[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 10 (Thursday, January 18, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D53-D54]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OUTPACING CHINA IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine national security challenges, focusing on outpacing 
China in emerging technology, after receiving testimony from Emily 
Kilcrease, Center for a New American Security, and Lindsay Gorman, 
German Marshall Fund of the United States Alliance for Securing 
Democracy, both of Washington, D.C.; and Jamil N. Jaffer, National 
Security Institute and NSI Cyber and Tech Center, Antonin Scalia Law 
School at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1863, to require the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study and 
submit a report on the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of certain 
products produced in the United States and in certain foreign 
countries, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2781, to promote remediation of abandoned hardrock mines, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3412, to redesignate the Richard H. Poff Federal Building located 
at 210 Franklin Road Southwest in Roanoke, Virginia, as the ``Reuben E. 
Lawson Federal Building'';
  S. 3570, to designate the United States courthouse located at 500 
West Pike Street in Clarksburg, West Virginia, as the ``Irene M. Keeley 
United States Courthouse''; and
  S. 3577, to designate the Federal building located at 300 E. 3rd 
Street in North Platte, Nebraska, as the ``Virginia Smith Federal 
Building''.
SECRETARY OF STATE BRIEFING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing 
from Antony Blinken, Secretary of State.
LONG COVID
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine addressing long COVID, focusing on 
advancing research and improving patient care, after receiving 
testimony from Michelle Harkins, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; 
Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri; 
Charisse Madlock-Brown, University of Iowa College of Nursing Acute

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and Critical Care Division, Iowa City; Tiffany Walker, Emory University 
School of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine, Atlanta, 
Georgia; Angela Meriquez Vazquez, Los Angeles, California; Rachel 
Beale, Southampton County, Virginia; and Nicole Heim, Winchester, 
Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Seth Robert Aframe, of New Hampshire, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, Nicole G. Berner, of 
Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, 
Joshua Paul Kolar, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Seventh Circuit, Adeel Abdullah Mangi, of New Jersey, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Jacquelyn D. Austin, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Amy M. 
Baggio, and Mustafa Taher Kasubhai, both to be a United States District 
Judge for the District of Oregon, Jacqueline Becerra, Melissa Damian, 
and David Seymour Leibowitz, each to be United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of Florida, Cristal C. Brisco, and Gretchen 
S. Lund, both to be a United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Indiana, Edward Sunyol Kiel, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of New Jersey, Eumi K. Lee, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of California, Sarah French 
Russell, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Connecticut, Kirk Edward Sherriff, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of California, Julie Simone Sneed, to be 
United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, Joseph 
Albert Laroski, Jr., of Maryland, and Lisa W. Wang, of the District of 
Columbia, both to be a Judge of the United States Court of 
International Trade, Ramona Villagomez Manglona, to be Judge for the 
District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, and Deborah Robinson, 
of New Jersey, to be Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, 
Executive Office of the President.