[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 150 (Monday, September 19, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D990-D993]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

            Week of September 20 through September 23, 2022

                             Senate Chamber

  On Tuesday, Senate will continue consideration of the nomination of 
Florence Y. Pan, of the District of Columbia, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, post-cloture, and 
vote on confirmation thereon at 11:30 a.m.
  Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the Amendment to 
Montreal Protocol (``Kigali Amendment'') at 2:30 p.m.
  During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared 
legislative and executive business.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: September 22, 
to hold hearings to examine the nominations of Jose Emilio Esteban, 
of California, to be Under Secretary for Food Safety, and Alexis 
Taylor, of Iowa, to be Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign 
Agricultural Affairs, both of the Department of Agriculture, and 
Vincent Garfield Logan, of New York, to be a Member of the Farm 
Credit Administration Board, Farm Credit Administration, 10 a.m., 
SD-215.
  Committee on Appropriations: September 21, Subcommittee on 
Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, to 
hold hearings to examine the VA's electronic health record 
modernization, focusing on rollout, cost, and schedule, 10 a.m., SD-
124.
  Committee on Armed Services: September 20, to hold hearings to 
examine United States nuclear strategy and policy, 9:30 a.m., SH-
216.
  September 21, Subcommittee on Personnel, to hold hearings to 
examine the status of military recruiting and retention efforts 
across the Department of Defense, 3:30 p.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: September 20, to 
hold hearings to examine tightening the screws on Russia, focusing 
on smart sanctions, economic statecraft and next steps, 9 a.m., SD-
538.
  September 20, Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and 
Community Development, to hold hearings to examine the Department of 
Agriculture's rural housing service, focusing on stakeholder 
perspectives, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  September 22, Full Committee, to hold an oversight hearing to 
examine the nation's largest banks, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: September 21, 
Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to examine S. 305, 
to establish the Springfield Race Riot National Monument in the 
State of Illinois, S. 1211, to establish the Cahokia Mounds 
Mississippian Culture National Historic Park in Collinsville, 
Illinois, Monroe, Madison, and St. Clair Counties, Illinois, and St. 
Louis City County, Missouri, S. 3447, to authorize the National 
Service Animals Monument Corporation to establish a commemorative 
work in the District of Columbia and its environs, S. 3579, to 
authorize the Embassy of France in Washington, DC, to establish a 
commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs to 
honor the extraordinary contributions of Jean Monnet to restoring 
peace between European nations and establishing the European Union, 
S. 3873, to designate the outdoor amphitheater at the Blue Ridge 
Music Center in Galax, Virginia, as the ``Rock Boucher 
Amphitheater'', S. 4122, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
designate certain segments of the Housatonic River in the State of 
Connecticut as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
System, S. 4168, to amend title 54, United States Code, to 
reauthorize the National Park Foundation, S. 4222, to esablish the 
St. Croix National Heritage Area, S. 4371, to establish the Cesar E. 
Chavez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park in the 
States of California and Arizona, S. 4377 and H.R. 4380, bills to 
designate the El Paso Community Healing Garden National Memorial, S. 
4464 and H.R. 1908, bills to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of 
designating certain land as the Ka'ena Point National Heritage Area, 
S. 4693, to amend the National Trails System Act to include national 
discovery trails and designate the American Discovery Trail, S. 
4784, to modify the boundary of the Katahdin Woods and Waters 
National Monument in the State of Maine, to improve public access to 
the National Monument, and S.J. Res. 57, redesignating the Robert E. 
Lee Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery as the ``Arlington House 
National Historic Site'', 10:30 a.m., SD-366.
  September 22, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
opportunities and challenges in deploying innovative battery and 
non-battery technologies for energy storage, 10 a.m., SD-366.

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  Committee on Environment and Public Works: September 21, to hold 
hearings to examine putting the Bipartisan Infrastructure law to 
work, focusing on state and local perspectives, 10 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: September 21, to hold hearings to 
examine women leaders countering authoritarianism, 2:15 p.m., SD-
419.
  Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: September 
20, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to 
examine uncounted deaths in America's prisons and jails, focusing on 
how the Department of Justice failed to implement the Death in 
Custody Reporting Act, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  September 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Colleen Joy Shogan, of Pennsylvania, to be Archivist 
of the United States, Vijay Shanker, to be an Associate Judge of the 
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Laura E. Crane, Leslie A. 
Meek, and Veronica M. Sanchez, each to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: September 21, to hold hearings to 
examine promoting and supporting tribal access to spectrum and 
related benefits in Native communities, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Judiciary: September 20, Subcommittee on Competition 
Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, to hold an oversight hearing 
to examine Federal enforcement of the antitrust laws, 3 p.m., SD-
226.
  September 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Maria Araujo Kahn, of Connecticut, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Julie Rikelman, of 
Massachusetts, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First 
Circuit, Margaret R. Guzman, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Massachusetts, Araceli Martinez-Olguin, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of California, Jamar 
K. Walker, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Virginia, and Jamal N. Whitehead, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Washington, 10 a.m., SD-
226.
  September 22, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 673, 
to provide a temporary safe harbor for publishers of online content 
to collectively negotiate with dominant online platforms regarding 
the terms on which content may be distributed, and the nominations 
of Cindy K. Chung, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Third Circuit, Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves, of 
Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, 
Kelley Brisbon Hodge, John Frank Murphy, Mia Roberts Perez, and Kai 
N. Scott, each to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania, and Thomas E. Brown, to be United States 
Marshal for the Northern District of Georgia, and Kirk M. Taylor, to 
be United States Marshal for the District of Colorado, both of the 
Department of Justice, 9 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: September 21, to 
hold an oversight hearing to examine the SBA's State Trade Expansion 
Program, 2:30 p.m., SR-428A.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: September 21, to hold hearings to 
examine ensuring veterans' timely access to care in VA and the 
community, 3 p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: September 20, to receive a 
closed briefing to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., 
SVC-217.
  September 21, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine 
protecting American innovation, focusing on industry, academia, and 
the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, 2:30 p.m., SH-
216.
  Special Committee on Aging: September 22, to hold hearings to 
examine stopping senior scams, focusing on empowering communities to 
fight fraud, 10 a.m., SD-562.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Armed Services, September 21, Subcommittee on 
Military Personnel, hearing entitled ``Update on the Implementation 
of Recommendations of the Independent Review Commission on Sexual 
Assault in the Military and the Establishment of the Office of 
Special Trial Counsels'', 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Education and Labor, September 21, Subcommittee on 
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, hearing entitled 
``Examining the Administration of the Unemployment Insurance 
System'', 10:15 a.m., 2175 Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, September 21, Full Committee, 
markup on H.R. 3655, the ``Vaccine Injury Compensation Modernization 
Act of 2021''; H.R. 5141, the ``Maximizing Outcomes through Better 
Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) Health Care Act''; 
H.R. 8163, the ``Improving Trauma Systems and Emergency Care Act''; 
H.R. 6737, the ``Flint Registry Reauthorization Act''; H.R. 6965, 
the ``Visit America Act''; H.R. 5441, the ``Prevent All Soring 
Tactics Act of 2021''; H. Res. 1355, of inquiry requesting the 
President and directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
Representatives relating to ivermectin; H. Res. 1244, of inquiry 
requesting the President and directing the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the 
House of Representatives relating to any COVID-19 vaccine; H. Res. 
1258, of inquiry directing the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to provide certain documentation to the House of 
Representatives relating to the calculation of certain expenditure 
limitations applicable to Federal funding of the Medicaid program in 
Puerto Rico; H. Res. 1263, of inquiry directing the President to 
provide certain documents in the President's possession to the House 
of Representatives relating to COVID-19 funding; H. Res. 1267, of 
inquiry directing the President to provide certain documents in the 
President's possession to the House of Representatives relating to 
the oversight of the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory by the 
Director of the National Institutes of Health; H. Res. 1268, of 
inquiry directing the President to provide certain documents in the 
President's possession to the House of Representatives relating to 
actions taken by the Secretary of Health and Human Services related 
to the COVID-19 pandemic response; H. Res. 1274, of inquiry 
directing the President

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to provide certain documents in the President's possession to the 
House of Representatives relating to communications by or among any 
of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of 
National Drug Control Policy, the White House, the Drug Enforcement 
Administration, and the Department of Justice related to the 
executive branch's recommendations for a long-term, consensus 
approach to reduce the supply and availability of illicitly 
manufactured fentanyl-related substances in the United States; H. 
