[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 27, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D961-D962]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOREIGN OWNERSHIP
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine foreign ownership in United States agriculture, 
after receiving testimony from Senators Tester, Rounds, Baldwin, and 
Lankford; Gloria Montano Greene, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture 
for Farm Production and Conservation; Harrison M. Pittman, University 
of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture National Agricultural Law 
Center, Fayetteville; and David L. Ortega, Michigan State University 
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, East Lansing.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 4,318 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space 
Force.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 2860, to create protections for financial 
institutions that provide financial services to State-sanctioned 
marijuana businesses and service providers for such businesses, with an 
amendment.
MEDICARE
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Medicare, after receiving testimony from Marilyn Moon, former Public 
Trustee, Medicare and Social Security Trust Funds, Social Security 
Administration; Chye-Ching Huang, New York University Law Tax Law 
Center, New York, New York; and James C. Capretta, American Enterprise 
Institute, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 654, to amend the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation 
Act to reauthorize Delaware River Basin conservation programs;
  An original bill entitled, ``Brownfields Reauthorization Act''; and
  An original bill entitled, ``Strengthening Coastal Communities Act''.
GSA OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the General Services Administration, 
focusing on examining the Federal real estate portfolio, after 
receiving testimony from David Marroni, Acting Director, Physical 
Infrastructure Team, Government Accountability Office; and Nina Albert, 
Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, General Services 
Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported 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.
WATER AS A TRUST RESOURCE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
water as a trust resource, focusing on access in Native communities, 
after receiving testimony from Bryan Newland, Assistant Secretary of 
the Interior for Indian Affairs; Benjamin Smith, Deputy Director, 
Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Kali 
Watson, Hawaiian Homes Commission Chairman, Kapolei; Crystalyne Curley, 
Navajo Nation Council, Window Rock, Arizona; Valerie Nurr'Araluk 
Davidson, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage; and 
Heather Tanana, Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities, 
San Clemente, California.
AI AND THE FUTURE OF ELECTIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine AI and the future of our elections, after receiving testimony 
from Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State, Saint Paul; Trevor 
Potter, former Commissioner and Chairman of the Federal Election 
Commission, Campaign Legal Center, Maya Wiley, The Leadership 
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Civil and Human Rights, and Ari Cohn, TechFreedom, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Neil Chilson, Utah State University Center for Growth and 
Opportunity, Logan.
CHINA
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine countering China's malign influence operations in the United 
States, after receiving testimony from Glenn Tiffert, Stanford 
University Hoover Institution, Stanford, California; Alan E. Kohler, 
Jr., Pamir Consulting, LLC, Vienna, Virginia; and Sarah Cook, Freedom 
House, Hong Kong, China.