[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 12, 2025)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D146-D147]
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 the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget 
for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth 
the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.
THE ARCTIC AND GREENLAND
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the Arctic and Greenland's geostrategic importance 
to U.S. interests, after receiving testimony from Jennifer Mercer, 
Section Head, Section for Arctic Sciences, Office of Polar Programs, 
Directorate for Geosciences, National Science Foundation; Alexander B. 
Gray, American Foreign Policy Council, and Rebecca Pincus, Wilson 
Center Polar Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Anthony Marchese, 
Texas Mineral Resources Corp., New York, New York.
ADVANCING CARBON CAPTURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine advancing carbon capture, utilization and 
sequestration technologies and ensuring effective implementation of the 
USE IT Act, after receiving testimony from Kevin Connors, University of 
North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center, Grand Forks; Dan 
Yates, Ground Water Protection Council, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and 
Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh, Breakthrough Energy, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Jamieson Greer, of Maryland, to be United States Trade 
Representative, with the rank of Ambassador.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 76) authorizing 
expenditures by the Committee for the 119th Congress.
  Also, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Education and the American Family: Senators 
Tuberville (Chair), Paul, Murkowski, Scott, Banks, Husted, Moody, Blunt 
Rochester, Murray, Kaine, Markey, Kim, and Alsobrooks.
  Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety: Senators Mullin 
(Chair), Marshall, Scott, Hawley, Tuberville, Banks, Husted, 
Hickenlooper, Baldwin, Murphy, Kaine, Hassan, and Alsobrooks.
  Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security: Senators 
Marshall (Chair), Paul, Collins, Murkowski, Mullin, Hawley, Banks, 
Husted, Moody, Markey, Murray, Baldwin, Murphy, Hassan, Hickenlooper, 
Kim, and Blunt Rochester.
  Senators Cassidy and Sanders are ex-officio members of each 
subcommittee.
NATIVE COMMUNITIES' PRIORITIES OVERSIGHT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Native communities' priorities for the 119th Congress, after 
receiving testimony from Mark Macarro, National Congress of American 
Indians, William Smith, National Indian Health Board, Kerry D. Bird, 
National Indian Education Association, and Rodney Butler, Native 
American Finance Officers Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and 
Joseph Kuhio Lewis, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, Kapolei, 
Hawaii.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Deputy Attorney 
General, and Abigail Slater, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, who was introduced by Representative 
Michael Simpson, both of the Department of Justice, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 371, to require certain reports on small business 
disaster assistance to be published on the website of the Small 
Business Administration.
Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 119th Congress.
Committee recessed subject to the call, and will next meet on Thursday, 
February 13, 2025.
LONGEVITY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
optimizing longevity from research to action, after receiving testimony 
from Dan Buettner, Blue Zones, Miami, Florida; Rhonda Patrick, 
FoundMyFitness, San Diego, California; Eric Verdin, Buck Institute for 
Research on Aging, Novato, California; and Sarah C. Nosal, American

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Academy of Family Physicians, New York, New York.