[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 95 (Thursday, June 1, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D553]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for 
fiscal year 2024 for the National Guard and Reserve, after receiving 
testimony from General Daniel R. Hokanson, Chief, National Guard 
Bureau, Lieutenant General Jody J. Daniels, 34th Chief of Army Reserve 
and 9th Commanding General, Army Reserve Command, Vice Admiral John B. 
Mustin, USN, Chief of Navy Reserve, Lieutenant General David G. Bellon, 
Marine Corps Reserve, and Lieutenant General John P. Healy, Chief of 
Air Force Reserve, all of the Department of Defense.
ELECTRIC SERVICE RELIABILITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the reliability and resiliency of electric service 
in the United States in light of recent reliability assessments and 
alerts, after receiving testimony from James B. Robb, North American 
Electric Reliability Corporation, Washington, D.C.; Manu Asthana, PJM 
Interconnection, Southeastern, Pennsylvania; Melissa C. Lott, Columbia 
University School of International and Public Affairs Center on Global 
Energy Policy, New York, New York; and David J. Tudor, Associated 
Electric Cooperative Inc., Springfield, Missouri.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  The Convention between the Government of the United States of America 
and the Government of the Republic of Chile for the Avoidance of Double 
Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on 
Income and Capital, signed in Washington on February 4, 2010, with a 
Protocol signed the same day, as corrected by exchanges of notes 
effected February 25, 2011, and February 10 and 21, 2012, and a related 
agreement effected by exchange of notes (the ``related Agreement'') on 
February 4, 2010 (Treaty Doc. 112-08); and
  The nominations of Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, Yael Lempert, of New York, to be 
Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Arthur W. Brown, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, Roger F. 
Nyhus, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Barbados, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the 
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, 
the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the 
Grenadines, William W. Popp, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Uganda, Julie Turner, of Maryland, to be Special Envoy on 
North Korean Human Rights Issues, with the rank of Ambassador, Ervin 
Jose Massinga, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Federal 
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ana A. Escrogima, of New York, to be 
Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, and Lisa A. Johnson, of Virginia, 
to be Ambassador to the Lebanese Republic, all of the Department of 
State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
   S. 474, to amend title 18, United States Code, to strengthen 
reporting to the CyberTipline related to online sexual exploitation of 
children, to modernize liabilities for such reports, to preserve the 
contents of such reports for 1 year, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute; and
  The nomination of Shannon R. Saylor, to be United States Marshal for 
the Eastern District of Virginia, Department of Justice.