Res. 1275, of inquiry directing the President to provide certain 
documents in the President's possession to the House of 
Representatives relating to communications by staff of the White 
House regarding the implications of revoking the public health 
orders commonly referred to as ``title 42''; H. Res. 1284, of 
inquiry directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to 
provide certain documentation to the House of Representatives 
relating to the negotiation of prices for prescription drugs under 
the Medicare prescription drug program; H. Res. 1287, of inquiry 
directing the President to provide certain documents in the 
President's possession to the House of Representatives relating to 
the recall of infant formula manufactured by Abbott Laboratories and 
potential impacts on the infant formula supply chain; H. Res. 1265, 
of inquiry requesting the President to provide certain documents to 
the House of Representatives relating to plans to exploit the energy 
crisis to pursue a radical climate agenda; H. Res. 1272, of inquiry 
requesting the President to provide certain documents to the House 
of Representatives relating to plans to declare a ``climate 
emergency'' in order to invoke emergency authorities to impose 
regulations on industrial activity, or the supply and delivery of 
energy or electric power, in the United States; H. Res. 1260, of 
inquiry requesting the President, and directing the Secretary of 
Energy, to transmit to the House of Representatives certain 
information relating to plans to draw down and sell petroleum 
products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and plans to refill 
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; H. Res. 1326, of inquiry requesting 
the President, and directing the Secretary of Energy, to transmit to 
the House of Representatives certain information relating to plans 
to protect baseload bulk power system generation and transmission to 
maintain bulk power system reliability; H. Res. 1264, of inquiry 
requesting the President to transmit to the House of Representatives 
certain documents relating to misinformation and the preservation of 
free speech; H. Res. 1271, of inquiry requesting the President 
transmit to the House of Representatives certain documents relating 
to activities of the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration relating to broadband service; H. Res. 1237, of 
inquiry requesting the President to provide certain documents to the 
House of Representatives relating to online censorship of political 
speech; and H. Res. 1261, of inquiry requesting the President to 
provide certain documents to the House of Representatives relating 
to communications and directives with the Federal Trade Commission, 
10:15 a.m., 2123 Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Financial Services, September 21, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Holding Megabanks Accountable: Oversight of 
America's Largest Consumer Facing Banks'', 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn and 
Webex.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and 
Insurance, hearing entitled ``State of Emergency: Examining the 
Impact of Growing Wildfire Risk on the Insurance Market'', 9 a.m., 
2128 Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, September 21, Subcommittee on the 
Middle East, North Africa, and Global Counterterrorism, hearing 
entitled ``Examining the U.S. Interest in Regional Security 
Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa: Opportunities, 
Obstacles, and Objectives'', 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn and Webex.
  September 21, Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the Environment, and 
Cyber, hearing entitled ``Accountability for Atrocity Crimes 
Committed by Russia in Ukraine'', 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn and Webex.
  Committee on Homeland Security, September 21, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and 
Resilience: A Focus on Water'', 10 a.m., 310 Cannon and Webex.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Oversight, Management, and 
Accountability, hearing entitled ``Federal Building Security: 
Examining the Risk Assessment Process'', 10 a.m., 310 Cannon and 
Webex.
  Committee on the Judiciary, September 21, Full Committee, markup 
on H.R. 5455, the ``Terry Technical Correction Act''; H.R. 2864, the 
``Clean Slate Act of 2021''; H.R. 5651, the ``Fresh Start Act of 
2021''; H.R. 8770, the ``Expanding the VOTE Act''; H. Res. 1343, of 
inquiry requesting the President and directing the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Homeland Security to 
transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
Representatives relating to unaccompanied alien children; H. Res. 
