[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 103 (Tuesday, June 18, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D643-D644]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for 
fiscal year 2025 for the National Guard and Reserves, after receiving 
testimony from General Daniel R. Hokanson, Chief, National Guard 
Bureau, Lieutenant General Jody J. Daniels, Chief, Army Reserve, 
Commanding General, Army Reserve Command, Vice Admiral John B. Mustin, 
Chief, Navy Reserve, Lieutenant General Leonard F. Anderson IV, Marine 
Corps Reserve, and Lieutenant General John P. Healy, Chief, Air Force 
Reserve, all of the Department of Defense.
TRANSIT-ORIENTED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing 
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine unlocking Department of Transportation financing for more 
transit-oriented housing development, after receiving testimony from 
Morteza Farajian, Executive Director, Build America Bureau, Department 
of Transportation; Tracy Hadden Loh, The Brookings Institution, 
Washington, D.C.; and Adhi Nagraj, McCormack Baron Salazar, St. Louis, 
Missouri.
WORK AND SSD BENEFITS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine work and 
Social Security Disability benefits, focusing on addressing challenges 
and creating opportunities, after receiving testimony from William R. 
Morton, Analyst in Income Security, Congressional Research Service, 
Library of Congress; Susan Wilschke, Associate Commissioner, Office of 
Research, Demonstration, and Employment Support, Social Security 
Administration; Erin M. Godtland, Assistant Director, Education, 
Workforce, and Income Security, Government Accountability Office; and 
Katherine Zuleger, Chicago Social Security Management Association, 
Wausau, Wisconsin, on behalf of the National Council of Social Security 
Management Associations.
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, 
Central Asia, and Counterterrorism concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2025 for the Middle 
East and North Africa, after receiving testimony from Barbara A. Leaf, 
Assistant Secretary of

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State for Near Eastern Affairs; and Jeanne Pryor, Deputy Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, United States Agency for 
International Development.
COVID-19 ORIGINS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine origins of COVID-19, focusing on 
available evidence, after receiving testimony from Gregory D. Koblentz, 
George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government, 
Arlington, Virginia; Robert F. Garry, Tulane University School of 
Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; Steven Quay, Atossa Therapeutics, 
Inc., Seattle, Washington; and Richard H. Ebright, Rutgers University 
Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Piscataway, New Jersey.
BOEING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine Boeing's 
broken safety culture, after receiving testimony from David L. Calhoun, 
Boeing, Arlington, Virginia.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION OVERSIGHT
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded an oversight 
hearing to examine the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving 
testimony from Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.