[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 9, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D323-D324]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: AIR FORCE AND SPACE FORCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for 
fiscal year 2025 for the Air Force and Space Force, after receiving 
testimony from Frank Kendall, Secretary of the Air Force, General David 
W. Allvin, Air Force Chief of Staff, and General B. Chance Saltzman, 
Chief of Space Operations, all of the Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: USAID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, 
and Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2025 for United States 
Agency for International Development, after receiving testimony from 
Samantha Power, Administrator, United States Agency for International 
Development.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments for the 118th Congress:
  Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Related Agencies: Senators Heinrich (Chair), 
Tester, Merkley, Baldwin, Manchin, Peters, Sinema, Hoeven, McConnell, 
Collins, Moran, Hyde-Smith, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: 
Senators Shaheen (Chair), Reed, Coons, Schatz, Manchin, Van Hollen, 
Merkley, Peters, Heinrich, Moran, Murkowski, Collins, Capito, Kennedy, 
Hagerty, Britt, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on Department of Defense: Senators Tester (Chair), 
Durbin, Murray, Reed, Schatz, Baldwin, Shaheen, Murphy, Coons, Collins, 
McConnell, Murkowski, Graham, Moran, Hoeven, Boozman, and Capito.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Murray 
(Chair), Tester, Durbin, Shaheen, Merkley, Coons, Baldwin, Heinrich, 
Sinema. Kennedy, McConnell, Murkowski, Graham, Hoeven, Hyde-Smith, 
Hagerty, and Britt.
  Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government: Senators 
Van Hollen (Chair), Durbin, Coons, Manchin, Heinrich, Hagerty, Boozman, 
Kennedy, and Rubio.
  Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security: Senators Murphy 
(Chair), Murray, Tester, Shaheen, Baldwin, Peters, Britt, Murkowski, 
Capito, Kennedy, and Hyde-Smith.
  Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related 
Agencies: Senators Merkley (Chair), Reed, Tester, Van Hollen, Heinrich, 
Peters, Sinema, Murkowski, McConnell, Capito, Hoeven, Fischer, and 
Britt.
  Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education, and Related Agencies: Senators Baldwin (Chair), Murray, 
Durbin, Reed, Shaheen, Merkley, Schatz, Murphy, Manchin, Capito, 
Graham, Moran, Kennedy, Hyde-Smith, Boozman, Britt, and Rubio.
  Subcommittee on Legislative Branch: Senators Reed (Chair), Murphy, 
Van Hollen, Fischer, and Rubio.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related 
Agencies: Senators Sinema (Chair), Murray, Reed, Tester, Schatz, 
Baldwin, Heinrich, Manchin, Peters, Boozman, McConnell, Murkowski, 
Hoeven, Collins, Rubio, Hagerty, and Fischer.
  Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: 
Senators Coons (Chair), Durbin, Shaheen,

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Merkley, Murphy, Van Hollen, Schatz, Graham, McConnell, Boozman, Moran, 
Rubio, and Hagerty.
  Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and 
Related Agencies: Senators Schatz (Chair), Murray, Durbin, Reed, Coons, 
Murphy, Manchin, Van Hollen, Sinema, Hyde-Smith, Collins, Boozman, 
Capito, Graham, Hoeven, Kennedy, and Moran.
  Senators Murray and Collins are ex officio members of each 
subcommittee.
DEFENSE BUDGET AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2025 for the Department of Defense and Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Lloyd J. Austin III, Secretary, 
Michael J. McCord, Under Secretary (Comptroller), and General Charles 
Q. Brown, Jr., USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all of the 
Department of Defense.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine an update from the Department of the Treasury, 
focusing on countering illicit finance, terrorism, and sanctions 
evasion, including S. 1271, to impose sanctions with respect to 
trafficking of illicit fentanyl and its precursors by transnational 
criminal organizations, including cartels, S. 2003, to authorize the 
Secretary of State to provide additional assistance to Ukraine using 
assets confiscated from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and 
other sovereign assets of the Russian Federation, and S. 3049, to 
freeze $6,000,000,000 of Iranian funds held in Qatar, after receiving 
testimony from Adewale O. Adeyemo, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
FORCED ARBITRATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the effects of forced arbitration, after receiving testimony from 
Victor E. Schwartz, Shook Hardy and Bacon, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.; 
Myriam Gilles, Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 
New York, New York; Gretchen Carlson, Lift Our Voices, Greenwich, 
Connecticut; and Joanne Grace, Columbiana, Ohio.
SHELL COMPANIES
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine shell companies, focusing on the risk to 
national security, public health, and rule of law, including risks that 
remain from efforts to obscure ownership information, after receiving 
testimony from Rebecca Shea, Director, Forensic Audits and 
Investigative Service, Government Accountability Office; and Donald Im, 
Assistant Special Agent in Charge (Retired), Special Operations 
Division, Drug Enforcement Administration, Elaine K. Dezenski, 
Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Erica Hanichak, Financial 
Accountability and Corporate Transparency Coalition, all of Washington, 
D.C.