[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 8, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D204-D205]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CFTC OVERSIGHT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission, after receiving testimony from Rostin Behnam, Chairman, 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
PREVENTING AND ENDING HOMELESSNESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation, and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine the Federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness, 
after receiving testimony from Jeff Olivet, Executive Director, United 
States Interagency Council on Homelessness, Los Angeles, California; 
and Richard Cho, Senior Advisor for Housing and Services, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development.
ECONOMIC COSTS OF WILDFIRES
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
economic costs of wildfires, after receiving testimony from Veronica 
Serna, Mora County Commissioner, District 1, Mora, New Mexico; David 
Burt, DeltaTerra Capital, Natick, Massachusetts; Michael Wara, Stanford 
Woods Institute for the Environment Climate and Energy Policy Program, 
Stanford, California; Morgan Varner, Tall Timbers, Tallahassee, 
Florida; and Nicolas Loris, C3 Solutions, Falls Church, Virginia.
AIRCRAFT, CERTIFICATION, SAFETY, AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine implementation of the Aircraft, Certification, 
Safety, and Accountability Act, after receiving testimony from Billy 
Nolen, Acting Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, 
Department of Transportation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 316, to repeal the authorizations for use of military force 
against Iraq;
  S. 509, to provide resources for United States nationals unlawfully 
or wrongfully detained abroad; and
  The nominations of Stephanie Sanders Sullivan, of Maryland, to be 
Representative to the African Union, with the rank and status of 
Ambassador, Michael Alan Ratney, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to 
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Geeta Rao Gupta, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador at Large for Global Women's Issues, Eric M. Garcetti, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of India, and Richard R. 
Verma, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary for Management and 
Resources, all of the Department of State, L. Felice Gorordo, of 
Florida, to be Alternate Executive Director of the International Bank 
for Reconstruction and Development, Richard L.A. Weiner, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Director of the European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development, Leopoldo Martinez Nucete, of Virginia, 
to be Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank.
CENTRAL ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, 
Central Asia, and Counterterrorism concluded a hearing to examine 
geopolitical competition and energy security in Central Asia, after 
receiving testimony from Donald Lu, Assistant Secretary for South and 
Central Asian Affairs, and Geoffrey Pyatt, Assistant Secretary for 
Energy Resources, both of the Department of State.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine artificial intelligence, focusing on 
risks and opportunities, after receiving testimony from Alexandra Reeve 
Givens, Center for Democracy and Technology, Washington, D.C.; Suresh 
Venkatasubramanian, Brown University Center for Technological 
Responsibility, Providence, Rhode Island; and Jason Matheny, RAND 
Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
RIGHT OF WORKERS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine defending the right of workers to 
organize unions free from

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illegal corporate union-busting, after receiving testimony from 
Elizabeth H. Shuler, AFL-CIO, Mary Kay Henry, Service Employees 
International Union, Sean M. O'Brien, International Brotherhood of 
Teamsters, and John F. Ring, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP, former 
Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Mark A. Mix, National Right to Work Committee, Springfield, 
VA.
NATIVE COMMUNITIES' PRIORITIES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Native communities' priorities for the 118th Congress, after receiving 
testimony from Carmen Lindsey, Chair, Board of Trustees Office of 
Hawaiian Affairs, Honolulu, Hawaii; Shannon Holsey, National Congress 
of American Indians, Rico Frias, Native American Financial Officers 
Association, and Tesia Zientek, National Indian Education Assistance, 
all of Washington, D.C.; Thomas Lozano, National American Indian 
Housing Council, Oroville, California; Nicole Borromeo, Alaska 
Federation of Natives, Anchorage; and Kari Jo Lawrence, Intertribal 
Agriculture Council, Billings, Montana.
PLATFORM ACCOUNTABILITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and 
the Law concluded a hearing to examine platform accountability, 
focusing on Gonzalez and reform, after receiving testimony from Mary 
Anne Franks, University of Miami Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, Miami, 
Florida; Hany Farid, University of California, Berkeley; Jennifer 
Bennett, Gupta Wessler PLLC, San Francisco, California; Andrew 
Sullivan, Internet Society, Reston, Virginia; and Eric Schnapper, 
University of Washington School of Law, Seattle.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Dilawar Syed, of California, to be 
Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration, after the 
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Joshua David Jacobs, of Washington, to be Under 
Secretary for Benefits of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
WORLDWIDE THREATS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine worldwide threats, after receiving testimony from 
Avril Haines, Director, Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence; William J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; 
Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department 
of Justice; General Paul Nakasone, Director, National Security Agency; 
and Lieutenant General Scott D. Berrier, Director, Defense Intelligence 
Agency, Department of Defense.