[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 57 (Wednesday, March 29, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D294-D296]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of the 
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 
2024 for the Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony from 
Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2024 for the Department of Agriculture, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of 
Agriculture.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Department of Homeland 
Security concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2024 for the Department of Homeland 
Security, after receiving testimony from Alejandro N. Mayorkas, 
Secretary of Homeland Security.
DEFENSE INFORMATION NETWORKS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity concluded a 
hearing to examine enterprise cybersecurity to protect the Department 
of Defense Information Networks, after receiving testimony from John B. 
Sherman, Chief Information Officer, and Lieutenant General Robert J. 
Skinner, USAF, Director, Defense Information Systems Agency, both of 
the Department of Defense.
OIL DEPENDENCE
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
cost of oil dependence in a low-carbon world, after receiving testimony 
from Claudio Galimberti, RystadEnergy, Houston, Texas; Gregor 
Semieniuk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst;

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and Daniel Raimi, Resources for the Future, Benjamin Zycher, American 
Enterprise Institute, and Lucian Pugliaresi, Energy Policy Research 
Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.
NEXT GENERATION AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine advancing next generation aviation technologies, 
after receiving testimony from Kevin Welsh, Executive Director, Office 
of Environment and Energy, Federal Aviation Administration; Robert 
Pearce, Associate Administrator, Aeronautics Research Mission 
Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Jon Gordon, 
Universal Hydrogen Co., Hawthorne, California; Val Miftakhov, Zeroavia, 
Everett, Washington; Arjan Hegeman, GE Aerospace, Cincinnati, Ohio; and 
Ben Lieberman, Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Marc Scribner, 
Reason Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.
EPA GOOD NEIGHBOR RULE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Environmental Protection Agency Good Neighbor 
Rule, focusing on healthier air for downwind states, after receiving 
testimony from Serena McIlwain, Maryland Secretary of the Environment, 
Baltimore; Karen Peters, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality 
Director, Phoenix; Chris Wells, Mississippi Department of Environmental 
Quality Executive Director, Jackson; David G. Hill, American Lung 
Association, Middlebury, Connecticut; and Paul Noe, American Forest and 
Paper Association, Washington, D.C.
ORAL HEALTH CRISIS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health Care concluded a hearing 
to examine the oral health crisis, focusing on identifying and 
addressing health disparities, after receiving testimony from Warren 
Brill, Eastpoint Dentistry, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the 
American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry; Jonathan P. Forte, RiverStone 
Health, Billings, Montana; Cherae Farmer-Dixon, Meharry Medical College 
School of Dentistry, Nashville, Tennessee; and Marko Vujicic, American 
Dental Association Health Policy Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 670, to improve services for trafficking victims by establishing, 
in Homeland Security Investigations, the Investigators Maintain 
Purposeful Awareness to Combat Trafficking Trauma Program and the 
Victim Assistance Program;
  S. 264, to amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require 
certain disclosures by registrants regarding exemptions under the 
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended;
  S. 211, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to 
establish an enhanced use lease pilot program, with amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 709, to improve performance and accountability in the Federal 
Government, with an amendment;
  S. 717, to improve plain writing and public experience;
  S. 666, to amend title 31, United States Code, to require the Chief 
Operating Officer of each agency to compile a list of unnecessary 
programs;
  S. 824, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a 
national risk management cycle;
  S. 884, to establish a Government-wide approach to improving digital 
identity;
  S. 479, to modify the fire management assistance cost share, with an 
amendment;
  S. 780, to require the Comptroller General of the United States to 
analyze certain legislation in order to prevent duplication of and 
overlap with existing Federal programs, offices, and initiatives;
  S. 108, to require a guidance clarity statement on certain agency 
guidance;
  S. 111, to require each agency, in providing notice of a rulemaking, 
to include a link to a 100-word plain language summary of the proposed 
rule;
  S. 349, to amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize the 
appointment of spouses of members of the Armed Forces who are on active 
duty, disabled, or deceased to positions in which the spouses will work 
remotely, with an amendment;
  S. 243, to require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection to establish procedures for conducting maintenance projects 
at ports of entry at which the Office of Field Operations conducts 
certain enforcement and facilitation activities;
  S. 310, to establish an advisory group to encourage and foster 
collaborative efforts among individuals and entities engaged in 
disaster recovery relating to debris removal;
  S. 257, to prohibit contracting with persons that have business 
operations with the Maduro regime;
  S. 206, to require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection to regularly review and update policies and manuals related 
to inspections at ports of entry;
  S. 679, to amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to require 
Federal agencies to submit to the Comptroller General of the United 
States a report on rules that are revoked, suspended, replaced, 
amended, or otherwise made ineffective;

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  S. 829, to amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to clarify a 
provision relating to certain contents of registrations under that Act;
  S. 794, to require a pilot program on the participation of non-asset-
based third-party logistics providers in the Customs-Trade Partnership 
Against Terrorism;
  S. 917, to establish the duties of the Director of the Cybersecurity 
and Infrastructure Security Agency regarding open source software 
security;
  S. 945, to provide for joint reports by relevant Federal agencies to 
Congress regarding incidents of terrorism, with an amendment;
  S. 932, to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for the halt 
in pension payments for Members of Congress sentenced for certain 
offenses; and
  S. 933, to amend the Carl Levin and Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 to modify 
requirements relating to data centers of certain Federal agencies.
STARBUCKS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the need to end illegal union busting at 
Starbucks, after receiving testimony from former Representative Bradley 
Byrne; Howard Schultz, Starbucks Coffee Company, Seattle, Washington; 
Sharon Block, Harvard Law School Center for Labor and a Just Economy, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Rachel Greszler, The Heritage Foundation, 
Washington, D.C.; Maggie Carter, Knoxville, Tennessee; and Jaysin 
Saxton, Augusta, Georgia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 460, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to establish 
an urban Indian organization confer policy for the Department of Health 
and Human Services;
  S. 306, to approve the settlement of the water right claims of the 
Tule River Tribe;
  S. 595, to approve the settlement of water rights claims of the 
Pueblos of Acoma and Laguna in the Rio San Jose Stream System and the 
Pueblos of Jemez and Zia in the Rio Jemez Stream System in the State of 
New Mexico; and
  S. 950, to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to 
make a technical correction to the water rights settlement for the 
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, with an 
amendment.
TRIBAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT OVERSIGHT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the future of tribal energy development, focusing on 
implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan 
Infrastructure Law, after receiving testimony from Kathleen Hogan, 
Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Energy and Acting Under Secretary 
for Infrastructure; and Bryan Newland, Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs.
PERSONNEL VETTING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine personnel vetting modernization, after receiving testimony from 
Jason S. Miller, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management 
and Budget; Kiran A. Ahuja, Director, Office of Personnel Management; 
Stacey A. Dixon, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence; 
and Ronald Moultrie, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and 
Security.