President Biden's Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request and Economic Outlook

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:30:00 GMT

Subcommittee hearing on the FY2025 budget request and economic outlook.

Witnesses:
  • Janet Yellen, Secretary, Department of the Treasury
  • Shalanda Young, Director, Office of Management and Budget
  • Jared Bernstein, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
  • House Appropriations Committee
    Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee 2359 Rayburn
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Assessing State Department Compliance with Oversight

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:00:00 GMT

Subcommittee on Oversight & Accountability hearing.

Witnesses:
  • Richard R. Verma, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, U.S. Department of State
  • Naz Durakoğlu, Assistant Secretary Bureau of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of State
  • House Foreign Affairs Committee
    Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee 2172 Rayburn
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Commerce as Statecraft: Better Leveraging U.S. Business to Advance our Economic and National Security Goals in the Indo-Pacific

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:00:00 GMT

Subcommittee hearing.

Witnesses:
  • Kin W. Moy, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. State Department
  • Matt Murray, U.S. Senior Official for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), U.S. State Department
  • Pamela Phan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
  • House Foreign Affairs Committee
    Indo-Pacific Subcommittee 2200 Rayburn
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Toxic Exposure Fund Improvement Act of 2024

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:00:00 GMT

On Thursday, March 21, 2024, immediately following the conclusion of the Full Committee Business Meeting, the Full Committee will hold a legislative hearing titled “Legislative Hearing on: Toxic Exposure Fund Improvement Act of 2024”.

Hearing repository

Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the Department of Agriculture

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:00 GMT

Subcommittee hearing on the FY2025 Department of Agriculture budget request.

Witness:
  • Thomas Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Under the current law, the 2025 request for discretionary budget authority to fund programs and operating expenses is $31.6 billion, slightly more than 6.84 percent increase, or $2.16 billion, above the 2024 annualized Continuing Resolution (CR) levels. Outlays for mandatory programs are $189.6 billion, 82.1 percent of total outlays. The remaining $41.4 billion, or 17.9 percent, of outlays are for discretionary programs such as: the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), food safety, rural development loans and grants, research and education, soil and water conservation technical assistance, animal and plant health, management of national forests, wildland firefighting, other Forest Service activities, and domestic and international marketing assistance.

The 2025 Budget supports a continued investment of approximately $11.6 billion to combat the climate crisis through all aspects of the food and agricultural systems by focusing on climate science, clean energy innovation, mitigation via climate-smart land management practices, and adaptation and resilience. The Budget includes approximately $5.1 billion to restore our national forests and mitigate wildfire risk, an operational increase of approximately $400 million from 2023 enacted. This includes $207 million for hazardous fuels reduction, equal to the 2023 enacted level. The Budget requests $1 billion in lending authority for Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to support the transition to clean energy, and $6.5 billion in authority for rural electric loans to support additional clean energy, energy storage, and transmission projects that would create good-paying jobs. The Budget also requests $53 million in zero-interest loans for the Rural Energy Savings Program, which would help rural Americans implement durable cost- effective energy efficiency measures in their homes, which lowers energy costs and contributes to the President’s clean energy goals. The Budget also seeks $1 million in funding to continue work started by the Growing Climate Solutions Act. As directed in the Act, USDA will establish a voluntary program to help reduce entry barriers into voluntary environmental credit markets for farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners.

  • House Appropriations Committee
    Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee 2362-A Rayburn
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The President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:00 GMT

Full committee hearing on the FY2025 budget request.

Chair Ron Wyden (D – Ore.)

Witness:
  • Janet L. Yellen, Secretary, United States Department of the Treasury

Nominations to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:00 GMT

The purpose of the hearing is to consider the nominations of:

  • David Rosner to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the term expiring June 30, 2027;
  • Lindsay S. See to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the term expiring June 30, 2028; and
  • Judy W. Chang to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a term expiring June 30, 2029.
  • Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee 366 Dirksen
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Global Capital Rules and American Financial Regulation

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:00 GMT

A full committee hearing entitled “Importing Global Governance: Examining the Dangers of Ceding Authority Over American Financial Regulation”.

The hearing is a reprise of the November hearing on global capital rules.

The President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:00 GMT

Full committee hearing on the FY2025 budget request.

Witness:
  • Shalanda D. Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Bills for Delaware River Basin, Kelp Forests, Great Lakes Mapping, and Using Oil and Gas Rigs as Artificial Reefs

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:00 GMT

On Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:

  • H.R. 1395 (Rep. Fitzpatrick), “Delaware River Basin Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2023”, to amend the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act to reauthorize Delaware River Basin conservation programs;
  • H.R. 5487 (Rep. Huffman), “Help Our Kelp Act”, to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish and carry out a grant program to conserve, restore, and manage kelp forest ecosystems;
  • H.R. 6814 (Rep. Graves of LA), “Marine Fisheries Habitat Protection Act”, to require the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to assess certain offshore oil and gas platforms and pipelines for potential use as artificial reefs; and
  • H.R. 7020 (Rep. McClain), “Great Lakes Mapping Act”, to direct the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct high-resolution mapping of the lakebeds of the Great Lakes

Hearing memo

Witnesses:
  • Clay Porch, Director, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [All bills]
  • Jennifer Boehme, Chief Executive Officer, Great Lakes Observing System [H.R. 7020]
  • Chris Horton, Senior Director, Fisheries Policy, Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, Bismarck, AR [H.R. 6814]
  • Kelly Knutson, Director, Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed, Princeton, NJ [H.R. 1395]
  • Deb Self, Senior Director of Restoration and Partnerships, Greater Farallones Association, San Francisco, CA [Minority Witness, H.R. 5487]
  • House Natural Resources Committee
    Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee 1324 Longworth
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