[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2025)] [Daily Digest] [Pages D117-D119] 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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 57) authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress, and adopted its rules of procedure for the 119th Congress. Also, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments: Subcommittee on Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade: Senators Hyde-Smith (Chair), Grassley, Moran, McConnell, Tuberville, Thune, Booker, Durbin, Schiff, Fetterman, and Slotkin. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit: Senators Ernst (Chair), Tuberville, Grassley, Fischer, Moran, McConnell, Welch, Smith, Bennet, Warnock, and Lujan. Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology: Senators Marshall (Chair), [[Page D118]] Justice, Hoeven, Thune, Ernst, Hyde-Smith, Bennet, Lujan, Warnock, Welch, and Schiff. Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research: Senators McConnell (Chair), Marshall, Hoeven, Tuberville, Justice, Grassley, Lujan, Warnock, Fetterman, Smith, and Booker. Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety: Senators Hoeven (Chair), Thune, Fischer, Ernst, Hyde-Smith, Justice, Slotkin, Welch, Smith, Durbin, and Booker. Senators Boozman and Klobuchar are ex-officio members of each subcommittee. THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine farmer and rancher views on the agricultural economy, after receiving testimony from Zippy Duvall, American Farm Bureau Federation, Greene County, Georgia; Rob Larew, National Farmers Union, Greenville, West Virginia; Nathan Reed, National Cotton Council, Marianna, Arkansas; Kenneth Hartman, Jr., National Corn Growers Association, Waterloo, Illinois; Keeff Felty, National Association of Wheat Growers, Atlus, Oklahoma; Chris Engelstad, National Barley Growers Association, Fertile, Minnesota; Amy France, National Sorghum Producers, Scott City, Kansas; Josh Gackle, American Soybean Association, Kulm, North Dakota; Garrett Kevin Moore, United States Peanut Federation, Chancellor, Alabama; Tim Deal, American Sugar Alliance, Doran, Minnesota; and Jennifer James, USA Rice, Newport, Arkansas. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 58) authorizing expenditures by the committee for the 119th Congress. DEBANKING IN AMERICA Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the real impacts of debanking in America, after receiving testimony from Nathan McCauley, Anchorage Digital, San Francisco, California; Stephen T. Gannon, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, California; Mike Ring, Old Glory Bank, Elmore City, Oklahoma; and Aaron Klein, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items: S. 93, to amend the Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal blooms; S. 98, to require the Federal Communications Commission to establish a vetting process for prospective applicants for high-cost universal service program funding; S. 99, to require the Secretary of Commerce to produce a report that provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of Department of Commerce programs related to supply chain resilience and manufacturing and industrial innovation; S. 161, to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue rules relating to the testing procedures used under the New Car Assessment Program of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; S. 195, to amend the Visit America Act to promote music tourism; S. 216, to amend the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to improve the administration of the Marine Debris Foundation, to amend the Marine Debris Act to improve the administration of the Marine Debris Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; S. 245, to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish a working group on cyber insurance, to require dissemination of informative resources for issuers and customers of cyber insurance; S. 246, to protect the right of law-abiding citizens to transport knives interstate, notwithstanding a patchwork of local and State prohibitions; S. 257, to improve the resilience of critical supply chains, with an amendment; S. 258, to improve forecasting and understanding of tornadoes and other hazardous weather, with an amendment; S. 260, to amend the Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Act to require hygienic handling of breast milk and baby formula by security screening personnel of the Transportation Security Administration and personnel of private security companies providing security screening; S. 278, to prohibit users who are under age 13 from accessing social media platforms, to prohibit the use of personalized recommendation systems on individuals under age 17, and limit the use of social media in schools; S. 281, to require sellers of event tickets to disclose comprehensive information to consumers about ticket prices and related fees, to prohibit speculative ticketing, with an amendment; [[Page D119]] S. 283, to require the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the Administrator of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to develop a standard methodology for identifying the country of origin of seafood to support enforcement against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing; S. 306, to establish and maintain a coordinated program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that improves wildfire, fire weather, fire risk, and wildfire smoke related forecasting, detection, modeling, observations, and service delivery; S. 314, to prohibit unfair and deceptive advertising of prices for hotel rooms and other places of short-term lodging; S. 315, to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue a rule requiring access to AM broadcast stations in passenger motor vehicles, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and The nomination of Howard Lutnick, of New York, to be Secretary of Commerce. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee adopted its rules for the 119th Congress, and ordered favorably reported the following business items: S. 347, to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to reauthorize brownfields revitalization funding; S. 351, to establish a pilot grant program to improve recycling accessibility, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out certain activities to collect and disseminate data on recycling and composting programs in the United States; and An original resolution (S. Res. 59) authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 60) authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress, adopted committee rules for the 119th Congress, and selected Senator Murkowski as Chair and Senator Schatz as Vice Chair. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items: S. 68, to prohibit the suspension of collections on loans made to small businesses related to COVID-19, with an amendment; S. 273, to allow nonprofit child care providers to participate in certain loan programs of the Small Business Administration; An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress; and The nomination of Kelly Loeffler, of Georgia, to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration. INTELLIGENCE Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.