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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 4802, to authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Shailen P. Bhatt, of Michigan, to be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Hickenlooper, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 4428, to support the security of Taiwan and its right of self-
determination, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 4653, to provide for certain authorities of the Department of State, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Rolfe Michael Schiffer, of New York, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Nathaniel Fick, of Maine, to be Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, Department of State, Patrick Leahy, of Vermont, and James E. Risch, of Idaho, both to be a Representative of the United States of America to the Seventy-seventh Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and a routine list in the Foreign Service.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine social media's impact on homeland security, after receiving testimony from Alex Roetter, formerly of Twitter, Boulder, Colorado; Brian Thomas Boland, formerly of Facebook, Bellevue, Washington; Geoffrey Cain, Lincoln Network, Hamilton, New Jersey; Chris Cox, Meta, Menlo Park, California; Neal Mohan, YouTube, San Bruno, California; Vanessa Pappas, TikTok, Inc., Culver City, California; and Jay Sullivan, Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, California.
MONKEYPOX
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine stopping the spread of monkeypox, focusing on the Federal response, after receiving testimony from Rochelle P. Walensky, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Robert M. Califf, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Food and Drug Administration, and Dawn O'Connell, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, all of the Department of Health and Human Services.
FLATLINING CARE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety concluded a hearing to examine flatlining care, focusing on why immigrants are crucial to bolstering our health care workforce, after receiving testimony from Benny Martinez, Brooks County Sheriff, Falfurrias, Texas; Sarah K. Peterson, SPS Immigration PLLC, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Ram Alur, Marion VA Medical Center, Marion, Illinois, on behalf of Physicians for American Healthcare Access.
PROTECTING PRIVATE INFORMATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law concluded a hearing to examine protecting Americans' private information from hostile foreign powers, after receiving testimony from Samm Sacks, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Susan Landau, Tufts University Fletcher School and School of Engineering, Medford, Massachusetts; Matthew Pottinger, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Washington, D.C.; and Adam I. Klein, University of Texas Robert Strauss Center on International Security and Law, Austin.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Terrence Edwards, of Maryland, to be Inspector General of the National Reconnaissance Office, Department of Defense.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 148
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