[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 181 (Thursday, November 2, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1118-D1119]
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 Appropriations: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments for the 118th Congress:
  Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies: Senators Heinrich (Chair), 
Tester, Merkley, Baldwin, Manchin, Peters, Sinema, Hoeven, McConnell, 
Collins, Moran, Hyde-Smith, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: 
Senators Shaheen (Chair), Reed, Coons, Schatz, Manchin, Van Hollen, 
Merkley, Peters, Heinrich, Moran, Murkowski, Collins, Capito, Kennedy, 
Hagerty, Britt, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on Department of Defense: Senators Tester (Chair), 
Durbin, Murray, Reed, Schatz, Baldwin, Shaheen, Murphy, Coons, Collins, 
McConnell, Murkowski, Graham, Moran, Hoeven, Boozman, and Capito.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Murray 
(Interim Chair), Tester, Durbin, Shaheen, Merkley, Coons, Baldwin, 
Heinrich, Sinema, Kennedy, McConnell, Murkowski, Graham, Hoeven, Hyde-
Smith, Hagerty, and Britt.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government: Senators 
Van Hollen (Chair), Durbin, Coons, Manchin, Heinrich, Hagerty, Boozman, 
Kennedy, and Rubio.
  Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security: Senators Murphy 
(Chair), Murray, Tester, Shaheen, Baldwin, Peters, Britt, Murkowski, 
Capito, Kennedy, and Hyde-Smith.
  Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies: Senators Merkley (Chair), Reed, Tester, Van Hollen, Heinrich, 
Peters, Sinema, Murkowski, McConnell, Capito, Hoeven, Fischer, and 
Britt.
  Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, and Related Agencies: Senators Baldwin (Chair), Murray, 
Durbin, Reed, Shaheen, Merkley, Schatz, Murphy, Manchin, Capito, 
Graham, Moran, Kennedy, Hyde-Smith, Boozman, Britt, and Rubio.
  Subcommittee on Legislative Branch: Senators Reed (Chair), Murphy, 
Van Hollen, Fischer, and Rubio.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related 
Agencies: Senators Murray (Chair), Reed, Tester, Schatz, Baldwin, 
Heinrich, Manchin, Peters, Sinema, Boozman, McConnell, Murkowski, 
Hoeven, Collins, Rubio, Hagerty, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: 
Senators Coons (Chair), Durbin, Shaheen, Merkley, Murphy, Van Hollen, 
Schatz, Graham, McConnell, Boozman, Moran, Rubio, and Hagerty.
  Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and 
Related Agencies: Senators Schatz (Chair), Murray, Durbin, Reed, Coons, 
Murphy, Manchin, Van Hollen, Sinema, Hyde-Smith, Collins, Boozman, 
Capito, Graham, Hoeven, Kennedy, and Moran.
  Senators Murray and Collins are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
ENSURING FINANCIAL PROTECTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine ensuring financial protection for servicemembers, 
veterans, and their families, including S. 185, to amend title 38, 
United States Code, to improve the program for direct housing loans 
made to Native American veterans, after receiving testimony from Cory 
Titus, Military Officers Association of America, and Kelly B. Hruska, 
National Military Family Association, both of Alexandria, Virginia; and 
Andia Dinesen, Association of Military Banks of America, Arlington, 
Virginia.
CARBON CAPTURE AND AIR CAPTURE TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the opportunities and challenges in deploying carbon 
capture utilization and sequestration and direct air capture 
technologies on federal and non-Federal lands, after receiving 
testimony from Brad Crabtree, Assistant Secretary of Energy, Office of 
Fossil Energy and Carbon Management; Bruno Pigott, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; 
Lily R. Barkau, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Water 
Quality Division Groundwater Section Manager, Cheyenne; and Erin Burns, 
Carbon180, Washington, D.C.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Marjorie A. Rollinson, of Virginia, to be Chief Counsel 
for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel in 
the Department of the Treasury, and Patricia Hart Neuman, of the 
District of Columbia, and Demetrios L. Kouzoukas, of Virginia, both to 
be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Supplementary 
Medical Insurance Trust Fund, both to be a Member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and both to be a 
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors 
Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nomination of Martin O'Malley, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of 
Social Security, after the nominee, who was introduced by former 
Senator Barbara Mikulski, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Harry Coker, Jr., of 
Kansas, to be National Cyber Director, Jeff Rezmovic, of Maryland, to 
be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Homeland Security, who was 
introduced by Senator Carper, and Suzanne Elizabeth Summerlin, of 
Florida, to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations 
Authority, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.