[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 153 (Thursday, September 21, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D911-D912]
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 Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 384, to establish the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument 
in the State of Illinois, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  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. 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. 912, to require the Secretary of Energy to provide technology 
grants to strengthen domestic mining education;
  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. 1015, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the 
Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, 
Arizona, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1059, to adjust the boundary of Big Bend National Park in the 
State of Texas;
  S. 1088, to authorize the relinquishment and in lieu selection of 
land and minerals in the State of North Dakota, to restore land and 
minerals to Indian Tribes within the State of North Dakota, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1097, to establish the Cesar E. Chavez and the Farmworker Movement 
National Historical Park in the States of California and Arizona, with 
an amendment;
  S. 1277, to modify the boundary of the Mammoth Cave National Park in 
the State of Kentucky;
  S. 1405, to provide for the exchange of certain Federal land and 
State land in the State of Utah;
  S. 1657, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
land to La Paz County, Arizona, with amendments;
  S. 1760, to amend the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and 
Authorization Act of 1989 to include the city of North Las Vegas, 
Nevada, and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2020, to amend the Oregon Resource Conservation Act of 1996 to 
reauthorize the Deschutes River Conservancy Working Group;
  S. 2042, to amend the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area Act to 
adjust the boundary of the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2136, to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
of Agriculture to convey certain Federal land to the State of Utah for 
inclusion in

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certain State parks, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2149, to sustain economic development and recreational use of 
National Forest System land in the State of Montana, to add certain 
land to the National Wilderness Preservation System, to designate new 
areas for recreation; and
  S. 2216, to release from wilderness study area designation certain 
land in the State of Montana, to improve the management of that land, 
with an amendment.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Thomas G. Day, of 
Virginia, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, and 
Katherine E. Oler, Judith E. Pipe, and Charles J. Willoughby, Jr., each 
to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of 
Columbia, 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 bills:
  S. 1573, to reauthorize the Prematurity Research Expansion and 
Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Act, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2415, to amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to 
reauthorize Federal support of States in their work to save and sustain 
the health of mothers during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum 
period, to eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes for 
pregnancy-related and pregnancy-associated deaths, to identify 
solutions to improve health care quality and health outcomes for 
mothers;
  S. 1624, to require certain civil penalties to be transferred to a 
fund through which amounts are made available for the Gabriella Miller 
Kids First Pediatric Research Program at the National Institutes of 
Health, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 2840, to improve access to and the quality of primary health care, 
expand the health workforce, with amendments.
ACCESSIBLE GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
ensuring accessible government technology for people with disabilities, 
older adults, and veterans, after receiving testimony from Christopher 
Westbrook, Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living of North 
Central PA, Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Ronza Othman, National 
Federation of the Blind of Maryland, Baltimore, on behalf of the 
National Association of Blind Government Employees; Jay Doyle, Service 
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City; and Ashley Lichtle, Salt Lake City Mayor's 
Office, Salt Lake City, Utah.