[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 193 (Tuesday, December 13, 2022)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1217-D1218]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOOD AS MEDICINE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Food 
and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research concluded a 
hearing to examine food as medicine, focusing on current efforts and 
potential opportunities, after receiving testimony from Martin 
Richards, Community Farm Alliance, Berea, Kentucky; Leah Penniman, Soul 
Fire Farm, Petersburg, New York; John Bulger, Geisinger, Danville, 
Pennsylvania; Kevin Volpp, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School 
of Medicine and Wharton School, Philadelphia, on behalf of the American 
Heart Association; and Bob Chestnut, Cummins Inc., Columbus, Indiana.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Martin J. Gruenberg, of Maryland, 
to be a Member and Chairperson, Travis Hill, of Maryland, to be a 
Member and Vice Chairperson, and Jonathan McKernan, of Tennessee, to be 
a Member, all of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation, and Kimberly Ann McClain, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
CAPITAL MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities, Insurance, and Investment concluded a hearing to examine 
how capital markets serve diverse entrepreneurs and investors, 
including S. 4065, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify 
the rules relating to qualified opportunity zones, S. 4992, to amend 
the Securities Act of 1933 to extend the maximum period for which a 
company can be an emerging growth company from 5 years to 10 years, S. 
3967, to amend the Securities Act of 1933 to preempt State securities 
law requiring registration for secondary transactions, S. 5005, to 
amend the Securities Act of 1933 to require that information required 
to be disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission by issuers be 
material to investors of those issuers, and S. 3919, to amend the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide that an issuer that is 
required to file certain quarterly reports may elect to file those 
reports semiannually, after receiving testimony from Gilbert Andrew 
Garcia, Garcia Hamilton and Associates, Houston, Texas; and Tom 
Quaadman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets 
Competitiveness, Washington, D.C.
AMERICA'S BROADBAND NEEDS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications, Media, and Broadband concluded a hearing to examine 
solutions to meet America's broadband needs, after receiving testimony 
from Kimball Sekaquaptewa, Santa Fe Indian School, Santa Fe, New 
Mexico, on behalf of the Connect New Mexico Council; Michael K. Powell, 
NCTA--The Internet and Television Association, and Jonathan Spalter, 
USTelecom, both of Washington, D.C.; and Angela Siefer, National 
Digital Inclusion Alliance, Columbus, Ohio.
SMALL AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, Climate 
Change, and Manufacturing concluded a hearing to examine promoting and 
investing in small American manufacturers, after receiving testimony 
from Carrie Hines, American Small Manufacturers Coalition, and Sujai 
Shivakumar, Center for Strategic and International Studies, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Kelvin H. Lee, National Institute for Innovation in 
Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, Newark, Delaware; C. Todd Zakreski, 
Husco Automotive LLC, Waukesha, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Wisconsin 
Manufacturing Extension Partnership; and David Vasko, Rockwell 
Automation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
DOI'S IMPLEMENTATION OF IIJA
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Department of the Interior's implementation of 
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, after receiving testimony 
from Tommy Beaudreau, Deputy Secretary of the Interior.
ABUSE IN FEDERAL PRISONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine sexual 
abuse of female inmates in Federal prisons, after receiving testimony 
from Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, and Colette S. Peters, 
Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, both of the Department of Justice; 
Brenda V. Smith, American University Washington College of Law, 
Washington, D.C.; Carolyn Richardson; Briane Moore; and Linda De La 
Rosa.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Gordon P. Gallagher, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Colorado, who was introduced by Senator 
Bennet, P. Casey Pitts, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of California, and Andrew G. Schopler, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of California, who were 
both introduced by Senators Feinstein and Padilla, Arun Subramanian, to 
be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, 
who was introduced by Senator Schumer, and Rosemarie Hidalgo, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Director of the Violence Against Women 
Office, Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.