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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),

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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;

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  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.