[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 14 (Thursday, January 25, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D75-D76]
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 Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 288 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and 
Space Force.
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance 
Program, focusing on local perspectives on challenges and solutions, 
including S. 2968, to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program, 
S. 3349, to prohibit the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of 
the Treasury and other financial regulators from collecting data 
directly from an insurance company, and S. 1380, to amend the 
Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to provide States and 
communities with additional assistance to plant and maintain trees, 
after receiving testimony from Mayor Steve Patterson, Athens, Ohio, on 
behalf of the National League of Cities; Michael Hecht, Greater New 
Orleans, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of the Coalition for 
Sustainable Flood Insurance; and Daniel Kaniewski, Marsh McLennan, New 
York, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir, of Connecticut, to 
be Ambassador

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to the Republic of Indonesia, Courtney Diesel O'Donnell, of California, 
to be United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, with the rank of 
Ambassador, who was introduced by Senator Coons, and Laura Stone, of 
Utah, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, all of 
the Department of State, and Andrew William Plitt, of Maryland, to be 
an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
assisted living facilities, focusing on understanding long-term care 
options for older adults, after receiving testimony from Jennifer Craft 
Morgan, Georgia State University Gerontology Institute, Waleska; Julie 
Simpkins, Gardant Management Solutions, Indianapolis, Indiana; Richard 
J. Mollot, Long Term Care Community Coalition, New York City, New York; 
and Patricia Vessenmeyer, Gainsville, Virginia.