[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 99 (Wednesday, June 12, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D605-D607]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: CIA AND NSA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a closed 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for 
fiscal year 2025 for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National 
Security Agency, after receiving testimony from William J. Burns, 
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; and General Timothy D. 
Haugh, Director of the National Security Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities approved for full committee consideration those provisions 
which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support approved for full committee consideration those provisions 
which fall under the subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed 
National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower approved for full 
committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Cybersecurity approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions which fall under the 
subcommittee's jurisdiction of the proposed National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,403 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee began consideration of the 
proposed National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025, but 
did not complete action thereon and will meet again on Thursday, June 
13, 2024.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
CFPB SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Semi-
Annual Report to Congress, including 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, and S. 146, to reduce the price of insulin for patients, after 
receiving testimony from Rohit Chopra, Director, Consumer Financial 
Protection Bureau.
WALL STREET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
making Wall Street pay its fair share, focusing on raising revenue and 
strengthening our economy, after receiving testimony from Michael 
Faulkender, University of Maryland, and Sarah Anderson, Institute for 
Policy Studies, both of Washington, D.C.; and Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia 
University, New York, New York.
LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands, Forests, and Mining concluded a hearing to examine S. 2156, to 
amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation 
Act to authorize additional entities to be eligible to complete the 
maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the 
Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado, S. 3123, to provide for the 
standardization, consolidation, and publication of data relating to 
public outdoor recreational use of Federal waterways among Federal land 
and water management agencies, S. 3148, to prohibit the use of funds by 
the Secretary of the Interior to finalize and implement certain travel 
management plans in the State of Utah, S. 3322, to allow holders of 
certain grazing permits to make minor range improvements and to require 
that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
respond to requests for range improvements within 30 days, S. 3346, to 
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain streams in 
the greater Yellowstone ecosystem and Smith River system in the State 
of Montana as components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 3593, 
to provide for economic development and conservation in

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Washoe County, Nevada, S. 3596, to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to 
amend references of gilsonite to asphaltite, S. 3617, to provide 
equitable treatment for the people of the Village Corporation 
established for the Native Village of Saxman, Alaska, S. 3790, to make 
additional Federal public land available for selection under the Alaska 
Native Vietnam era veterans land allotment program, S. 3870, to amend 
the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to expand eligibility for 
certain financial assistance for the acquisition of slip-on tanker 
units for wildland firefighting, S. 3985, to amend the Colorado 
Wilderness Act of 1993 to add certain land to the Sarvis Creek 
Wilderness, S. 4310, to exchange non-Federal land held by the Chugach 
Alaska Corporation for certain Federal Land in the Chugach Region, S. 
4424, to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land 
managed by the Department of the interior or the Forest Service, with 
an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western 
United States, to acknowledge and support the longstanding use of 
cultural burning by Tribes and Indigenous practitioners, S. 4431, to 
reinstate the Bull Mountains Mining Plan Modification, S. 4432, to 
allow certain Federal minerals to be mined consistent with the Bull 
Mountains Mining Plan Modification, S. 4449, to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain river segments in the State of 
Oregon as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 
4451, to require the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an 
agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to carry out a study on 
reservation systems for Federal land, S. 4454, to provide for the 
establishment of an Operational Flexibility Grazing Management Program 
on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, S. 4456, to amend the 
Granger-Thye Act to modify the maximum term for certain special use 
permits for housing, and S. 4457, to provide for conservation and 
economic development in the State of Nevada, after receiving testimony 
from Karen Kelleher, Deputy Director, State Operations, Bureau of Land 
Management, Department of the Interior; Troy Heithecker, Associate 
Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; and Tess Davis, Utah Assistant Attorney General, Salt Lake 
City.
FWS BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2025 for the Fish and Wildlife Service, after receiving testimony 
from Martha Williams, Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department 
of the Interior.
YOUTH RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITIES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine youth 
residential treatment facilities, focusing on failures and evaluating 
solutions, after receiving testimony from Kathryn A. Larin, Director, 
Education, Workforce, and Income Security, Government Accountability 
Office; Reagan Stanford, Disability Rights Arkansas, Little Rock; and 
Elizabeth A. Manley, University of Connecticut School of Social Work 
Innovations Institute, Hartford.
WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act, focusing on supporting efforts to meet the needs of youth, 
workers, and employers, after receiving testimony from Taylor White, 
New America, and David H. Bradley, Jobs for the Future, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Monty Sullivan, Louisiana Community and Technical 
College System, Baton Rouge; Lisa Bly Jones, Chicago Jobs Council, 
Chicago, Illinois; and Matthew Dickerson, Mid South Extrusion, Monroe, 
Louisiana.
BUILDING OUR CRITICAL MINERALS WORKFORCE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment and Workplace Safety concluded a hearing to examine building 
our critical minerals workforce, after receiving testimony from Barbara 
Arnold, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Gracelin 
Baskaran, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 
D.C.; Jon Evans, Lithium Americas Corporation, Reno and Winnemucca, 
Nevada; and Bill Zisch, Colorado School of Mines, Golden.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 2908, to assist Tribal governments in the management of buffalo and 
buffalo habitat and the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian land, S. 
3263, to reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization Act to 
the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, S. 4000, to reaffirm the 
applicability of the Indian Reorganization Act to the Lytton Rancheria 
of California, and S. 4442, to amend the Crow Tribe Water Rights 
Settlement Act of 2010 to make improvements to that Act, after 
receiving testimony from Bryan Newland, Assistant Secretary for Indian 
Affairs, Department of Interior; Stephanie Bryan, Poarch Band of Creek 
Indians, Atmore, Alabama; Andy Mejia, Lytton Rancheria of California,

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Windsor; Frank Whiteclay, Crow Nation of Montana, Crow Agency; and 
Ervin Carlson, InterTribal Buffalo Council, Rapid City, South Dakota.
YOUTH VAPING EPIDEMIC
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
combatting the youth vaping epidemic by enhancing enforcement against 
illegal e-cigarettes, after receiving testimony from Brian A. King, 
Director, Center for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Arun G. Rao, Deputy Assistant 
Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice; Tony Abboud, 
Vapor Technology Association, Chicago, Illinois; Yolonda Richardson, 
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and Susan Walley, American Academy of 
Pediatrics, both of Washington, D.C.; David Spross, National 
Association of Tobacco Outlets, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and 
Josephine Shapiro, Seattle, Washington.
ABORTION BANS AND INTERSTATE TRAVEL
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, 
Agency Action, and Federal Rights concluded a hearing to examine 
abortion bans and interstate travel for care after Dobbs, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Cortez Masto; Representative Tenney; 
Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Guttmacher Institute, New York, New York; Jocelyn 
Frye, National Partnership for Women and Families, Washington, D.C.; 
Ingrid Skop, Charlotte Lozier Institute, San Antonio, Texas; O. Carter 
Snead, University of Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and 
Culture, South Bend, Indiana; and Lauren Miller, Dallas, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.