[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 75 (Wednesday, May 3, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D410-D412]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
and justification for fiscal year 2024 for the Department of Energy, 
including the National Nuclear Security Administration, after receiving 
testimony from David M. Turk, Deputy Secretary, and Jill Hruby, Under 
Secretary, National Nuclear Security Administration, both of the 
Department of Energy.
APPROPRIATIONS: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and 
Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2024 for the Environmental 
Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from Michael S. Regan, 
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine combatting transnational criminal 
organizations and related trafficking, after receiving testimony from 
James Mandryck, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Intelligence and 
Analysis, and Diane Sabatino, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner 
of Field Operations, both of Customs and Border Protection, and Matthew 
Millhollin, Assistant Director for Countering Transnational Organized 
Crime, Homeland Security Investigations, all of the Department of 
Homeland Security.
COST OF FOSSIL FUELS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
real cost of fossil fuels, after receiving testimony from Ted Gayer, 
Niskanen Center, and Diana Furchtgott-Roth, The Heritage Foundation 
Center on Energy, Climate, and Environment, both of Washington, D.C.; 
and Nicole C. Deziel, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, 
Connecticut.
BUDGET: ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the 2024 Army Corps of Engineers budget and 
implementation of Water Resources Development Act of 2022, after 
receiving testimony from Michael L. Connor, Assistant Secretary of the 
Army for Civil Works, and Lieutenant General Scott A. Spellmon, Chief 
of Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers, both of the Department of the 
Army, Department of Defense.
MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine barriers 
to mental health care, focusing on improving provider directory 
accuracy to reduce the prevalence of ghost networks, after receiving 
testimony from Keris Jan Myrick, Inseparable, Washington, D.C.; Jack 
Resneck, Jr., American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois; Robert 
L. Trestman, American Psychiatric Association, Roanoke, Virginia; Mary 
Giliberti, Mental Health America, Alexandria, Virginia; and Jeff 
Rideout, Integrated Healthcare Association, Oakland, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:

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  S. 396, to require the Secretary of State to submit an annual report 
to Congress regarding the ties between criminal gangs and political and 
economic elites in Haiti and impose sanctions on political and economic 
elites involved in such criminal activities, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 682, to provide for the treatment of the Association of Southeast 
Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an international organization for purposes of 
the International Organizations Immunities Act, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1240, to modify the requirements for candidate countries under the 
Millennium Challenge Act of 2003;
  S. 1325, to establish a partnership with nations in the Western 
Hemisphere to promote economic competitiveness, democratic governance, 
and security, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 841, to authorize the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, to 
enhance the United States-Caribbean security partnership, to prioritize 
natural disaster resilience, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 797, to establish and implement a multi-year Legal Gold and Mining 
Partnership Strategy to reduce the negative environmental and social 
impacts of illicit gold mining in the Western Hemisphere, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 119, recognizing the 202nd anniversary of the independence of 
Greece and celebrating democracy in Greece and the United States;
  S. Res. 157, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the signing of the 
Good Friday Agreement;
  S. Res. 106, condemning Beijing's destruction of Hong Kong's 
democracy and rule of law, with amendments;
  S. Res. 99, supporting the goals of International Women's Day, with 
an amendment;
  S. Con. Res. 7, condemning Russia's unjust and arbitrary detention of 
Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza who has stood up in 
defense of democracy, the rule of law, and free and fair elections in 
Russia, with amendments;
  S. Res. 115, supporting the goals and ideals of ``Countering 
International Parental Child Abduction Month'' and expressing the sense 
of the Senate that Congress should raise awareness of the harm caused 
by international parental child abduction;
  S. Res. 23, demanding that the Government of the People's Republic of 
China and the Communist Party of China immediately release Mark Swidan; 
and
  The nominations of Elizabeth Allen, of New York, to be Under 
Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Vivek Hallegere Murthy, of Florida, to 
be Representative of the United States on the Executive Board of the 
World Health Organization, Pamela M. Tremont, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe, and Nicole D. Theriot, of 
Louisiana, to be Ambassador to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, all 
of the Department of State, Elizabeth Shortino, of the District of 
Columbia, to be United States Executive Director of the International 
Monetary Fund, Kenneth M. Jarin, of Pennsylvania, to be Chair, and to 
be a Member, and Jeffrey Gedmin, of the District of Columbia, Kathleen 
Cunningham Matthews, of Maryland, Luis Manuel Botello, of Maryland, and 
Michelle Mai Selesky Giuda, of Virginia, each to be a Member, all of 
the International Broadcasting Advisory Board, and routine lists in the 
Foreign Service.
GLOBAL INFORMATION WARS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on State Department and 
USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International 
Development concluded a hearing to examine the global information wars, 
after receiving testimony from Amanda Bennett, Chief Executive Officer, 
Agency for Global Media; David Stilwell, Air Force Academy Institute 
for Future Conflict, former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau 
of East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Christopher Walker, National 
Endowment for Democracy, and Jessica Brandt, Brookings Institution, all 
of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported to 
consider S. 1308, to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act to extend the deadline for the Secretary of the Interior 
to promulgate regulations implementing title IV of that Act, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 195, to provide compensation to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community 
for the taking without just compensation of land by the United States 
inside the exterior boundaries of the L'Anse Indian Reservation that 
were guaranteed to the Community under a treaty signed in 1854, S. 382, 
to take certain land in the State of Washington into trust for the 
benefit of the Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation, and S. 1322, 
to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to modify the authorized purposes 
and term period of tribal leases, after receiving testimony from Bryan 
Newland, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Doreen 
Blaker, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Baraga, Michigan; and Annette M. 
Bryan, Puyallup Tribe of Indians, Tacoma, Washington.

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DIGITAL ADVERTISING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Competition Policy, 
Antitrust, and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine 
competition in the digital advertising ecosystem, after receiving 
testimony from Dina H. Srinivasan, Yale University Thurman Arnold 
Project, New Haven, Connecticut; Roger P. Alford, Notre Dame Law 
School, Notre Dame, Indiana; Barry C. Lynn, The Open Markets Institute, 
Washington, D.C.; Jason Kint, Digital Content Next, New York, New York; 
and M. Todd Henderson, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, 
Illinois.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.