[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 129 (Tuesday, August 2, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D890-D891]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             AUGUST 3, 2022

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine organizational 
failures of the U.S.'s organ procurement and transplantation 
network, 2:30 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Nathaniel Fick, of Maine, to be Ambassador at Large 
for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, Rachna Sachdeva Korhonen, of New 
Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, Lucy Tamlyn, of 
Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the 
Congo, and Jessica Davis Ba, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, all of the Department 
of State, and Rolfe Michael Schiffer, of New York, to be an 
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, 10 a.m., SD-419.
  Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 4428, to support 
the security of Taiwan and its right of self-determination, the 
nominations of Robert F. Godec, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Thailand, Jonathan Henick, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Uzbekistan, Lesslie Viguerie, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, Daniel N. Rosenblum, of Maryland, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Joey R. Hood, of New 
Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia, Puneet 
Talwar, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom 
of Morocco, Candace A. Bond, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Randy W. Berry, of Colorado, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, William H. Duncan, of Texas, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, Hugo F. Rodriguez, 
Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, 
Heide B. Fulton, of West Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Oriental 
Republic of Uruguay, Robert J. Faucher, of Arizona, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Suriname, Shefali Razdan Duggal, of California, 
to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Angela Price 
Aggeler, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of North Macedonia, Carrin F. Patman, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, Gautam A. Rana, of New 
Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, and Yohannes 
Abraham, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of 
America to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with the rank 
and status of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, and other 
pending calendar business, 2:30 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: business 
meeting to consider S. 4488, to establish an interagency committee 
on global catastrophic risk, S. 4337, to amend title 5, United 
States Code, to authorize the appointment of spouses of members of 
the Armed Forces who are on active duty, disabled, or deceased to 
positions in which the spouses will work remotely, S. 4516, to 
require the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to develop 
governmentwide procurement policy and guidance to mitigate 
organizational conflict of interests relating to national security 
and foreign policy, S. 4465, to establish a Countering Weapons of 
Mass Destruction Office and an Office of Health Security in the 
Department of Homeland Security, S. 4572, to require U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection to expand the use of non-intrusive inspection 
systems at land ports of entry, S. 4611, to improve services for 
trafficking victims by establishing, in Homeland Security 
Investigations, the Investigators Maintain Purposeful Awareness to 
Combat Trafficking Trauma Program and the Victim Assistance Program, 
S. 4623, to advance Government innovation through leading-edge 
procurement capability, S. 4552, to extend the program for authority 
to acquire innovative commercial items using general solicitation 
procedures, S. 4553, to extend other transaction authority for the 
Department of Homeland Security, S. 4477, to amend title 31, United 
States Code, to require agencies to include a list of outdated or 
duplicative reporting requirements in annual budget justifications, 
S. 1877, to modify eligibility requirements for certain hazard 
mitigation assistance programs, S. 4592, to encourage the migration 
of Federal Government information technology systems to quantum-
resistant cryptography, S. 4599, to streamline the sharing of 
information among Federal disaster assistance agencies, to expedite 
the delivery of life-saving assistance to disaster survivors, to 
speed the recovery of communities from disasters, to protect the 
security and privacy of information provided by disaster survivors, 
S. 4326, to authorize the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement to pay stipends to members of Transnational Criminal 
Investigative Units who have been properly vetted, S. 4460, to 
require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to 
regularly review and update policies and manuals related to 
inspections at ports of entry, S. 4577, to improve plain writing and 
public experience, H.R. 3544, to require the Administrator of 
General Services to transfer certain surplus computers and 
technology equipment to nonprofit computer refurbishers for repair, 
distribution, and return, H.R. 5641, to amend the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to increase the 
threshold for eligibility for assistance under sections 403, 406, 
407, and 502 of such Act, H.R. 3709, to direct the Administrator of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency to submit to Congress a 
report on preliminary damage assessments and make necessary 
improvements to processes in the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, H.R. 6825, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 
enhance the funding and administration of the Nonprofit Security 
Grant Program of the Department of Homeland Security, H.R. 5615, to 
direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to

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submit a plan to make Federal assistance available to certain urban 
areas that previously received Urban Area Security Initiative 
funding to preserve homeland security capabilities, H.R. 7077, to 
require the United States Fire Administration to conduct on-site 
investigations of major fires, H.R. 370, to amend the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 to make technical corrections to the 
requirement that the Secretary of Homeland Security submit 
quadrennial homeland security reviews, H.R. 521, to permit disabled 
law enforcement officers, customs and border protection officers, 
firefighters, air traffic controllers, nuclear materials couriers, 
members of the Capitol Police, members of the Supreme Court Police, 
employees of the Central Intelligence Agency performing intelligence 
activities abroad or having specialized security requirements, and 
diplomatic security special agents of the Department of State to 
receive retirement benefits in the same manner as if they had not 
been disabled, H.R. 91, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 810 South Pendleton Street in 
Easley, South Carolina, as the ``Private First Class Barrett Lyle 
Austin Post Office Building'', H.R. 92, to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 110 Johnson Street in 
Pickens, South Carolina, as the ``Specialist Four Charles Johnson 
Post Office'', H.R. 700, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 303 East Mississippi Avenue in 
Elwood, Illinois, as the ``Lawrence M. `Larry' Walsh Sr. Post 
Office'', H.R. 3508, to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 39 West Main Street, in Honeoye Falls, New 
York, as the ``CW4 Christian J. Koch Memorial Post Office'', H.R. 
5271, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 2245 Rosa L Parks Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee, as 
the ``Thelma Harper Post Office Building'', H.R. 5900, to designate 
the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2016 
East 1st Street in Los Angeles, California, as the ``Marine Corps 
Reserve PVT Jacob Cruz Post Office'', H.R. 6386, to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 450 West 
Schaumburg Road in Schaumburg, Illinois, as the ``Veterans of Iraq 
and Afghanistan Memorial Post Office Building'', H.R. 6614, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 4744 Grand River Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, as the ``Rosa 
Louise McCauley Parks Post Office Building'', H.R. 5809, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 1801 Town and Country Drive in Norco, California, as the ``Lance 
Corporal Kareem Nikoui Memorial Post Office Building'', an original 
bill entitled, ``Safeguarding the Homeland from the Threats Posed by 
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Act'', an original bill entitled, ``DHS 
Joint Task Force Reauthorization Act'', an original bill entitled, 
``Disaster Management Costs Modernization Act'', an original bill 
entitled, ``Federal Data Center Enhancement Act'', an original bill 
entitled, ``Enhancing DHS Drug Seizures Act'', an original bill 
entitled, ``Federal Contracting for Peace and Security Act'', and 
the nominations of Errol Rajesh Arthur, Kendra Davis Briggs, and 
Carl Ezekiel Ross, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior 
Court of the District of Columbia, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight, to hold 
hearings to examine gain of function research, focusing on what the 
pandemic taught us and where to go from here, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine protecting 
our democracy's frontline workers, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: to hold hearings to examine 
the Electoral Count Act, focusing on the need for reform, 10:30 
a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Anjali Chaturvedi, of Maryland, to be General 
Counsel, and Jaime Areizaga-Soto, of Virginia, to be Chairman of the 
Board of Veterans' Appeals, both of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, Time to be announced, S-216, Capitol.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to receive a closed briefing on 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SVC-217.


                                 House

  No hearings are scheduled.