[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 23 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D127-D128]
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 the 
nominations of Cara L. Abercrombie, of Virginia, Aprille Joy Ericsson, 
of New York, and Ronald T. Keohane, of New York, each to be an 
Assistant Secretary, and Douglas Craig Schmidt, of Tennessee, to be 
Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, all of the Department of 
Defense.
FSOC ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council Annual 
Report to Congress, including S. 3441, to prevent Foreign Terrorist 
Organizations and their financial enablers, whether in currency or 
digital assets, from accessing financial and other institutions of the 
United States, and S. 3554, to amend the Financial Stability Act of 
2010 to provide the Financial Stability Oversight Council with duties 
regarding artificial intelligence in the financial sector, after 
receiving testimony from Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 1939, to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
authorize appropriations for the Federal Aviation Administration for 
fiscal years 2024 through 2028, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the administration's pause on liquefied natural gas 
(LNG) export approvals and the Department of Energy's process for 
assessing LNG export applications, after receiving testimony from David 
Turk, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Charlie Riedl, Center for LNG, 
Washington, D.C.; and James Watson, Eurogas, Brussels, Belgium.
A.I. AND HEALTH CARE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
Artificial Intelligence and Health Care, focusing on promise and 
pitfalls, after receiving testimony from Peter Shen, Siemens 
Healthineers, Washington, D.C.; Mark Sendak, Health AI Partnership, 
Durham, North Carolina; Michelle M. Mello, Stanford University, 
Stanford, California; Ziad Obermeyer, University of California, 
Berkeley; and

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Katherine Baicker, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Dafna Hochman Rand, of Maryland, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Donna Ann 
Welton, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of 
Timor-Leste, and Stephan A. Lang, of Virginia, to be United States 
Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, 
with the rank of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the cost of prescription drugs, after 
receiving testimony from Joaquin Duato, Johnson and Johnson, New 
Brunswick, New Jersey; Robert M. Davis, Merck and Co., Inc., Rahway, 
New Jersey; Chris Boerner, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey; 
Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen, Washington, D.C.; Tahir Amin, 
Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge, New York, New York; and 
Darius N. Lakdawalla, University of Southern California Leonard D. 
Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, 
California.
LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 2385, to provide access to reliable, clean, and drinkable water on 
Tribal lands, S. 2868, to accept the request to revoke the charter of 
incorporation of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of 
Minnesota at the request of that Community, S. 3022, to amend the 
Indian Health Care Improvement Act to allow Indian Health Service 
scholarship and loan recipients to fulfill service obligations through 
half-time clinical practice, S. 2796, to provide for the equitable 
settlement of certain Indian land disputes regarding land in Illinois, 
and S. 3230, to transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal 
lands from the Army Corps of Engineers to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
to take such lands into trust for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, 
after receiving testimony from Melanie Anne Egorin, Assistant Secretary 
of Health and Human Services for Legislation; Kathryn Isom-Clause, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy and Economic 
Development for Indian Affairs; Manuel Heart, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, 
Towaoc, Colorado; Douglas G. Lankford, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Miami; 
Robert L. Larsen, Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of 
Minnesota, Morton; Victoria Kitcheyan, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, 
Winnebago; and Angie Wilson, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Tribal Health 
Center, Reno, Nevada.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Amir H. Ali, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Columbia, Melissa R. DuBose, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Rhode Island, who was introduced by 
Senator Reed, Sunil R. Harjani, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Illinois, Robert J. White, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, who was introduced 
by Senators Stabenow and Peters, and Jasmine Hyejung Yoon, to be United 
States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, who was 
introduced by Senator Warner and Kaine, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.