan or land use plan approved, amended, or revised under 
those Acts shall not be considered to be a continuing Federal agency 
action or constitute a discretionary Federal involvement or control 
for a distinct Federal purpose, S. 2568, to establish the Open 
Access Evapotranspiration (OpenET) Data Program, S. 2693, to amend 
the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to 
authorize additional projects related to the Salton Sea, S. 2708, to 
provide for greater consultation between the Federal Government and 
the governing bodies and community users of land grant-mercedes in 
New Mexico, to provide for a process for recognition of the 
historic-traditional uses of land grant-mercedes, S. 2806, to direct 
the Secretary of Agriculture to select and implement landscape-scale 
forest restoration projects, to assist communities in increasing 
their resilience to wildfire, S. 2980, to authorize the voluntary 
donation of grazing permits and leases in the State of New Mexico, 
S. 2996, to provide for the distribution of certain outer 
Continental Shelf revenues to the State of Alaska, S. 3046, to 
codify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain landscape-scale forest 
restoration projects, S. 3129, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act to designate certain segments of the Gila River system in the 
State of New Mexico as components of the National Wild and Scenic 
Rivers System, to provide for the transfer of administrative 
jurisdiction over certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico, 
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. 3269, to provide for the recognition of certain Alaska 
Native communities and the settlement of certain claims under the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, S. 3307, to modify the boundary 
of the Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in the State of Missouri, 
S. 3338, to revise the boundary of the Ste. Genevieve National 
Historical Park in the State of Missouri, S. 3370, to release the 
reversionary interest of the United States in certain non-Federal 
land in Salt Lake City, Utah, S. 3404, to provide the consent of 
Congress to an amendment to the Constitution of the State of New 
Mexico, S. 3450, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
construct, operate, and maintain facilities in the Sun River 
project, Montana, for the purpose of hydroelectric power generation, 
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. 3997, to 
amend the Land Between the Lakes Protection Act of 1998 to clarify 
the administration of the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation 
Area, S. 4080, to modify the boundary of the Berryessa Snow Mountain 
National Monument to include certain Federal land in Lake County, 
California, 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, S. 4176, to amend the Infrastructure Investment 
and Jobs Act to modify the eligibility requirements for certain 
small water storage and groundwater storage projects and to 
authorize the use of funds for certain additional Carey Act 
projects, S. 4233, to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act to provide for critical maintenance and repair of certain Bureau 
of Reclamation reserved or transferred works, S. 3519, to amend the 
National Trails System Act to designate the Butterfield Overland 
National Historic Trail, S. 4227, to streamline the oil and gas 
permitting process and to recognize fee ownership for certain oil 
and gas drilling or spacing units, 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, H.R. 3531, to 
authorize the Women Who Worked on the Home Front Foundation to 
establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its 
environs, H.R. 5001, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
continue to implement endangered fish recovery programs for the 
Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins, H.R. 6201, to extend the 
authority for the establishment of a commemorative work to honor 
enslaved and free Black persons who served in the American 
Revolution, H.R. 6434, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
establish, within the National Park Service, the Japanese American 
World War II History Network, and the nomination of Laura Daniel-
Davis, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, 10 
a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: July 20, business 
meeting to consider the nominations of Joseph Goffman, of 
Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, Annie Caputo, of Virginia, and Bradley R. 
Crowell, of Nevada, both to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, and 15 General Services Administration resolutions, 11 
a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: July 20, to hold hearings to examine the 
role of tax incentives in affordable housing, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: July 19, business meeting to 
consider S. 4428, to support the security of Taiwan

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and its right of self-determination, S. 4466, to amend the Peace 
Corps Act by reauthorizing the Peace Corps, providing better support 
for current, returning, and former volunteers, S. 3052, to promote 
free and fair elections, democracy, political freedoms, and human 
rights in Cambodia, S. 3317, to strengthen United States national 
security through the defense of democracy abroad and to address 
contemporary threats to democracy around the world, S. 552, to 
direct the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development to submit to Congress a report on the 
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global basic education programs, 
S. 4320, to enhance security at United States diplomatic facilities, 
S. 4216, to reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, 
S. 3589, to require a United States security strategy for the 
Western Hemisphere, H.R. 4693, to advance targeted and evidence-
based interventions for the prevention and treatment of global 
malnutrition and to improve the coordination of such programs, H.R. 
1036, to amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to 
authorize rewards under the Department of State's rewards program 
relating to information regarding individuals or entities engaged in 
activities in contravention of United States or United Nations 
sanctions, H.R. 6899, to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from 
engaging in transactions involving the exchange of Special Drawing 
Rights issued by the International Monetary Fund that are held by 
the Russian Federation or Belarus, protocols to the North Atlantic 
Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of the Republic of Finland and the 
Kingdom of Sweden (Treaty Doc.117-03), the nominations of David 
Pressman, of New York, to be Ambassador to Hungary, Geoffrey R. 
