[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 119 (Tuesday, July 19, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D802-D803]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
UKRAINE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee received a closed briefing on 
Ukraine from William A. LaPlante, Under Secretary for Acquisition and 
Sustainment, Celeste A. Wallander, Assistant Secretary for 
International Security Affairs, David Dorroh, Senior Intelligence 
Officer for the Europe Eurasia Regional Center, and Brigadier General 
Frank J. Stanco, USA, Deputy Director for Political-Military Affairs 
(Europe, NATO, Russia), Joint Staff J-5, all of the Department of 
Defense.
HOMELESSNESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation, and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine opportunities and challenges in addressing homelessness, 
including S. 2182, to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development to establish a national evictions database, after receiving 
testimony from Ann Oliva, National Alliance to End Homelessness, St. 
Leonard, Maryland; Kathryn Monet, National Coalition for Homeless 
Veterans, Washington, D.C.; Cathy ten Broeke, Minnesota Interagency 
Council on Homelessness, Minneapolis; Isabel McDevitt, Work Works 
America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Jamie Kirsch, Journey On, 
Rapid City, South Dakota.
FEDERAL HYDROGEN PIPELINE REGULATORY AUTHORITIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine federal regulatory authorities governing the 
development of interstate hydrogen pipelines, storage, import, and 
export facilities, after receiving testimony from Holly Krutka, 
University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources, Laramie; Andy Marsh, 
Plug Power Inc., Latham, New York; Richard E. Powers, Jr., Venable LLP, 
Washington, D.C.; and Chad Zamarin, The Williams Companies, Tulsa, 
Oklahoma.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 4466, to amend the Peace Corps Act by reauthorizing the Peace 
Corps, providing better support for current, returning, and former 
volunteers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3052, to promote free and fair elections, democracy, political 
freedoms, and human rights in Cambodia, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 3317, to strengthen United States national security through the 
defense of democracy abroad and to address contemporary threats to 
democracy around the world, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  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, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4320, to enhance security at United States diplomatic facilities, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4216, to reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

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  S. 3589, to require a United States security strategy for the Western 
Hemisphere, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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); 
and
  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, Dean R. Thompson, of Maryland, 
to be Ambassador to Nepal, Richard Lee Buangan, of California, to be 
Ambassador to Mongolia, and Marie C. Damour, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of 
Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of Tonga, and Tuvalu, all 
of the Department of State, Elizabeth Shortino, of the District of 
Columbia, to be United States Executive Director of the International 
Monetary Fund, and routine lists in the Foreign Service.
THREATS TO THE HOMELAND
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine addressing weapons of mass destruction 
and health security threats to the homeland, including S. 4465, to 
establish a Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office and an Office 
of Health Security in the Department of Homeland Security, after 
receiving testimony from Gary C. Rasicot, Acting Assistant Secretary 
for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Pritesh H. Gandhi, 
Chief Medical Officer, both of the Department of Homeland Security; and 
Tina Won Sherman, Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government 
Accountability Office.
KLEPTOCAPTURE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
KleptoCapture, focusing on aiding Ukraine through forfeiture of Russian 
oligarchs' illicit assets, after receiving testimony from Andrew Adams, 
Director, Task Force KleptoCapture, Department of Justice; Adam M. 
Smith, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Casey Michel, 
Hudson Institute, New York, New York; and Paul B. Stephan, University 
of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville.
DISCLOSE ACT
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing 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, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Whitehouse; Jeff Mangan, Montana Commissioner of Political 
Practices, Helena; and Virginia Kase Solomon, League of Women Voters of 
the United States, Daniel I. Weiner, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU 
School of Law, and David Keating, Institute for Free Speech, all of 
Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.