[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 90 (Thursday, May 23, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D550-D551]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NASA AND NSF
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed 
budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2025 for the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration and for the National 
Science Foundation, after receiving testimony from Bill Nelson, 
Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and 
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science Foundation.
APPROPRIATIONS: NIH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 
2025 for the National Institutes of Health, after receiving testimony 
from Monica M. Bertagnolli, Director, W. Kimryn Rathmell, Director, 
National Cancer Institute, Jeanne Marrazzo, Director, National 
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Nora D. Volkow, Director, 
National Institute on Drug Abuse, Richard J. Hodes, Director, National 
Institute on Aging, and Gary H. Gibbons, Director, National Heart, 
Lung, and Blood Institute, all of the National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS: INDIAN COUNTRY
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 Indian Country, 
after receiving testimony from Roselyn Tso, Director, Indian Health 
Service, Department of Health and Human Services; and Bryan Newland, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.
FENTANYL CRISIS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
front lines of the fentanyl crisis, focusing on supporting communities 
and combating addiction through prevention and treatment, after

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receiving testimony from Tony Vezina, 4D Recovery, Portland, Oregon; 
Abigail J. Herron, The Institute for Family Health, New York, New York; 
Caleb Banta-Green, University of Washington Addictions, Drug and 
Alcohol Institute, Seattle; and Jeanmarie Perrone, University of 
Pennsylvania Center for Addiction Medicine And Policy, Philadelphia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 3679, to reauthorize the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider 
Protection Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3765, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the 
Emergency Medical Services for Children program;
  S. 4351, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize 
certain poison control programs;
  S. 3775, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the 
BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 4325, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the 
program relating to lifespan respite care;
  S. 3757, to reauthorize the congenital heart disease research, 
surveillance, and awareness program of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 4045, to require a study on public health impacts as a consequence 
of the February 3, 2023, train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nomination of Stephen H. Ravas, of Maryland, to be Inspector 
General, Corporation for National and Community Service.
OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Older Americans Act, focusing on the local impact of the law and 
the upcoming reauthorization, after receiving testimony from Mairead 
Painter, Connecticut State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, Hartford, on 
behalf of the National Association of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman 
Programs; Laura Holscher, Vincennes University Generations Area Agency 
on Aging, Vincennes, Indiana; Leslie T. Grenfell, Southwestern 
Pennsylvania Area Agency on Aging, Inc., Charleroi; and Janet Billotte, 
West Decatur, Pennsylvania.