[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 31, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D547-D548]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COUNTERING CHINA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine countering China, focusing on advancing U.S. 
national security, economic security, and foreign policy, including S. 
1271, to impose sanctions with respect to trafficking of illicit 
fentanyl and its precursors by transnational criminal organizations, 
including cartels, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth Rosenberg, 
Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, and 
Paul Rosen, Assistant Secretary for Investment Security, both of the 
Department of the Treasury; and Thea D. Rozman Kendler, Assistant 
Secretary for Export Administration, and Matthew S. Axelrod, Assistant 
Secretary for Export Enforcement, both of the Department of Commerce.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported S. 1111, to enhance United States civil nuclear leadership, 
support the licensing of advanced nuclear technologies, strengthen the 
domestic nuclear energy fuel cycle and supply chain, and improve the 
regulation of nuclear energy, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
WATER AFFORDABILITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Water, and Wildlife concluded a hearing to examine water affordability 
and small system assistance, after receiving testimony from Kyle Jones, 
Community Water Center, Sacramento, California; Rosemary Menard, City 
of Santa Cruz Water Department, Santa Cruz, California; and Mark 
Pepper, Wyoming Association of Rural Water Systems, Glenrock, on behalf 
of the National Rural Water Association.
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, 
Central Asia, and Counterterrorism concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2024 for the Middle 
East and North Africa, after receiving testimony from Barbara A. Leaf, 
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; and Jeanne 
Pryor, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S. 
Agency for International Development.
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES IN UKRAINE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine accountability for Russian atrocities in Ukraine, after 
receiving testimony from Beth Van Schaack, Ambassador-at-Large for 
Global Criminal Justice, Department of State.
LEGACY IT SYSTEMS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight concluded a hearing to 
examine securing the nation, focusing on modernizing the Department of 
Homeland Security's mission-critical legacy IT systems, after receiving 
testimony from Eric Hysen, Chief Information Officer, Charles 
Armstrong, Chief Information Officer, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, and Opeyemi Oshinnaiye, Assistant Administrator for Information 
Technology, Transportation Security Administration, all of the 
Department of Homeland Security; and Kevin Walsh, Director, 
Information, Technology and Cybersecurity, Government Accountability 
Office.
CHILD CARE CRISIS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine solving the child care crisis, focusing 
on meeting the needs of working families and child care workers, after 
receiving testimony from Kathryn Larin, Director, Education, Workforce, 
and Income Security Issues, Government Accountability Office; Elizabeth 
Groginsky, New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department 
Cabinet Secretary, Santa Fe; Lauren Hogan, National Association for the 
Education of Young Children, and Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's 
Forum, both of Washington, D.C.; and Cheryl Morman, Blessings From 
Above Child Development Center, Richmond, Virginia.
IMMIGRANT WORKERS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
immigrant workers, after receiving testimony from Daniel Costa, 
Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.; Chalmers R. Carr III, 
Titan Farms LLC, Ridge Spring, South Carolina; Adam Lytch, L and M 
Farms, East Palatka, Florida; Diana Tellefson Torres, UFW Foundation, 
Bakersfield, California; and Leon R. Sequeira, Prospect, Kentucky.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Tanya J. Bradsher, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senator Duckworth, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.

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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.