[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 61 (Wednesday, April 10, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D332-D334]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and 
Related Agencies, concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates and justification for fiscal year 2025 for the U.S. Forest 
Service, after receiving testimony from Randy Moore, Chief, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and 
justification for fiscal year 2025 for the Department of Homeland 
Security, after receiving testimony from Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary 
of Homeland Security.
DEFENSE BUDGET AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the posture of United States Special Operations 
Command and United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense 
Authorization Request for fiscal year 2025 and the Future Years Defense 
Program, after receiving testimony from Christopher P. Maier, Assistant 
Secretary for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, General 
Bryan P. Fenton, USA, Commander, United States Special Operations 
Command, and General Timothy D. Haugh, Commander, United States Cyber 
Command, all of the Department of Defense.
STUDENT LOAN SERVICER MOHELA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Economic Policy concluded a hearing to examine MOHELA's performance as 
a student loan servicer, including S. 1331, to ensure that borrowers 
who have performed qualifying public service are eligible for Public 
Service Loan Forgiveness, after receiving testimony from Mayor Quinton 
Lucas, Kansas City, Missouri; Persis SiChung Yu, Student Borrower 
Protection Center, and Jason Delisle, Urban Institute, both of 
Washington, D.C.; C. Tapscott Buchanan, Student Loan Servicing 
Alliance, Alexandria, Virginia; and Kathleen White, San Francisco, 
California.
OFFSHORE TAX EVASION
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
offshore tax evasion by the wealthy and corporations, after receiving 
testimony from Zorka Milin, Financial Accountability and Corporate 
Transparency, and Daniel Bunn, Taxation Foundation, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Stephen L. Curtis, Cross Border Analytics, Inc., Denver, 
Colorado.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Jennifer L. Homendy, of 
Virginia, to be Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, 
and Patrick John Fuchs, of Wisconsin, to be a Member of the Surface 
Transportation Board, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
CYBER THREATS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine the federal and non-federal role 
of assessing cyber threats to and vulnerabilities of critical water 
infrastructure in our energy sector, after receiving testimony from 
Terry Turpin, Director, Office of Energy Projects, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission; Virginia Wright, Program Manager, Cyber-Informed 
Engineering, Idaho National Laboratory, Department of Energy; and Scott 
I. Aaronson, Edison Electric Institute, Washington, D.C.
AIR QUALITY MONITORING TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the state of air quality monitoring technology, 
after receiving testimony from Omar M. Hammad, Analyst in Environmental 
Policy, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Anne 
Austin, former Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Air 
and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; and Bill Obermann, 
Denver Department of Public Health and Environment Air Program 
Supervisor, Denver, Colorado.

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USAID BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the President's proposed budget request 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 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 4042, to amend title 44, United States Code, to reform the 
management of Federal records, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2871, to advance Federal Government innovation through the 
implementation and use of multi-cloud computing software technology, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4036, to establish a Government Spending Oversight Committee 
within the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and 
Efficiency, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4062, to establish a pilot program to assess the use of technology 
to speed up and enhance the cargo inspection process at land ports of 
entry along the border, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 3698, to amend title 11, District of Columbia Official Code, to 
revise references in such title to individuals with intellectual 
disabilities;
  S. 4055, to provide for a pilot program to improve contracting 
outcomes, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2278, to establish Image Adjudicator and Supervisory Image 
Adjudicator positions in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office 
of Field Operations, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4024, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enable secure 
and trustworthy technology through other transaction contracting 
authority, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1897, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to enhance 
capabilities for outbound inspections at the southern land border, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 5473, to amend certain laws relating to disaster recovery and 
relief with respect to the implementation of building codes, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3851, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 90 McCamly Street South in Battle Creek, Michigan, 
as the ``Sojourner Truth Post Office'';
  H.R. 2754, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2395 East Del Mar Boulevard in Laredo, Texas, as the 
``Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza, Lance Corporal Juan Rodrigo 
Rodriguez & Sergeant Roberto Arizola Jr. Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3865, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 101 South 8th Street in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, as 
the ``Lieutenant William D. Lebo Post Office Building''; and
  H.R. 3947, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 859 North State Road 21 in Melrose, Florida, as the 
``Pamela Jane Rock Post Office Building''.
EXPORT CONTROLS AND ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee 
on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight concluded a hearing to 
examine improving export controls and enforcement, including S. 4085, 
to establish the Export Enforcement Coordination Center in the 
Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony from Eun 
Young Choi, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; 
Kevin J. Kurland, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export 
Enforcement; and James R. Mancuso, Assistant Director, Homeland 
Security Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 
Department of Homeland Security.
COPS GRANT PROGRAM OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant program, 
after receiving testimony from Hugh T. Clements, Jr., Director, Office 
of Community Oriented Policing Services, Department of Justice.
CHILD CARE SMALL BUSINESSES
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the role of child care small businesses in 
supporting parents and the American workforce, including S.673, to 
allow nonprofit child care providers to participate in certain loan 
programs of the Small Business Administration, S.1867, to authorize the 
Secretary of Agriculture to carry out an initiative to develop, expand, 
and improve rural childcare, and S.3787, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing 
workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to 
encourage greater use of quality child care services, to provide 
incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work 
in child care facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-
provided dependent care assistance, after receiving testimony

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from Cindy Cisneros, The Conference Board Committee for Economic 
Development, New York, New York; Rachel Greszler, The Heritage 
Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Amy Brooks, Early Care and Education 
Association, Lebanon, New Hampshire; and Laurie Todd-Smith, America 
First Policy Institute, Madison, Mississippi.
WOMEN VETERANS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine ensuring equity for women veterans at the VA, after receiving 
testimony from Erica M. Scavella, Assistant Under Secretary for Health 
for Clinical Services, Veterans Health Administration, Sally Haskell, 
Acting Chief Officer, and Amanda Johnson, Acting Deputy Chief Officer, 
both of the Office of Women's Health, Kenesha Britton, Assistant Deputy 
Under Secretary, National Contact Operations, Office of Field 
Operations, Veterans Benefits Administration, and Jennifer Baptiste, 
Deputy Assistant Inspector General for the Office of Healthcare 
Inspections, Office of Inspector General, all of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs; Julie Howell, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Kirsten 
Laha-Walsh, Wounded Warrior Project, and Naomi Mathis, Disabled 
American Veterans, all of Washington, D.C.; and Alissa Engel, Lincoln's 
Hope Counseling and Consulting, Great Falls, Montana.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.