[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 31, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D96-D97]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
A.I. AND HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing, Transportation, and Community Development concluded a hearing 
to examine Artificial Intelligence and housing, after receiving 
testimony from Lisa Rice, National Fair Housing Alliance, and Vanessa 
G. Perry, GW School of Business, both of Washington, D.C.; and Nicholas 
Schmidt, BLDS, LLC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
expanding housing affordability, after receiving testimony from Kevin 
Boyce, Board of County Commissioners in Franklin County President, 
Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the National Association of Counties; 
Peggy Bailey, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Bill Slover, 
AVCO Interests LLC, both of Washington, D.C.; Carol Ventura, RIHousing, 
Providence, Rhode Island; and Todd B. Walker, Indiana University Center 
of Applied Economics and Policy Research, Bloomington.
METHANE EMISSIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine avoiding, detecting, and capturing methane emissions 
from landfills, after receiving testimony from Tom Frankiewicz, RMI, 
Washington, D.C.; Tia R. Scarpelli, Carbon Mapper, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 
and Anne Germain, National Waste and Recycling Association, Arlington, 
Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Marjorie A. Rollinson, of Virginia, to be Chief Counsel 
for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel in 
the Department of the Treasury, and Rebecca Lee Haffajee, of 
Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human 
Services.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Corey Anne Tellez, of Illinois, to be a Deputy Under 
Secretary of the Treasury, and Andrew G. Biggs, of Oregon, Kathryn Rose 
Lang, of Maryland, and Sharon Beth Lewis, of Oregon, each to be a 
Member of the Social Security Advisory Board, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NATO AT 75
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Europe and Regional 
Security Cooperation concluded a hearing to examine the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization at 75, focusing on past successes and planning for 
the future, after receiving testimony from Douglas Lute, former United 
States Permanent Representative to NATO, Lieutenant General, United 
States Army, (Ret.), Luke Coffey, Hudson Institute, and Tara Varma, 
Brookings Institution Centre on the United States and Europe, all of 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 3626, to clarify task and delivery order solicitation and contract 
requirements, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

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  S. 3635, to improve the President's Cup Cybersecurity Competitions, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3613, to require Facility Security Committees to respond to 
security recommendations issued by the Federal Protective Service 
relating to facility security, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 3654, to amend the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 to require 
the timely appointment of agency transition officials, to ensure 
adequate performance and oversight of required transition-related 
preparation, to require new guidance for agencies and possible 
transition teams, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3648, to amend the Post-Katrina Management Reform Act of 2006 to 
repeal certain obsolete requirements, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 2367, to improve border security through regular assessments and 
evaluations of the Checkpoint Program Management Office and effective 
training of U.S. Border Patrol agents regarding drug seizures, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3594, to require Governmentwide source code sharing, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2143, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 320 South 2nd Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 
as the ``Staff Sergeant Robb Lura Rolfing Post Office Building'';
  S. 2274, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 112 Wyoming Street in Shoshoni, Wyoming, as the 
``Dessie A. Bebout Post Office'';
  S. 2717, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 231 North Franklin Street in Greensburg, Indiana, as 
the ``Brigadier General John T. Wilder Post Office'';
  S. 3267, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 410 Dakota Avenue South in Huron, South Dakota, as 
the ``First Lieutenant Thomas Michael Martin Post Office Building'';
  S. 3357, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 5120 Derry Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as 
the ``Hettie Simmons Love Post Office Building'';
  S. 3419, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1765 Camp Hill Bypass in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, as 
the ``John Charles Traub Post Office'';
  S. 3639, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2075 West Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 
as the ``Robert Hayden Post Office'';
  S. 3640, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 155 South Main Street in Mount Clemens, Michigan, as 
the ``Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jefferson Post Office'';
  H.R. 292, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 24355 Creekside Road in Santa Clarita, California, 
as the ``William L. Reynolds Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 996, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 3901 MacArthur Blvd., in New Orleans, Louisiana, as 
the ``Dr. Rudy Lombard Post Office'';
  H.R. 2379, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 616 East Main Street in St. Charles, Illinois, as 
the ``Veterans of the Vietnam War Memorial Post Office'';
  H.R. 3944, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 120 West Church Street in Mount Vernon, Georgia, as 
the ``Second Lieutenant Patrick Palmer Calhoun Post Office''; and
  The nominations of Adrienne Jennings Noti, Tanya Monique Jones 
Bosier, Danny Lam Hoan Nguyen, Kenechukwu Onyemaechi Okocha, Katherine 
E. Oler, Judith E. Pipe, and Charles J. Willoughby, Jr., each to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
ONLINE CHILD EXPLOITATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Big Tech and the online child sexual exploitation crisis, after 
receiving testimony from Jason Citron, Discord Inc., and Linda 
Yaccarino, X Corp., both of San Francisco, California; Mark Zuckerberg, 
Meta, Menlo Park, California; Evan Spiegel, Snap Inc., Santa Monica, 
California; and Shou Chew, TikTok Inc., Singapore.
VET CENTERS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Vet Centers, focusing on supporting the mental health needs of 
servicemembers, veterans and their families, after receiving testimony 
from Michael Fisher, Chief Officer, Readjustment Counseling Service, 
Veterans Health Administration, and Julie Kroviak, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Inspector General for the Office of Healthcare Inspections, 
Office of Inspector General, both of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs; and Sharon M. Silas, Director, Health Care, Government 
Accountability Office.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.