[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 130 (Wednesday, August 3, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D894-D897]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ORGAN PROCUREMENT AND TRANSPLANTATION NETWORK
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
organizational failures of the United States organ procurement and 
transplantation network, after receiving testimony from Brian Shepard, 
United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, Virginia; Diane Brockmeier, 
Mid-America Transplant, St. Louis, Missouri; Barry S. Friedman, 
AdventHealth Transplant Institute, Orlando, Florida; Calvin Henry, 
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, Atlanta, Georgia; and 
Jayme Locke, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Nathaniel Fick, of Maine, to be Ambassador 
at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, who was introduced by 
Senator King, 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, who was introduced by Representative Norton, 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, who was introduced by Senator Menendez, after the

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nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  An original resolution celebrating the United States-Republic of 
Korea alliance and the dedication of the Wall of Remembrance at the 
Korean War Veterans Memorial on July 27, 2022; and
  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, 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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 4488, to establish an interagency committee on global catastrophic 
risk, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4572, to require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to expand the 
use of non-intrusive inspection systems at land ports of entry, with 
amendments;
  S. 4687, to enhance the authority granted to the Department of 
Homeland Security and Department of Justice with respect to unmanned 
aircraft systems and unmanned aircraft, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 4656, to reauthorize and amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
to create stronger accountability mechanisms for Joint Task Forces, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4654, to amend section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to incentivize States, Indian 
Tribes, and Territories to close disaster recovery projects by 
authorizing the use of excess funds for management costs for other 
disaster recovery projects, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 4629, to amend the Carl Levin and Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 to modify 
requirements relating to data centers of certain Federal agencies;
  S. 1877, to modify eligibility requirements for certain hazard 
mitigation assistance programs, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  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

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survivors, to speed the recovery of communities from disasters, to 
protect the security and privacy of information provided by disaster 
survivors, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment;
  S. 4645, to restrict the flow of illicit drugs into the United 
States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 4577, to improve plain writing and public experience;
  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, with an 
amendment;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute;
  H.R. 5615, to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to 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, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  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''; and
  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''.
GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight concluded a hearing to 
examine gain of function research, focusing on what the pandemic taught 
us and where to go from here, after receiving testimony from Richard H. 
Ebright, Rutgers University Waksman Institute of Microbiology, 
Piscataway, New Jersey; Steven Quay, Atossa Therapeutics, Inc., 
Seattle, Washington; and Kevin M. Esvelt, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge.

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DEMOCRACY'S FRONTLINE WORKERS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
protecting our democracy's frontline workers, after receiving testimony 
from Kenneth Polite, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Criminal 
Division, Department of Justice; Kim Wyman, Senior Election Security 
Lead, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of 
Homeland Security; Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State, 
Lansing; Maggie Toulouse Oliver, New Mexico Secretary of State, Santa 
Fe; Amy Cohen, National Association of State Election Directors, 
Washington, D.C.; Matt Crane, Colorado County Clerks Association, 
Littleton; D. Michael Hurst, Jr., Phelps Dunbar LLP, Jackson, 
Mississippi; Rafael A. Mangual, Manhattan Institute for Policy 
Research, New York, New York; and Jason C. Johnson, Law Enforcement 
Legal Defense Fund, Baltimore, Maryland.
ELECTORAL COUNT ACT
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Electoral Count Act, focusing on the need for reform, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Collins and Manchin; Bob Bauer, New 
York University School of Law, and Janai Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense 
and Educational Fund, Inc., both of New York, New York; John M. Gore, 
Jones Day, and Norman L. Eisen, Brookings Institution, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Derek T. Muller, University of Iowa College of 
Law, Iowa City.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Jaime Areizaga-Soto, of Virginia, to be Chairman of 
the Board of Veterans' Appeals, Department of Veterans Affairs.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.