[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 14, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D967]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 4802, to authorize appropriations for the Coast 
Guard, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Shailen P. Bhatt, of Michigan, to 
be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, Department of 
Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator 
Hickenlooper, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 4428, to support the security of Taiwan and its right of self-
determination, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4653, to provide for certain authorities of the Department of 
State, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Rolfe Michael Schiffer, of New York, to be an 
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, Nathaniel Fick, of Maine, to be Ambassador at Large for 
Cyberspace and Digital Policy, Department of State, Patrick Leahy, of 
Vermont, and James E. Risch, of Idaho, both to be a Representative of 
the United States of America to the Seventy-seventh Session of the 
General Assembly of the United Nations, and a routine list in the 
Foreign Service.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine social media's impact on homeland 
security, after receiving testimony from Alex Roetter, formerly of 
Twitter, Boulder, Colorado; Brian Thomas Boland, formerly of Facebook, 
Bellevue, Washington; Geoffrey Cain, Lincoln Network, Hamilton, New 
Jersey; Chris Cox, Meta, Menlo Park, California; Neal Mohan, YouTube, 
San Bruno, California; Vanessa Pappas, TikTok, Inc., Culver City, 
California; and Jay Sullivan, Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, California.
MONKEYPOX
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine stopping the spread of monkeypox, 
focusing on the Federal response, after receiving testimony from 
Rochelle P. Walensky, Director, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy 
and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Robert M. 
Califf, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, 
and Dawn O'Connell, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, 
Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, all of the 
Department of Health and Human Services.
FLATLINING CARE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, 
and Border Safety concluded a hearing to examine flatlining care, 
focusing on why immigrants are crucial to bolstering our health care 
workforce, after receiving testimony from Benny Martinez, Brooks County 
Sheriff, Falfurrias, Texas; Sarah K. Peterson, SPS Immigration PLLC, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Ram Alur, Marion VA Medical Center, Marion, 
Illinois, on behalf of Physicians for American Healthcare Access.
PROTECTING PRIVATE INFORMATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and 
the Law concluded a hearing to examine protecting Americans' private 
information from hostile foreign powers, after receiving testimony from 
Samm Sacks, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Susan Landau, 
Tufts University Fletcher School and School of Engineering, Medford, 
Massachusetts; Matthew Pottinger, Foundation for Defense of 
Democracies, Washington, D.C.; and Adam I. Klein, University of Texas 
Robert Strauss Center on International Security and Law, Austin.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Terrence Edwards, of Maryland, to be Inspector 
General of the National Reconnaissance Office, Department of Defense.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.