Pyatt, of California, to be an Assistant Secretary (Energy 
Resources), Robert A. Wood, of New York, to be an Alternate 
Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of 
the General Assembly of the United Nations, during his tenure of 
service as Alternate Representative of the United States of America 
for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, and Geeta Rao 
Gupta, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at Large for Global Women's 
Issues, all of the Department of State, and other pending calendar 
business, 2:30 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
  July 20, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business; to be immediately followed by a hearing to 
examine the global food security crisis and the U.S. response, 10 
a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: July 19, 
to hold hearings to examine addressing weapons of mass destruction 
and health security threats to the homeland, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  July 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of David P. Pekoske, of Maryland, to be Administrator of 
the Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland 
Security, 10:15 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: July 20, to hold hearings to examine 
S. 4104, to approve the settlement of water rights claims of the 
Hualapai Tribe and certain allottees in the State of Arizona, to 
authorize construction of a water project relating to those water 
rights claims, S. 4439, to take certain Federal land located in 
Siskiyou County, California, and Humboldt County, California, into 
trust for the benefit of the Karuk Tribe, and H.R. 5221, to amend 
the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to establish an urban Indian 
organization confer policy for the Department of Health and Human 
Services, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on the Judiciary: July 19, to hold hearings to examine 
KleptoCapture, focusing on aiding Ukraine through forfeiture of 
Russian oligarchs' illicit assets, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  July 20, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the Highland 
Park attack, focusing on protecting our communities from mass 
shootings, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  July 21, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 4430, to 
amend title 35, United States Code, to establish an interagency task 
force between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the 
Food and Drug Administration for purposes of sharing information and 
providing technical assistance with respect to patents, and the 
nominations of Rachel Bloomekatz, of Ohio, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, Florence Y. Pan, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, Elizabeth 
Wilson Hanes, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Virginia, Ana C. Reyes, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Columbia, Carlton W. Reeves, of 
Mississippi, to be a Member, and to be Chair, and Laura E. Mate, of 
Iowa, Claire McCusker Murray, of Maryland, Luis Felipe Restrepo, of 
Pennsylvania, Claria Horn Boom, of Kentucky, John Gleeson, of New 
York, and Candice C. Wong, of the District of Columbia, each to be a 
Member, all of the United States Sentencing Commission, and Carlos 
Felipe Uriarte, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General, 
Department of Justice, 9 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: July 19, to hold hearings 
to examine S. 443, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 
1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for 
corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, 3 
p.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: July 20, to hold hearings to 
examine the status of VA's electronic health record modernization 
program, 3 p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: July 19, to receive a closed 
briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.
  July 20, Full Committee, closed business meeting to consider 
pending calendar business; to be immediately followed by a closed 
briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, July 20, Subcommittee on General Farm 
Commodities and Risk Management, hearing entitled ``A 2022 Review of 
the Farm Bill: Stakeholder Perspectives on Title XI Crop 
Insurance'', 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth and Zoom.

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  Committee on the Budget, July 20, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``Examining the Powerful Impact of Investments in Early Childhood 
for Children, Families, and Our Nation's Economy'', 10:30 a.m., 210 
Cannon and Zoom.
  Committee on Education and Labor, July 20, Subcommittee on 
Workforce Protections, hearing entitled ``Second Class Workers: 
Assessing H2 Visa Programs Impact on Workers'', 10:15 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, July 20, Full Committee, markup 
on H.R. 3962, the ``Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and 
Electronic Notarization Act of 2021''; H.R. 4081, the ``Informing 
Consumers About Smart Devices Act''; H.R. 4551, the ``RANSOMWARE 
Act''; H.R. 5313, ``Reese's Law''; H.R. 6290, the 
``Manufacturing.gov Act''; H.R. 8152, the ``American Data Privacy 
and Protection Act'', 9:45 a.m., 2123 Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Financial Services, July 20, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``Housing in America: Oversight of the Federal Housing 
Finance Agency'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 20, Subcommittee on Europe, 
Energy, the Environment, and Cyber, hearing entitled 
``Accountability for Atrocity Crimes Committed by Russia in 
Ukraine'', 9:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn and Webex.
  July 20, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian 
Security, Migration and International Economic Policy, hearing 
entitled ``Russia in the Western Hemisphere: Assessing Putin's 
Malign Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean'', 2 p.m., 
Webex.
  Committee on Homeland Security. July 20, Full Committee, hearing 
entitled ``The Changing Election Security Landscape: Threats to 
Election Officials and Infrastructure'', 9:30 a.m., 310 Cannon and 
Webex.
  Committee on the Judiciary, July 20, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 2814, the ``Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence 
Act''; and H.R. 1808, the ``Assault Weapons Ban of 2021'', 10 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn and Zoom.
  July 21, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the 
Internet, hearing entitled ``The Patent Trial and Appeal Board After 
10 Years, Part II: Implications of Adjudicating in an Agency 
Setting'', 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Natural Resources, July 20, Full Committee, markup on 
H.R. 6353, the ``National Service Animals Memorial Act''; H.R. 6438, 
the ``Dearfield Study Act''; H.R. 6799, the ``John P. Parker House 
Study Act''; H.R. 7618, to designate the Kol Israel Foundation 
Holocaust Memorial in Bedford Heights, Ohio, as a national memorial; 
and H.R. 8393, to enable the people of Puerto Rico to choose a 
permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political status for 
Puerto Rico and to provide for a transition to and the 
implementation of that permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-
governing political status, and for other purposes, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth and Webex.
  July 21, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, hearing on 
H.R. 4951, the ``Canyon's Law''; H.R. 7918, the ``Sea Turtle Rescue 
Assistance Act of 2022''; H.R. 7975, the ``Great Lakes Restoration 
Semipostal Stamp Act of 2022''; and H.R. 8090, to reauthorize 
funding for the Reclamation Climate Change and Water Program, 9 
a.m., 1324 Longworth and Webex.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, July 20, Full Committee, 
continue markup on H.R. 4258, to establish a governmentwide approach 
to improving digital identity, and for other purposes; H.R. 6548, to 
establish new Federal renewable energy use requirements, support the 
equitable transition to clean energy power generation, and require 
cumulative impact assessments for fossil fuel-fired power plant 
permitting, and for other purposes; H.R. 7602, to prevent 
organizational conflicts of interest in Federal acquisition, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 8322, to amend title 31, United States Code, to 
establish the Federal Real Antifraud Unified Directorate, to require 
agencies implement anti-fraud controls for programs susceptible to 
significant improper payments and high-priority programs, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 8325, to amend title 41, United States Code, to 
prevent personal conflicts of interest in Federal acquisition, and 
for other purposes; H.R. 8326, to amend title 13, United States 
Code, to improve the operations of the Bureau of the Census, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 7873, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 400 Southern Avenue Southeast in 
Washington, District of Columbia, as the ``District of Columbia 
Servicemembers and Veterans Post Office''; H.R. 8025, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 
South 1st Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the ``Martin Olav 
Sabo Post Office''; H.R. 8026, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 825 West 65th Street in 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the ``Charles W. Lindberg Post Office''; 
H.R. 8217, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 430 South Knowles Avenue in New Richmond, 
Wisconsin, as the ``Captain Robert C. Harmon and Private John R. 
Peirson Post Office Building''; H.R. 8218, to designate the facility 
of the United States Postal Service located at 619 Hewett Street in 
Neillsville, Wisconsin, as the ``Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. 
Post Office''; and H.R. 8248, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 609 Portsmouth Avenue in 
Greenland, New Hampshire, as the ``Chief Michael Maloney Post Office 
Building'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn and Zoom.
  July 21, Subcommittee on Government Operations, hearing entitled 
``The Future of Federal Work II'', 9 a.m., 2154 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, July 20, Subcommittee 
on Investigations and Oversight, hearing entitled ``Paper Mills and 
Research Misconduct: Facing the Challenges of Scientific 
Publishing'', 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Small Business, July 20, Subcommittee on Underserved, 
Agricultural, and Rural Business Development, hearing entitled ``SBA 
District Office Collaboration with Resource Partners'', 10 a.m., 
2360 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, July 20, Full 
Committee, markup on H.R. 884, the ``National

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Aviation Preparedness Plan Act''; H.R. 2187, the ``Truck Parking 
Safety Improvement Act''; legislation on the Disaster Survivors 
Fairness Act of 2022; H.R. 7636, the ``Bulb Replacement Improving 
Government with High-Efficiency Technology Act''; and General 
Services Administration's Capital Investment and Leasing Program 
Resolutions, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, July 20, Subcommittee on Economic 
Opportunity; and Subcommittee on Technology Modernization, joint 
hearing entitled ``Modernizing Veteran Education in the Shadow of 
COVID-19'', 1 p.m., HVC-210 and Zoom.
  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the 
United States Capitol, July 21, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``January 6th Investigation'', 8 p.m., 390 Cannon and Webex.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: July 20, to hold hearings to examine the 
economic toll of gun violence, focusing on how our nation bears the 
costs, 2:30 p.m., 1300, Longworth Building.
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: July 20, to hold 
hearings to examine life in Ukraine's newly occupied territories, 
2:30 p.m., SD-562.