[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 172 (Thursday, October 19, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1057]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
STRATEGIC POSTURE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the findings of the Congressional Commission on the 
Strategic Posture of the United States, after receiving testimony from 
Madelyn R. Creedon, Chair, and former Senator Jon L. Kyl, Vice Chair, 
both of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the 
United States.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Tanya F. Otsuka, of Virginia, to 
be a Member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, Mark 
Toshiro Uyeda, of California, to be a Member of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission, Spencer Bachus III, of Alabama, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 
Jennifer L. Fain, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation, and Claudia Slacik, of New York, and William 
Brodsky, of Illinois, both to be a Director of the Securities Investor 
Protection Corporation, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
DOE COMPETITIVE GRANTS AND LOANS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Department of Energy's due diligence process for 
awarding competitive grants and loans funded through the Inflation 
Reduction Act and the bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the 
Department's overall innovation investment strategy, after receiving 
testimony from David Crane, Under Secretary for Infrastructure, Jigar 
Shah, Director, Loan Programs Office, and Teri L. Donaldson, Inspector 
General, all of the Department of Energy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Richard H. Riley IV, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mark Toner, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia, and Herro 
Mustafa Garg, of California, to be Ambassador to the Arab Republic of 
Egypt, all of the Department of State, David E. White, Jr., of New 
York, to be Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, and Paul K. Martin, of 
Maryland, to be Inspector General, United States Agency for 
International Development, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.