[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 206 (Thursday, December 14, 2023)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1306-D1308]
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 Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:

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  S. 594, to require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of 
the Interior to prioritize the completion of the Continental Divide 
National Scenic Trail, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 636, to establish the Dolores River National Conservation Area and 
the Dolores River Special Management Area in the State of Colorado, to 
protect private water rights in the State, with amendments;
  S. 1118, to establish the Open Access Evapotranspiration (OpenET) 
Data Program, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1254, to designate and expand wilderness areas in Olympic National 
Forest in the State of Washington, and to designate certain rivers in 
Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park as wild and scenic 
rivers, with an amendment;
  S. 1348, to redesignate land within certain wilderness study areas in 
the State of Wyoming, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1634, to provide for the designation of certain wilderness areas, 
recreation management areas, and conservation areas in the State of 
Colorado, with amendments;
  S. 1662, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the 
Midvale Irrigation District the Pilot Butte Power Plant in the State of 
Wyoming, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1776, to provide for the protection of and investment in certain 
Federal land in the State of California, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 1889, to provide for the recognition of certain Alaska Native 
communities and the settlement of certain claims under the Alaska 
Native Claims Settlement Act, with an amendment;
  S. 1890, to provide for the establishment of a grazing management 
program on Federal land in Malheur County, Oregon, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1955, to amend the Central Utah Project Completion Act to 
authorize expenditures for the conduct of certain water conservation 
measures in the Great Salt Lake basin, with amendments;
  S. 2247, to reauthorize the Bureau of Reclamation to provide cost-
shared funding to implement the endangered and threatened fish recovery 
programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins, with 
amendments;
  S. 2581, to extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-
Determination Act of 2000, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2615, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide 
that Village Corporations shall not be required to convey land in trust 
to the State of Alaska for the establishment of Municipal Corporations;
  S. 3033, to withdraw certain Federal land in the Pecos Watershed area 
of the State of New Mexico from mineral entry;
  S. 3036, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the 
State of Utah certain Federal land under the administrative 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management within the boundaries of 
Camp Williams, Utah, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3044, to redesignate the Mount Evans Wilderness as the ``Mount 
Blue Sky Wilderness'';
  S. 3045, to provide for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction 
over certain Federal land in the State of California, with amendments; 
and
  S. 3046, to make permanent the authority to collect Shasta-Trinity 
National Forest marina fees.
  Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments for 
the 118th Congress:
Subcommittee on Energy: Senators Sanders (Chair), Wyden, Heinrich, 
Hirono, King, Cortez Masto, Hickenlooper, Hawley, Risch, Murkowski, 
Hoeven, Cassidy, and Hyde-Smith.
Subcommittee on National Parks: Senators King (Chair), Sanders, 
Heinrich, Hirono, Padilla, Daines, Lee, Murkowski, and Hyde-Smith.
Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining: Senators Cortez 
Masto (Chair), Wyden, Heinrich, Hirono, King, Hickenlooper, Padilla, 
Lee, Risch, Daines, Murkowski, Cassidy, and Hawley.
Subcommittee on Water and Power: Senators Wyden (Chair), Sanders, 
Cortez Masto, Hickenlooper, Padilla, Risch, Lee, Hoeven, and Cassidy.
Senators Manchin and Barrasso are ex-officio members of all 
subcommittees.
DIABETES EPIDEMIC
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the diabetes epidemic, after receiving 
testimony from Ashley N. Gearhardt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 
Lindsey Smith Taillie, University of North Carolina Gillings School of 
Global Public Health Global Food Research Program, Chapel Hill; Kasia 
Lipska, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; and Natalie 
Stanback, Lewisville, Texas, and Aaron J. Kowalski, New York, New York, 
both of JDRF.
FOSTER CHILDREN
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law 
concluded a hearing to examine protecting the human rights of foster 
children, after

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receiving testimony from Jose A. Perez, Deputy Assistant Director, 
Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
Department of Justice; and Rebecca Jones Gaston, Commissioner, 
Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for 
Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
SUBSTANCE USE TRENDS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
substance use trends among older adults, after receiving testimony from 
James W. Carroll, former Director, Office of National Drug Control 
Policy, and Deborah Steinberg, Legal Action Center, both of Washington, 
D.C.; Keith Humphreys, Stanford University, Stanford, California; and 
William B. Stauffer, Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance, 
Harrisburg.