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Congressional Record publishes “Senate Committee Meetings” in the Daily Digest section on March 10

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Volume 167, No. 45, covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress (2021 - 2022), was published by the Congressional Record.

The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.

“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning Mark R. Warner was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D223-D224 on March 10.

Of the 100 senators in 117th Congress, 24 percent were women, and 76 percent were men, according to the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Senators' salaries are historically higher than the median US income.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet)

CHALLENGES FACING THE FBI

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies concluded a closed hearing to examine domestic and foreign threats and other challenges facing the Federal Bureau of Investigation, after receiving testimony from Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments for the 117th Congress:

Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment: Senators Menendez (Chair), Reed, Warner, Warren, Cortez Masto, Smith, Sinema, Warnock, Scott (SC), Shelby, Crapo, Rounds, Tillis, Kennedy, Lummis, and Moran.

Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance: Senators Warner (Chair), Tester, Sinema, Ossoff, Hagerty, Crapo, Kennedy, and Daines.

Subcommittee on Economic Policy: Senators Warren (Chair), Reed, Van Hollen, Smith, Ossoff, Kennedy, Scott (SC), Tillis, Cramer, and Daines.

Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development: Senators Smith (Chair), Reed, Menendez, Tester, Cortez Masto, Van Hollen, Ossoff, Warnock, Rounds, Shelby, Crapo, Hagerty, Lummis, Moran, Cramer, and Daines.

Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection: Senators Warnock (Chair), Menendez, Tester, Warner, Warren, Cortez Masto, Van Hollen, Sinema, Tillis, Shelby, Scott (SC), Rounds, Hagerty, Lummis, Moran, and Cramer.

Senators Brown and Toomey are ex officio members of each subcommittee.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Shalanda D. Young, of Louisiana, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

NOMINATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Donet Dominic Graves, Jr., of Ohio, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine climate change in the electricity sector and fostering economic growth, including electricity grid resilience and actions that should be undertaken by the Department of Energy and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, after receiving testimony from Frank Rusco, Director of Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles, California; Ben Fowke, Xcel Energy, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Sandra Snyder, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, Washington, D.C.; and Jim Wood, West Virginia University Energy Institute, Morgantown.

DEMOCRACY AROUND THE WORLD

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the state of democracy around the world, after receiving testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, former Secretary of State, Paula J. Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, and Peter Biar Ajak, National Endowment for Democracy, all of Washington, D.C.; Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, Burma Campaign UK, Geneva, Switzerland; and Nathan Law, former Hong Kong Legislative Council Member, London, United Kingdom.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Shalanda D. Young, of Louisiana, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:

S.325, to amend the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act to extend the deadline for a report by the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children;

S.314, to repeal the Klamath Tribe Judgment Fund Act;

S.144, to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Indian Health Service, to acquire private land to facilitate access to the Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center in Hemet, California;

S.371, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to take certain land located in Pinal County, Arizona, into trust for the benefit of the Gila River Indian Community;

S.108, to authorize the Seminole Tribe of Florida to lease or transfer certain land;

S.548, to convey land in Anchorage, Alaska, to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium;

S.549, to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Tanana Tribal Council located in Tanana, Alaska;

S.550, to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium located in Sitka, Alaska; and

S.559, to amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act.

NATIVE COMMUNITIES AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a roundtable discussion to examine Native communities and the climate crisis from Charlene Nelson, Shoalwater Bay Tribe, Tokeland, Washington; Timothy Davis, Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana; Amber Torres, Walker River Paiute Tribe, Schurz, Nevada; Shelley Buck, Prairie Island Indian Community, St. Paul, Minnesota; Craig Quanchello, Picuris Pueblo, Penasco, New Mexico; Livingston Wong, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, Hawaii; and Nikoosh Carlo, CNC North Consulting, Seattle, Washington.

SUPREME COURT AND THE JUDICIARY

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights concluded a hearing to examine the Supreme Court and the Judiciary, after receiving testimony from Michael Klarman, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Lisa Graves, Center for Media and Democracy, Madison, Wisconsin; Benjamin Todd Jealous, People for the American Way, and Scott Walter, Capital Research Center, both of Washington, D.C.; and Jonathan H. Adler, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Cleveland, Ohio.

MILITARY TOXIC EXPOSURES

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine military toxic exposures, focusing on the human consequences of war, after receiving testimony from Anthony Szema, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, South Setaucket, New York; Karl Kelsey, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island; Shane Liermann, Disabled American Veterans, and Aleks Morosky, Wounded Warrior Project, both of Washington, D.C.; William Thompson, Princeton, West Virginia; and Jeffrey O'Malley, Houston, Texas.

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 45

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