[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D135-D136]
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 Appropriations: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments for the 118th Congress:
  Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies: Senators Heinrich (Chair), 
Feinstein, Tester, Merkley, Baldwin, Manchin, Peters, Hoeven, 
McConnell, Collins, Moran, Hyde-Smith, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: 
Senators Shaheen (Chair), Feinstein, Reed, Coons, Schatz, Manchin, Van 
Hollen, Merkley, Peters, Moran, Murkowski, Collins, Capito, Kennedy, 
Hagerty, Britt, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on Department of Defense: Senators Tester (Chair), 
Durbin, Feinstein, Murray, Reed, Schatz, Baldwin, Shaheen, Murphy, 
Collins, McConnell, Murkowski, Graham, Moran, Hoeven, Boozman, and 
Capito.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Feinstein 
(Chair), Murray, Tester, Durbin, Shaheen, Merkley, Coons, Baldwin, 
Heinrich, Kennedy, McConnell, Murkowski, Graham, Hoeven, Hyde-Smith, 
Hagerty, and Britt.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government: Senators 
Van Hollen (Chair), Durbin, Coons, Manchin, Heinrich, Hagerty, Boozman, 
Kennedy, and Rubio.
  Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security: Senators Murphy 
(Chair), Murray, Tester, Shaheen, Baldwin, Peters, Britt, Murkowski, 
Capito, Kennedy, and Hyde-Smith.
  Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies: Senators Merkley (Chair), Feinstein, Reed, Tester, Van 
Hollen, Heinrich, Peters, Murkowski, McConnell, Capito, Hoeven, 
Fischer, and Britt.
  Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, and Related Agencies: Senators Baldwin (Chair), Murray, 
Durbin, Reed, Shaheen, Merkley, Schatz, Murphy, Manchin, Capito, 
Graham, Moran, Kennedy, Hyde-Smith, Boozman, Britt, and Rubio.
  Subcommittee on Legislative Branch: Senators Reed (Chair), Murphy, 
Van Hollen, Fischer, and Rubio.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related 
Agencies: Senators Murray (Chair), Reed, Tester, Schatz, Baldwin, 
Heinrich, Coons, Manchin, Peters, Boozman, McConnell, Murkowski, 
Hoeven, Collins, Rubio, Hagerty, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: 
Senators Coons (Chair), Durbin, Shaheen, Merkley, Murphy, Van Hollen, 
Schatz, Graham, McConnell, Boozman, Moran, Rubio, and Hagerty.
  Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and 
Related Agencies: Senators Schatz (Chair), Murray, Durbin, Feinstein, 
Reed, Coons, Murphy, Manchin, Van Hollen, Hyde-Smith, Collins, Boozman, 
Capito, Graham, Hoeven, Kennedy, and Moran.
  Senators Murray and Collins are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,790 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
GLOBAL SECURITY CHALLENGES
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
global security challenges and strategy, after receiving testimony from 
Bonny Lin, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Fiona Hill, 
Brookings Institution, and Roger Zakheim, Ronald Reagan Presidential 
Foundation and Institute, all of Washington, D.C.

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CLIMATE-RELATED ECONOMIC RISKS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
climate-related economic risks and their costs to the Federal budget 
and the global economy, after receiving testimony from Robert B. 
Litterman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Climate-Related Market 
Risk Subcommittee; Mark Carney, former Governor of the Banks of England 
and Canada, Toronto; and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum, 
Washington, D.C.
FAA NOTAM SYSTEM FAILURE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the Federal Aviation Administration's NOTAM system 
failure and its impacts on a resilient national airspace, after 
receiving testimony from Billy Nolen, Acting Administrator, Federal 
Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation.
LOW CARBON TRANSPORTATION FUELS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the future of low carbon transportation fuels and 
considerations for a national clean fuels program, after receiving 
testimony from Michael J. Graff, American Air Liquide Holdings Inc., 
Houston, Texas; Geoff Cooper, Renewable Fuels Association, Ellisville, 
Missouri; and Chris Spear, American Trucking Association, Washington, 
D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Daniel 
I. Werfel, of the District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of Internal 
Revenue, Department of the Treasury, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Carper, testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
FENTANYL
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine countering illicit fentanyl trafficking, after receiving 
testimony from Rahul Gupta, Director, Office of National Drug Control 
Policy, Executive Office of the President; Anne Milgram, Administrator, 
Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; and Todd D. 
Robinson, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and 
Law Enforcement Affairs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Karla Ann Gilbride, of Maryland, 
to be General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
and Glenna Laureen Wright-Gallo, of Nevada, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and LaWanda Amaker 
Toney, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Communications and 
Outreach, both of the Department of Education,
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 70, to require the Bureau of Indian Affairs to process and 
complete all mortgage packages associated with residential and business 
mortgages on Indian land by certain deadlines;
  S. 277, to take certain land located in San Diego County, California, 
into trust for the benefit of the Pala Band of Mission Indians; and
  S. 385, to amend the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor 
Experience Act to authorize grants to Indian tribes, tribal 
organizations, and Native Hawaiian organizations.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Michael Arthur Delaney, of New Hampshire, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, who was introduced 
by Senators Shaheen and Hassan, Jeffrey Irvine Cummings, and LaShonda 
A. Hunt, both to be a United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Illinois, and Marian F. Gaston, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of California, and Wesley L. 
Hsu, and Monica Ramirez Almadani, both to be a United States District 
Judge for the Central District of California, who were all introduced 
by Senator Padilla, after the nominees testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf.