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Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation hearing examining Coast Guard efforts in drug enforcement, illegal migration, and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing.

• Rear Admiral Jo-Ann Burdian, Assistant Commandant for Response Policy (CG-5R), United States Coast Guard
• Heather MacLeod, Director, Homeland Security and Justice, United States Government Accountability Office
• Aaron Davenport, Associate Director; Infrastructure, Immigration, and Security Operations Program; RAND Corporation
• Dr. Caitlin Keating-Bitonti, Natural Resources Policy Analyst, Congressional Research Service

The Committee on Rules will meet on Monday, November 13, 2023 at 4:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following emergency measure:

• H.R. 6363 – Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024

The Committee on Rules will meet Monday, November 13, 2023 at 4:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measure:

• H.R. 5894 – Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
• Structured rule passed 8-4

The committee did not take up the continuing resolution.

Quick, what’s the difference between “carbon dioxide removal” (CDR) and “carbon capture and storage” (CCS)? And what role might each play in decarbonizing the global economy fast enough to avoid climate breakdown? If you’re a climate journalist, you need to know the answers, especially because CDR and CCS will both be major bones of contention at COP28 this November and December.

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The purpose of this hearing is to examine the implementation of federal coal mine land reclamation and abandoned coal mine land economic revitalization programs.

• Glenda H. Owens, Deputy Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Interior
• Rob Rice, Deputy Cabinet Secretary and Director, Division of Land Restoration, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
• Don Newton, Administrator, Abandoned Mine Land Division, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

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Full committee hearing.

• Olga Morales-Pate, CEO, Rural Community Assistance Partnership
• John Byrum, Executive Director, Nueces River Authority
• Shellie R. Chard, Director, Water Quality Division, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality

Full Committee hearing entitled: “Burdensome Regulations: Examining the Effects of Department of Energy Regulations on America’s Job Creators”.

• Jeff Bauman, Manager of Regulatory Affairs, National Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Products, Inc., Bensalem, PA
• Ben Lieberman, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Alicia Huey, President, AGH Homes, Inc., Birmingham, AL
• Emily Hammond, Professor of Law, The George Washington University

On Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources will hold a mark-up on the following bills:

• H.R. 1121 (Rep. Duncan), “Protecting American Energy Production Act”, to prohibit the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium. The bill also expresses the sense of Congress that states should maintain primacy for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands;
• H.R. 4385 (Rep. Neguse), “Drought Preparedness Act”, to extend authorization of Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act to 2028;
• H.R. 6008 (Rep. Graves of Louisiana), To prohibit the limitation of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sales to protect the endangered Rice’s whale until the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Marine Fisheries Service issues a new biological opinion relating to the Rice’s whale; and
• H.J. Res. 96 (Rep. Westerman), “Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2023.”

Full committee markup of H.R. 6093.

• H.R. 6093, Weather Act Reauthorization

Subcommittee hearing.

• Karina Ricks, Partner, Cityfi, LLC
• Brenda Neville, President & CEO, Iowa Motor Truck Association
• Karin Mongeon, Highway Safety Division Director, North Dakota Department of Transportation