[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 171 (Wednesday, October 18, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1049-D1051]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILITARY TO CIVILIAN TRANSITION
Committee on Armed Services: with the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 
concluded a joint hearing to examine military to civilian transition, 
focusing on success after service, after receiving testimony from 
Ashish Vazirani, Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and 
Readiness); Joshua D. Jacobs, Under Secretary for Benefits, and John W. 
Boerstler, Chief Veterans Experience Officer, both of the Veterans 
Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs; James D. 
Rodriguez, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and 
Training Service; John D. Sawyer, Director, Education, Workforce, and 
Income Security, Government Accountability Office; Ryan Gallucci, 
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States; Tom Porter, Blue Star 
Families; Kevin O'Neil, The American Legion; and Arthur DeGroat, Kansas 
State University.
ACHIEVING HEALTH CARE EFFICIENCY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
achieving health care efficiency, focusing on improving care and 
lowering costs, after receiving testimony from Chapin White, Director 
of Health Analysis, Congressional Budget Office; Matthew Fiedler, The 
Brookings Institution, and Theo Merkel, Paragon Health Institute, both 
of Washington, D.C.; Leemore S. Dafny, Harvard Business School, Boston, 
Massachusetts; and G. Alan Kurose, Rhode Island Foundation, Providence.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Michael G. Whitaker, of Vermont, 
to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department 
of Transportation, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, of Maryland, Melissa 
Holyoak, of Utah, and Andrew N. Ferguson, of Virginia, each to be a

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Federal Trade Commissioner, Anthony Rosario Coscia, of New Jersey, 
Christopher Koos, of Illinois, and Joel Matthew Szabat, of Maryland, 
each to be a Director of the Amtrak Board of Directors, Douglas Dziak, 
of Virginia, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety 
Commission, and routine lists in the Coast Guard.
COMMERCIAL HUMAN SPACE ACTIVITIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Space and Science concluded a hearing to examine promoting safety, 
innovation, and competitiveness in U.S. commercial human space 
activities, after receiving testimony from Brigadier General Wayne 
Monteith, USAF Ret., former Associate Administrator, Office of 
Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, 
Arnold AFB, Tennessee; Caryn Schenewerk, CS Consulting, LLC, Rockville, 
Maryland; Sirisha Bandla, Virgin Galactic, Mojave, California; William 
H. Gerstenmaier, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, 
California; and Phil Joyce, Blue Origin, Kent, Washington.
CLEAN WATER ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the implications of Sackett v. U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency for Clean Water Act protections of wetlands and 
streams, after receiving testimony from S. Mazeika Patricio Sullivan, 
Clemson University Experiment Station Baruch Institute of Coastal 
Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson, South Carolina; Kourtney Revels, 
Bayou City Waterkeeper, Houston, Texas; and Susan Parker Bodine, Earth 
and Water Law, Washington, D.C.
MEDICARE ADVANTAGE ANNUAL ENROLLMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Medicare 
Advantage annual enrollment, focusing on cracking down on deceptive 
practices and improving senior experiences, after receiving testimony 
from Christina Reeg, Ohio Department of Insurance, Columbus; Cobi 
Blumenfeld-Gantz, Chapter, New York, New York; and Krista Hoglund, 
Security Health Plan, Marshfield, Wisconsin.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of Jacob J. Lew, of New York, to be Ambassador 
to the State of Israel, Department of State, after the nominee 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Monica M. Bertagnolli, 
of Massachusetts, to be Director of the National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Barrasso, testified and answered questions in her 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments for the 118th Congress:
  Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights: 
Senators Klobuchar (Chair), Whitehouse, Coons, Blumenthal, Hirono, 
Booker, Welch, Lee, Grassley, Hawley, Cotton, Tillis, and Blackburn.
  Subcommittee on the Constitution: Senators Butler (Chair), 
Blumenthal, Booker, Ossoff, Cruz, Cornyn, and Lee.
  Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism: Senators 
Booker (Chair), Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, Padilla, Ossoff, Butler, 
Cotton, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, and Kennedy.
  Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal 
Rights: Senators Whitehouse (Chair), Blumenthal, Hirono, Booker, 
Padilla, Welch, Butler, Kennedy, Grassley, Lee, Cruz, Tillis, and 
Hawley.
  Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law: Senators Ossoff (Chair), 
Blumenthal, Welch, Butler, Blackburn, Kennedy, and Hawley.
  Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety: Senators 
Padilla (Chair), Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, Hirono, Booker, Welch, 
Cornyn, Grassley, Cruz, Cotton, Tillis, and Blackburn.
  Subcommittee on Intellectual Property: Senators Coons (Chair), 
Hirono, Padilla, Ossoff, Welch, Tillis, Cornyn, Cotton, and Blackburn.
  Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law: Senators Blumenthal 
(Chair), Klobuchar, Coons, Hirono, Padilla, Ossoff, Hawley, Kennedy, 
Blackburn, Lee, and Cornyn.
IMMIGRATION COURTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, 
and Border Safety concluded a hearing to examine the nation's 
immigration courts, focusing on preserving due process and the rule of 
law and actions needed to address workforce planning and other 
management challenges, after receiving testimony from Rebecca Gambler, 
Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government Accountability 
Office; Charles D. Stimson, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.; 
Jeremy L.

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McKinney, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Greensboro, North 
Carolina; and Mimi Tsankov, National Association of Immigration Judges, 
New York, New York.