[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 197 (Thursday, November 30, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1239]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Basil Ivanhoe Gooden, of 
Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development, 
and Summer K. Mersinger, of South Dakota, to be a Commissioner of the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, who was introduced by Senator 
Thune, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
CFPB SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Semi-Annual Report 
to Congress, including S.954, to provide for appropriate cost-sharing 
for insulin products covered under private health plans, and to 
establish a program to support health care providers and pharmacies in 
providing discounted insulin products to uninsured individuals, after 
receiving testimony from Rohit Chopra, Director, Consumer Financial 
Protection Bureau.
ADVANCED NUCLEAR REACTOR COMMERCIALIZATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine opportunities and challenges associated with 
advanced nuclear reactor commercialization, after receiving testimony 
from John C. Wagner, Laboratory Director, Idaho National Laboratory, 
Department of Energy; Jeff Waksman, Program Manager, Strategic 
Capabilities Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Edward Stones, 
Dow Inc., Midland, Michigan; and Jeffrey S. Merrifield, former 
Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Pillsbury Winthrop 
Shaw Pittman, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the U.S. Nuclear Industry 
Council.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Hampton Y. Dellinger, 
of North Carolina, to be Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel, 
and Henry J. Kerner, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Merit Systems 
Protection Board, after the nominees testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An authorization for subpoenas relating to the Supreme Court ethics 
investigation; and
  The nominations of Mustafa Taher Kasubhai, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Oregon, Eumi K. Lee, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of California, Seth 
Robert Aframe, of New Hampshire, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the First Circuit, Edward Sunyol Kiel, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of New Jersey, Sarah French Russell, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and 
Christopher Charles Fonzone, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant 
Attorney General, Department of Justice.