1356, of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney 
General to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of 
Representatives relating to Ray Epps, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn and 
Zoom.
  Committee on Natural Resources, September 21, Full Committee, 
continue markup on H. Res. 1247, of inquiry directing the Secretary 
of the Interior to transmit certain documents to the House of 
Representatives relating to the 2023-2028 five-year program for 
offshore oil and gas leasing; H. Res. 1248, of inquiry directing the 
Secretary of the Interior to transmit certain documents to the House 
of Representatives relating to the compliance with the obligations 
of the Mineral Leasing Act; H. Res. 1251, of inquiry directing the 
Secretary of Agriculture to transmit certain documents to the House 
of Representatives relating to the mineral withdrawal within the 
Superior National Forest; H. Res. 1252, of inquiry directing the 
Secretary of the Interior to transmit certain documents to the House 
of Representatives relating to the mineral withdrawal within the 
Superior National Forest; and H. Res. 1253, of inquiry directing the 
Secretary of the Interior to transmit certain documents to the House 
of Representatives relating to the actions of the Department of the 
Interior's Departmental Ethics Office; and H.R. 4690, the 
``Sustaining America's Fisheries for the

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Future Act of 2021'', 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth and Webex.
  Committee on Oversight and Reform, September 21, Subcommittee on 
National Security, hearing entitled ``Putin's Proxies: Examining 
Russia's Use of Private Military Companies'', 9:30 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn and Zoom.
  September 21, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, 
hearing entitled ``Examining Long-Term Care in America: The Impact 
of the Coronavirus in Nursing Homes'', 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn and 
Zoom.
  September 22, Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, 
hearing entitled ``Power and Profiteering: How Certain Industries 
Hiked Prices, Fleeced Consumers, and Drove Inflation'', 9 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Rules, September 21, Subcommittee on Legislative and 
Budget Process, hearing entitled ``Right to Repair: Legislative and 
Budgetary Solutions to Unfair Restrictions on Repair'' [Original 
Jurisdiction Hearing], 10 a.m., H-313 Capito].
  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, September 21, 
Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics; and Subcommittee on 
Environment, joint hearing entitled ``Looking Back to Predict the 
Future: The Next Generation of Weather Satellites'', 10 a.m., 2318 
Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Small Business, September 21, Full Committee, markup 
on H. Res. 1298, of inquiry directing the Secretary of the Treasury 
to transmit certain documents to the House of Representatives 
relating to the role of the Department of the Treasury in the 
Paycheck Protection Program of the Small Business Administration; 
and H.R. 8844, the ``STEP Improvement Act of 2022'', 10 a.m., 2360 
Rayburn and Zoom.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, September 21, Full Committee, 
business meeting on legislation on VA Facility Naming Bills; and 
markup on H.R. 6273, the ``VA Zero Suicide Demonstration Project Act 
of 2021''; H.R. 3793, the ``Support Families of the Fallen Act''; 
legislation on the Food Security for All Veterans Act; H.R. 8852, 
the ``End Veteran Hunger Act of 2022''; legislation on the Expanding 
Home Loans for Guard and Reservists Act; H.R. 2800, the ``WINGMAN 
Act''; H.R. 8510, the ``Strengthening Whistleblower Protections at 
the Department of Veterans Affairs Act''; H.R. 5918, to amend title 
38, United States Code, to ensure that the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs repays members of the Armed Forces for certain contributions 
made by such members of towards Post-9/11 Educational Assistance; 
H.R. 1957, the ``Veterans Infertility Treatment Act of 2021''; H.R. 
4601, the ``Commitment to Veteran Support and Outreach Act''; H.R. 
3304, the ``CARS for Vets Act''; H.R. 2521, the ``DOULA for VA Act 
of 2021''; and H.R. 7589, the ``REMOVE Copays Act'', 10 a.m., HVC-
210 and Zoom.