During this
hearing,
members will receive testimony from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on
the administration’s priorities for a new water resources development
act for 2022. This hearing is also intended to provide members with an
opportunity to review the 2021 Report to Congress on Future Water
Resources Development and several reports of the Chief of
Engineers
on individual water resources projects that have been submitted to
Congress for authorization. These reports and administration priorities
will inform the committee in its development of a new
WRDA, which the committee expects to develop
and approve in 2022.
Witnesses
Michael L. Connor, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works
Lieutenant General Scott A. Spellmon, Chief of Engineers and
Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
David
Strickland,
Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs, General Motors, Washington,
D.C.
Lincoln
Wood,
Electrification Policy Manager, Southern Company, Atlanta, GA
Matthew
Laughridge,
President and Managing Partner, Terry Reid Automotive Group,
Cartersville, GA on behalf of the National Automobile Dealers
Association (NADA)
Trevor
Walter,
Vice President of Petroleum Supply Management, Sheetz, Inc., on behalf
of National Association of Convenience Stores, Altoona, PA
Geoff
Cooper,
President & Chief Executive Officer, Renewable Fuels Association,
Ellisville, MO
Josh
Nassar,
Legislative Director, International Union, United Automobile,
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW),
Washington, D.C. Republican witness:
Mark
Mills,
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Chevy Chase, MD
The purpose of the
hearing
is to examine the opportunities and challenges for maintaining existing
hydropower capacity, expanding hydropower at non-powered dams, and
increasing pumped storage hydropower.
Witnesses:
Jennifer Garson, Acting Director of the Water Power Technologies
Office, U.S. Department of Energy
Camille Touton, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation
Scott Corwin, Executive Director, Northwest Public Power Association
Malcolm Woolf, President and CEO, National
Hydropower Association
THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING,
AND URBAN AFFAIRS will meet in
OPEN SESSION, HYBRID
FORMAT to conduct a
hearing
entitled, “Disaster Recovery Assistance – Authorization of the Community
Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery Program.”
Rescheduled from December 9th.
Witnesses:
Michael A. Sprayberry, Senior Advisor For Emergency Management,
Hagerty Consulting
Matt Mayer, President, Opportunity Ohio
Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the Chair of the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene an executive
session at
10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, to consider the following
measures and nominations:
The World Bank has not committed to aligning its financing with limiting
warming to 1.5C. And the Financial Times
reports that the Trump-appointed president of the World Bank, David
Malpass, pushed for the joint statement by development banks at the
UN COP26 climate summit to be shortened and
weakened. The Bank is governed by a 25-member Board of Directors, of
which Dr. Kugler is nominated to be the U.S. member, replacing the
acting U.S. director Lea
Bouzis.
Dr. Adriana Debora Kugler, of Maryland, to be United States Executive
Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
the lending arm of the World Bank, for a term of two years
Ramin Toloui, of Iowa, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Economic
and Business Affairs)
Marc R. Stanley, of Texas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Argentine
Republic
Rashad Hussain, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at Large for
International Religious Freedom
Thomas Barrett, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg
Erik D. Ramanathan, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of
Sweden
Scott Miller, of Colorado, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Swiss
Confederation, and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
United States of America to the Principality of Liechtenstein
8. Ms. Jamie L. Harpootlian, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the
Republic of Slovenia