[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 201 (Wednesday, December 6, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1268-D1269]
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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported 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.
DOD RECRUITING EFFORTS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded a 
hearing to examine the status of Department of Defense recruiting 
efforts and plans for fiscal year 2024, after receiving testimony from 
Major General Johnny Davis, USA, Commanding General, Army Recruiting 
Command, Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Alexis T. Walker, USN, Commander, 
Navy Recruiting Command, Major General William J. Bowers, USMC, 
Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruiting Command, and Brigadier 
General Christopher R. Amrhein, USAF, Commander, Air Force Recruiting 
Service, all of the Department of Defense.
WALL STREET FIRMS OVERSIGHT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine Wall Street firms, including S. 2860, 
to create protections for financial institutions that provide financial 
services to State-sanctioned marijuana businesses and service providers 
for such businesses, and S. 2190, to amend the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Act to increase bank executive accountability and to improve 
financial stability, after receiving testimony from Charles W. Scharf, 
Wells Fargo and Company, San Francisco, California; Brian Moynihan, 
Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina; Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase 
and Co., Jane Fraser, Citi, Robin Vince, The Bank of New York Mellon 
Corporation, David M. Solomon, Goldman Sachs, and James P. Gorman, 
Morgan Stanley, all of New York, New York; and Ronald P. O'Hanley, 
State Street Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts.
IIJA INVESTMENTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act investments 
in habitat and

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ecosystem restoration, pollinators, and wildlife crossings, after 
receiving testimony from Martha Williams, Director, Fish and Wildlife 
Service, Department of the Interior; and Brian Fouch, Associate 
Administrator, Office of Federal Lands Highway, Federal Highway 
Administration, Department of Transportation.
TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine transnational repression, focusing on authoritarians targeting 
dissenters abroad, after receiving testimony from Christo Grozev, 
Bellingcat Productions, New York, New York; Michael J. Abramowitz, 
Freedom House, Washington, D.C.; and Caoilfhionn Gallagher, Doughty 
Street Chambers, London, England.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported 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.
FENTANYL IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine fentanyl in Native communities, focusing on Federal 
perspectives on the growing crisis, after receiving testimony from Adam 
W. Cohen, Deputy Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; 
Roselyn Tso, Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the 
Eastern District of Washington, Department of Justice; and R. Glen 
Melville, Deputy Bureau Director, Office of Justice Services, Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.