[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 121 (Thursday, July 21, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D832-D834]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing 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, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 3,032 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space 
Force.
HOUSING IN AMERICA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the state of housing in America, including S. 1991, 
to authorize a new type of housing choice voucher to help achieve the 
goals of ending homelessness among families with children, increasing 
housing opportunities, and improving life outcomes of poor children, S. 
2361, to reauthorize the budget-neutral demonstration program for 
energy and water conservation at multifamily residential units, to 
establish a green retrofit program, S. 2616, to create livable 
communities through coordinated public investment and streamlined 
requirements, S. 3188, to establish a manufactured housing community 
improvement grant program, and S. 2300, to direct the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development to establish a grant program to help 
revitalize certain localities, after receiving testimony from Lawrence 
Yun, National Association of REALTORS, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, 
American Action Forum, both of Washington, D.C.; and Peggy Bailey, 
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Davidson, Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 557, to establish a pilot program for native plant species, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1344, to redesignate the Pullman National Monument in the State of 
Illinois as the Pullman National Historical Park, with amendments;
  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, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1769, to adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains 
National Recreation Area to include the Rim of the Valley Corridor, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2130, to modify the disposition of certain outer Continental Shelf 
revenues and to open Federal financial sharing to heighten 
opportunities for renewable energy, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute;
  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, with 
amendments;
  S. 2693, to amend the Reclamation Projects Authorization and 
Adjustment Act of 1992 to authorize additional projects related to the 
Salton Sea, with amendments;

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  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. 2996, to provide for the distribution of certain outer Continental 
Shelf revenues to the State of Alaska, with amendments;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment;
  S. 3141, to establish the New Philadelphia National Historical Park 
in the State of Illinois as a unit of the National Park System, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with amendments;
  S. 3338, to revise the boundary of the Ste. Genevieve National 
Historical Park in the State of Missouri, with amendments;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment;
  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, with an amendment:
  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
  S. 4227, to streamline the oil and gas permitting process and to 
recognize fee ownership for certain oil and gas drilling or spacing 
units, with amendments.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of David P. Pekoske, of 
Maryland, to be

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Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, Department 
of Homeland Security, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of 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, 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.