U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science and Transportation, will convene a full committee
executive
session on
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at 10 a.m. EDT to
consider the following legislation and nominations: The following
actions were taken during the Executive Session.
Nomination of Chad M. Cary to be Director of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps) and
Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) (PN1580)
The full committee is meeting to conduct a
hearing
entitled, “Long-Term Economic Benefits and Impacts from Federal
Infrastructure and Public Transportation Investment.”
Witnesses:
Christopher
Coes,
Acting Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, United States
Department of Transportation
Michael
Knisley,
Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Ohio State Building and Construction
Trades Council
Dr. R. Richard
Geddes,
Founding Director, Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy
Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Dr. Jesse
Jenkins,
Assistant Professor and Macro-Scale Energy Systems Engineer,
Department of Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering And The Andlinger
Center For Energy and Environment, Princeton University
Britta
Gross,
Director of Transportation, Electric Power Research Institute
Maureen
Hinman,
Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Silverado Policy Accelerator
Dave
Schwietert,
Chief Government Affairs and Policy Officer, Alliance For Automotive
Innovation
Jeff
Davis,
Senior Fellow, Eno Center For Transportation
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The Democratic National Committee’s Rules Committee has scheduled a
public meeting on July 24 to determine the nominating procedure for the
Democratic presidential candidate. To be determined is whether the
nomination will proceed by a virtual roll call on a date before the
in-person Chicago convention August 19-22nd.
On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. (ET) in 2123 Rayburn House
Office Building, the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security
will hold a hearing. The title of the hearing is “The Fiscal Year 2025
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Budget.” The hearing will examine
the work of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to ensure
affordable, reliable electricity and natural gas service throughout the
country, as well as its adherence to its core mission of ensuring just
and reasonable rates for energy services.
Recent Supreme Court decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
and Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy are likely to impact
FERC. Loper overruled the 1984 Supreme Court
case Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.,
which held that if a court concluded a federal statute was silent or
ambiguous, the court must defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation
of the statute. Jarkesy affirmed the Fifth Circuit’s ruling that the
Seventh Amendment right to a trial by jury “applies to suits at common
law,” which includes statutory claims that are “legal in nature.” The
Jarkesy decision is likely to impact the ability of federal agencies to
pursue administrative adjudication to enforce civil penalties.
