[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 21, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D640-D642]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower approved for full 
committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support approved for full committee consideration those provisions 
which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities approved for full committee consideration those provisions 
which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 
S.822, to terminate the Department of Defense memorandum relating to 
access to abortions, to prohibit the use of travel and transportation 
allowances, medical convalescent leave, and administrative absences to 
travel to obtain abortions, with an amendment.
  Also, Committee began consideration of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 1271, to impose sanctions with respect to trafficking of illicit 
fentanyl and its precursors by transnational criminal organizations, 
including cartels, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  An original bill to amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to 
increase bank executive accountability and to improve financial 
stability.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Philip Nathan Jefferson, of North 
Carolina, to be Vice Chairman, and Lisa DeNell Cook, of Michigan, and 
Adriana Debora Kugler, of Maryland, who was introduced by Senator 
Menendez, both to be a Member, all of the Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
FOSSIL FUEL THREATS TO CLIMATE
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
fossil fuel threats to climate and the Federal budget, after receiving 
testimony from Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; Christine Arena, Generous Films, San Francisco, 
California; Richard W. Painter, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; 
Roger Pielke Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder; and Scott Walter, 
Capital Research Center, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Joel Matthew Szabat, of 
Maryland, Anthony Rosario Coscia, of New Jersey, and Christopher Koos, 
of Illinois, each to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors, 
and Alvin Brown, of Florida, to be a Member of the National 
Transportation Safety Board, who was introduced by Senator Scott (FL), 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
NATIONAL PARKS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 284, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to include on the engravings on the Taras Shevchenko 
Memorial in the District of Columbia the name of Vincent Illuzzi, Sr., 
who carved the statue, S. 351, to designate 6 creeks in the State of 
North Carolina in honor of the lives lost in a plane crash in Carteret 
County, North Carolina, on February 13, 2022, S. 384, to establish the 
Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument in the State of Illinois, 
S. 432, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate the 
Nulhegan River and Paul Stream in the State of Vermont for potential 
addition to the national wild and scenic rivers system, S. 507, to 
establish the Ralph David Abernathy, Sr., National Historic Site, S. 
527, to establish the African Burial Ground International Memorial 
Museum and Educational Center in New York, New York, S. 562, to 
establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley and Roberts Temple 
National Historic Site in the State of Illinois, S. 594, to require the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to 
prioritize the completion of the Continental Divide National Scenic 
Trail, S. 608, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the Deerfield River for 
potential addition to the national wild and scenic rivers system, S. 
886, to authorize the location of a monument on the National Mall to 
commemorate and honor the women's suffrage movement and the passage of 
the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, S. 924, to amend the Chesapeake 
and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 
National Historical Park Commission, S. 961, to redesignate the Salem 
Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts, as the ``Salem 
Maritime National Historic Park'', S. 1059, to adjust the boundary of 
Big Bend National Park in the State of Texas, S. 1097, to establish the 
Cesar E. Chavez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park in 
the States of California and Arizona, S. 1277, to modify the boundary 
of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State of Kentucky, and S. 
2018, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an assessment 
to identify locations in National Parks in which there is the greatest 
need for broadband internet access service and areas in National Parks 
in which there is the greatest need for cellular service, after 
receiving testimony from Michael A. Caldwell, Associate Director, Park 
Planning, Facilities, and Lands, National Park Service, Department of 
the Interior.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine reauthorization of the Economic Development 
Administration, focusing on state and local perspectives, after 
receiving testimony from Patricia A. Cannon, Delaware Department of 
State Division of Small Business Director of Special Projects and 
Grantee Administrator Foreign Trade Zone No. 99, Dover; Michael R. 
Graney, West Virginia Department of Economic Development Executive 
Director, Charleston; Eileen Higgins, Miami-Dade County Commissioner, 
Miami, Florida, on behalf of the National Association of Counties; 
Chris Fetzer, Northern Arizona Council of Governments, Flagstaff; and 
Bryan Day, Little Rock Port Authority, Little Rock, Arkansas.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Kara C. McDonald, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania, Jack A. Markell, of Delaware, 
to be Ambassador to the Italian Republic, and to serve

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concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the 
Republic of San Marino, who was introduced by Senator Carper, Dorothy 
Camille Shea, of North Carolina, to be the Deputy Representative of the 
United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and 
status of Ambassador and the Deputy Representative of the United States 
of America in the Security Council of the United Nations, Vernelle Trim 
FitzPatrick, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic, 
and Lisa Peterson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Burundi, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 728, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more 
effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages 
on the basis of sex;
  S. 1664, to allow Americans to earn paid sick time so that they can 
address their own health needs and the health needs of their families; 
and
  S. 567, to amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor 
Management Relations Act, 1947, and the Labor-Management Reporting and 
Disclosure Act of 1959.
CIVIL RIGHTS OF LGBTQ+ AMERICANS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
defending the civil rights of LGBTQ+ Americans, after receiving 
testimony from Kelley Robinson, Human Rights Campaign, Washington, 
D.C.; Matt Sharp, Alliance Defending Freedom, Atlanta, Georgia; Riley 
Gaines, Independent Women's Voice, Gallatin, Tennessee; Ximena Lopez, 
Dallas, Texas; and Harleigh Walker, Auburn, Alabama.
OFFICE OF INTEGRATED VETERAN CARE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the effectiveness of the Office of Integrated Veteran Care, 
after receiving testimony from Shereef Elnahal, Under Secretary for 
Health, Miguel H. LaPuz, Assistant Under Secretary for Health for 
Integrated Veteran Care, and Hillary P. Peabody, Deputy Assistant Under 
Secretary for Health for Integrated Veteran Care, all of the Veterans 
Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
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.