Michele J. Sison, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International
Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of State
The President’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request includes $60.4
billion
for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID), $1.9 billion or 3 percent above the Fiscal Year
2022 Request, and $7.4 billion or 14 percent above FY
2021 enacted levels.
The Request has $2.3 billion to support U.S. leadership in addressing
the existential climate crisis through diplomacy; scaled-up
international climate programs that accelerate the global energy
transition to net zero by 2050; support to developing countries to
enhance climate resilience; and the prioritization of climate adaptation
and sustainability principles in Department and
USAID domestic and overseas facilities. This
total includes over $1.6 billion for direct programming for climate
mitigation and adaptation and over $650 million for the mainstreaming of
climate considerations across development programs.
House Foreign Affairs Committee
International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact Subcommittee
The Department of Defense $773 billion budget
request
includes $56.5 billion for air power platforms and systems; more than
$40.8 billion for sea power, to include nine more battle force ships,
and nearly $12.6 billion to modernize Army and Marine Corps fighting
vehicles; more than $130.1 billion for research and development; and
more than $3
billion
to address the effects of climate change, bolstering our installation
resiliency and adaptation to climate challenges.
The FY 2023 DoD Budget request of $773.0
billion is a $30.7 billion, or 4.1% increase, from the
FY 2022 enacted amount.
The Department of Defense $773 billion budget
request
includes $56.5 billion for air power platforms and systems; more than
$40.8 billion for sea power, to include nine more battle force ships,
and nearly $12.6 billion to modernize Army and Marine Corps fighting
vehicles; more than $130.1 billion for research and development; and
more than $3
billion
to address the effects of climate change, bolstering our installation
resiliency and adaptation to climate challenges.
The FY 2023 DoD Budget request of $773.0
billion is a $30.7 billion, or 4.1% increase, from the
FY 2022 enacted amount.
The Budget also includes nearly $1.8
billion
to support a free and open, connected, secure, and resilient Indo-
Pacific Region and the Indo-Pacific Strategy, and $400 million for the
Countering the People’s Republic of China Malign Influence Fund.
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation Subcommittee
The Department of Defense $773 billion budget
request
includes $56.5 billion for air power platforms and systems; more than
$40.8 billion for sea power, to include nine more battle force ships,
and nearly $12.6 billion to modernize Army and Marine Corps fighting
vehicles; more than $130.1 billion for research and development; and
more than $3
billion
to address the effects of climate change, bolstering our installation
resiliency and adaptation to climate challenges.
The FY 2023 DoD Budget request of $773.0
billion is a $30.7 billion, or 4.1% increase, from the
FY 2022 enacted amount.
House Armed Services Committee
Senate Armed Services Committee
Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems Subcommittee
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee
hearing on
Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at 10 a.m. ET to consider the following
Presidential nominations:
Nominees:
Robin Hutcheson to be Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration (PN1944)
Dr. Michael C. Morgan to be Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Observation and Prediction, Department of Commerce (PN1674)
Sean Burton to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (PN1535)
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.
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
The purpose of this
hearing
is to assess the challenge of oil and gas sector methane leaks from a
scientific, technological, and policymaking perspective. The hearing
will discuss the current scientific consensus regarding the role of
methane leaks as a driver of oil and gas sector methane emissions. The
hearing will highlight recent advances in innovative leak detection and
repair technologies, as well as the importance of deploying such
technologies broadly throughout oil and gas sector operations to achieve
large-scale reductions in methane emissions. Finally, the hearing will
examine research gaps related to oil and gas sector methane emissions
and opportunities for the Federal government to support scientific
research activities pertaining to oil and gas sector methane leaks.
Committee staff conclude that oil and gas companies are failing to
design, equip, and inform their Methane Leak Detection and Repair
(LDAR) activities as necessary to achieve rapid and large-scale
reductions in methane emissions from their operations. The sector’s
approach does not reflect the latest scientific evidence on methane
leaks. Oil and gas companies must change course quickly if the United
States is to reach its methane reduction targets by the end of this
decade. The Committee staff also learned that oil and gas companies
have internal data showing that methane emission rates from the sector
are likely significantly higher than official data reported to
EPA would indicate. A very significant
proportion of methane emissions appear to be caused by a small number
of super-emitting leaks. One company experienced a single leak that
may be equivalent to more than 80% of all the methane emissions it
reported to EPA – according to
EPA’s prescribed methodology – for all of
its Permian oil and gas production activities in 2020.
Witnesses:
Dr. David
Lyon,
Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund