[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 121 (Thursday, July 25, 2024)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D775-D776]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill (S. 4795) entitled, ``Commerce, Justice, Science, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act'';
  An original bill (S. 4802) entitled, ``Interior, Environment, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act'';
  An original bill (S. 4797) entitled, ``State, Foreign Operations, and 
Related Programs Appropriations Act''; and
  An original bill (S. 4796) entitled, ``Transportation, Housing and 
Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act''.
ADVANCING NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine advancing national security through export controls, 
investment security, and the Defense Production Act, including S. 3311, 
to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a 
demonstration program to test providing preferential treatment under 
the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs for certain drugs and 
biologicals manufactured in the United States, after receiving 
testimony from Thea D. Rozman Kendler, Assistant Secretary of Commerce 
for Export Administration; Paul M. Rosen, Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Investment Security; Grant T. Harris, Assistant Secretary 
of Commerce for Industry and Analysis; and Laura Taylor-Kale, Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Jeffrey Samuel Arbeit, of the District of Columbia, 
Benjamin A. Guider III, of Louisiana, and Cathy Fung, of California, 
each to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court.

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RUSSIA'S WAR IN UKRAINE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee received a closed briefing on 
international support for Russia's war in Ukraine, after receiving 
testimony from Brian Lessenberry, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 
Intelligence and Research, and Edward Atkinson, Analyst for Energy and 
Economic Security, both of the Department of State; and Richard 
Phillips, Senior National Intelligence Executive, Office of the 
Director of National Intelligence.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Ann C. Fisher, of 
South Dakota, and Ashley Jay Elizabeth Poling, of North Carolina, both 
to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, and Carmen G. 
Iguina Gonzalez, and Joseph Russell Palmore, both to be an Associate 
Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  An authorization for Investigation into the Bankruptcy of Steward 
Health Care; and
  An authorization for Subpoena of Dr. Ralph de la Torre, Chairman and 
Chief Executive Officer, Steward Health Care Systems LLC, for Testimony 
Relating to the Committee Investigation into the Bankruptcy of Steward 
Health Care.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 2783, to amend the Miccosukee Reserved Area Act to authorize the 
expansion of the Miccosukee Reserved Area and to carry out activities 
to protect structures within the Osceola Camp from flooding;
  S. 3406, to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to 
make a technical correction to the Navajo Nation Water Resources 
Development Trust Fund, to amend the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 to 
make technical corrections to the Taos Pueblo Water Development Fund 
and Aamodt Settlement Pueblos' Fund;
  S. 4000, to reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization 
Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California; and
  S. 4365, to provide public health veterinary services to Indian 
Tribes and Tribal organizations for rabies prevention, with an 
amendment.
INDIAN AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 4370, to amend the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 to improve 
that Act, and S. 4505, to approve the settlement of water rights claims 
of Ohkay Owingeh in the Rio Chama Stream System, to restore the Bosque 
on Pueblo Land in the State of New Mexico, after receiving testimony 
from Tracy Canard Goodluck, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary 
of the Interior for Indian Affairs; John Crockett, Deputy Chief, State, 
Private, and Tribal Forestry, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Larry Phillips, Jr., Ohkay Owingeh, Ohkay Owingeh, New 
Mexico; Thora Padilla, Mescalero Apache Tribe, Mescalero, New Mexico; 
and Benjamin Mallott, Alaska Federation of Natives, Anchorage.