Suballocation of Budget Allocations for FY 2023, Defense, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Bills
Heat Illness, Ocean Pollution, and Other Legislation, and Nominations of Michael Morgan to be Assistant Secretary for Environmental Observation and Prediction at NOAA, and others
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene an Executive Session at 10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, to consider several pieces of legislation and nominations.
AGENDA:
- S. 2333, Equal Pay for Team USA Act of 2021
- S. 2510, Preventing HEAT Illness and Death Act of 2021
- S. 4293, Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2022
- S. 4321, Save Our Seas 2.0
- S. 4357, MARAD
- Nomination of Ms. Robin Meredith Cohn Hutcheson, of Utah, to be Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (PN1944)
- Nomination of Mr. Sean Burton, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (PN1535)
- Nomination of Dr. Michael Cottman Morgan, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary for Environmental Observation and Prediction, NOAA (PN1674)
- Coast Guard Promotions (PN1852 and PN2083)
Dr. Michael Morgan is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and associate chair of its undergraduate program. He served on the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Board on Women and Minorities and on the AMS Scientific and Technological Activities Commission. Dr. Morgan has served on the World Meteorological Organization World Weather Research Program’s Science Steering Committee and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Physics. Dr. Morgan was an AMS/UCAR Congressional Science Fellow in Senator Ben Cardin’s office working as a senior legislative aid on energy and environment issues. Previously, Dr. Morgan was Division Director for the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences at the National Science Foundation.
Toxic Substances Control Act Amendments Implementation
- Michal Freedhoff Ph.D., Assistant Administrator, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Table of Milestones under the Amended Toxic Substances Control Act
Investigating the Nature of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time
- Dr. Asmeret Berhe, Director of the Office of Science, Department of Energy
- Dr. Brian Greene, Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics, Columbia University
- Dr. Lia Merminga, Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Jim Yeck, Associate Laboratory Director and Project Director for the Electron-Ion Collider, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Michael Guastella, Executive Director, The Council on Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals
A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Dairy Provisions
- Scott Marlow, Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs, Farm Service Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Dana Coale, Deputy Administrator, Agriculture Marketing Service Dairy Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Lolly Lesher, Owner/Operator, Way-Har Farms, Bernville, PA, on behalf of National Milk Producers Federation
- Mike Durkin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Leprino Foods Company, Denver, CO, on behalf of International Dairy Foods Association
- Travis Forgues, Vice President of Membership, Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative, LaFarge, WI
- Dr. Marin Bozic, Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress
The Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will meet in open session, hybrid format to conduct a to conduct a hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress.”
Witness:- Jerome H. Powell, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
FY 2023 Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Bill
Chair Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio)
Text of LegislationInterior programs funded: Central Utah Project, Central Valley Project Restoration, California-Bay Delta Restoration
Budget requests:Field hearing on the 2023 Farm Bill: Perspectives from the Natural State
Riceland Hall – Fowler Center Arkansas State University Jonesboro, AR 10:00am EST / 9:00am CST