Hill Heat

Full committee hearing.

Nominees:

• Dean Sauer, to be Solicitor General of the United States
• Harmeet Dhillon, to be an Assistant Attorney General
• Aaron Reitz, to be an Assistant Attorney General

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a nominations hearing for Michael Kratsios, nominee to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Mark Meador, nominee to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, at 10:00 AM EST on Tuesday, February 25, 2025.

Nominees:

• Michael Kratsios, of South Carolina, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Mark Meador, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner

Kratsios was a Trump technology advisor and is now managing director at Scale AI, Inc., which specializes in training data for AI. He met with Elon Musk in December.

Kratsios, 38, grew up in South Carolina and graduated magna cum laude in 2008 from Princeton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics. He has no other degrees. While in college, he was an intern for Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). After school, he was a Wall Street analyst before working in an investment fund run by Peter Thiel.

In 2024, the Pentagon chose Scale AI to aid its testing and evaluation of A.I. models that might one day help warfighters make decisions.

Meador’s confirmation would give the FTC a Republican majority.

Full committee hearing.

Witnesses:

• Russell R McMurry, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Transportation
• Gary Johnson, Vice President, Granite Construction
• Michael Carroll P.E., Deputy Managing Director, Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, The City of Philadelphia

On Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 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 an oversight hearing titled “Evaluating the Implementation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.”

Hearing memo

Witnesses:

• Parker Moore, Principal, Beveridge & Diamond PC, Washington, DC
• Paul Weiland, Partner, Nossaman LLC, Irvine, California
• John Vecchione, Senior Litigation Counsel, New Civil Liberties Alliance, Arlington, Virginia
• Daniel Rohlf, Professor of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon [Minority witness]

Subcommittee hearing.

Witnesses:

Panel I

• Harry Antonio, Governor, Pueblo of Laguna
• Myron Armijo, Governor, Pueblo of Santa Ana
• Charles Riley, Governor, Pueblo of Acoma

Panel II

• Chuck Hoskin Jr., Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation
• Jonodev Chaudhuri, Ambassador, Muscogee (Creek) Nation
• Rodney Butler, Chairman, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and Native American Finance Officers Association

Panel III

• Mitchell Hicks, Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
• Cheyenne Robinson, Secretary, Omaha Tribe of Nebraska
• Kameron Runnels, Vice-Chairman, Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska
• Victoria Kitcheyan, Chairwoman, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

Panel IV

• Doreen Leavitt, Tribal Council Secretary, Iñupiat Community of the Artic Slope
• David Boxley, Councilman, Metlakatla Indian Community
• Cynthia Petersen, President, Yakutat Tlingit Tribe

Panel V

• Stephen Roe Lewis, Governor, Gila River Indian Community
• Duane Clarke, Chairman, Hualapai Tribe
• Martin Harvier, President, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
• Terry Rambler, Chairman, San Carlos Apache Tribe

Panel VI

• Verlon Jose, Chairman, Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona
• Tanya Lewis, Chairwoman, Yavapai-Apache Nation of Arizona

A subcommittee hearing entitled “Leading the Charge: Opportunities to Strengthen America’s Energy Reliability.”

Power demand is increasing at a rapid rate, raising questions about how the environment and the economy will be affected by this projected growth. The hearing will examine regulatory and permitting processes with respect to reliable electricity generation infrastructure.

Hearing memo

Witnesses:

• Alex Epstein, President and Founder, Center for Industrial Progress
• Mandy Gunasekara, Project 2025 EPA chapter co-author, Former advisor, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, first Trump administration;
• Alex Herrgott, President and CEO, The Permitting Institute, Former chief of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council under Donald Trump

Epstein is a notorious climate denier.

Gunasekara testified before Congress ast year that Trump had nothing to do with Project 2025.

On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs will hold an oversight hearing titled “Federal Indian Trust Asset Management: Progress Made But Improvement Needed.”

Senator Warren, the top Democrat on Senate Banking is convening Members of Congress to investigate the Trump-Musk Attack on Consumers. The forum will highlight how President Trump is letting Elon Musk shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — an agency that has returned more than $21 billion to families scammed by big banks and other financial institutions — and making it easier to cheat working families out of their hard-earned money.

WHEN: TODAY (Tues, February 25) at 2pm ET.

WHERE: Senate Dirksen Office Building, Room G50 Constitution Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002. Use the door located at First and C Streets NE, to enter the building, and then turn left upon entering.

PANELISTS:

• Andrea Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts
• Lorelei Salas, former CFPB Director of Supervision Policy who resigned after she was directed to stop doing her job
• Americans whose savings have been protected by the CFPB

Subcommittee hearing.

Repository

Witnesses:

Panel I

• Jeffrey Stiffarm, President, Fort Belknap Indian Community
• Harlan Baker, Chairman, Chippewa Cree Tribe Business Committee and Rocky Boy Health Center
• Dana “Sam” Buckles, Councilman, Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck

Panel II

• Carole Lankford, Councilwoman, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
• Gene Small, President, Northern Cheyenne Tribe

Panel III

• Bruce Savage, Chairman, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
• Darrell Seki Sr., Chairman, Red Lake Band Chippewa Indians
• Leonard Fineday, Secretary, Treasurer, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
• Virgil Wind, Chief Executive, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe

Panel IV

• J. Conrad “JC” Seneca, President, Seneca Nation
• Wena Supernaw, Business Committee Chair, Quapaw Nation
• Jeff Wacoche, Chief, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians

Panel V

• Ken Ahmann, Tribal Utility Authority Director, Colusa Indian Community Council
• Jose Simon III, Chairman, Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians

Panel VI

• Josh Cook, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians
• Lester “Shine” Nieto, Chairman, Tule River Indian Tribe of California
• James Naranjo, Governor, Pueblo of Santa Clara

The billionaire class is waging a war on workers, putting our nation’s healthcare, research, education, and jobs at risk. These attacks target workers at colleges and universities in many ways: through imposing a cap on indirect costs on grants across the NIH, freezing funding for crucial research, and threatening academic workers across the country.

On Tuesday, February 25, we’re taking this massive energy directly to D.C. Register to join us in-person or online for a viewing party and national phone bank.

Labor leaders and organizers representing hundreds of thousands of higher education and allied workers will rally in D.C. to expose how Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on research and higher education funding are decimating public health while siphoning off public resources for private gain.

At the same time, higher ed workers and allies will join together online to get energized by each other and the events in Washington, D.C. We will use our power to tell our legislators and elected officials: Hands off our healthcare, research, jobs, and education!

Organized by the Labor for Higher Ed Coalition.

In-person: U.S. Health and Human Services Headquarters, 200 Independence Avenue SW

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